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Statutes > Nevada > Title-53 > Chapter-617 > Determination-and-payment-of-benefits > 617-385617.385 Limitation on receipt of modified motor vehicle as medical benefit.
1. An employee is entitled to receive as a medical benefit a motor vehicle that is modified to allow the employee to operate the vehicle safely if:
(a) As a result of an occupational disease arising out of and in the course of his or her employment, the employee is quadriplegic, paraplegic or has had a part of his or her body amputated; and
(b) The employee cannot be fitted with a prosthetic device which allows the employee to operate a motor vehicle safely.
2. If an employee is entitled to receive a motor vehicle pursuant to subsection 1, a motor vehicle must be modified to allow the employee to operate it safely in the following order of preference:
(a) A motor vehicle owned by the employee must be so modified if the insurer or employer providing medical benefits determines that it is reasonably feasible to do so.
(b) A used motor vehicle must be so modified if the insurer or employer providing medical benefits determines that it is reasonably feasible to do so.
(c) A new motor vehicle must be so modified.
(Added to NRS by 1993, 761)
