159.0255 - “Secured residential long-term care facility” defined. - Nevada Statutes

159.0255  “Secured residential long-term care facility” defined.

      1.  “Secured residential long-term care facility” means a residential facility providing long-term care that is designed to restrict a resident of the facility from leaving the facility, a part of the facility or the grounds of the facility through the use of locks or other mechanical means unless the resident is accompanied by a staff member of the facility or another person authorized by the facility or the guardian.

      2.  The term does not include a residential facility providing long-term care which uses procedures or mechanisms only to track the location or actions of a resident or to assist a resident to perform the normal activities of daily living.

      (Added to NRS by 2009, 2519)