NAC449.99902. Increase in penalty for repeated deficiencies or false compliance.

     1. Penalties must be increased if deficiencies are repeated or compliance is falsely alleged.

     2. For each repeat deficiency present within 18 months after an initial deficiency, the monetary penalty must be computed at the rate of one and one-half times the rate that was or could have been assessed initially for a deficiency of that severity and scope.

     3. The Bureau may double the daily monetary penalty that was or could have been assessed if the facility alleges compliance and the Bureau finds on a survey that at the time compliance was alleged the deficiencies continued to exist.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Health, eff. 8-1-91; A by R051-02, 7-24-2002)