2011 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 433 - General Provisions
NRS 433.316 - Powers.

The Commission may:

1. Collect and disseminate information pertaining to mental health, mental retardation and co-occurring disorders and related conditions.

2. Request legislation pertaining to mental health, mental retardation and co-occurring disorders and related conditions.

3. Investigate complaints about the care of any person in a public facility for the treatment of persons with mental illness, mental retardation or co-occurring disorders and persons with related conditions.

4. Accept, as authorized by the Legislature, gifts and grants of money and property.

5. Take appropriate steps to increase the availability of and to enhance the quality of the care and treatment of persons with mental illness, mental retardation or co-occurring disorders and persons with related conditions provided through state agencies, hospitals and clinics.

6. Promote programs for the treatment of persons with mental illness, mental retardation or co-occurring disorders and persons with related conditions and participate in and promote the development of facilities for training persons to provide services for persons with mental illness, mental retardation or co-occurring disorders and persons with related conditions.

7. Create a plan to coordinate the services for the treatment of persons with mental illness, mental retardation or co-occurring disorders and persons with related conditions provided in this State and to provide continuity in the care and treatment provided.

8. Establish and maintain an appropriate program which provides information to the general public concerning mental illness, mental retardation and co-occurring disorders and related conditions and consider ways to involve the general public in the decisions concerning the policy on mental illness, mental retardation and co-occurring disorders and related conditions.

9. Compile statistics on mental illness and study the cause, pathology and prevention of that illness.

10. Establish programs to prevent or postpone the commitment of residents of this State to facilities for the treatment of persons with mental illness, mental retardation or co-occurring disorders and persons with related conditions.

11. Evaluate the future needs of this State concerning the treatment of mental illness, mental retardation and co-occurring disorders and related conditions and develop ways to improve the treatment already provided.

12. Take any other action necessary to promote mental health in this State.

(Added to NRS by 1985, 2263; A 1999, 2592; 2009, 663)