2013 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 555 - Control of Insects, Pests and Noxious Weeds
NRS 555.350 - Suspension, revocation or modification of license.

1. The Director may suspend, pending inquiry, for not longer than 10 days, and, after opportunity for a hearing, may revoke, suspend or modify any license issued under NRS 555.2605 to 555.460, inclusive, if the Director finds that:

(a) The licensee is no longer qualified;

(b) The licensee has engaged in fraudulent business practices in pest control;

(c) The licensee has made false or fraudulent claims through any media by misrepresenting the effect of materials or methods to be used;

(d) The licensee has applied known ineffective or improper materials;

(e) The licensee operated faulty or unsafe equipment;

(f) The licensee has made any application in a faulty, careless or negligent manner;

(g) The licensee has violated any of the provisions of NRS 555.2605 to 555.460, inclusive, or regulations adopted pursuant thereto;

(h) The licensee engaged in the business of pest control without having a licensed agent, operator, primary principal or principal in direct on-the-job supervision;

(i) The licensee aided or abetted a licensed or an unlicensed person to evade the provisions of NRS 555.2605 to 555.460, inclusive, combined or conspired with such a licensee or an unlicensed person to evade the provisions, or allowed one s license to be used by an unlicensed person;

(j) The licensee was intentionally guilty of fraud or deception in the procurement of his or her license;

(k) The licensee was intentionally guilty of fraud, falsification or deception in the issuance of an inspection report on wood-destroying pests or other report or record required by regulation; or

(l) The licensee has been convicted of, or entered a plea of nolo contendere to, a felony or any crime involving moral turpitude in any court of competent jurisdiction in the United States or any other country.

2. A license is suspended automatically, without action of the Director, if the proof of public liability and property damage or drift insurance filed pursuant to NRS 555.330 is cancelled, and the license remains suspended until the insurance is re-established.

3. A licensee against whom the Director initiates disciplinary action to revoke, suspend or modify the license of the licensee pursuant to this section shall, within 30 days after receiving written notice of the disciplinary action from the Director, submit to the Director a complete set of the licensee s fingerprints and written permission authorizing the Director to forward the fingerprints to the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History for submission to the Federal Bureau of Investigation for its report.

4. A willful failure of a licensee to comply with the requirements of subsection 3 constitutes an additional ground for the revocation, suspension or modification of the license of the licensee pursuant to this section.

5. The Director has additional grounds to revoke, suspend or modify a license pursuant to this section if the report from the Federal Bureau of Investigation indicates that the licensee has been convicted of a felony or crime specified in paragraph (l) of subsection 1.

[Part 3:215:1955] (NRS A 1959, 244; 1961, 531; 1965, 66; 1967, 369; 1969, 353; 1971, 1255; 1975, 358; 1981, 612; 1993, 1717; 1999, 3649; 2003, 540; 2007, 984; 2013, 1327)