2017 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 279 - Redevelopment of Communities
NRS 279.482 - Imposition of conditions on lessees and purchasers; employment plan required in proposal for redevelopment project; contents of plan.

1. An agency may obligate lessees or purchasers of property acquired in a redevelopment project to:

(a) Use the property for the purpose designated in the redevelopment plans.

(b) Begin the redevelopment of the area within a period of time which the agency fixes as reasonable.

(c) Comply with other conditions which the agency deems necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter, including, without limitation, the provisions of an employment plan or a contract approved for a redevelopment project.

2. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 279.6094, as appropriate for the particular project, each proposal for a redevelopment project must also include an employment plan. The employment plan must include:

(a) A description of the existing opportunities for employment within the area;

(b) A projection of the effect that the redevelopment project will have on opportunities for employment within the area;

(c) A description of the manner in which an employer relocating a business into the area plans to employ persons living within the area of operation who:

(1) Are economically disadvantaged;

(2) Have a physical disability;

(3) Are members of racial minorities;

(4) Are veterans; or

(5) Are women; and

(d) For a redevelopment project undertaken in a redevelopment area of a city whose population is 500,000 or more, a description of the manner in which:

(1) The developer will, in hiring for construction jobs for the project, use its best efforts to hire veterans and other persons of both sexes and diverse ethnicities living within the redevelopment area, an area in the city for which the legislative body has adopted a specific plan for neighborhood revitalization or which is eligible for a community development block grant pursuant to 24 C.F.R. Part 570, or the Southern Nevada Enterprise Community; and

(2) Each employer relocating a business into the area will use its best efforts to hire veterans and other persons of both sexes and diverse ethnicities living within any of the areas described in subparagraph (1).

3. A description provided pursuant to paragraph (d) of subsection 2 must include an agreement by the developer or employer to offer and conduct training for the residents described in that paragraph or make a good faith effort to provide such training through a program of training that is offered by a governmental agency and reasonably available to the developer or employer.

(Added to NRS by 1959, 655; A 1985, 2071; 1997, 2558; 1999, 3614; 2013, 1573)