Nevada Code § 449.122

1. Each applicant for a license to operate
a facility, hospital, agency, program or home shall submit:
(a) To the Central Repository for Nevada Records
of Criminal History one complete set of fingerprints for submission to the
Federal Bureau of Investigation for its report; and
(b) Written authorization to the Division for the
release of any information that may be available from the Statewide Central
Registry and any equivalent registry maintained by a governmental entity in a
jurisdiction in which the applicant has resided within the immediately
preceding 5 years to determine whether there has been a substantiated report of
child abuse or neglect made against the applicant.
2. The Central Repository for Nevada
Records of Criminal History shall determine whether the applicant has been
convicted of a crime listed in paragraph (a) of subsection 1 of NRS 449.174 and immediately inform the
administrator of the facility, hospital, agency, program or home, if any, and
the Division of whether the applicant has been convicted of such a crime.
3. A person who holds a license to operate
a facility, hospital, agency, program or home which provides residential
services to children, a psychiatric hospital that provides inpatient services
to children or a psychiatric residential treatment facility shall submit:
(a) To the Central Repository for Nevada Records
of Criminal History one complete set of fingerprints for a report required by
this section at least once every 5 years after the initial investigation; and
(b) Written authorization to the Division for the
release of any information that may be available from the Statewide Central
Registry to determine whether there has been a substantiated report of child
abuse or neglect made against the person at least once every 5 years after the
initial investigation.

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