NAC503.560. Certification of certain facilities as free from disease: General requirements; inspection of facilities.

     1. A person who establishes, operates or controls a commercial fish hatchery, private noncommercial fishpond or other installation for the culture of fish within the State of Nevada shall, and a person who does so outside this State for the purpose of importing fish or aquatic life into this State may, make application to the Department at an address specified on the application for a letter of certification stating that such installation is free from fish diseases or pathogens that induce diseases, which the Department has determined to be deleterious to the fish or aquatic life of Nevada.

     2. It is unlawful for a person:

     (a) To operate any such installation in this State until it is certified by the Department; or

     (b) To import live fish or aquatic life from any installation outside this State which has not been certified by the Department.

     3. Any game warden authorized to enforce the provisions of title 45 of NRS may enter any such installation at any reasonable hour and inspect the premises and operation to determine that it is free from fish diseases.

     [Bd. of Fish & Game Comm’rs Gen. Reg. No. 7 §§ 30.40 & 30.41, eff. 1-1-75; A 9-20-75; 1-1-78]—(NAC A by Bd. of Wildlife Comm’rs, 4-27-84, eff. 5-25-84; R138-03, 1-20-2004)