Section 15. Health Examination.

A. Every prostitute working at a licensed operation shall have a weekly medical examination by a medical doctor licensed to practice medicine in the State of Nevada.

B. Each medical examination shall include testing to be submitted as follows :

1. If available to be performed on a competitive basis, the tests must be submitted by the doctor to a laboratory located in Lyon County ;

2. If the tests cannot be performed on a competitive basis at the laboratory located in Lyon County, then at any State licensed medical laboratory ;

3. Once each week, a culture to confirm the presence or absence of Gonorrhea and testing to screen for the presence or absence of Chylamydia. The frequency of the screening for Chylamydia maybe changed by the County Health Officer ;

4. Once each month, a sample of blood to confirm the presence or absence of the Antibody to the Human Immunodeficiency Virus or Syphilis ;

5. Once every year, screening for the presence or absence of Herpes Simplex II Virus ;

6. Include other medically approved tests, deemed advisable by the examiner, for determining whether the prostitute is afflicted with any infections or contagious disease ;

7. All medical examination and tests shall conform to the requirements of the State of Nevada Oivision of Health, the Nevada Revised Statutes and the Nevada Administrative Code ;

8. The expense associated with cost of the required medical examination and tests shall be paid by the prostitute, directly to the medical providers.

C. In order to provide timely, accurate and consistent results of the medical examinations as required hereunder, MEDICAL ADVISORS, to the Sheriff, shall be appointed as herein provided.

1. The MEDICAL ADVISOR shall be a doctor or doctors licensed to practice medicine in the State of Nevada.

2. The MEDICAL ADVISOR(S) shall be appointed, from time to time as required, by a committee comprised of the Sheriff, District Attorney, and the Chairman of the County Commissioners.

3. In appointing MEDICAL ADVISOR(S) the committee shall consider, input from the Lyon County Public Health Dfficer, input from representatives of the brothels, availability of medical service, convenience to the Sheriff for receipt of the required documentation, convenience and timeliness of the medical examinations for prostitutes, and other relevant factors. The committee shall give preference to doctors who have an established practice of medicine in Lyon County.

4. The doctors designated as MEDICAL ADVISOR(S) to the Sheriff shall be the sole medical providers administering the medical examination and tests, as herein provided, at the licensed operations.

D. In the event a prostitute shall have the medical examination and tests required, as herein provided, by a doctor other than a doctor designated as an ADVISOR to the Sheriff, then the results of said medical examination and tests shall be forwarded to a doctor who has been so designated, for review.

E. After the medical doctor, who has been designated as an ADVISOR to the Sheriff, completes the required medical examination and tests, or having received and reviewed the report and test results from another doctor, then that ADVISOR shall certify to the Sheriff that the prostitute is eligible for a work card. Each certificate shall specify the date of the examination and shall be valid for seven (7) days from the date of the certificate. The expense associated with this review and certification shall be paid by the prostitute directly to the doctor.

F. A DESIGNATED MEDICAL FACILITY shall be appointed, from time to time as required, by a committee which is comprised of the Sheriff, District Attorney and the Chairman of the County Commissioners.

G. The licensed operation shall provide a copy of the results of all medical tests of prostitutes, to the DESIGNATED MEDICAL FACILITY on a quarterly basis.

H. The DESIGNATED MEDICAL FACILITY shall review the medical tests. In reviewing the certificate the DESIGNATED MEDICAL FACILITY may :

1. Contact the examining physician and discuss procedures utilized in connection with the examination required in subsection A., of this section, and recommend changes in procedures ;

2. Contact the licensed and approved clinical laboratory processing the culture test required by the provisions of this section ;

3. Discuss with the Health Division of the Department of Human Resources of the State the tests required, and recommend changes to be adopted by the Health Division of the Department of Human Resources of the State ;

4. Report to the Sheriff the results of their review ;

5. Require every licensee, at the sole cost and expense of the licensee or prostitute, to pay to the DESIGNATED MEDICAL FACILITY the lesser of a weekly fee of One Hundred Twenty-Five ($125.00) Dollars or an amount equivalent to Ten ($10.00) Dollars per prostitute working at licensee's place of business, per week, for the prior quarter. Said fee shall be paid quarterly.

I. Upon receiving information that a prostitute is afflicted with an infectious or contagious disease, or has not obtained a current medical examination, as herein required, or is no longer entitled to a work card, the Sheriff shall immediately seize any work card previously issued.

J. No person who has ever been denied a certificate by an examining doctor, as herein provided, may again work as a prostitute in any licensed operation until such person has received and presented to the Sheriff, a certificate from the appropriate State health personnel, stating that the cause or causes, which resulted in the denial of the certificate have been cured and that the person is now free of any venereal disease or other contagious or infectious disease, and has complied with all other requirements of this chapter.