The county board, with the approval of a majority of the governing body, shall appoint a county director, who must be a person professionally qualified in the field of psychiatric mental health. The choice of appointing a physician or one who is not a physician rests with the county board, and in making such choice the county board shall consider the duties that the county director is expected to perform.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 765; A 1971, 1019; 1975, 1627)