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NRS 435.655 - Liability of certain relatives and estate of person admitted to facility for payment of costs; recovery by legal action.

NV Rev Stat § 435.655 (2019) (N/A)
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1. When a person is admitted to a division facility or hospital under one of the various forms of admission prescribed by law, the parent or legal guardian of a person with an intellectual disability or a person with a developmental disability who is a minor or the spouse of a person with an intellectual disability or a person with a developmental disability, if of sufficient ability, and the estate of the person with an intellectual disability or the person with a developmental disability, if the estate is sufficient for the purpose, shall pay the cost of the maintenance for the person with an intellectual disability or the person with a developmental disability, including treatment and surgical operations, in any hospital in which the person is hospitalized under the provisions of this chapter:

(a) To the administrative officer if the person is admitted to a division facility; or

(b) In all other cases, to the hospital rendering the service.

2. If a person or an estate liable for the care, maintenance and support of a committed person neglects or refuses to pay the administrative officer or the hospital rendering the service, the State is entitled to recover, by appropriate legal action, all money owed to a division facility or which the State has paid to a hospital for the care of a committed person, plus interest at the rate established pursuant to NRS 99.040.

(Added to NRS by 2013, 3031; A 2017, 791, 2829)

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