Sex offenders subject to psychiatric screening prior to parole and who have received an enhanced sentence for use of a deadly weapon or for victimizing a person 65 years of age or older must also be certified by a psychiatric screening board prior to parole from the enhanced sentence. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 193.169, any person who uses a firearm or other deadly weapon or a weapon containing or capable of emitting tear gas, whether or not its possession is permitted by NRS 202.375, in the commission of a crime shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a term equal to and in addition to the term of imprisonment prescribed by statute for the crime. The sentence prescribed by this section runs consecutively with the sentence prescribed by statute for the crime. This section does not create any separate offense but provides an additional penalty for the primary offense, whose imposition is contingent upon the finding of the prescribed fact.
Sexual assault is among the primary offenses listed.
This is clear and unambiguous language which results in two consecutive prison terms being imposed for one primary offense, such as sexual assault, when a deadly weapon is used or when the victim is 65 years of age or older. Clark Co. School Dist. The plain meaning of the statutes requiring pysch panel certification prior to parole, and of the statutes which impose an additional, consecutive term for a primary offense, such as for sexual assault, is that an offender must be psych panel certified before he may be paroled from either the initial or additional term. This interpretation does not violate the spirit of the laws addressed in this opinion or produce an unreasonable or absurd result.