2010 Nevada Code
TITLE 23 PUBLIC OFFICERS AND EMPLOYEES
Chapter 284 State Personnel System

GENERAL PROVISIONS
• NRS 284.010 Legislative declaration of purpose.
• NRS 284.012 Policy concerning employment of persons with disabilities.
• NRS 284.013 Applicability; terms and conditions of employment of exempted persons; written contracts required for certain services.
• NRS 284.015 Definitions.
• NRS 284.020 Duties of state officers and employees in Executive Department; construction of chapter.
• NRS 284.022 Inclusion of employees of certain governmental agencies in State Personnel System.
ADMINISTRATION
• NRS 284.025 Department of Personnel: Creation; administration of chapter.
• NRS 284.030 Personnel Commission: Creation; appointment of members.
• NRS 284.035 Personnel Commission: Prohibition against member holding or seeking partisan political office or employment with State.
• NRS 284.040 Personnel Commission: Terms and removal of members.
• NRS 284.045 Personnel Commission: Salaries and expenses of members.
• NRS 284.050 Personnel Commission: Chair; Secretary; duty of Director to keep minutes and audio recordings or transcripts.
• NRS 284.055 Personnel Commission: Meetings; quorum; duty of Commission to keep minutes and audio recordings or transcripts; public records.
• NRS 284.060 Personnel Commission: Rules for management.
• NRS 284.065 Personnel Commission: Powers and duties.
• NRS 284.068 Employee-Management Committee: Creation; appointment and terms of members.
• NRS 284.071 Employee-Management Committee: Chair; rules; meetings; secretarial services.
• NRS 284.073 Employee-Management Committee: Duties.
• NRS 284.074 Employee-Management Committee: Issuance and enforcement of subpoenas.
• NRS 284.0745 Employee-Management Committee: Subpoenas extend to all parts of state; service of subpoenas; fees, mileage and expenses of witnesses.
• NRS 284.075 Director: Qualifications; appointment; unclassified service; other employment prohibited.
• NRS 284.091 Hearing officers: Appointment; duties.
• NRS 284.100 Employees of Department.
• NRS 284.105 Duties of Director.
• NRS 284.110 Personnel Operating Fund: Creation; sources; uses.
• NRS 284.115 Administrative costs: Budgeting; payment by state departments, agencies and institutions.
• NRS 284.121 Reports of appointing authorities regarding appointments, transfers, separations, suspensions, reinstatements, reductions or other changes to positions in public service.
• NRS 284.125 Investigation of duplication of work; duties of Director.
• NRS 284.130 Assistance of state and local officers.
• NRS 284.135 Services and facilities of Department available to political subdivisions.
CLASSIFICATION
• NRS 284.139 "Agency" defined for purposes of NRS 284.140.
• NRS 284.140 Unclassified service: Composition.
• NRS 284.143 Unclassified service: Certain persons may pursue other businesses or occupations or other office for profit.
• NRS 284.145 Appointment to position in unclassified service from registers of eligible persons.
• NRS 284.147 Unclassified service: Heads of departments may employ deputies and employees necessary to fill unclassified positions; salaries.
• NRS 284.148 Unclassified and classified service: Persons exempt pursuant to Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938; determination of exempt positions by Department.
• NRS 284.150 Classified service: Composition; limitations on appointment, transfer, promotion, demotion or discharge; discrimination prohibited.
• NRS 284.155 Regulations for classified service.
• NRS 284.160 Classification plan for classified service; changes in plan; procedure for making certain changes without approval of Commission.
• NRS 284.165 Allocation of positions; hearing; review by Commission.
• NRS 284.170 Establishment of titles and grades for each class of employment; description of duties; specification of minimum qualifications.
• NRS 284.171 Index of broad occupational groups.
• NRS 284.172 List of positions in classified service primarily performing data processing; approval of new position or reclassification to position on list.
CONSULTANTS
• NRS 284.1729 Limitations and requirements for hiring consultants; approval by Interim Finance Committee; contracts with temporary employment service; reports to Interim Finance Committee.
INDEPENDENT CONTRACTORS
• NRS 284.173 Definition; contracts for services. [Repealed.]
• NRS 284.174 Contracts for security services when personnel of Capitol Police Division not available. [Repealed.]
COMPENSATION
• NRS 284.175 Plan for payment of classified employees: Preparation; approval; contents; regulations; recommendations to Legislature.
• NRS 284.177 Plan to encourage continuity of service.
• NRS 284.179 Professional employees of Nevada System of Higher Education not entitled to payments pursuant to plan to encourage continuity of service.
• NRS 284.180 Pay plan to set official rates applicable to all positions in classified service; overtime; workweek for certain firefighters; innovative workweeks; existing contracts of employment.
• NRS 284.181 Agreements concerning provision of compensatory vacation time instead of monetary payment for overtime.
• NRS 284.185 Certification of payroll by Director.
• NRS 284.190 Liability for unlawful payment: Action for recovery; disposition of proceeds of action.
• NRS 284.195 Action by employee against appointing authority if appointed contrary to law and regulations; reimbursement of appointing authority prohibited.
• NRS 284.200 Proceeding to compel Director to certify payroll.
EXAMINATIONS AND LISTS FOR EMPLOYMENT
• NRS 284.205 Competitive examinations: Regulations.
• NRS 284.210 Competitive examinations: Requirements; contents; persons conducting examinations.
• NRS 284.215 Examination of persons with disabilities.
• NRS 284.220 Certificates of general or special qualifications.
• NRS 284.230 Time and place of holding examination; use of public buildings.
• NRS 284.235 Designation of persons to assist in examinations.
• NRS 284.240 Grounds for refusal to examine or certify.
• NRS 284.245 Statement of Director upon refusal to examine or certify; appeal to Commission.
• NRS 284.250 Regulations for establishment of lists of eligible persons; limitation on term of eligibility.
• NRS 284.253 Preference on list for residents of Nevada.
• NRS 284.254 Preference on list for person separated from service because agency terminated.
• NRS 284.255 Appointments to be made from appropriate lists.
• NRS 284.260 Veterans' preferences: Additional credits on examination.
• NRS 284.265 Notice of new positions and vacancies: Certification of names by Director.
APPOINTMENTS
• NRS 284.290 Probationary period: Length; dismissal or demotion; notification by appointing authority regarding permanent status.
• NRS 284.295 Vacancy filled by promotion; eligibility; competitive examinations.
• NRS 284.300 Restoration of promotional appointee who fails to attain permanent status.
• NRS 284.305 Provisions and regulations for filling positions in classified service without competition.
• NRS 284.307 Automatic advancement of person in training or preparatory position.
• NRS 284.309 Waiver of examination if fewer than five qualified applicants.
• NRS 284.310 Provisional appointment.
• NRS 284.315 Emergency appointment.
• NRS 284.317 Appointment of persons with disabilities.
• NRS 284.320 Appointments requiring exceptional scientific, professional or expert qualifications.
• NRS 284.325 Temporary appointment.
• NRS 284.327 Temporary limited appointment of persons with disabilities.
• NRS 284.330 Reinstatement of permanent appointee after separation without prejudice.
PERFORMANCE
• NRS 284.335 Standards; records and ratings for service.
• NRS 284.337 Reports: Duties of supervisor.
• NRS 284.338 Reports: Training in proper preparation.
• NRS 284.340 Reports: Duties of appointing authority.
TRAINING, ATTENDANCE AND LEAVES
• NRS 284.343 Stipends for training and educational leave for employees: Regulations; exceptions; restrictions; grants.
• NRS 284.345 Regulations for attendance and leave of absence; personnel of Nevada System of Higher Education.
• NRS 284.350 Annual leave.
• NRS 284.355 Leave for sickness and disability: Accrual; payment for unused leave; employees with mental or emotional disorders; forfeiture of leave.
• NRS 284.357 Deduction from salary for service during working hours as volunteer firefighter, voluntary medical technician, volunteer reserve member of police department or sheriff's office or volunteer ambulance driver or attendant prohibited.
• NRS 284.358 Civil leave with reduced pay when performing active military service in time of war or emergency.
• NRS 284.359 Military leave of absence; reinstatement.
• NRS 284.360 Leave of absence without pay.
• NRS 284.362 Catastrophic leave: Definitions.
• NRS 284.3621 Catastrophic leave: Account for catastrophic leave; transfer of hours to account; limitations on transfers; transfers between branches of government.
• NRS 284.3622 Catastrophic leave: Request for transfer to employee of hours from account for catastrophic leave.
• NRS 284.3623 Catastrophic leave: Approval of transfer of hours to employee.
• NRS 284.3624 Catastrophic leave: Review of status of employee regarding catastrophe; termination of leave; disposition of hours not used.
• NRS 284.3625 Catastrophic leave: Maintenance of records; reports to Director.
• NRS 284.3626 Catastrophic leave: Regulations of Commission.
• NRS 284.3627 Committee on Catastrophic Leave: Creation; members; terms; vacancies; members serve without compensation.
• NRS 284.3628 Committee on Catastrophic Leave: Chair and Vice Chair; quorum; rules; hearings; Secretary.
• NRS 284.3629 Committee on Catastrophic Leave: Appeal of decision of appointing authority; procedure; representation of employee; finality of decision; inapplicability of chapter 241 of NRS.
TRANSFERS
• NRS 284.375 Conditions.
• NRS 284.376 Involuntary transfer; hearing; remedies.
• NRS 284.3775 Transfer of employee of Supreme Court, unclassified service or Legislative Branch to classified service; exceptions; rights of employee in classified service who accepted position in Legislative Branch.
RETENTION IN AND SEPARATIONS FROM SERVICE
• NRS 284.379 Separation or disability retirement of employee with disability.
• NRS 284.380 Layoffs; reemployment lists.
• NRS 284.381 Limitation on revocation of resignation by employee.
• NRS 284.383 Use of disciplinary measures; employee entitled to receive copy of findings or recommendations.
• NRS 284.384 Adjustment of certain grievances: Regulations; appeal to Employee-Management Committee; enforcement of binding decisions of Employee-Management Committee; representation of employee.
• NRS 284.385 Dismissals, demotions and suspensions.
• NRS 284.387 Internal administrative investigations leading to certain disciplinary action: Right of employee to written notice of allegations before questioning and to representation.
• NRS 284.390 Hearing to determine reasonableness of dismissal, demotion or suspension; judicial review.
• NRS 284.391 Hearings: Issuance of subpoenas; discovery; oaths; examination of witnesses.
• NRS 284.392 Hearings: Subpoenas extend to all parts of State; service of subpoenas; attendance of witnesses.
• NRS 284.393 Hearings: Fees, mileage and expenses of witnesses.
• NRS 284.405 Hearings and investigations may be held in public buildings.
USE OF ALCOHOL OR DRUGS BY EMPLOYEES
• NRS 284.406 Policy concerning use of alcohol or drugs by state employees.
• NRS 284.4061 Definitions.
• NRS 284.4062 Employee who consumes or is under the influence of alcohol or drugs or who possesses controlled substance on duty is subject to disciplinary action; state agency required to refer certain employees to employee assistance program.
• NRS 284.4063 Grounds for disciplinary action: Failure to notify supervisor after consuming certain drugs; failure or refusal to submit to screening test; failure of screening test.
• NRS 284.4064 Appointing authority authorized to require employee who has consumed drug to obtain clearance from physician; inquiry regarding use of alcohol or drug by employee; preventing employee from continuing work.
• NRS 284.4065 Screening tests: General provisions.
• NRS 284.4066 Screening tests: Applicants for positions affecting public safety required to take screening test; appointing authority authorized to consider results; provision of results to applicant upon request.
• NRS 284.4067 Screening tests: Requirements for administration; use; results.
• NRS 284.4068 Screening tests: Results confidential; admissibility of results; security; disclosure.
• NRS 284.4069 Training for supervisors.
• NRS 284.407 Regulations.
PROHIBITIONS AND OFFENSES
• NRS 284.410 False statement or report; fraud.
• NRS 284.415 Receipt or payment of consideration for appointment or promotion.
• NRS 284.420 Obstruction of right to examination, eligibility, certification or appointment; furnishing special or secret information.
• NRS 284.425 Member of subversive organization ineligible for appointment or employment in public service.
• NRS 284.430 Penalties.