2011 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 394 - Private Educational Institutions and Establishments
NRS 394.1687 - Development committee: Development of plan to be used by private school in responding to crisis or emergency; submission of plan to governing body of private school; compliance with plan required.

1. Each development committee shall develop a plan to be used by its school in responding to a crisis or an emergency. Each development committee shall, when developing the plan, consult with:

(a) The local social service agencies and local law enforcement agencies in the county in which its school is located.

(b) The director of the local organization for emergency management or, if there is no local organization for emergency management, with the Chief of the Division of Emergency Management of the Department of Public Safety or his or her designee.

2. The plan developed pursuant to subsection 1 must include, without limitation, a procedure for:

(a) Assisting persons within the school to communicate with each other;

(b) Assisting persons within the school to communicate with persons located outside the school, including, without limitation, relatives of pupils and relatives of employees of the school, the news media and persons from local, state or federal agencies that are responding to a crisis or an emergency;

(c) Immediately responding to a crisis or an emergency and for responding during the period after a crisis or an emergency has concluded, including, without limitation, a crisis or an emergency that results in immediate physical harm to a pupil or employee of the school;

(d) Assisting pupils of the school, employees of the school and relatives of such pupils and employees to move safely within and away from the school, including, without limitation, a procedure for evacuating the school and a procedure for securing the school; and

(e) Enforcing discipline within the school and for obtaining and maintaining a safe and orderly environment during a crisis or an emergency.

3. Each development committee shall provide a copy of the plan that it develops pursuant to this section to the governing body of the school that established the committee.

4. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 394.1691 and 394.1692, each private school must comply with the plan developed for it pursuant to this section.

(Added to NRS by 2001, 1330; A 2011, 1079)