Title 28

NRS 341.017 Creation; composition; administration of provisions. 1. There is hereby created the State Public Works Division of the Department of Administration. 2. The Division consists of: (a) The Administrator; (b) The Buildings and Grounds Section; (c) The Public Works - Compl…

NRS 341.019 Inapplicability of chapter to Legislative Branch; use of certain services. The provisions of this chapter do not apply to the Legislative Branch of State Government. The Legislature may require the Division to provide the services described in NRS 341.1405 to 341.155,…

NRS 341.020 Creation; members; vacancies. 1. The State Public Works Board is hereby created. 2. The Board consists of the Director of the Department and six members appointed as follows: (a) The Governor shall appoint: (1) One member who has education or experience, or both, rega…

NRS 341.041 Replacement of appointed member for failure to attend meetings. 1. If an appointed member of the Board fails to attend three successive meetings of the Board, the Board shall provide notice of that fact, in writing, to the appointing authority who appointed that membe…

NRS 341.050 Compensation of members; allowances and expenses of members and employees. 1. Each appointed member of the Board is entitled to receive a salary of not more than $80 per day, as fixed by the Board, while engaged in the business of the Board. 2. Except as otherwise pro…

NRS 341.060 Organization; election of officers. Within a reasonable time after the appointment of the members of the Board, the Board shall meet upon the call of the Governor and shall organize and elect a Chair and Vice Chair from among the members appointed pursuant to NRS 341.…

NRS 341.070 Conduct of business: Rules; frequency of meetings; purposes. The Board shall: 1. Adopt such rules for the regulation of its proceedings and the transaction of its business as it deems proper. 2. Meet as necessary to conduct the business of the Board for the following …

NRS 341.080 Record of official actions. The Board shall keep a record of its official actions. [Part 4:102:1937; A 1947, 283; 1943 NCL § 6975.04]

NRS 341.083 Reports and recommendations: Priority of construction; projects for capital improvements; consideration of long-term plan addressing future need for suitable office spaces. 1. The Board shall submit reports and make recommendations relative to its findings to the Gove…

NRS 341.085 Regulations. The Board shall: 1. Consider the recommendations of the Administrator when adopting regulations; and 2. Adopt such regulations as it determines are necessary to carry out and ensure compliance with the provisions of this chapter and any other provision of…

NRS 341.087 Adoption of certain seismic provisions and standards. For the purposes of the design and construction of buildings or other projects of this State, the Board shall adopt by regulation: 1. The seismic provisions of the International Building Code published by the Inter…

NRS 341.091 Adoption of standards and performance guidelines relating to efficient use of water and energy. 1. For the purposes of the design and construction of buildings or other projects of this State, the Board shall adopt by regulation: (a) Standards for the efficient use of…

NRS 341.100 Appointments; classification; restrictions on other employment; qualifications; general duties. 1. The Administrator and the Deputy Administrator of the Public Works - Compliance and Code Enforcement Section serve at the pleasure of the Director of the Department. 2. …

NRS 341.105 Authority of Deputy Administrator of the Public Works - Compliance and Code Enforcement Section or designee to issue order to compel cessation of work; penalties; contest; enforcement. 1. When acting in the capacity of building official pursuant to subsection 9 of NRS…

NRS 341.110 General powers and duties of Administrator; regulations. 1. In general, the Administrator shall have such powers as may be necessary to enable him or her to fulfill his or her functions and to carry out the purposes of this chapter. 2. The Administrator shall: (a) Ado…

NRS 341.119 Delegation by Administrator of certain authority of Division to state agency. 1. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, upon the request of the head of a state agency, the Administrator may delegate to that agency any of the authority granted the Division pu…

NRS 341.121 Usage of grants. The Division may, with the approval of the Interim Finance Committee when the Legislature is not in regular or special session, or with the approval of the Legislature, by concurrent resolution, when the Legislature is in regular or special session, u…

NRS 341.125 Contracts with United States; receipt and expenditure of federal grants, loans and money authorized. The Division is authorized to contract in the name of the State of Nevada with the United States or any of its agencies or instrumentalities, and to receive and expend…

NRS 341.126 Authorized expenditures. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 2 and 3, the Division may make expenditures necessary to carry into effect the purposes of its acts. 2. All expenditures made by the Division must be within the limits of the appropriation provide…

NRS 341.1265 Temporary transfer of money from State General Fund to state building construction project accounts for projects financed with federal money authorized. Whenever properly approved claims payable out of a particular state building construction project account exceed t…

NRS 341.127 Duty of Division and state agencies to cooperate biennially in planning efforts including long-term plan addressing future need for suitable office spaces; duty of Division to cooperate with local planning commissions concerning planning and with Nevada Arts Council c…

NRS 341.128 Duty to periodically inspect state-owned buildings and physical plant facilities of state-owned institutions; exception; reports. 1. The Division shall periodically inspect all buildings owned by the State and all physical plant facilities at all institutions owned by…

NRS 341.130 Authority to participate in interstate, regional and national projects and to confer and cooperate with federal officials and entities of neighboring states. The Division is authorized: 1. To participate in interstate, regional and national planning projects for the p…

NRS 341.140 Authority to publicize and educate concerning problems of state planning. The Division is authorized to use all reasonable means to promote public interest in the problems of state planning, and to that end may publish and distribute copies of its reports and may empl…

NRS 341.1405 Legislative findings and declaration. 1. The Legislature hereby finds as facts: (a) That the planning, maintenance and construction of public buildings is a specialized field requiring for its successful accomplishment a high degree of skill and experience not ordina…

NRS 341.1407 Applicability of provisions to construction of buildings for Nevada System of Higher Education. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, the provisions of NRS 341.141 to 341.148, inclusive, apply to a contract for the construction of a building for the Nevada…

NRS 341.141 Engineering and architectural services to be furnished by Division for buildings constructed on state property or with legislative appropriation; exceptions. 1. The Division shall furnish engineering and architectural services to the Nevada System of Higher Education …

NRS 341.142 Advance planning of project. The Division may, with the prior approval of the Interim Finance Committee, plan a project in advance by preparing floor plans, cross sections, elevations, outlines of specifications, estimates of cost by category of work and perspective r…

NRS 341.145 Powers and duties of Administrator concerning design, construction and repairs; final authority of Deputy Administrator of the Public Works - Compliance and Code Enforcement Section. 1. The Administrator: (a) Shall determine whether any rebates are available from a pu…

NRS 341.1455 Issuance of permits to private persons by Deputy Administrator of the Public Works - Compliance and Code Enforcement Section. The Deputy Administrator of the Public Works - Compliance and Code Enforcement Section, when acting as building official pursuant to subsecti…

NRS 341.146 Funds for projects of capital construction: Establishment and use; accrual of interest on and return of remaining money that has not been appropriated by Legislature for project; priority of expenditure of money from more than one source. 1. The Division shall establi…

NRS 341.148 Advertisement for sealed bids required for projects whose estimated cost exceeds $100,000; acceptance of bids; letting of contracts for all or part of project. The Division shall advertise in a newspaper of general circulation in the State of Nevada for separate seale…

NRS 341.151 Calculation of final total cost of building including initial construction costs and operating costs for expected useful life of building; statement of proposed source of funding. 1. The Division shall provide for a system of accounting for the total costs of state bu…

NRS 341.155 Contracts for consulting services by state agencies to determine and plan necessary construction work. With the concurrence of the Administrator, the Board of Regents of the University of Nevada and any other state department, board or commission may enter into agreem…

NRS 341.161 Contracts with licensed contractors for services which assist Division in design and construction of projects of capital improvement; regulations; requirements for bids. 1. The Administrator may let to a contractor licensed under chapter 624 of NRS a contract for serv…

NRS 341.166 Contracts with licensed contractors for services which assist Division in development and review of designs, plans, specifications and estimates of costs for proposed construction projects; bidding on proposed construction project; regulations. 1. The Administrator ma…