2013 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 432B - Protection of Children From Abuse and Neglect
NRS 432B.391 - Agency which provides child welfare services or designee authorized to conduct preliminary Federal Bureau of Investigation name-based check of background of certain adult residents of home in which child will be placed in emergency situation; person investigated to supply fingerprints; exchange of information; removal of child from home upon refusal to supply fingerprints.

1. An agency which provides child welfare services or its approved designee may, in accordance with the procedures set forth in 28 C.F.R. 901 et. seq., conduct a preliminary Federal Bureau of Investigation Interstate Identification Index name-based check of the records of criminal history of a resident who is 18 years of age or older of a home in which the agency which provides child welfare services wishes to place a child in an emergency situation, other than a resident who remains under the jurisdiction of a court pursuant to NRS 432B.594, to determine whether the person investigated has been arrested for or convicted of any crime.

2. Upon request of an agency which provides child welfare services that wishes to place a child in a home in an emergency situation, or upon request of the approved designee of the agency which provides child welfare services, a resident who is 18 years of age or older of the home in which the agency which provides child welfare services wishes to place the child, other than a resident who remains under the jurisdiction of a court pursuant to NRS 432B.594, must submit to the agency which provides child welfare services or its approved designee a complete set of fingerprints and written permission authorizing the agency which provides child welfare services or its approved designee to forward those fingerprints to the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History for submission to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for its report. The agency which provides child welfare services or its approved designee shall forward the fingerprints to the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History within the time set forth in federal law or regulation.

3. If a resident who is 18 years of age or older of a home in which an agency which provides child welfare services places a child in an emergency situation, other than a resident who remains under the jurisdiction of a court pursuant to NRS 432B.594, refuses to provide a complete set of fingerprints to the agency which provides child welfare services or its approved designee upon request pursuant to subsection 2, the agency which provides child welfare services must immediately remove the child from the home.

(Added to NRS by 2003, 649; A 2011, 254)