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2011 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 396 - Nevada System of Higher Education
NRS 396.545 - Payment of fees and expenses of dependent child of police or highway patrol officer, firefighter or volunteer ambulance driver or attendant killed in line of duty or service; Trust Account for the Education of Dependent Children; annual estimation of money in and payments from Account; request for allocation to cover shortfall.

Universal Citation:
NV Rev Stat ยง 396.545 (2011)
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1. To the extent of money available for this purpose, the Board of Regents shall pay all registration fees, laboratory fees and expenses for required textbooks and course materials assessed against or incurred by a dependent child of:

(a) A police officer, firefighter or officer of the Nevada Highway Patrol who was killed in the line of duty; or

(b) A volunteer ambulance driver or attendant who was killed while engaged as a volunteer ambulance driver or attendant,

for classes taken towards satisfying the requirements of an undergraduate degree at a school within the System. No such payment may be made for any fee assessed after the child reaches the age of 23 years.

2. There is hereby created in the State General Fund a Trust Account for the Education of Dependent Children. The Board of Regents shall administer the Account. The Board of Regents may accept gifts and grants for deposit in the Account. All money held by the State Treasurer or received by the Board of Regents for that purpose must be deposited in the Account. The money in the Account must be invested as the money in other state accounts is invested. After deducting all applicable charges, all interest and income earned on the money in the Account must be credited to the Account. Any money remaining in the Account at the end of a fiscal year does not revert to the State General Fund, and the balance in the Account must be carried forward to the next fiscal year.

3. For each fiscal year, the Board of Regents shall estimate:

(a) The amount of money in the Trust Account that is available to make payments pursuant to subsection 1 for that fiscal year; and

(b) The anticipated amount of such payments for that fiscal year.

If the anticipated amount of payments estimated for the fiscal year exceeds the estimated amount of money available in the Account in the fiscal year for such payments, the Board of Regents may request an allocation from the Contingency Account created in the State General Fund pursuant to NRS 353.266 to cover the projected shortfall.

4. As used in this section:

(a) Firefighter means a person who is a salaried employee or volunteer member of a fire prevention or suppression unit organized by a local government and whose principal duty is to control and extinguish fires.

(b) Local government means a county, city, unincorporated town or metropolitan police department.

(c) Police officer means a person who is a salaried employee of a police department or other law enforcement agency organized or operated by a local government and whose principal duty is to enforce the law.

(d) Volunteer ambulance driver or attendant means a person who is a driver of or attendant on an ambulance owned or operated by:

(1) A nonprofit organization that provides volunteer ambulance service in any county, city or town in this State; or

(2) A political subdivision of this State.

(Added to NRS by 1995, 2219; A 1997, 469; 2005, 327, 361; 2011, 447, 2845)

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