Nevada Administrative Code › Chapter 616C - Industrial Insurance: Benefits for Injury or Death › DETERMINATION AND PAYMENT OF BENEFITS › Contested Claims of Injured Employees › Section 616C.2692 - Hearing or appeals officer: Prohibited acts

Current through June 11, 2024
1. A
				hearing or appeals officer shall not:
(a)
				Engage in conduct that reflects adversely on the character, competence or
				temperament of the officer or on the officer's fitness to serve, including,
				without limitation, conduct involving misrepresentation, fraud, dishonesty,
				deceit or felonious criminal behavior.
(b) In the performance of the official duties
				of the officer, by words or conduct, manifest bias or prejudice because of
				race, religion, color, age, sex, disability, sexual orientation, national
				origin, ancestry, marital status or socioeconomic status.
(c) Act in a way that the officer knows or
				reasonably should know would be perceived by a reasonable person as biased or
				prejudiced toward any of the parties, witnesses or attorneys to a proceeding or
				members of the public at a proceeding.
(d) Be swayed by partisan interests, public
				clamor or fear of criticism.
(e)
				Allow family, social or other relationships or associations to influence his or
				her official conduct or judgment.
(f) Use the position of hearing or appeals
				officer to advance the private interests of the officer or of any other
				person.
(g) Convey the impression
				that any person has any special influence with the hearing or appeals
				officer.
(h) Serve as an officer,
				director, trustee or advisor of a private or public corporation or of an
				educational, religious, charitable, fraternal, political or civic organization
				if the corporation or organization frequently participates in proceedings that
				would ordinarily come before the officer.
(i) Use his or her position as a hearing or
				appeals officer to solicit funds for any private or public corporation or for
				any educational, religious, charitable, fraternal, political or civic
				organization or allow the prestige of the office to be used for such
				purposes.
(j) Use or disclose
				nonpublic information acquired by the hearing or appeals officer for any
				purpose not related to the official duties of such an officer.
(k) Make any public comment about a
				proceeding within the jurisdiction of the hearing or appeals officer which
				might reasonably be expected to affect the outcome or impair the fairness of
				the proceeding. The provisions of this paragraph must not be construed to
				prohibit a hearing or appeals officer from:
(1) Making public statements in the course of
				his or her official duties;
(2)
				Explaining for the public benefit procedures before the hearing or appeals
				officer;
(3) Responding to or
				defending from a criminal charge or civil claim against the hearing or appeals
				officer; or
(4) Responding to
				allegations concerning the conduct of the hearing or appeals officer during a
				proceeding before the officer.
(l) Unless under subpoena, testify under oath
				as a character witness. The provisions of this paragraph must not be construed
				to prohibit a hearing or appeals officer from providing a character or ability
				reference for a person about whom the officer has personal knowledge.