1. A proceeding for a court-ordered admission of a child alleged to be a child with an emotional disturbance who is in the custody of an agency which provides child welfare services to a facility may be commenced by the filing of a petition with the clerk of the court which has jurisdiction in proceedings concerning the child. The petition may be filed by the agency which provides child welfare services without the consent of a parent of the child. The petition must be accompanied:

(a) By a certificate of a physician, psychiatrist or licensed psychologist stating that the physician, psychiatrist or licensed psychologist has examined the child alleged to be a child with an emotional disturbance and has concluded that the child has an emotional disturbance and, because of that condition, is likely to harm himself or herself or others if allowed liberty; or

(b) By a sworn written statement by the petitioner that:

(1) The petitioner has, based upon personal observation of the child alleged to be a child with an emotional disturbance, probable cause to believe that the child has an emotional disturbance and, because of that condition, is likely to harm himself or herself or others if allowed liberty; and

(2) The child alleged to be a child with an emotional disturbance has refused to submit to examination or treatment by a physician, psychiatrist or licensed psychologist.

2. If a petition filed pursuant to this section is to continue the placement of the child after an emergency admission, the petition must be filed not later than 5 days after the emergency admission or the child must be released.

(Added to NRS by 2005, 1318; A 2009, 410)