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2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.173 - Advance constitutes lien on accrued wages of officer or employee.

A cash advance for travel, when approved by the administrative head or the designee of the administrative head or the State Controller, constitutes a lien in favor of the State of Nevada upon the accrued wages of the requesting officer or employee in an amount equal to the sum advanced, but the administrative head or designee or the State Controller may, in the discretion of the administrative head or designee or the State Controller, advance more than the amount of the accrued wages of the officer or employee.
(Added to NRS by 1959, 304; A 1997, 1289; 2007, 920)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.174 - Payment for amount in excess of advance.

Upon the return of the officer or employee, the officer or employee is entitled to receive any authorized expenses in excess of the amount advanced.
(Added to NRS by 1959, 304; A 1983, 387, 1090; 1985, 62; 1989, 311; 1991, 1758; 1997, 1289; 2007, 920)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.1745 - Cash advance when reimbursement may be delayed; withholding of pay upon delinquency.

1. When an officer or employee uses a charge card issued at the request of the State for cash advances or travel expenses, or both, and the receipt of the travel reimbursement may be delayed more than 5 working days after the date of the initial submission of the travel reimbursement claim, the administrative head or the designee of the administrative head shall immediately issue to the officer or employee, for payment to the issuer of the charge card issued at the request of the State, a cash advance as described in NRS 281.172 in the amount of the total travel expenses charged on the charge card.
2. If an officer or employee who has been issued a charge card at the request of the State for cash advances or travel expenses, or both, fails timely to pay the travel expenses charged on the card, with the result that the charge card incurs a delinquent balance, the State may withhold from the officer’s or employee’s regular pay, or final payment received upon termination of the officer’s or employee’s employment, an amount that is not more than the amount required to pay the delinquent balance or the amount deducted from or offset against any rebate issued to the State by the issuer of the charge card related to the delinquent balance. Any amount withheld from an officer’s or employee’s pay pursuant to this section shall, as soon as practicable, be remitted to the State as payment for the delinquent balance or the amount deducted from or offset against any rebate issued to the State by the issuer of the charge card related to the delinquent balance.
(Added to NRS by 1997, 1288; A 2007, 920; 2015, 449)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.177 - Diversity and racial equity.

1. To the extent that money is available, a public employer shall provide training concerning diversity and racial equity to each of its officers and employees, which may include, without limitation, training regarding:
(a) Implicit and unconscious bias; and
(b) Undoing organizational, institutional, structural and systemic racism.
2. A public officer or employee shall complete any training provided pursuant to subsection 1.
(Added to NRS by 2021, 2703)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.180 - Record of official acts of person taking acknowledgments; liability and penalty.

1. Each person authorized by law to take the proof or acknowledgment of the execution of conveyances of real property, or other instrument required by law to be proved or acknowledged, shall keep a record of all of the person’s official acts in relation thereto in a book to be provided by the person for that purpose. There shall be entered in the book:
(a) The date of the proof or acknowledgment thereof.
(b) The date of the instrument.
(c) The name or character of the instrument proved or acknowledged.
(d) The names of each of the parties thereto, as grantor, grantee or otherwise.
During business hours, the record shall be open to public inspection without fee or reward.
2. Any person mentioned in subsection 1 who refuses or neglects to comply with the requirements of this section shall:
(a) Be punished by a fine of not more than $500; and
(b) Be liable on the person’s official bond in damages to any person injured by such refusal or neglect to the extent of the injury sustained by reason of the refusal or neglect mentioned in this subsection.
[1:32:1869; B § 315; BH § 2662; C § 2730; RL § 1098; NCL § 1559] + [2:32:1869; B § 316; BH § 2663; C § 2731; RL § 1099; NCL § 1560]—(NRS A 1967, 548)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.190 - Unlawful withholding or destruction of records; penalties.

1. If an officer whose office is abolished by law, or who, after the expiration of the term for which the officer is appointed or elected, or after the officer has resigned, or when legally removed from office, willfully or unlawfully withholds or detains from the officer’s successor, or other person entitled thereto by law, the records, papers, documents or other writings pertaining or belonging to the officer’s office, or mutilates, destroys or takes away any such writing, the person so offending is guilty of a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.
2. The provisions of this section apply to any person who has possession of the records, documents, papers or other writings and willfully mutilates, withholds or detains them.
[63:108:1866; B § 2661; BH § 1698; C § 1844; RL § 2819; NCL § 4819]—(NRS A 1979, 1464; 1995, 1264)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.210 - Officers of State, political subdivision and Nevada System of Higher Education prohibited from employing relatives; exceptions; penalties.

1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, it is unlawful for any person acting as a school trustee, state, township, municipal or county officer, or as an employing authority of the Nevada System of Higher Education, any school district or of the State, any town, city or county, or for any state or local board, agency or commission, elected or appointed, to employ in any capacity on behalf of the State of Nevada, or any county, township, municipality or school district thereof, or the Nevada System of Higher Education, any relative of such a person or of any member of such a board, agency or commission who is within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity.
2. This section does not apply:
(a) To school districts, when the teacher or other school employee is not related to more than one of the trustees or person who is an employing authority by consanguinity or affinity and receives a unanimous vote of all members of the board of trustees and approval by the Department of Education.
(b) To school districts, when the teacher or other school employee has been employed by an abolished school district or educational district, which constitutes a part of the employing county school district, and the county school district for 4 years or more before April 1, 1957.
(c) To the spouse of the warden of an institution or manager of a facility of the Department of Corrections.
(d) To relatives of officers and employees who are blind of the Bureau of Services to Persons Who Are Blind or Visually Impaired of the Rehabilitation Division of the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation when those relatives are employed as automobile drivers for those officers and employees.
3. Nothing in this section:
(a) Prevents any officer in this State, employed under a flat salary, from employing any suitable person to assist in any such employment, when the payment for the service is met out of the personal money of the officer.
(b) Disqualifies any widow with a dependent as an employee of any officer or board in this State, or any of its counties, townships, municipalities or school districts.
4. A person employed contrary to the provisions of this section must not be compensated for the employment.
5. Any person violating any provisions of this section is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
[1:75:1925; A 1927, 43; 1935, 172; 1951, 22] + [2:75:1925; NCL § 4852] + [3:75:1925; NCL § 4853]—(NRS A 1957, 704; 1960, 369; 1963, 1178; 1967, 549; 1969, 227; 1973, 563, 1406; 1975, 554; 1977, 870; 1989, 1958; 1993, 374, 1550; 1995, 579; 1997, 1171; 1999, 174; 2001 Special Session, 234, 235; 2003, 289, 306, 1131, 1132)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.221 - Contracts in which state officer has interest prohibited; exceptions; penalties.

1. Except as otherwise provided in this section and NRS 281A.430, it is unlawful for a state officer, who is not a member of the Legislature subject to the restrictions set forth in NRS 218A.970, to:
(a) Become a contractor under any contract or order for supplies or other kind of contract authorized by or for the State or any of its departments, or the Legislature or either of its houses, or to be interested, directly or indirectly, as principal, in any kind of contract so authorized.
(b) Be interested in any contract made by the officer or to be a purchaser or interested in any purchase under a sale made by the officer in the discharge of the officer’s official duties.
2. A member of any board, commission or similar body who is engaged in the profession, occupation or business regulated by the board, commission or body may supply or contract to supply, in the ordinary course of his or her business, goods, materials or services to any state or local agency, except the board, commission or body of which he or she is a member, if the member has not taken part in developing the contract plans or specifications and the member will not be personally involved in opening, considering or accepting offers.
3. A full- or part-time faculty member in the Nevada System of Higher Education may bid on or enter into a contract with a governmental agency, or may benefit financially or otherwise from a contract between a governmental agency and a private entity, if the contract complies with the policies established by the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada pursuant to NRS 396.255.
4. A state officer, other than an officer described in subsection 2 or 3, may bid on or enter into a contract with a governmental agency if the contracting process is controlled by rules of open competitive bidding, the sources of supply are limited, the officer has not taken part in developing the contract plans or specifications and the officer will not be personally involved in opening, considering or accepting offers.
5. Any contract made in violation of this section may be declared void at the instance of the State or of any other person interested in the contract except an officer prohibited from making or being interested in the contract.
6. A person who violates this section is guilty of a gross misdemeanor and shall forfeit his or her office.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 1109; A 1993, 2241; 1995, 689; 2001, 1627; 2013, 3761)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.240 - Grant of authority to discharge duties of public office unlawful; giving consideration for grant unlawful; penalties.

1. Every person holding or exercising any office under the laws or constitution of this state, who shall, for any reward or gratuity paid, or agreed to be paid, grant to another the right or authority to discharge any of the duties of such office (except the person’s lawful deputies), shall be punished by a fine not exceeding $5,000, and shall be removed from office.
2. Every person who shall give, or make any agreement to give, any reward or gratuity in consideration of such grant or authority, shall be punished by a fine of not more than $5,000.
[69:108:1866; B § 2667; BH § 1704; C § 1850; RL § 2822; NCL § 4822]—(NRS A 1967, 551)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.260 - Fees for returns prohibited; computation of mileage; penalty.

1. No officer shall be allowed to charge or receive any fee or compensation whatever for the return written upon any summons, subpoena, writ of attachment, execution, order of sale or other paper. Any officer violating the terms of this subsection shall be fined not more than $500, and shall be removed from office.
2. Where mileage is chargeable it shall be for the actual distance traveled, and every fraction of a mile shall be computed as a mile. Where mileage is chargeable by a sheriff, it shall be computed as provided in NRS 248.400.
[38:49:1883; BH § 2379; C § 2503; RL § 2040; NCL § 2971] + [Part 39:49:1883; BH § 2380; C § 2504; RL § 2041; NCL § 2972]—(NRS A 1967, 551)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.270 - Officer to prevent duel: Penalty.

If any officer bound to preserve the public peace shall have knowledge of an intention, on the part of any two persons, to fight with a deadly weapon or weapons, and such officer shall not use and exert the official authority of that officer to arrest the persons and prevent the deed, every such officer shall be fined in a sum not exceeding $1,000.
[Part 70:108:1866; B § 2668; BH § 1705; C § 1851; RL § 2823; NCL § 4823]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.280 - Officer refusing to receive or arrest person charged with criminal offense: Penalties.

If any officer shall willfully refuse to receive or arrest any person charged with a criminal offense, such officer is guilty of a gross misdemeanor and shall be removed from office.
[Part 67:108:1866; B § 2665; BH § 1702; C § 1848; RL § 2820; NCL § 4820]—(NRS A 1967, 551)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.290 - Officer executing process may command assistance when resistance made.

1. When a public officer authorized to execute process finds or has reason to apprehend that resistance will be made to the execution of that process, the officer may command as many inhabitants of the officer’s county as the officer thinks proper, and may call upon the Governor for military aid in the manner provided by law, to assist the officer in overcoming the resistance, and, if necessary, in seizing, arresting and confining the resisters and their aiders and abettors, to be punished according to law.
2. The officer shall certify, to the court from which the process issued, the names of the resisters and their aiders and abettors, to the end that they be proceeded against for their contempt of court.
[Part 83:108:1866; B § 2681; BH § 1718; C § 1864; RL § 2833; NCL § 4833] + [84:108:1866; B § 2682; BH § 1719; C § 1865; RL § 2834; NCL § 4834]—(NRS A 1967, 1341; 1981, 461)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.310 - Audits and allowances of accounts of state officers: Affidavits; oaths and affirmations.

In all cases where officers are called upon to audit and allow the accounts of state officers, they shall take and file affidavits of the officers that they have not violated any of the provisions of law. For that purpose all officers, authorized by law to audit and allow accounts, are empowered and required to administer oaths and affirmations, which shall have the same force and validity in all actions for perjury as if administered by a judicial officer.
[Part 97:108:1866; B § 2695; BH § 1732; C § 1878; RL § 2844; NCL § 4844]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.320 - Withholding of settlement and payment of accounts of public officers.

Any officer charged with the disbursement of any public moneys or any evidence of public indebtedness, when informed by affidavit of the violation of any provisions of law by any officer whose account is to be settled, audited or paid by the officer, shall withhold any settlement or payment of the same and cause the officer to be prosecuted.
[Part 100:108:1866; B § 2698; BH § 1735; C § 1881; RL § 2847; NCL § 4847]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.330 - Advocating overthrow of government cause for dismissal of public employee.

It shall be sufficient cause for the dismissal of any public employee when such public employee advocates or is a member of an organization which advocates overthrow of the Government of the United States or of the State by force, violence or other unlawful means.
[Part 1:20:1955]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.340 - Obtaining appointment by false letter or certificate: Penalty.

Every person who shall obtain appointment to any office or place of trust by color or aid of any false or forged letter or certificate of recommendation shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
[Part 1911 C&P § 522; RL § 6787; NCL § 10468]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.350 - Grafting by public officer or employee: Penalty.

Every public officer or public employee who shall ask or receive, directly or indirectly, any compensation, gratuity or reward, or any promise thereof, upon any agreement or understanding that the officer or employee shall act in any particular manner in connection with the official duties of the officer or employee or the public service; or who, being authorized to purchase or contract for materials, supplies or other articles or to employ servants or labor for the State or any county or municipality, or for the public service, shall ask or receive, directly or indirectly, for the officer or employee or another, a commission, percentage, discount, bonus or promise thereof from any person with whom the officer or employee may deal in relation to such matters, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
[Part 1911 C&P § 521; RL § 6786; NCL § 10467]—(NRS A 1963, 17)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.360 - Failure by public officer or employee to perform duty: Penalty.

Whenever any duty is enjoined by law upon any public officer or other person holding any public trust or employment, their willful neglect to perform such duty, except where otherwise specifically provided for, shall be a misdemeanor.
[1911 C&P § 24; RL § 6289; NCL § 9973]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.370 - Actions concerning personnel to be based on merit and fitness; discrimination prohibited.

1. All personnel actions taken by state, county or municipal departments, housing authorities, agencies, boards or appointing officers thereof must be based solely on merit and fitness.
2. State, county or municipal departments, housing authorities, agencies, boards or appointing officers thereof shall not refuse to hire a person, discharge or bar any person from employment or discriminate against any person in compensation or in other terms or conditions of employment because of the person’s race, creed, color, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, age, political affiliation or disability, except when based upon a bona fide occupational qualification.
3. As used in this section:
(a) "Disability" means, with respect to a person:
(1) A physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of the person;
(2) A record of such an impairment; or
(3) Being regarded as having such an impairment.
(b) "Gender identity or expression" means a gender-related identity, appearance, expression or behavior of a person, regardless of the person’s assigned sex at birth.
(c) "Protective hairstyle" includes, without limitation, hairstyles such as natural hairstyles, afros, bantu knots, curls, braids, locks and twists.
(d) "Race" includes traits associated with race, including, without limitation, hair texture and protective hairstyles.
(e) "Sexual orientation" means having or being perceived as having an orientation for heterosexuality, homosexuality or bisexuality.
(Added to NRS by 1959, 137; A 1973, 980; 1985, 1561; 1987, 2266; 1991, 1021; 1995, 814; 1999, 1941; 2011, 501; 2021, 1707)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.371 - Employer authorized to enforce health and safety requirements notwithstanding protections for hair texture and protective hairstyles.

Notwithstanding the protections in this chapter for hair texture and protective hairstyles, a public employer may enforce health and safety requirements set forth in federal or state law.
(Added to NRS by 2021, 1707)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.375 - Application for employment: Volunteer work must be considered.

Every application form for employment with the State of Nevada, any of its political subdivisions or any agency of the State must indicate that volunteer work relevant to the position applied for is considered in the evaluation of the applicant’s qualifications for employment and must provide space for the applicant to list any volunteer work the applicant considers appropriate.
(Added to NRS by 1981, 350)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.380 - Public officers and employees required to accept reproductions of business records for examination and other purposes.

If any business, institution or member of a profession or calling has kept or recorded any memorandum, writing, entry, print, representation or combination thereof, of any act, transaction, occurrence or event and has caused any or all of such records to be recorded, copied or reproduced by any photographic, photostatic, microfilm, microcard, miniature photographic, or other process which accurately reproduces or forms a durable medium for so reproducing the original, such reproduction shall be accepted by all public officers and employees for examination, filing, copying or any other purpose as if it were the original, whether or not the original is then in existence.
(Added to NRS by 1963, 523)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.390 - Sick leave of public employees: Election of benefits; amount limited when eligible for benefits for industrial or occupational disease.

1. When any public employee is eligible at the same time for benefits for temporary total disability pursuant to chapters 616A to 616D, inclusive, or 617 of NRS and for any sick leave benefit, the employee may, by giving notice to the employer of the employee, elect to continue to receive the employee’s normal salary instead of the benefits pursuant to those chapters until the employee’s accrued sick leave time is exhausted. The employer shall notify the insurer that provides industrial insurance for that employer of the election. The employer shall continue to pay the employee the employee’s normal salary but charge against the employee’s accrued sick leave time as taken during the pay period an amount which represents the difference between the employee’s normal salary and the amount of any benefit for temporary total disability received, exclusive of reimbursement or payment of medical or hospital expenses pursuant to chapters 616A to 616D, inclusive, or 617 of NRS for that pay period.
2. When the employee’s accrued sick leave time is exhausted, payment of the employee’s normal salary pursuant to subsection 1 must be discontinued and the employer shall promptly notify the insurer that provides industrial insurance for that employer so that it may begin paying the benefits to which the employee is entitled directly to the employee.
3. An employee who declines to make the election provided in subsection 1, may use all or part of the sick leave benefit normally payable to the employee while directly receiving benefits for temporary total disability pursuant to chapters 616A to 616D, inclusive, or 617 of NRS, but the amount of sick leave benefit paid to the employee for any pay period must not exceed the difference between the employee’s normal salary and the amount of any benefit received, exclusive of reimbursement or payment of medical or hospital expenses pursuant to those chapters for that pay period.
4. If the amount of the employee’s sick leave benefit is reduced pursuant to subsection 3 below the amount normally payable, the amount of sick leave time charged against the employee as taken during that pay period must be reduced in the same proportion.
5. The public employee may decline to use any or part of the sick leave benefit normally payable to the employee while receiving benefits pursuant to chapters 616A to 616D, inclusive, or 617 of NRS. During that time, the employee must be considered on leave of absence without pay.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 439; A 1975, 205; 1981, 497, 1538; 1995, 2042; 1999, 1814)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.400 - Coercion respecting membership in organizations for persons who are aged, blind or disabled prohibited.

No officer or employee of the State or any county, city or district who is concerned with the administration of any program for persons who are aged, blind or disabled shall, in the officer’s or employee’s official capacity, attempt to coerce or coerce any person who is aged, blind or disabled to join or refrain from joining any organization for persons who are aged, blind or disabled.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 174)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.405 - Validity of lien or encumbrance against property of public officer, candidate for public office, public employee or participant in official proceeding, or immediate family members thereof.

1. Any lien or other encumbrance which is filed or otherwise claimed against the real or personal property of a public officer, candidate for public office, public employee or participant in an official proceeding, or a member of the immediate family of a public officer, candidate for public office, public employee or participant, which is based on the performance of or failure to perform a duty relating to the office, employment or participation of the officer, employee or participant is invalid unless the filing of the lien or encumbrance is authorized by a specific statute or by an order of a court of competent jurisdiction.
2. As used in this section:
(a) "Encumbrance" includes, without limitation, a lis pendens or other notice of the pendency of an action.
(b) "Immediate family" means persons who are related by blood, adoption or marriage, within the first degree of consanguinity or affinity.
(c) "Lien" means a charge against or an interest in property which is used as security for the payment of a debt or the performance of an obligation. The term includes, without limitation, a judicial lien obtained by legal or equitable process or proceedings, a common-law lien, a statutory lien and a security interest.
(d) "Participant in an official proceeding" includes, without limitation, a juror or witness in a judicial or administrative proceeding or a referee, arbitrator, mediator, appraiser, assessor or other person authorized by law to hear or determine any controversy or matter.
(Added to NRS by 1997, 72; A 2015, 1361)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.556 - Definitions.

As used in NRS 281.5555 to 281.581, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 281.558 to 281.5587, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
(Added to NRS by 2015, 1718; A 2019, 2996, 3418)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.558 - "Candidate" defined.

1. "Candidate" means any person who seeks to be elected to a public office and:
(a) Who files a declaration of candidacy; or
(b) Whose name appears on an official ballot at any election.
2. The term does not include a candidate for judicial office who is subject to the requirements of the Revised Nevada Code of Judicial Conduct.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 1591; A 1993, 265; 2001, 1955; 2015, 1720; 2019, 3418)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.5584 - "Financial disclosure statement" and "statement" defined.

"Financial disclosure statement" or "statement" means a financial disclosure statement in the electronic form or other authorized form prescribed by the Secretary of State pursuant to NRS 281.5555 to 281.581, inclusive, or in the form approved by the Secretary of State for a specialized or local ethics committee pursuant to NRS 281A.350.
(Added to NRS by 2015, 1719; A 2019, 2997)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.5585 - "Gift" defined.

1. "Gift" means any payment, conveyance, transfer, distribution, deposit, advance, loan, forbearance, subscription, pledge or rendering of money, services or anything else of value, unless consideration of equal or greater value is received.
2. The term does not include:
(a) Any political contribution of money or services related to a political campaign.
(b) Any commercially reasonable loan made in the ordinary course of business.
(c) Anything of value provided for an educational or informational meeting, event or trip.
(d) Anything of value excluded from the term "gift" as defined in NRS 218H.060.
(e) Any ceremonial gifts received for a birthday, wedding, anniversary, holiday or other ceremonial occasion from a donor who is not an interested person.
(f) Anything of value received from a person who is:
(1) Related to the public officer or candidate, or to the spouse or domestic partner of the public officer or candidate, by blood, adoption, marriage or domestic partnership within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity; or
(2) A member of the public officer’s or candidate’s household.
(g) Anything of value received by a person as part of his or her bona fide employment or service as an employee or independent contractor or otherwise paid for or reimbursed to the person as part of his or her bona fide employment or service as an employee or independent contractor.
(Added to NRS by 2015, 1719; A 2019, 2997)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.5586 - "Interested person" defined.

1. "Interested person" means a person who has a substantial interest in the legislative, administrative or political action of a public officer or a candidate if elected.
2. The term includes, without limitation:
(a) A lobbyist as defined in NRS 218H.080.
(b) A group of interested persons acting in concert, whether or not formally organized.
(Added to NRS by 2015, 1719)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.5587 - "Member of the public officer’s or candidate’s household" defined.

1. "Member of the public officer’s or candidate’s household" means:
(a) The spouse or domestic partner of the public officer or candidate;
(b) A relative who lives in the same home or dwelling as the public officer or candidate; or
(c) A person, whether or not a relative, who:
(1) Lives in the same home or dwelling as the public officer or candidate and who is dependent on and receiving substantial support from the public officer or candidate;
(2) Does not live in the same home or dwelling as the public officer or candidate but who is dependent on and receiving substantial support from the public officer or candidate; or
(3) Lived in the same home or dwelling as the public officer or candidate for 6 months or more during the immediately preceding calendar year or other period for which the public officer or candidate is filing the financial disclosure statement and who was dependent on and receiving substantial support from the public officer or candidate during that period.
2. For the purposes of this section, "relative" means a person who is related to the public officer or candidate, or to the spouse or domestic partner of the public officer or candidate, by blood, adoption, marriage or domestic partnership within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity.
(Added to NRS by 2015, 1719)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.5588 - Secretary of State to provide for electronic filing of financial disclosure statements; date on which statement deemed filed.

1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 281.572, the Secretary of State shall provide access through a secure Internet website for the purpose of filing financial disclosure statements to each public officer or candidate who is required to file electronically with the Secretary of State a financial disclosure statement pursuant to NRS 281.5555 to 281.581, inclusive.
2. A financial disclosure statement that is filed electronically with the Secretary of State shall be deemed to be filed on the date that it is filed electronically if it is filed not later than 11:59 p.m. on that date.
(Added to NRS by 2015, 1720)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.559 - Electronic filing by certain appointed public officers; exceptions.

1. Except as otherwise provided in this section and NRS 281.572, if a public officer who was appointed to the office for which the public officer is serving is entitled to receive annual compensation of $6,000 or more for serving in that office or if the public officer was appointed to the office of Legislator, the public officer shall file electronically with the Secretary of State a financial disclosure statement, as follows:
(a) A public officer appointed to fill the unexpired term of an elected or appointed public officer shall file a financial disclosure statement within 30 days after the public officer’s appointment.
(b) Each public officer appointed to fill an office shall file a financial disclosure statement on or before January 15 of:
(1) Each year of the term, including the year in which the public officer leaves office; and
(2) The year immediately following the year in which the public officer leaves office, unless the public officer leaves office before January 15 in the prior year.
2. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, the financial disclosure statement that a public officer is required to file pursuant to subsection 1 must disclose the required information for the full calendar year immediately preceding the date of filing.
3. If:
(a) A public officer is required to file a financial disclosure statement within 30 days after his or her appointment pursuant to paragraph (a) of subsection 1; and
(b) During the calendar year in which the public officer was appointed, he or she did not serve in a public office that required the filing of a financial disclosure statement pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 1 or subsection 1 of NRS 281.561,
the public officer shall file a statement which discloses the information required by subsections 5 and 6 of NRS 281.571 for the 30 days immediately preceding the date of his or her appointment and which discloses the other information required by NRS 281.571 for the full calendar year immediately preceding the date of filing.
4. If a person is serving in a public office for which the person is required to file a statement pursuant to subsection 1, the person may use the statement the person files for that initial office to satisfy the requirements of subsection 1 for every other public office to which the person is appointed and in which the person is also serving.
5. A judicial officer who is appointed to fill the unexpired term of a predecessor or to fill a newly created judgeship shall file a financial disclosure statement pursuant to the requirements of the Revised Nevada Code of Judicial Conduct. To the extent practicable, such a statement must include, without limitation, all information required to be included in a financial disclosure statement pursuant to NRS 281.571.
(Added to NRS by 2003, 3018; A 2007, 2737; 2011, 1728, 3307; 2015, 1720; 2019, 2997)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.572 - Affidavit for exemption from requirement of electronic filing; nonelectronic filing of statement.

1. A public officer or candidate who is required to file a financial disclosure statement with the Secretary of State pursuant to NRS 281.559 or 281.561 is not required to file the statement electronically if the public officer or candidate has on file with the Secretary of State an affidavit which satisfies the requirements set forth in subsection 2 and which states that:
(a) The public officer or candidate does not own or have the ability to access the technology necessary to file electronically the financial disclosure statement; and
(b) The public officer or candidate does not have the financial ability to purchase or obtain access to the technology necessary to file electronically the financial disclosure statement.
2. The affidavit described in subsection 1 must be:
(a) In the form prescribed by the Secretary of State and signed under an oath to God or penalty of perjury. A public officer or candidate who signs the affidavit under an oath to God is subject to the same penalties as if the public officer or candidate had signed the affidavit under penalty of perjury.
(b) Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, filed not less than 15 days before the financial disclosure statement is required to be filed.
3. A public officer or candidate who is not required to file the financial disclosure statement electronically may file the financial disclosure statement by transmitting the statement by regular mail, certified mail, facsimile machine or personal delivery. A financial disclosure statement transmitted pursuant to this subsection shall be deemed to be filed on the date that it was received by the Secretary of State.
4. A person who is appointed to fill the unexpired term of an elected or appointed public officer must file the affidavit described in subsection 1 not later than 15 days after his or her appointment to be exempted from the requirement of filing a financial disclosure statement electronically.
(Added to NRS by 2011, 1725; A 2015, 1724)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.573 - Retention by Secretary of State.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, each financial disclosure statement required by the provisions of NRS 281.5555 to 281.581, inclusive, must be retained by the Secretary of State for 6 years after the date of filing.
2. For public officers who serve more than one term in either the same public office or more than one public office, the period prescribed in subsection 1 begins on the date of the filing of the last financial disclosure statement for the last public office held.
(Added to NRS by 1987, 2093; A 1991, 1603; 2003, 3021, 3397; 2003, 20th Special Session, 265; 2011, 1731; 2015, 1724; 2019, 2998)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.574 - Certain public officers required to submit electronically to Secretary of State list of public officers required to file statement and candidates.

1. A list of each public officer who is required to file a financial disclosure statement must be submitted electronically to the Secretary of State, in a form prescribed by the Secretary of State, on or before December 1 of each year by:
(a) Each county clerk for all public officers of the county and other local governments within the county other than cities;
(b) Each city clerk for all public officers of the city;
(c) The Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau for all public officers of the Legislative Branch; and
(d) The Director of the Department of Administration for all public officers of the Executive Branch.
2. Each county clerk, or the registrar of voters of the county if one was appointed pursuant to NRS 244.164, and each city clerk shall submit electronically to the Secretary of State, in a form prescribed by the Secretary of State, a list of each candidate who filed a declaration of candidacy with that officer within 10 days after the last day to qualify as a candidate for the applicable office.
(Added to NRS by 2003, 3384; A 2003, 20th Special Session, 263; 2011, 1731; 2015, 1724; 2019, 3419)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.5745 - Administration and interpretation of provisions; regulations; coordination with Director of Legislative Counsel Bureau regarding Nevada Lobbying Disclosure and Regulation Act.

1. The Secretary of State shall:
(a) Administer the provisions of NRS 281.5555 to 281.581, inclusive;
(b) Adopt any regulations necessary to carry out the provisions of NRS 281.5555 to 281.581, inclusive; and
(c) Provide interpretations and take any other actions necessary to carry out the provisions of NRS 281.5555 to 281.581, inclusive.
2. To the fullest extent practicable, the Secretary of State shall confer and coordinate with the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau to promote consistency and uniformity in the interpretation and application of the provisions of NRS 281.5555 to 281.581, inclusive, that are similar to the provisions of the Nevada Lobbying Disclosure and Regulation Act in chapter 218H of NRS.
(Added to NRS by 2015, 1720; A 2019, 2998)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.581 - Civil penalty for failure to disclose: Procedure; amount; waiver.

1. If the Secretary of State receives information that a public officer or candidate willfully fails to file a financial disclosure statement or willfully fails to file a financial disclosure statement in a timely manner pursuant to NRS 281.559, 281.561 or 281.572, the Secretary of State may, after giving notice to the public officer or candidate, cause the appropriate proceedings to be instituted in the First Judicial District Court.
2. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a public officer or candidate who willfully fails to file a financial disclosure statement or willfully fails to file a financial disclosure statement in a timely manner pursuant to NRS 281.559, 281.561 or 281.572 is subject to a civil penalty and payment of court costs and attorney’s fees. The civil penalty must be recovered in a civil action brought in the name of the State of Nevada by the Secretary of State in the First Judicial District Court and deposited by the Secretary of State for credit to the State General Fund in the bank designated by the State Treasurer.
3. The amount of the civil penalty is:
(a) If the statement is filed not more than 10 days after the applicable deadline set forth in subsection 1 of NRS 281.559, subsection 1 of NRS 281.561 or NRS 281.572, $25.
(b) If the statement is filed more than 10 days but not more than 20 days after the applicable deadline set forth in subsection 1 of NRS 281.559, subsection 1 of NRS 281.561 or NRS 281.572, $50.
(c) If the statement is filed more than 20 days but not more than 30 days after the applicable deadline set forth in subsection 1 of NRS 281.559, subsection 1 of NRS 281.561 or NRS 281.572, $100.
(d) If the statement is filed more than 30 days but not more than 45 days after the applicable deadline set forth in subsection 1 of NRS 281.559, subsection 1 of NRS 281.561 or NRS 281.572, $250.
(e) If the statement is not filed or is filed more than 45 days after the applicable deadline set forth in subsection 1 of NRS 281.559, subsection 1 of NRS 281.561 or NRS 281.572, $2,000.
4. For good cause shown, the Secretary of State may waive a civil penalty that would otherwise be imposed pursuant to this section. If the Secretary of State waives a civil penalty pursuant to this subsection, the Secretary of State shall:
(a) Create a record which sets forth that the civil penalty has been waived and describes the circumstances that constitute the good cause shown; and
(b) Ensure that the record created pursuant to paragraph (a) is available for review by the general public.
5. As used in this section, "willfully" means intentionally and knowingly.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 1109; A 1985, 2128; 1997, 3333; 1999, 934, 2746; 2001, 1958, 2290, 2924, 2931, 2932, 2934; 2003, 3021, 3397; 2003, 20th Special Session, 265; 2009, 1070; 2013, 3809; 2015, 1725)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.621 - Declaration of public policy.

It is hereby declared to be the public policy of this state that a state officer or employee and a local governmental officer or employee are encouraged to disclose, to the extent not expressly prohibited by law, improper governmental action, and it is the intent of the Legislature to protect the rights of a state officer or employee and a local governmental officer or employee who makes such a disclosure.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 1992; A 2001, 3050)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.631 - State or local governmental officer or employee: Certain requirements and prohibitions regarding the use of authority or influence.

1. A state officer or employee and a local governmental officer or employee:
(a) Shall use the official authority or influence of the officer or employee to remedy any reprisal or retaliatory action of which the officer or employee becomes aware.
(b) Shall not:
(1) Directly or indirectly use or attempt to use the official authority or influence of the officer or employee to intimidate, threaten, coerce, command, influence or attempt to intimidate, threaten, coerce, command or influence another state officer or employee or another local governmental officer or employee, as applicable, in an effort to interfere with or prevent the disclosure of information concerning improper governmental action, including, without limitation, by intimidating, threatening, coercing, commanding, influencing or attempting to intimidate, threaten, coerce, command or influence the other officer or employee to take reprisal or retaliatory action.
(2) Fail to use the official authority or influence of the officer or employee to remedy any reprisal or retaliatory action of which the officer or employee becomes aware.
2. For the purposes of this section, use of "official authority or influence" includes taking, directing others to take, recommending, processing or approving any personnel action such as an appointment, promotion, transfer, assignment, reassignment, reinstatement, restoration, reemployment, evaluation or other disciplinary action.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 1992; A 2001, 3050; 2019, 809)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 281 - General Provisions › NRS 281.635 - Local government required to enact ordinance providing the same or greater protection to local governmental officers and employees against reprisal and retaliation.

A local government shall, by ordinance, enact procedures that provide at least the same amount of protection to local governmental officers and employees against reprisal and retaliation for the disclosure of improper governmental action as is provided in NRS 281.611 to 281.671, inclusive. Such procedures may provide greater protection to local governmental officers and employees than the protection provided in NRS 281.611 to 281.671, inclusive.
(Added to NRS by 2001, 3048; A 2019, 810)