Section 127.140 - Employees, volunteers and independent contractors: Reports of criminal history; restrictions on provision of services to children1. An applicant for an initial license as a child-placing agency must submit to the Division, for the director of adoption of the agency and each employee or volunteer of the agency who provides services to children:(a) Two sets of fingerprint cards;(b) An executed Law Enforcement Record Form No. 3321-SA or equivalent authorization for the release of information contained in records of law enforcement;(c) Written authorization for the Division to submit the fingerprint cards to the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History for further submission to the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and to receive reports regarding the criminal histories of the subjects of the fingerprint cards; and(d) The amount of the fees charged by any local agencies of law enforcement, the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History and the Federal Bureau of Investigation for the handling of the fingerprint cards and issuance of the reports of criminal histories.2. The director of adoption of a child-placing agency shall submit to the Division the matters required pursuant to subsection 1 for each additional employee or volunteer of the agency who, after the initial licensing of the agency, desires to provide services to children. The director of adoption shall not allow such a person to provide services to children until he or she has submitted to the Division:(a) The required fingerprint cards;(b) A satisfactory report from a local agency for law enforcement; and(c) Three satisfactory references.3. The director of adoption of a child-placing agency shall not allow an employee or volunteer of the agency to provide services to children if, based upon the person's record of criminal history, the Division deems the person to be unacceptable to provide services to children.4. A child-placing agency that uses an independent contractor to provide to the agency any service relating to adoptions shall ensure that the contractor meets the requirements of this section.Nev. Admin. Code § 127.140
Added to NAC by Div. of Child & Fam. Services, eff. 11-23-93; A by R056-02, 7-30-2002