uch a physician, each shall choose one physician so specializing, and two physicians so chosen shall choose a third specialist in that branch. The resulting panel of three physicians shall, by majority vote, determine the percentage of disability in accordance with the American Medical Association’s Guides to the Evaluation of Permanent Impairment as adopted and supplemented by the Division pursuant to NRS 616C.110. (Added to NRS by 1981, 850; A 1981, 1538; 1987, 1313; 1991, 494, 2431; 1993, 1879; 1995, 2162) NRS 617.460 Silicosis and diseases related to asbestos as occupational diseases; compensation and claims. 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 617.366, silicosis and diseases related to asbestos are occupational diseases and are compensable as such when contracted by an employee and when arising out of and in the course of the employment. 2. Claims for compensation on account of silicosis or a disease related to asbestos are forever barred unless application is made to the insurer within 1 year after the date of disability or death and within 1 year after the claimant knew or should have known of the relationship between the disease and the employment. 3. Nothing in this chapter entitles an employee or his dependents to compensation, medical, hospital and nursing expenses or payment of funeral expenses for disability or death because of silicosis or a disease related to asbestos in the event of the failure or omission on the part of the employee truthfully to state, when seeking employment, the place, duration and nature of previous employment in answer to an inquiry made by the employer. 4. No compensation may be paid in case of silicosis or a disease related to asbestos unless the injured employee has been exposed to harmful quantities of silicon dioxide dust or fibers of asbestos for not less than 1 year in employment in this State covered by this chapter and chapters 616A to 616D, inclusive, of NRS. 5. Compensation on account of silicosis or a disease related to asbestos is payable only in the event of a temporary or permanent disability, or death, in accordance with the provisions of chapters 616A to 616D, inclusive, of NRS. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 616C.505, the insurer shall not allow the conversion of the compensation benefits provided for in this section into the payment of a lump sum. Payment of benefits and compensation is limited to the claimant and his dependents. 6. Any claimant who has been disabled by silicosis or a disease related to asbestos before July 1, 1973, or his dependents, upon receiving the maximum sum payable, $14,250, to which they are entitled, are not entitled to compensation from the insurer, but are entitled to continue to receive the same amount of compensation from the account for pensions for silicosis, diseases related to asbestos and other disabilities. [Part 26:44:1947; A 1949, 365; 1953, 297]—(NRS A 1957, 307; 1959, 250; 1961, 449; 1963, 84; 1965, 980; 1967, 206; 1969, 898; 1971, 326, 1083; 1973, 539, 1406; 1975, 259, 510, 823; 1979, 1064; 1981, 1504; 1983, 460; 1985, 724; 1987, 590; 1991, 1803; 1993, 771; 1995, 2036) NRS 617.470 Occupational diseases of respiratory tract resulting from exposure to dusts. All conditions, restrictions, limitations and other provisions of NRS 617.460 with reference to the payment of compensation or benefits on account of silicosis or a disease related to asbestos are applicable to the payment of compensation or benefits on account of any other occupational disease of the respiratory tract resulting from injurious exposure to dusts. [28:44:1947; 1943 NCL § 2800.28]—(NRS A 1987, 591) NRS 617.481 Certain contagious diseases as occupational diseases. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter and except as otherwise provided in this section, if a person employed in this State contracts a contagious disease during the course and scope of his employment that results in a temporary or permanent disability or death, the disease is an occupational disease and compensable as such under the provisions of this chapter if: (a) It is demonstrated that the employee was exposed to the contagious disease during the course and scope of his employment; (b) The employee reported the exposure to his employer in compliance with the reporting requirements adopted by the employer; and (c) A test to screen for the contagious disease that is approved by the State Board of Health is administered to the employee: (1) Within 72 hours after the date of the exposure and the employee tests negative for exposure to the contagious disease; and (2) After the incubation period for the contagious disease, as determined by the State Board of Health, but not later than 12 months after the date of the exposure, and the employee tests positive for exposure to the contagious disease. 2. Such an employee and his dependents are excluded from the benefits of this section if: (a) The employee refuses to be tested for exposure to the contagious disease as required by subsection 1; (b) The employee or his dependents are eligible to receive compensation pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 2 of NRS 616A.265 or NRS 616C.052; or (c) It is proven by clear and convincing evidence that the contagious disease did not arise out of and in the course of the employment. 3. All tests for exposure to the contagious disease that are required pursuant to subsection 1 must be paid for by the employer. 4. Compensation awarded to an employee or his dependents pursuant to this section must include: (a) Full reimbursement for related expenses incurred for: (1) Preventive treatment administered as a precaution to the employee; and (2) Other medical treatments, surgery and hospitalization; and (b) The compensation provided in chapters 616A to 616D, inclusive, of NRS for the disability or death. 5. As used in this section: (a) “Contagious disease” means hepatitis A, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, tuberculosis, the human immunodeficiency virus or acquired immune deficiency syndrome. (b) “Exposed” or “exposure” means the introduction of blood or other infectious materials into the body of an employee during the performance of his official duties through the skin, eye, mucous membrane or parenteral contact. The term includes contact with airborne materials carrying tuberculosis. (c) “Preventive treatment” includes, without limitation, tests to determine if an employee has contracted the contagious disease to which he was exposed. (Added to NRS by 2001, 827) NRS 617.485 Hepatitis as occupational disease of police officers, firefighters and emergency medical attendants. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter and except as otherwise provided in this section, if an employee has hepatitis, the disease is conclusively presumed to have arisen out of and in the course of his employment if the employee has been continuously employed for 5 years or more as a police officer, full-time salaried firefighter or emergency medical attendant in this State before the date of any temporary or permanent disability or death resulting from the hepatitis. 2. Compensation awarded to a police officer, firefighter or emergency medical attendant, or to the dependents of such a person, for hepatitis pursuant to this section must include: (a) Full reimbursement for related expenses incurred for medical treatments, surgery and hospitalization; and (b) The compensation provided in chapters 616A to 616D, inclusive, of NRS for the disability or death. 3. A police officer, salaried firefighter or emergency medical attendant shall: (a) Submit to a blood test to screen for hepatitis C upon employment, upon the commencement of coverage and thereafter on an annual basis during his employment. (b) Submit to a blood test to s

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