1. Upon petition by a health authority to the district court for the county in which an investigation is being conducted by the health authority pursuant to NRS 441A.160 or 441A.163, the court may issue a subpoena to compel the production of medical records, laboratory records and reports, books and papers as set forth in NRS 441A.165.
2. If a witness refuses to produce any medical records, laboratory records and reports, books or papers required by a subpoena issued by a court pursuant to subsection 1, the court shall enter an order directing the witness to appear before the court at a time and place to be fixed by the court in its order, the time to be not more than 10 days after the date of the order, and then and there show cause why the witness has not produced the medical records, laboratory records and reports, books or papers before the health authority. A certified copy of the order must be served upon the witness. The court may enter an order that the witness appear before the health authority at the time and place fixed in the order and produce the required medical records, laboratory records and reports, books or papers, and upon failure to obey the order, the witness must be dealt with as for contempt of court.
(Added to NRS by 2009, 555)
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