Temporary restraining order or preliminary injunction pending disciplinary proceedings

Notwithstanding the provisions of chapter 622A of NRS: 1. Pending disciplinary proceedings before the Board, a panel of its members or a hearing officer, the court may, upon application by the Board or the Attorney General, issue a temporary restraining order or a preliminary injunction to enjoin any unprofessional conduct of a psychologist, behavioral health and wellness practitioner, psychological assistant, psychological intern or psychological trainee which is harmful to the public, to limit the psychologist’s, behavioral health and wellness practitioner’s, psychological assistant’s, psychological intern’s or psychological trainee’s practice or to suspend the license to practice psychology or behavioral health promotion and prevention, the registration to practice as a psychological trainee or the provisional license to practice as a psychological assistant or psychological intern, without proof of actual damage sustained by any person, this provision being a preventive as well as a punitive measure. 2. The disciplinary proceedings before the Board, a panel of its members or a hearing officer must be instituted and determined as promptly as the requirements for investigation of the case reasonably allow.