Title 34

NRS 396.155 Request to keep identity confidential or take no investigative or disciplinary action; duties of institution. 1. The Board of Regents may require an institution within the System to accept a request from a complainant who is 18 years of age or older to keep the identi…

NRS 396.156 Investigation of incident of power-based violence; periodic updates; notice of findings; disciplinary action. 1. In conducting an investigation of an alleged incident of power-based violence an institution within the System shall: (a) Provide the complainant and the r…

NRS 396.157 No-contact directive. 1. An institution within the System may issue a no-contact directive prohibiting the complainant and the respondent from contacting each other. An institution may issue a no-contact directive if the directive is necessary to, without limitation: …

NRS 396.158 Person who experiences power-based violence: Request for waiver of certain requirements; request for leave of absence or extended benefits of employment. 1. A student who experiences power-based violence may request a waiver from any requirement to maintain a certain …

NRS 396.159 Annual report. 1. The Board of Regents may require an institution within the System to prepare and submit to the Board of Regents an annual report that includes, without limitation: (a) The total number of reports of alleged incidents of power-based violence allegedly…

NRS 396.1595 Regulations. The Board of Regents may adopt regulations as necessary to carry out the provisions of NRS 396.125 to 396.1595, inclusive. (Added to NRS by 2021, 3683) PERSONNEL

NRS 396.210 Chancellor: Appointment and qualifications. 1. After consultation with the faculty, the Board of Regents shall appoint a Chancellor of the System. 2. The Chancellor shall have a degree from a college or university recognized as equal in rank to those having membership…

NRS 396.220 Salary of Chancellor. The Board of Regents shall fix the salary of the Chancellor of the System. [Part 3:37:1887; A 1917, 52; 1945, 448; 1943 NCL § 7728]—(NRS A 1969, 1433; 1993, 341)

NRS 396.230 Duties of Chancellor and other officers. The Board of Regents shall prescribe the duties of the Chancellor and such other officers of the System as the Board deems appropriate. [Part 3:37:1887; A 1917, 52; 1945, 448; 1943 NCL § 7728] + [8:37:1887; C § 1397; RL § 4646;…

NRS 396.240 Reports of Chancellor and other officers. The Chancellor and other officers of the System shall make such reports to the Board of Regents as they deem appropriate or as the Board of Regents may require. [6:37:1887; C § 1395; RL § 4644; NCL § 7731]—(NRS A 1969, 1433; 1…

NRS 396.251 Establishment of policies and procedures for certain personnel. 1. The Board of Regents may establish policies and procedures for personnel which govern student employees, physicians engaged in a program for residency training and postdoctoral fellows of the System an…

NRS 396.255 Establishment of procedures governing contracts that faculty members and employees may enter into or benefit from. The Board of Regents shall, to carry out the purposes of subsection 3 of NRS 281.221, subsection 3 of NRS 281.230, subsection 3 of NRS 281A.430, NRS 396.…

NRS 396.260 Employment of alien instructor or professor through program of exchange. Notwithstanding the provisions of any other law, the Board of Regents may employ any teacher, instructor or professor authorized to teach in the United States under the teacher exchange programs …

NRS 396.270 Official oath for instructor and professor. 1. Each teacher, instructor and professor employed by the Board of Regents whose compensation is payable out of the public funds, except teachers, instructors and professors employed pursuant to the provisions of NRS 396.260…

NRS 396.280 Salaries of academic staff. The Board of Regents shall have the power to fix the salaries of the academic staff of the System. [Part 3:37:1887; A 1917, 52; 1945, 448; 1943 NCL § 7728]—(NRS A 1957, 169; 1993, 342)

NRS 396.290 Retirement benefits for employees of System. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 396.251 and 396.7953, all employees of the System, including those employees who were receiving benefits under the provisions of chapter 204, Statutes of Nevada 1915, and chapter 99, Stat…

NRS 396.300 Rules for reports of officers and teachers. The Board of Regents may prescribe rules for the reports of officers and teachers of the System. [Part 3:37:1887; A 1917, 52; 1945, 448; 1943 NCL § 7728]—(NRS A 1993, 342)

NRS 396.311 Community College: System of probation for professional employees. The Board of Regents shall adopt regulations establishing a system of probation for the professional employees of the Community Colleges. The regulations must provide for a probationary period of such …

NRS 396.315 Community College: System for dismissal of professional employees. The Board of Regents shall adopt and promulgate regulations establishing a fair dismissal system for the professional employees of the Community Colleges who have completed probation as required by the…

NRS 396.320 Grounds for dismissal or removal of certain personnel. 1. The willful neglect or failure on the part of any teacher, instructor, professor, president or chancellor in the System to observe and carry out the requirements of this chapter is sufficient cause for the dism…

NRS 396.323 Powers of Regents and other officers to issue subpoenas; enforcement. 1. The Board of Regents, the Chancellor of the System and the presidents of all the branches and facilities within the System may issue subpoenas in all instances involving disciplinary hearings of …

NRS 396.324 Person with communications disability entitled to use of registered community interpreter at hearing. The person who is the subject of a disciplinary hearing under this chapter or who is a witness at that hearing, and who is a person with a communications disability a…

NRS 396.325 Creation; interlocal agreements with other law enforcement agencies. The Board of Regents may: 1. Create a Police Department for the System and appoint one or more persons to be members of the Department; and 2. Authorize the Department to enter into interlocal agreem…

NRS 396.327 Police required to wear badges. Every member of the Police Department for the System must be supplied with, authorized and required to wear a badge bearing the words “University Police, Nevada.” (Added to NRS by 1965, 304; A 1969, 1434; 1993, 344)

NRS 396.328 Provision of crash reports and related materials upon receipt of reasonable fee; exceptions. The Police Department for the System shall, within 7 days after receipt of a written request of a person who claims to have sustained damages as a result of a crash, or the pe…

NRS 396.3291 Campus review board: Creation authorized to review allegations of misconduct by peace officers of the Police Department; membership; conditions for membership; payment of per diem and travel expenses. 1. The Board of Regents may create on each campus of the System a …

NRS 396.3293 Campus review board: Limitation on jurisdiction; abridgement of rights of peace officer prohibited. A campus review board created pursuant to NRS 396.3291: 1. Does not have jurisdiction over any matter in which it is alleged that a crime has been committed. 2. Shall …

NRS 396.3295 Panel of campus review board: Membership; authority to refer complaint and review internal investigation concerning peace officer; Police Department required to provide personnel information; notice and opportunity for hearing on internal investigation; report of fin…

NRS 396.3297 Panel of campus review board: Authority to administer oaths, take testimony, issue subpoenas and issue commissions to take testimony; enforcement of subpoena by court. 1. A panel of a campus review board created pursuant to NRS 396.3291 may: (a) Administer oaths; (b)…

NRS 396.330 Acceptance of grants of land. 1. The State of Nevada hereby accepts the grants of lands made by the Government of the United States to this state, in the following Acts of Congress, upon the terms and conditions expressed in such acts, and agrees to comply therewith: …

NRS 396.340 Acceptance of federal appropriations and grants; annual report. 1. The System was, and now is, established in accordance with the provisions of the Constitution of the State of Nevada, and also in accordance with the provisions of an Act of Congress entitled “An Act d…

NRS 396.350 Irreducible University Fund. 1. The moneys arising from the sale of the 72 sections of land granted this state by the Act of Congress entitled “An act concerning Lands granted to the State of Nevada,” approved July 4, 1866 (c. 166, 14 Stat. 86), for the establishment …

NRS 396.360 Contingent University Fund. The interest derived from the Irreducible University Fund shall be and constitute a fund to be known as the Contingent University Fund. [Part 4:85:1873; A 1929, 61; NCL § 7746]—(NRS A 1999, 427)

NRS 396.370 Appropriations for support and maintenance of System. 1. The following money is hereby set aside and inviolably appropriated for the support and maintenance of the System, and must be paid out for the purposes designated by law creating the several funds: (a) The inte…

NRS 396.380 Receipt and disbursement of money by Board of Regents; control of expenditures. 1. The members of the Board of Regents are the sole trustees to receive and disburse all money of the System for the purposes provided in NRS 396.370. 2. The Board of Regents shall control…

NRS 396.381 Board of Regents authorized to delegate authority to sign contract for obligations not issued under University Securities Law; approval by Board of Regents; authorized investment of proceeds. 1. Before the sale or delivery by the System of an obligation to repay money…

NRS 396.383 Accounts Payable Revolving Fund. 1. The Nevada System of Higher Education Accounts Payable Revolving Fund is hereby created. The Board of Regents may deposit the money of the Fund in one or more state or national banks or credit unions in the State of Nevada. 2. The c…

NRS 396.384 Collegiate License Plate Account. 1. The Collegiate License Plate Account is hereby created in the State General Fund. 2. The money in the Account does not lapse to the State General Fund at the end of any fiscal year. 3. The Board of Regents shall administer the Acco…

NRS 396.385 Use of facsimile signature by chief business officer; conditions. The Board of Regents may authorize the chief business officer of each business center of the System to use a facsimile signature produced through a mechanical device in place of his or her handwritten s…

NRS 396.390 Claims: Procedure and payment. 1. Before payment, all claims of every name and nature involving the payment of money by or under the direction of the Board of Regents from funds set aside and appropriated must be passed upon by the State Board of Examiners. 2. The Boa…

NRS 396.395 Establishment of electronic payment system for academic staff and employees; waiver of participation in payment system. 1. The Board of Regents may establish an electronic payment system to pay the salaries and wages of academic staff and employees of the System throu…

NRS 396.400 Public inspection of accounts. The Board of Regents shall keep open to public inspection an account of receipts and expenditures. [Part 3:37:1887; A 1917, 52; 1945, 448; 1943 NCL § 7728] UNIVERSITY FOUNDATIONS

NRS 396.405 Meetings; records; exemption from certain taxes; governing body; nondisclosure of contributors. 1. A university foundation: (a) Shall comply with the provisions of chapter 241 of NRS; (b) Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, shall make its records public and …

NRS 396.420 Acceptance of property. 1. The Board of Regents may accept and take in the name of the System, for the benefit of any branch or facility of the System, by grant, gift, devise or bequest, any property for any purpose appropriate to the System. 2. Property so acquired m…

NRS 396.425 Purchase of real property. 1. The Board of Regents may purchase real property for cash or by making a cash down payment and executing or assuming an obligation to pay the remainder of the price in deferred installments. 2. Such obligation may be secured by a mortgage …

NRS 396.430 Sale and lease of property; use of proceeds. 1. The Board of Regents may sell or lease any property granted, donated, devised or bequeathed to the System if: (a) The sale or lease is not prohibited by or inconsistent with the provisions or conditions prescribed by the…