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2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.910 - Creation of district; imposition and collection of surcharge; limitations on use of surcharge.

1. In a county in which is located a city that has created a district and imposed a surcharge pursuant to NRS 268.798, there is hereby:
(a) Created a district for the promotion of tourism; and
(b) Imposed a surcharge of $2 on the per night charge for the rental of a room in a hotel in the district. The surcharge must not be applied for any time during which the room is provided to a guest free of charge.
2. As soon as practicable on or after July 1, 2015, but on or before October 1, 2015, the board of county commissioners shall adopt an ordinance prescribing the boundaries of the district created by paragraph (a) of subsection 1, which:
(a) Must include within it all property within the county and within each city in the county that is:
(1) Not located within a district created pursuant to NRS 268.798; and
(2) Located not more than 20 miles from the boundaries of a district created pursuant to NRS 268.798; and
(b) Must not include within it any property located within a district created pursuant to NRS 268.798.
3. The surcharge imposed by this section is in addition to any other license fee, tax or surcharge imposed on the revenues from the rental of transient lodging. The surcharge must be collected by the county fair and recreation board in accordance with the provisions of NRS 244A.920. The money must be deposited in the account created pursuant to NRS 244A.920 and used only for the purposes set forth in that section.
4. The proceeds of the surcharge and any interest or income earned on such money may not be used for the purposes of promoting or marketing professional bowling.
(Added to NRS by 2015, 466)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.010 - Certificates of election of county officers.

All county officers elected by the people shall receive certificates of election from the boards of county commissioners of their respective counties.
[Part 30:108:1866; B § 2628; BH § 1665; C § 1811; RL § 2794; NCL § 4794]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.020 - Election and qualification of certain county officers to be certified to Secretary of State.

Within 10 days after the election or appointment and qualification of any county officer authorized by law to take acknowledgments or administer oaths, the clerk of the board of county commissioners of each county shall certify, under seal, to the Secretary of State the fact of election or appointment and qualification of any such officer in that county. The certificate shall be filed in the Office of the Secretary of State as evidence of the official character of such officers.
[Part 31:108:1866; B § 2629; BH § 1666; C § 1812; RL § 2795; NCL § 4795]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.030 - Board of county commissioners may require new bond of county officers or monthly reports of county fiscal officers; examination of books.

1. The board of county commissioners shall:
(a) By an order to that effect entered upon the record, require a new bond of any county or township officer, with additional sureties, whenever the board deems the same necessary.
(b) See that all the county and township officers entrusted with the collection, disbursement, safekeeping or management of the public revenue, faithfully perform the duties imposed upon them by law, and shall cause them to be prosecuted for any delinquencies.
2. The board of county commissioners may:
(a) Require of all county or township officers, entrusted with the collection, management, safekeeping or disbursement of public funds, a monthly report of all collections and disbursements made by them during the preceding month.
(b) At any time examine their books, accounts and vouchers.
[14:80:1865; B § 3083; BH § 1955; C § 2117; RL § 1514; NCL § 1947]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.0435 - Private practice of law by certain district attorneys prohibited; disqualification from prosecution.

1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 252.060, the district attorneys in counties of classes 1 to 5, inclusive, as classified in the table of annual salaries, shall not engage in the private practice of law.
2. A district attorney who is permitted to engage in the private practice of law shall disqualify himself or herself from any criminal prosecution of a person who has been involved in a matter related to the district attorney’s private practice of law.
3. As used in this section, "private practice of law" by a district attorney means the performance of legal service, for compensation, for any person or organization except the district attorney’s county and any other governmental agency which the district attorney has a statutory duty to serve.
(Added to NRS by 1975, 1479; A 1977, 1325; 1981, 1159; 1985, 1553; 1991, 103; 1995, 2520)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.044 - Payment for longevity for elected county officers; option not to receive payment.

1. On and after July 1, 1973, if an elected county officer has served in his or her office for more than 4 years, the officer is entitled to an additional salary of 2 percent of his or her base salary for the appropriate fiscal year as provided in subsection 2 of NRS 245.043 or his or her annual salary set pursuant to subsection 3 of NRS 245.043, as applicable, for each full calendar year the officer has served in his or her office.
2. The additional salary to which an elected county officer is entitled pursuant to subsection 1:
(a) Must be calculated on July 1 of each year by multiplying 2 percent of the base salary for the appropriate fiscal year as provided in subsection 2 of NRS 245.043 or the annual salary set pursuant to subsection 3 of NRS 245.043, as applicable, by the number of full calendar years the elected county officer has served in his or her office; and
(b) Must not exceed 20 percent of the base salary for the appropriate fiscal year as provided in subsection 2 of NRS 245.043 or the annual salary set pursuant to subsection 3 of NRS 245.043, as applicable.
3. Any elected county officer who is entitled to additional salary pursuant to subsection 1 may elect not to receive the additional salary or any part of the additional salary.
4. Service on the Board of Supervisors of Carson City for the initial term which began on July 1, 1969, and ended on the first Monday of January, 1973, shall be deemed to constitute 4 full calendar years of service for the purposes of this section.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 1780; A 1975, 958; 1983, 1649; 1987, 115; 1995, 2520; 2007, 2411; 2015, 141)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.045 - Salaries of appointive county officers and employees fixed by ordinance or resolution.

Boards of county commissioners have authority to fix the salaries of all appointive county officers and employees by the enactment of ordinances or the adoption of resolutions.
(Added to NRS by 1963, 1295; A 1969, 1462)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.0465 - Limitations on consideration of wage or salary history of applicant for employment by county.

1. The board of county commissioners, a county officer or any other person acting on behalf of a county shall not, orally or in writing, personally or through an agent:
(a) Seek the wage or salary history of an applicant for employment by the county;
(b) Rely on the wage or salary history of an applicant to determine:
(1) Whether to offer employment to an applicant; or
(2) The rate of pay for the applicant; or
(c) Refuse to interview, hire, promote or employ an applicant, or discriminate or retaliate against an applicant if the applicant does not provide wage or salary history.
2. A board of county commissioners, a county officer or any other person acting on behalf of a county shall provide:
(a) To an applicant for employment by a county who has completed an interview for a position the wage or salary range or rate for the position; and
(b) The wage or salary range or rate for a promotion or transfer to a new position if an employee of a county has:
(1) Applied for the promotion or transfer;
(2) Completed an interview for the promotion or transfer or been offered the promotion or transfer; and
(3) Requested the wage or salary range or rate for the promotion or transfer.
3. Nothing in this section prohibits the board of county commissioners, a county officer or any other person acting on behalf of the county from asking an applicant for employment by the county about his or her wage or salary expectation for the position for which the applicant is applying.
4. As used in this section, "wage or salary history" means the wages or salary paid to an applicant for employment by the current or former employer of the applicant. The term includes, without limitation, any compensation and benefits received by the applicant from his or her current or former employer.
(Added to NRS by 2021, 1680)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.048 - Employment of person admitted for permanent residency: Provision of documentation required by federal law.

The board of county commissioners, a county officer and any other person acting on behalf of a county shall not hire or appoint as an employee any person who has been lawfully admitted for permanent residency in the United States, unless the person hired or appointed has provided the county with the documentation required by 8 U.S.C. § 1324a(b).
(Added to NRS by 1993, 2431)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.050 - Biweekly or semimonthly payment of salaries.

All county officers and regular and temporary employees of the counties are entitled to be paid their salaries as fixed by law, ordinance or resolution either at regular 2-week intervals or in two equal semimonthly payments. If salaries are paid semimonthly, the first semimonthly payment for each month must be for the first half of that particular month, and the second semimonthly payment must be for the last half of the month.
[Part 1:179:1941; A 1949, 406; 1951, 77]—(NRS A 1969, 1462; 1973, 292; 1987, 2311; 1989, 246)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.055 - Prohibition on deduction of employee’s salary for service as volunteer firefighter or volunteer ambulance driver or attendant.

1. All county employees must be paid their salaries as fixed by law, ordinance or resolution without diminution on account of any time spent away from county employment while acting as:
(a) Volunteer firefighters of any regular organized and recognized fire department in the protection of life or property; or
(b) Volunteer ambulance drivers or attendants,
during working hours or fractions thereof which should otherwise have been devoted to county employment.
2. As used in this section, "volunteer ambulance driver or attendant" means a person who is a driver of or attendant on an ambulance owned or operated by:
(a) A nonprofit organization that provides volunteer ambulance service in any county, city or town in this State; or
(b) A political subdivision of this State.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 43; A 1971, 223; 1997, 468; 2005, 319)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.060 - Travel expenses: Reimbursement; per diem allowance.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, if a county or township officer or an employee of the county is entitled to receive reimbursement for his or her necessary traveling expenses for the transaction of public business, such reimbursement must include actual living expenses, but the amount allowed for traveling by private conveyance must not exceed the amount charged by public conveyance. Where it appears to the satisfaction of the board of county commissioners that travel by private conveyance is more economical, or where it appears that, owing to train, airplane or bus schedules or for other reasons, travel by public conveyance is impractical, or in case a part of the route traveled is not covered by public conveyance, the board of county commissioners, in its discretion, may allow for traveling by private conveyance an amount not to exceed the maximum per-mile allowance for travel by private conveyance established by the State Board of Examiners for state officers and employees generally.
2. The board of county commissioners of a county may provide, to any county or township officer or employee of the county who is required to travel for the transaction of public business for a period of not more than 5 consecutive working days at a time, a per diem allowance and travel expenses at the same rate as the comparable rate established for employees of the Federal Government by the Administrator of General Services pursuant to 5 U.S.C. § 5707, excluding any federal requirement, restriction or other condition which is applicable to that comparable rate.
[1:16:1928; A 1939, 31; 1953, 69; 1955, 596]—(NRS A 1965, 238; 1967, 453; 1969, 1470; 1973, 1675; 1997, 1734; 2007, 601, 2411)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.062 - Travel expenses: Adoption and contents of ordinance establishing procedures for payment; advance constitutes lien on wages.

1. The board of county commissioners of a county shall, by ordinance, establish procedures for the payment of authorized travel expenses of county officers and employees arising out of their official duties or employment as provided in NRS 245.060.
2. The ordinance must require that each department of the county set forth in its annual budget the maximum amount of money that it estimates will be necessary to pay for necessary travel expenses for the fiscal year. The ordinance may contain procedures by which the amount budgeted by a department during the fiscal year may be increased if the estimated amount of money is insufficient to pay for actual travel expenses.
3. The ordinance may authorize certain officers or employees to disburse money to pay an advance or claim for travel expenses to an employee without obtaining the approval of the board of county commissioners if the amount of such an advance or claim was included in the annual budget of the employing department.
4. All money advanced to a county officer or employee to pay for his or her travel expenses constitutes a lien in favor of the county upon the accrued wages of the officer or employee to whom the advance was made. The county may advance more money to an officer or employee than the amount of his or her currently accrued wages.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 202; A 1973, 1082; 1979, 521; 1989, 973; 1997, 1734)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.063 - Use of testing as factor in promotion of employees: Requirements; appeals; exception.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, notwithstanding the provisions of any collective bargaining agreement to the contrary, if a board of county commissioners, a county officer or any other person acting on behalf of a county includes testing as a factor in a decision regarding the vertical promotion of an employee:
(a) The testing must be conducted by a third party which is independent from the board of county commissioners, county officer or other person acting on behalf of the county, as applicable.
(b) A third party which conducts a test must send to each employee who takes the test a confidential electronic mail message which contains the employee’s test score. The third party must send an employee’s test score to the employee and the board of county commissioners, the county officer or other person acting on behalf of a county at the same time.
(c) The board of county commissioners, county officer or other person acting on behalf of the county shall not produce a list of the employees who took the test, ranked in order of their test scores, until after the third party which conducted the test has sent each employee his or her test score pursuant to paragraph (b).
(d) An employee who is aggrieved by his or her test score may appeal the testing process.
2. During the appeal process authorized by paragraph (d) of subsection 1:
(a) The employee who appeals the testing process is entitled to see:
(1) How his or her test was graded; and
(2) The questions which the employee answered incorrectly.
(b) The board of county commissioners, county officer or other person acting on behalf of the county, as applicable, shall ensure that the employee was ranked properly based on the employee’s test score.
3. A person who tampers with the score of a test taken by an employee is guilty of a category E felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.
4. The provisions of this section do not apply to a county department that has less than 200 employees.
5. As used in this section, "test" and "testing" includes, without limitation, a written test or oral board.
(Added to NRS by 2021, 1706)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.065 - Public hearing for dismissed employee in certain counties.

1. When an employee of a county other than a department head, county manager or county administrator who has been employed by the county for 12 or more months is dismissed from employment the employee may request within 15 days of the date of dismissal a written statement specifically setting forth the reasons for the dismissal. Within 15 days of the date of the request the employee so dismissed shall be furnished the written statement. Within 30 days after receipt of the written statement, the dismissed employee may, in writing, request a public hearing before the board of county commissioners to determine the reasonableness of the action. The board of county commissioners shall grant the dismissed employee a public hearing within 15 days after receipt of the written request. At the public hearing, technical rules of evidence do not apply.
2. Boards of county commissioners are authorized to enact ordinances necessary to make effective the purposes of this section.
3. The provisions of this section do not apply in counties having a population of 100,000 or more.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 308; A 1969, 829, 1545; 1973, 1139; 1979, 521)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.070 - County officers to contract only when authorized by commissioners.

No county officer in any county in this State, except the board of county commissioners, shall contract for the payment or expenditure of any county moneys for any purpose whatever, or shall purchase any stores or materials, goods, wares or merchandise, or contract for any labor or service whatever, except the board of county commissioners, or a majority of it, shall order such officer to do the same.
[1:112:1887; C § 2239; RL § 1539; NCL § 1975]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.075 - County officer not to be interested in certain contracts or purchases; penalties.

1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 281.230, 281A.430 and 332.800, it is unlawful for any county officer, directly or indirectly, to be interested in any contract made by the county officer or to be a purchaser or interested in any purchase of a sale made by the county officer in the discharge of his or her official duties.
2. Any contract made in violation of this section may be declared void at the instance of the county interested or of any other person interested in the contract except the officer prohibited from making or being interested in the contract.
3. Any person who violates this section is guilty of a gross misdemeanor and shall forfeit his or her office.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 1110; A 1987, 385; 2003, 891; 2013, 3785)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.110 - Nevada Ethics in Government Law inapplicable to certain transactions.

The provisions of the Nevada Ethics in Government Law, chapter 281A of NRS, do not prohibit any county officer from purchasing the warrants of the State or of any other county, or to prevent any county officer from selling or transferring such warrants or scrip as the county officer may receive for his or her services, but none other.
[Part 74:108:1866; B § 2672; BH § 1709; C § 1855; RL § 2826; NCL § 4826]—(NRS A 1975, 932; 1977, 1103)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.120 - County officers may sell indebtedness for personal services rendered.

All county officers referred to in any of the sections of this chapter shall have the right to sell or transfer any evidences of public indebtedness which may be issued according to law, for services rendered by them to the county, legally and justly due, and the provisions of this chapter shall not be deemed to prevent the purchase, sale or transfer of any funded public indebtedness whatever of the State, or any county, city or town corporation.
[Part 99:108:1866; B § 2697; BH § 1734; C § 1880; RL § 2846; NCL § 4846]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.125 - Deposit and payment of money not belonging to county or its officers or employees.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2:
(a) Each county officer or employee who, in the officer’s or employee’s official capacity, receives any money belonging to a person or other entity, other than the county or himself or herself, shall immediately deposit it with the county treasurer and obtain a receipt for it.
(b) Money deposited in accordance with this subsection is not part of the public money of the county.
(c) Money deposited with the county treasurer in accordance with this subsection must be paid to the owner upon the presentation of a certificate from the officer or employee who deposited the money, attesting that payment of the money is authorized by law and that the person or other entity requesting payment is the owner of the money and entitled to possession of it.
2. The provisions of subsection 1 do not apply:
(a) In counties where ordinances establishing central receiving and disbursing systems have been enacted pursuant to NRS 244.207.
(b) To money collected by a county assessor as agent for the Department of Motor Vehicles which must be remitted to the State at least weekly.
(c) To money directed by court order to be deposited with the clerk of the court.
(d) To amounts paid pursuant to a judicial or administrative order for the support of a child or of a spouse and child.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 1044; A 1985, 1982; 1997, 2335; 2001, 2592)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.130 - Resignations.

Resignations of all county officers, except district judges, shall be made to the board of county commissioners of their respective counties.
[Part 34:108:1866; B § 2632; BH § 1669; C § 1815; RL § 2798; NCL § 4798]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.140 - Certification of cause of certain vacancies.

Whenever a vacancy occurs in any county office, except in cases of resignation, the clerk of the board of county commissioners of the county where such officer exercised the duties of his or her office, if confined to a single county, and if not thus confined, then the clerk of the board of county commissioners, where such officer last resided, previous to the occurring of such vacancy, shall certify to the board of county commissioners the cause of such vacancy. If such vacancy occurs from the confirmed insanity of the incumbent, or from his or her conviction of a felony, or an offense involving a violation of his or her official bond or oath, the clerk of the board of county commissioners shall also accompany his or her certificate with a certified copy of a judgment found upon the commission of lunacy, or a certified copy of the record of conviction for such felony or offense, as the case may be.
[Part 39:108:1866; B § 2637; BH § 1674; C § 1820; RL § 2803; NCL § 4803]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.150 - Certification of vacancy to Secretary of State.

Within 10 days after a vacancy has occurred in any county office, by resignation or otherwise, the clerk of the board of county commissioners shall certify the fact of such vacancy to the Secretary of State.
[Part 31:108:1866; B § 2629; BH § 1666; C § 1812; RL § 2795; NCL § 4795]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.160 - When commissioners declare an office vacant.

The board of county commissioners shall declare vacant the office of every county officer, except the office of district judge, required by law to execute an official bond, whenever a final judgment shall be obtained against such officer for a breach of the conditions of such bond, or whenever such officer shall be finally convicted of a felony, or any offense involving a violation of the officer’s official oath.
[Part 38:108:1866; B § 2636; BH § 1673; C § 1819; RL § 2802; NCL § 4802]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.170 - Vacancies: Appointment by board of county commissioners; placement of office or position on ballot under certain circumstances.

Except as otherwise provided by specific statute:
1. If a vacancy is declared in any county or township office, except the offices of district judge and county commissioner:
(a) Thirty days or more before the date of the close of filing of declarations of candidacy specified in NRS 293.177, and the office is not otherwise scheduled for election at the next ensuing biennial election:
(1) The board of county commissioners shall appoint a suitable person who is an elector of the county to fill the vacancy until the first Monday of January after the next ensuing biennial election;
(2) The office must be placed on the ballot at that election; and
(3) The person elected shall serve the remainder of the unexpired term.
(b) At any other time, the board of county commissioners shall appoint a suitable person who is an elector of the county to serve the remainder of the unexpired term.
2. If a vacancy is declared in the position of a member of a town board appointed or elected pursuant to the provisions of NRS 269.016 to 269.022, inclusive:
(a) Thirty days or more before the date of the close of filing of declarations of candidacy specified in NRS 293.177, and the position is not otherwise scheduled for election at the next ensuing biennial election:
(1) The board of county commissioners shall appoint a suitable person who is an elector of the unincorporated town to fill the vacancy until the first Monday of January after the next ensuing biennial election;
(2) The position must be placed on the ballot at that election; and
(3) The person elected shall serve the remainder of the unexpired term.
(b) At any other time, the board of county commissioners shall appoint a suitable person who is an elector of the unincorporated town to serve the remainder of the unexpired term.
[19:80:1865; B § 3087; BH § 1959; C § 2121; RL § 1518; NCL § 1951] + [49:108:1866; A 1933, 165; 1939, 146; 1931 NCL § 4813]—(NRS A 1977, 54; 1997, 1291; 2013, 468)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.180 - Temporary appointments.

1. When, at any time, there shall be in the county offices, except the office of district judge, no officer duly authorized to execute the duties thereof, some suitable person may be temporarily appointed by the board of county commissioners to perform the duties of such offices, until they are filled by election or appointment, as provided by law. In case there is no board of county commissioners in such county, the Governor may, on notice of such vacancy, create or fill such board.
2. Any person so appointed, in pursuance of subsection 1, shall, before proceeding to execute the duties assigned the person, qualify in the same manner as required by law of the officer in whose place he or she shall be appointed; and he or she shall continue to exercise and perform the duties of the office to which he or she shall be so appointed until the election of his or her successor at the next ensuing biennial election, and the qualification of such successor thereafter.
[Part 41:108:1866; B § 2639; BH § 1676; C § 1822; RL § 2805; NCL § 4805] + [Part 42:108:1866; B § 2640; BH § 1677; C § 1823; RL § 2806; NCL § 4806]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.185 - Temporary limited appointments of certified persons with disabilities.

1. To assist persons with disabilities certified by the Rehabilitation Division of the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation, the board of county commissioners of each county is encouraged and authorized to make temporary limited appointments of certified persons with disabilities for a period not to exceed 700 hours for each appointment notwithstanding that the positions so filled are permanent positions. A person with a disability who is certified by the Rehabilitation Division must be placed on the appropriate list for which the person is eligible.
2. Each such person must possess the training and experience necessary for the position for which he or she is certified. The Rehabilitation Division must be notified of the request of the board of county commissioners for a list of eligibility on which the names of one or more certified persons with disabilities appear.
3. The board of county commissioners shall adopt regulations to carry out the provisions of this section.
4. This section does not prevent a county from employing:
(a) A person with a disability if the person is available and eligible for permanent employment.
(b) A person with a disability who is employed pursuant to the provisions of this section in permanent employment if the person qualifies for permanent employment before the termination of his or her temporary limited appointment.
5. If a person appointed pursuant to this section is appointed to a permanent position during or after the 700-hour period, the 700 hours or portion thereof must be included in calculating the employee’s probationary period.
(Added to NRS by 1987, 426; A 1991, 159; 1993, 471, 1546; 1995, 522)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.200 - Leaves of absence for elected county officers.

1. The board of county commissioners in any county is authorized and empowered to grant leave of absence to any county officer, authorized to appoint a deputy, for a period not exceeding 6 months, if in the discretion of the board such a course appears proper.
2. The officer desiring leave of absence shall first make application in writing to the board of county commissioners for such leave, and a copy of the application shall be published in some newspaper of the county at least 1 month previous to the granting of such leave. If there be no newspaper published in the county, copies of the application shall be posted in at least three public places in the county. Publication or posting shall be at the expense of the applicant.
3. The application shall contain the name of a competent deputy who is to be appointed by the officer applying for leave of absence, and who shall serve without expense to the county.
[1:95:1893; C § 2151; RL § 1566; NCL § 2047] + [2:95:1893; C § 2152; RL § 1567; NCL § 2048] + [3:95:1893; C § 2153; RL § 1568; NCL § 2049]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.211 - Pension or insurance for peace officers and firefighters who are disabled.

1. The board of county commissioners of any county may establish, by contract or otherwise, and administer a disability pension plan or disability insurance program for the benefit of the county sheriff, any sheriff’s deputy or firefighter who is disabled, to any degree, by an injury arising out of and in the course of his or her employment.
2. The board of county commissioners may adopt ordinances, rules, regulations, policies and procedures necessary to establish and administer the plan or program specified in subsection 1.
3. If a county elects to consider implementation of a plan or program specified in subsection 1, or to change the benefits provided by an existing plan or program, the persons affected by the proposed plan or program, or proposed change, may negotiate with the county concerning the nature and extent of such plan, program or change. Chapter 288 of NRS applies to negotiations for this purpose.
4. The plan or program authorized by this section must be supplemental or in addition to and not in conflict with the coverage, compensation, benefits or procedure established by or adopted pursuant to chapters 616A to 616D, inclusive, or chapter 617 of NRS.
5. The benefits provided for in this section are supplemental to other benefits an employee is entitled to receive on account of the same disability. In no event may the benefits provided for in this section, when added to benefits provided for or purchased by the expenditure of public money, exceed the maximum amount of benefits an employee is entitled to receive if the employee has been a member of the department or agency for 10 years or more.
(Added to NRS by 1975, 1298; A 1999, 232; 2005, 320)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.213 - Establishment of merit system.

1. In each county having a population of 100,000 or more the board of county commissioners shall by ordinance establish a merit personnel system for all employees of the county except those exempted under the provisions of NRS 245.213 to 245.216, inclusive.
2. In each county having a population of less than 100,000 the board of county commissioners may by ordinance establish a merit personnel system for all employees of the county except those exempted under the provisions of NRS 245.213 to 245.216, inclusive.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 827; A 1969, 1545; 1973, 1139; 1979, 339, 521, 1331)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.215 - Regulations: Required provisions.

1. The board of county commissioners shall adopt regulations for any merit personnel system established pursuant to the provisions of NRS 245.213 to 245.216, inclusive. The regulations must provide:
(a) For the classification of all county positions, not exempt from the merit personnel system, based on the duties, authority and responsibility of each position, with adequate provision for reclassification of any position whatsoever whenever warranted by changed circumstances.
(b) A pay plan for all county employees, including exempt employees other than elected officers that are covered in other provisions of NRS or by special legislative act.
(c) Policies and procedures for regulating reduction in force and the removal of employees.
(d) Hours of work, attendance regulations and provisions for sick and vacation leave.
(e) Policies and procedures governing persons holding temporary or provisional appointments.
(f) Policies and procedures governing relationships with employees and employee organizations.
(g) Policies concerning employee training and development.
(h) Grievance procedures.
(i) Other policies and procedures necessary for the administration of a merit personnel system.
2. Regulations adopted pursuant to this section for a merit personnel system established by a board of county commissioners pursuant to subsection 2 of NRS 245.213 must not exempt any employees other than those who are specifically exempted from such a merit personnel system pursuant to NRS 245.216.
3. In the event of a conflict between the policies and procedures adopted pursuant to this section and the provisions of a collective bargaining agreement entered into pursuant to chapter 288 of NRS, the provisions of the agreement prevail.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 828; A 1979, 339; 1997, 272)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally › NRS 245.216 - Personnel exempted from merit system.

There shall be exempted from the provisions of NRS 245.213, 245.214 and 245.215:
1. All department heads appointed and elected and the county administrator or county manager of the county.
2. A number of employees in each department excluding the department head as designated by the department head, which shall not exceed 3 percent of the permanently established positions as authorized by the board of county commissioners.
3. All persons holding temporary or provisional appointments, the duration of which does not exceed 6 months.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 828; A 1973, 1140)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 246 - County Clerks › NRS 246.010 - Election; term of office.

1. County clerks shall be elected by the qualified electors of their respective counties.
2. County clerks shall be chosen by the electors of their respective counties at the general election in 1922, and at the general election every 4 years thereafter, and shall enter upon the duties of their respective offices on the first Monday of January subsequent to their election.
[Part 1:108:1866; B § 2599; BH § 1636; C § 1782; RL § 2765; NCL § 4765] + [Part 9:108:1866; B § 2607; BH § 1644; C § 1790; RL § 2773; NCL § 4773] + [Part 17:108:1866; A 1921, 96; NCL § 4781]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 246 - County Clerks › NRS 246.020 - Oath and bond.

1. Each county clerk shall, before entering upon the duties of his or her office:
(a) Take the oath prescribed by law.
(b) Execute to the county a penal bond in the sum of $10,000, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of his or her office, which bond must be approved by the district judge and recorded in the office of the county recorder, unless a blanket fidelity bond is furnished by the county.
2. In all counties where the county clerk is ex officio county recorder, the official bond of the county clerk must be recorded in the manner and place as provided in subsection 1, and immediately thereafter must be deposited for safekeeping in the office of the county treasurer.
[3:82:1861; B § 2975; BH § 2100; C § 2319; RL § 1690; NCL § 2190] + [1:66:1891; C § 2352; RL § 2887; NCL § 4914]—(NRS A 1979, 288; 2001, 1733)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 246 - County Clerks › NRS 246.030 - Deputies.

1. All county clerks may appoint deputies, who are authorized to transact all official business pertaining to the office to the same extent as their principals. A deputy must be at least 18 years of age. The appointment of a deputy must not be construed to confer upon that deputy policymaking authority for the office of the county clerk or the county by which the deputy is employed.
2. County clerks are responsible on their official bonds for all official malfeasance or nonfeasance of their deputies. Bonds for the faithful performance of their official duties may be required of deputies by county clerks.
3. All appointments of deputies under the provisions of this section must be in writing and must, together with the oath of office of the deputies, be recorded in the office of the recorder of the county within which the principal legally holds and exercises his or her office. Revocations of such appointments must be recorded in the same manner. From the time of the recording of the appointments or revocations, persons shall be deemed to have notice of the appointment or revocation.
[Part 1:101:1864; A 1905, 33; 1913, 108; 1919 RL § 2848; NCL § 4848] + [2:101:1864; B § 3068; BH § 2280; C § 2452; RL § 2849; NCL § 4849] + [3:101:1864; B § 3069; BH § 2281; C § 2453; RL § 2850; NCL § 4850]—(NRS A 1969, 1462; 1993, 2431; 2001, 1733; 2005, 680)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 246 - County Clerks › NRS 246.060 - Duties.

1. The county clerk shall be ex officio clerk of the board of county commissioners, and also clerk of the district court of his or her county.
2. The county clerk shall perform such duties as clerk of the district court and clerk of the board of county commissioners, as required by law, and all other duties required by any other law of this State.
[Part 1:108:1866; B § 2599; BH § 1636; C § 1782; RL § 2765; NCL § 4765] + [Part 4:82:1861; A 1933, 149; 1931 NCL § 2191]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 246 - County Clerks › NRS 246.062 - Duty to notify Court Administrator of adoption, repeal or amendment of county ordinance concerning criminal offense.

If the board of county commissioners adopts, repeals or amends an ordinance concerning a criminal offense, the county clerk shall mail a copy of the ordinance as adopted, repealed or amended to the Court Administrator.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 1557)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 246 - County Clerks › NRS 246.065 - Facsimile signature.

1. Each county clerk is authorized to use a facsimile signature produced through a mechanical device in place of the county clerk’s handwritten signature whenever the necessity may arise and upon approval of the board of county commissioners, subject to the following conditions:
(a) That the mechanical device shall be of such nature that the facsimile signature may be removed from the mechanical device and kept in a separate secure place.
(b) That the use of the facsimile signature shall be made only under the direction and supervision of the county clerk whose signature it represents.
(c) That all of the mechanical device shall at all times be kept in a vault, securely locked, when not in use, to prevent any misuse of the same.
2. No facsimile signature produced through a mechanical device authorized by the provisions of this section shall be combined with the signature of another officer.
(Added to NRS by 1959, 407)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 246 - County Clerks › NRS 246.070 - Fees relating to public lands deposited in county general fund.

The several county clerks, who are ex officio clerks of the district courts, and who are or may be authorized and empowered by any act of Congress to take and certify affidavits, applications and proofs for or relating to the location of the public lands of the United States, may not retain for their own use the fees and compensations allowed for such services but shall deposit the same in the county general fund.
[1:83:1901; RL § 1614; NCL § 2090]—(NRS A 1969, 1463)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 246 - County Clerks › NRS 246.075 - Additional fee for marriage license in certain counties; fund for promotion of marriage tourism; county clerk to report projected expenditures from fund.

1. In a county whose population is 700,000 or more, the board of county commissioners may impose by ordinance an additional fee of not more than $14 for the issuance of a marriage license.
2. An ordinance adopted pursuant to subsection 1 must include a provision creating a special revenue fund designated as the fund for the promotion of marriage tourism. Any money collected from a fee imposed pursuant to subsection 1 must be paid by the county clerk to the county treasurer, and the county treasurer shall deposit the money received in the fund.
3. Any interest earned on money in the fund, after deducting any applicable charges, must be credited to the fund.
4. Any money remaining in the fund at the end of a fiscal year must not revert to the county general fund, and the balance in the fund must be carried forward to the next fiscal year.
5. The money in the fund:
(a) Must be used by the county clerk only to promote wedding tourism in the county.
(b) Must not be used to replace or supplant any money available to fund the regular operations of the office of the county clerk.
6. If a board of county commissioners adopts an ordinance pursuant to subsection 1, on or before July 1 of each year, the county clerk shall report to the board of county commissioners the projected expenditures of the money in the fund for the following fiscal year.
(Added to NRS by 2015, 2630; A 2017, 1035)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 246 - County Clerks › NRS 246.110 - Typed or printed names required on certificate; affidavit; noncompliance does not invalidate certificate.

Any certificate of marriage deposited for filing with the county clerk must have typed or legibly printed the names of all signers thereon, excluding those of the acknowledging officers and witnesses, beneath the original signatures. If a certificate of marriage does not contain the typed or printed names, the county clerk shall accept the certificate of marriage for filing if accompanied by an affidavit, for filing with the certificate of marriage, correctly spelling in legible print or type the signatures appearing on the certificate of marriage. Failure to print or type signatures as provided in this subsection does not invalidate the certificate of marriage.
(Added to NRS by 2007, 883)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 246 - County Clerks › NRS 246.120 - Denial of request to file certificate; notice to requester; application to district court for order to file certificate; resubmission of certificate; immunity from liability.

1. A county clerk may deny a request to file a certificate of marriage if, within 2 judicial days after presentation of the certificate of marriage, the county clerk determines that the certificate of marriage is unauthorized, falsified or otherwise may not be lawfully filed. If a county clerk fails to make such a determination within the specified period, the county clerk shall file the certificate of marriage as soon as practicable, unless otherwise ordered by a court.
2. A county clerk who denies a request to file a certificate of marriage pursuant to subsection 1 shall retain a copy of the certificate of marriage and, within 2 judicial days after the county clerk denies the request, shall provide the requester with written notice, on a form prescribed by the county clerk, of:
(a) The reason that the county clerk is denying the filing of the certificate of marriage;
(b) The right of the requester to judicial review of the denial; and
(c) The criminal penalty set forth in subsection 5.
3. If a county clerk fails to provide the notice required by subsection 2 within the specified period, the county clerk shall file the certificate of marriage as soon as practicable, unless otherwise ordered by a court.
4. If a request to file a certificate of marriage is denied pursuant to subsection 1, the requester may apply to the district court in the county in which the request was denied for an order to file the certificate of marriage. The court shall give this matter priority over other civil matters to which priority is not given by other statutes. If the requester prevails:
(a) The requester is entitled to recover from the county clerk any filing fees that he or she paid related to the proceeding.
(b) The county clerk shall file the certificate of marriage as soon as practicable.
5. If a county clerk denied the filing of a certificate of marriage pursuant to subsection 1, a person shall not resubmit the certificate of marriage for filing unless the certificate of marriage has been modified in such a manner that it may be lawfully filed or the person has obtained a court order pursuant to subsection 4. Unless a greater penalty is provided by NRS 239.330, a violation of this subsection is a misdemeanor.
6. Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (a) of subsection 4, a county clerk who acts in good faith in denying the filing of a certificate of marriage pursuant to this section is immune from liability for damages to the requester or any person whom the certificate of marriage concerns or affects.
(Added to NRS by 2007, 882)