Assembly Bill No. 226–Committee on Government Affairs

(On Behalf of Lander County)

February 15, 1999

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Referred to Committee on Government Affairs

 

SUMMARY—Exempts temporarily relatives of members of certain town boards from prohibition against certain public employment. (BDR 23-646)

FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.

Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted. Green numbers along left margin indicate location on the printed bill (e.g., 5-15 indicates page 5, line 15).

 

AN ACT relating to public employment; exempting temporarily relatives of members of certain town boards from prohibition against certain public employment; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

1-1 Section 1. NRS 281.210 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-2 281.210 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, it is

1-3 unlawful for any person acting as a school trustee, state, township,

1-4 municipal or county officer, or as an employing authority of the University

1-5 and Community College System of Nevada, any school district or of the

1-6 state, any town, city or county, or for any state or local board, agency or

1-7 commission, elected or appointed, to employ in any capacity on behalf of

1-8 the State of Nevada, or any county, township, municipality or school

1-9 district thereof, or the University and Community College System of

1-10 Nevada, any relative of such a person or of any member of such a board,

1-11 agency or commission who is within the third degree of consanguinity or

1-12 affinity.

1-13 2. This section does not apply:

1-14 (a) To school districts, when the teacher or other school employee is not

1-15 related to more than one of the trustees or person who is an employing

2-1 authority by consanguinity or affinity and receives a unanimous vote of all

2-2 members of the board of trustees and approval by the state department of

2-3 education.

2-4 (b) To school districts, when the teacher or other school employee has

2-5 been employed by an abolished school district or educational district,

2-6 which constitutes a part of the employing county school district, and the

2-7 county school district for 4 years or more before April 1, 1957.

2-8 (c) To the spouse of the warden of an institution or manager of a facility

2-9 of the department of prisons.

2-10 (d) To the spouse of the superintendent of the Caliente youth center.

2-11 (e) To relatives of blind officers and employees of the bureau of

2-12 services to the blind and visually impaired of the rehabilitation division of

2-13 the department of employment, training and rehabilitation when those

2-14 relatives are employed as automobile drivers for those officers and

2-15 employees.

2-16 (f) To relatives of a member of a town board of a town whose

2-17 population is less than 300.

2-18 3. Nothing in this section:

2-19 (a) Prevents any officer in this state, employed under a flat salary, from

2-20 employing any suitable person to assist in any such employment, when the

2-21 payment for the service is met out of the personal money of the officer.

2-22 (b) Disqualifies any widow with a dependent as an employee of any

2-23 officer or board in this state, or any of its counties, townships,

2-24 municipalities or school districts.

2-25 4. A person employed contrary to the provisions of this section must

2-26 not be compensated for the employment.

2-27 5. Any person violating any provisions of this section is guilty of a

2-28 gross misdemeanor.

2-29 Sec. 2. This act becomes effective upon passage and approval and

2-30 expires by limitation on July 1, 2009.

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