2019 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 286 - Public Employees’ Retirement
NRS 286.130 - Qualifications of members of Board; terms.

1. Three members of the Board must be persons who:

(a) Have had at least 10 years of service as employees of the State of Nevada or its political subdivisions;

(b) Are not elected officers of the State of Nevada or its political subdivisions;

(c) Are active members of the System; and

(d) Are appointed from written nominations submitted by the following groups:

(1) Employees of the State and the Nevada System of Higher Education;

(2) The academic staff of school districts;

(3) Employees of cities, excluding Carson City;

(4) Employees of counties, including Carson City and excluding employees of county hospitals;

(5) Employees of county hospitals, public utilities, power districts, sanitation districts, classified school employees and employees of other districts as determined by the Board; and

(6) Employees whose current positions entitle them to participate in the Police and Firefighters’ Retirement Fund.

Each nominee must be a member of the group or organization that is nominating the nominee.

2. Two members of the Board must be persons who:

(a) Have had at least 10 years of service as employees of the State of Nevada or its political subdivisions;

(b) Are not elected officers of the State of Nevada or its political subdivisions;

(c) Are active members of the System; and

(d) Are appointed from written nominations submitted by the following groups:

(1) Administrators of school districts or members of boards of trustees of school districts; and

(2) Members of boards of county commissioners or the governing bodies of cities or administrators of counties or cities.

3. One member of the Board must be a person who:

(a) Is an employee of the State of Nevada or its political subdivisions with at least 10 years of service;

(b) Is serving in a position at least equivalent to the manager of a department or division;

(c) Is not an elected officer of the State of Nevada or its political subdivisions; and

(d) Is an active member of the System.

4. One member of the board must be a person who:

(a) Has had at least 10 years of service as an employee of the State of Nevada or its political subdivisions;

(b) Is not an elected officer of the State of Nevada or its political subdivisions; and

(c) Is receiving an allowance for service or disability retirement pursuant to this chapter.

5. A member of the Board shall serve for 4 years, so long as the member has the qualifications required by this section, and until the member’s successor is appointed and takes office. A member of the Board who no longer has the qualifications specified in the subsection under which the member was appointed may serve the remainder of the member’s term if the member loses those qualifications in the final 24 months of the member’s term.

[Part 5:181:1947; A 1949, 174; 1943 NCL § 5230.05] — (NRS A 1973, 1413; 1975, 1030; 1981, 445; 1987, 1522; 1991, 2355; 1993, 381; 2003, 2052)