574.620  “Releasing agency” defined.  “Releasing agency” means:

1.  A society incorporated pursuant to NRS 574.010 to prevent cruelty to animals;

2.  An animal shelter designated by a local government for receiving and holding animals;

3.  A nonprofit entity that provides for the temporary shelter, care or placement of pets; or

4.  An organization that takes into custody pets which have been abandoned, abused or neglected and places those pets with new owners.

(Added to NRS by 1997, 2554)