2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 228 - Attorney General › NRS 228.334 - Consumer Protection Legal Account: Allocation of money; authorized uses of allocations by legal aid organizations; submission of audited statements to Attorney General; authorization to audit, examine or inspect books and records of legal aid organizations regarding use of allocations.

1. After any reversion of money from the Consumer Protection Administrative Account to the Consumer Protection Legal Account in accordance with subsection 3 of NRS 228.332, the Attorney General shall allocate the money in the Consumer Protection Legal Account as follows:
(a) Fifty percent to the Office of the Attorney General or the Consumer’s Advocate, to be used for consumer protection and efforts to prevent fraud, including, without limitation, education, investigation, enforcement and litigation. Beginning on July 1, 2023, the Office of the Attorney General or the Consumer’s Advocate, as applicable:
(1) May use money allocated pursuant to this paragraph to pay for necessary staff pursuant to NRS 228.330 to carry out such consumer protection and efforts to prevent fraud; and
(2) If the amount of money in the Account that is allocated pursuant to this paragraph exceeds the amount required to pay for 120 days of operating costs for necessary staff to carry out such consumer protection and efforts to prevent fraud, may use any such excess amount of money for additional purposes relating to consumer protection and efforts to prevent fraud.
(b) Fifty percent to the following legal aid organizations, or their successors, in the following percentages:
(1) Seventy percent to the organization operating the program for legal services in a county whose population is 700,000 or more that receives the fees charged pursuant to NRS 19.031 for programs for the indigent, to be used to provide legal services in a county whose population is 700,000 or more;
(2) Nineteen percent to the organization operating the program for legal services in counties whose population is less than 100,000 that receive the fees charged pursuant to NRS 19.031 for programs for the indigent, to be used to provide legal services in those counties; and
(3) Eleven percent to the organization operating the program for legal services in a county whose population is 100,000 or more but less than 700,000 that receives the fees charged pursuant to NRS 19.031 for programs for the indigent, to be used to provide legal services in a county whose population is 100,000 or more but less than 700,000.
2. Each legal aid organization listed in paragraph (b) of subsection 1 shall:
(a) Use the money received from the Account for consumer protection and efforts to prevent fraud, including, without limitation, education and litigation; and
(b) On or before January 1 and July 1 of each year, submit a report to the Office of the Attorney General that includes a detailed summary of all activities undertaken by the legal aid organization during the previous 6-month period with the money received from the Account, including, without limitation:
(1) Activities relating to consumer protection and the prevention of fraud;
(2) Litigation;
(3) Educational activities;
(4) Statistical information on the number of persons served; and
(5) An accounting of the use of the money, including, without limitation, the specific amount of money used for salaries, costs and expenses.
3. On or before July 1 of each year, each legal aid organization listed in paragraph (b) of subsection 1 shall submit to the Office of the Attorney General an audited statement regarding the use of money received from the Account during the previous calendar year.
4. The Office of the Attorney General is entitled to audit, examine or inspect the books and records of each legal aid organization listed in paragraph (b) of subsection 1 at any time regarding the use of money received from the Account.
(Added to NRS by 2021, 2183)