Opinion ID: 1288529
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Heading: AAWC Creation and the Manual

Text: The AAWC was created by the Legislature in 1977, under Chapter 474 of the 1977 Statutes of Nevada (the Act), as a quasi-municipal corporation. 1977 Nev. Stat., ch. 474, § 4 at 969. Section 29 of the Act authorized the AAWC to adopt its own civil service plan to be administered by the AAWC Board. 1977 Nev. Stat., ch. 474, § 29 at 975. The Manual sets forth the civil service system as adopted by the AAWC. Therefore, any protections provided to AAWC employees by the Manual apply only to those employees covered by the Manual, i.e., those employees within the civil service system. In addition to being excluded from the civil service system by the express provisions of the Manual, an employee may also be excluded from the civil service system by the provisions of section 29 of the Act. Under section 29(13), persons employed to render professional, scientific, technical or expert service, [and] persons providing services of a temporary or exceptional character are mandatorily exempt from the AAWC civil service plan. 1985 Nev. Stat., ch. 494, § 3 at 1513. Those included within the AAWC civil service plan may be entitled to protection from termination by Manual section 9.2, which states: When necessary to reduce the number of employees in any job classification, it is the policy of the Airport Authority whenever possible to attempt to minimize lay-offs by readjustment of personnel through transfer, if qualified, to other open positions within the Authority. It is further policy that whenever lay-offs are necessary, temporary and probationary employees in that job classification shall be laid off before permanent employees. Permanent employees shall be laid off in inverse order of their length of service by job classification.