2017 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 209 - Department of Corrections
NRS 209.511 - Duties of Director when offender released from prison.
1. When an offender is released from prison by expiration of his or her term of sentence, by pardon or by parole, the Director:
(a) May furnish the offender with a sum of money not to exceed $100, the amount to be based upon the offender’s economic need as determined by the Director;
(b) Shall give the offender notice of the provisions of chapter 179C of NRS and NRS 202.357 and 202.360;
(c) Shall require the offender to sign an acknowledgment of the notice required in paragraph (b);
(d) Shall give the offender notice of the provisions of NRS 179.245 and the provisions of NRS 213.090, 213.155 or 213.157, as applicable;
(e) Shall provide the offender with information relating to obtaining employment, including, without limitation, any programs which may provide bonding for an offender entering the workplace and any organizations which may provide employment or bonding assistance to such a person;
(f) Shall provide the offender with a photo identification card issued by the Department and information and reasonable assistance relating to acquiring a valid driver’s license or identification card to enable the offender to obtain employment, if the offender:
(1) Requests a photo identification card; or
(2) Requests such information and assistance and is eligible to acquire a valid driver’s license or identification card from the Department of Motor Vehicles;
(g) May provide the offender with clothing suitable for reentering society;
(h) May provide the offender with the cost of transportation to his or her place of residence anywhere within the continental United States, or to the place of his or her conviction;
(i) May, but is not required to, release the offender to a facility for transitional living for released offenders that is licensed pursuant to chapter 449 of NRS; and
(j) Shall require the offender to submit to at least one test for exposure to the human immunodeficiency virus.
2. The costs authorized in paragraphs (a), (f), (g), (h) and (j) of subsection 1 must be paid out of the appropriate account within the State General Fund for the use of the Department as other claims against the State are paid to the extent that the costs have not been paid in accordance with subsection 5 of NRS 209.221 and NRS 209.246.
3. As used in this section:
(a) “Facility for transitional living for released offenders” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 449.0055.
(b) “Photo identification card” means a document which includes the name, date of birth and a color picture of the offender.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 853; A 1979, 921; 1983, 725; 1987, 1474; 1991, 72; 1993, 7; 1995, 365; 2001, 1695; 2005, 267, 2357; 2011, 2602; 2013, 1259)
