2011 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 442 - Maternal and Child Health; Abortion
NRS 442.050 - Physician or midwife to instill germicide in eyes of newborn baby.


NV Rev Stat § 442.050 (2011) What's This?

It shall be unlawful for any physician or midwife practicing midwifery to neglect or otherwise fail to instill or have instilled in the eyes of the newborn baby, immediately upon its birth, some germicide of proven efficiency in preventing the development of ophthalmia neonatorum.

[3:230:1921; NCL 5292]

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