Assembly Bill No. 140–Committee on Commerce and Labor

 

(On Behalf of the Attorney General)

 

February 14, 2003

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Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor

 

SUMMARY—Provides penalty for failure to comply with order to cease business operations at place of employment for failure to maintain or provide industrial insurance. (BDR 53‑437)

 

FISCAL NOTE:  Effect on Local Government: Yes.

                           Effect on the State: No.

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; prohibiting the failure to comply with an order issued by the Administrator of the Division of Industrial Relations of the Department of Business and Industry to cease all business operations at a place of employment or jobsite; providing a penalty; 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. Chapter 616D of NRS is hereby amended by

1-2  adding thereto a new section to read as follows:

1-3  1.  A person shall not knowingly fail to comply with an order

1-4  issued by the Administrator pursuant to NRS 616D.110 to cease

1-5  immediately all business operations at a place of employment or

1-6  jobsite.

1-7  2.  A person who is convicted of violating the provisions of

1-8  subsection 1 is guilty of a misdemeanor.

1-9  3.  A criminal penalty imposed pursuant to this section is in

1-10  addition to any civil penalty or other remedy available pursuant to

1-11  another statute.

 

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