2021 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 453 - Controlled Substances
NRS 453.1635 - Law enforcement agency to upload to database certain information obtained during investigation; limitation on access to database; immunity from liability for transmission of information. [Effective January 1, 2020.]
1. If a law enforcement agency arrests a person for a violation of this chapter involving a prescription for a controlled substance or receives a report of a stolen prescription for a controlled substance, the law enforcement agency shall upload to the database such information as prescribed by regulation by the Board.
2. A law enforcement agency shall ensure that only a person who is authorized to access the database of the program pursuant to NRS 453.1645 or 453.165 uploads information pursuant to subsection 1.
3. If a law enforcement agency determines that uploading any information to the database of the program pursuant to subsection 1 will interfere with an active criminal investigation, the agency may postpone uploading such information until after the conclusion of the investigation.
4. Each law enforcement agency and each employee thereof who makes a good faith effort to comply with this section, or a regulation adopted pursuant thereto, is immune from civil and criminal liability for any act or omission relating to the transmission of information pursuant to this section.
(Added to NRS by 2017, 1175; A 2019, 168, effective January 1, 2020)
