Section 439.470 - City board of health: Powers; requirements for order for isolation, quarantine or treatment1. The city board of health may:(a) Abate nuisances in accordance with law.(b) Establish a temporary isolation hospital or quarantine station when an emergency demands the isolation or quarantine of a person or a group of persons.(c) Isolate any person or a group of persons with a communicable disease that is in an infectious state and poses a risk to the public health.(d) Quarantine any person or group of persons who has been exposed to any communicable disease that is in an infectious state and poses a risk to the public health.(e) Treat any person or group of persons with a communicable disease that is in an infectious state and poses a risk to the public health or who has been exposed to such a communicable disease.(f) Monitor and treat any person or group of persons with a communicable disease that poses a risk to the public health if there is a risk that the communicable disease will develop into: (1) A progressed state that endangers the health of the person or persons; or(g) Appoint quarantine officers when necessary to enforce a quarantine.(h) Subject to the prior review and approval of the governing body of the city and except as otherwise provided in NRS 576.128, adopt a schedule of reasonable fees to be collected for issuing or renewing any health permit or license required to be obtained from such board pursuant to state law or an ordinance adopted by any political subdivision. Such fees must be for the sole purpose of defraying the costs and expenses of the procedures for issuing licenses and permits, and investigations related thereto, and not for the purposes of general revenue.2. Any order issued to isolate, quarantine, or treat a person or group of persons issued pursuant to subsection 1 must state the reasons that each of the actions prescribed by the order are the least restrictive means available to prevent, suppress or control the communicable disease. If a city board of health issues an order to isolate, quarantine or treat a person pursuant to subsection 1, the city board of health must:(a) Isolate, quarantine or treat the person in the manner set forth in NRS 441A.505 to 441A.720, inclusive.(b) Provide whatever medicines, disinfectants and provisions may be required. The city council shall pay all debts or charges so incurred from any funds available, but each patient shall, if the patient is able, pay for his or her food, medicine, clothes and medical attendance.3. As used in this section, "communicable disease" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 441A.040.[Part 30:199:1911; added 1919, 221; 1919 RL p. 2892; NCL § 5264]-(NRS A 1973, 1137; 1997, 3173; 2003, 2195; 2021, 3182)Amended by 2021, Ch. 491,§2, eff. 6/6/2021.[Part 30:199:1911; added 1919, 221; 1919 RL p. 2892; NCL § 5264] - (NRS A 1973, 1137; 1997, 3173; 2003, 2195)