Every provider of health care to whom any person comes or is brought for treatment of an injury which appears to have been inflicted by means of a firearm or knife, not under accidental circumstances, shall promptly report the person’s name, if known, his or her location and the character and extent of the injury to an appropriate law enforcement agency.
Every provider of health care to whom any person comes or is brought for treatment of an injury which appears to have been inflicted by means of a firearm or knife, not under accidental circumstances
Promptly
Report directly to an appropriate law enforcement agency
Report must include the patient’s name, if known, his or her location and the character and extent of the injury
NRS 629.041 Provider of health care to report persons having injuries apparently inflicted by knife or firearm in nonaccidental circumstances. Every provider of health care to whom any person comes or is brought for treatment of an injury which appears to have been inflicted by means of a firearm or knife, not under accidental circumstances, shall promptly report the person’s name, if known, his or her location and the character and extent of the injury to an appropriate law enforcement agency.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 239)
