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2021 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 612 - Unemployment Compensation
GENERAL PROVISIONS
- NRS 612.010 - Short title.
- NRS 612.015 - Definitions.
- NRS 612.016 - "Administrator" defined.
- NRS 612.017 - "American employing unit" defined.
- NRS 612.025 - "Base period" defined.
- NRS 612.030 - "Benefit year" defined.
- NRS 612.035 - "Benefits" defined.
- NRS 612.040 - "Calendar quarter" defined.
- NRS 612.045 - "Contributions" defined.
- NRS 612.049 - "Division" defined.
- NRS 612.055 - "Employer" defined.
- NRS 612.057 - "Employer": Crew leaders who furnish persons to perform agricultural labor.
- NRS 612.060 - "Employing unit" defined.
- NRS 612.065 - "Employment" defined.
- NRS 612.070 - "Employment": Services included.
- NRS 612.075 - "Employment": Services performed entirely outside State by resident; election; approval by Administrator.
- NRS 612.080 - "Employment": Services deemed localized within State.
- NRS 612.085 - "Employment": Services deemed employment unless specific facts shown.
- NRS 612.090 - "Employment": Certain agricultural labor included.
- NRS 612.095 - "Employment": Domestic service in private home excluded; exception.
- NRS 612.100 - "Employment": Service on foreign vessel or aircraft outside United States excluded.
- NRS 612.105 - "Employment": Service performed in employ of relative excluded.
- NRS 612.110 - "Employment": Service for United States, another state or political subdivision excluded; exception.
- NRS 612.115 - "Employment": Service performed in employ of State or agency included; exceptions.
- NRS 612.117 - "Employment": Service performed by patient in employ of hospital excluded.
- NRS 612.118 - "Employment": Service performed by student in program for work experience excluded.
- NRS 612.119 - "Employment": Service performed by student or spouse under school program for financial assistance to student excluded.
- NRS 612.120 - "Employment": Service performed in employ of corporation or foundation organized and operated for religious, charitable, educational or scientific purposes or for prevention of cruelty to children or animals excluded.
- NRS 612.121 - "Employment": Service performed in employ of charitable, religious or other nonprofit organization.
- NRS 612.123 - "Employment": Service performed in employ of Indian tribe included; exceptions.
- NRS 612.125 - "Employment": Service performed in employment covered by federal system for compensation of unemployed persons excluded; reciprocal agreements by Administrator.
- NRS 612.130 - "Employment": Service by minor in delivery of newspapers excluded.
- NRS 612.133 - "Employment": Service by licensed real estate salesperson or broker excluded.
- NRS 612.135 - "Employment": Service by lessees engaged in mining excluded.
- NRS 612.140 - "Employment": Domestic service in employ of college fraternity or sorority excluded; exception.
- NRS 612.142 - "Employment": Services as agent-driver, commission-driver or solicitor of orders included; exceptions.
- NRS 612.144 - "Employment": Services performed by person selling or soliciting the sale of products in certain circumstances excluded.
- NRS 612.145 - "Employment": Service performed during half or more of pay period determined by nature of entire service.
- NRS 612.155 - "Employment office" defined.
- NRS 612.165 - "Fund" defined.
- NRS 612.167 - "Hospital" defined.
- NRS 612.168 - "Indian tribe" defined.
- NRS 612.169 - "Institution of higher education" defined.
- NRS 612.170 - "Insured worker" defined.
- NRS 612.175 - "Signature" defined.
- NRS 612.180 - "State" defined.
- NRS 612.185 - "Unemployed" defined; regulations by Administrator; exceptions. [Effective until the earlier of the date on which the Administrator of the Employment Security Division of the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation notifies the Governor and the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau that sufficient resources are available to enable the Division to carry out the provisions increasing the amount of remuneration that a person may receive and be deemed to be unemployed, or October 4, 2020.]
- NRS 612.185 - "Unemployed" defined; regulations by Administrator; exceptions. [Effective on the earlier of the date on which the Administrator of the Employment Security Division of the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation notifies the Governor and the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau that sufficient resources are available to enable the Division to carry out the provisions increasing the amount of remuneration that a person may receive and be deemed to be unemployed, or October 5, 2020.]
- NRS 612.190 - "Wages" defined.
- NRS 612.195 - "Week" defined.
- NRS 612.200 - "Weekly benefit amount" defined.
- NRS 612.215 - Administrator: Appointment; classification; administrative authority; other employment prohibited; exception.
- NRS 612.220 - General powers and duties of Administrator.
- NRS 612.225 - Official seal of Administrator; judicial notice.
- NRS 612.227 - Lease-purchase agreements for purchase of office buildings and land; assurances by State of Nevada.
- NRS 612.230 - Personnel of Division: Selection; classification; compensation; duties; stipends for educational leave.
- NRS 612.237 - Quarterly report of Administrator.
- NRS 612.240 - Regulations for internal management.
- NRS 612.242 - Emergency regulations.
- NRS 612.245 - Administrative determinations: Whether employing unit constitutes employer; whether service constitutes employment; whether substantially common ownership, management or control exists; appeal.
- NRS 612.250 - Administrative determinations: Establishment of rates of contribution based upon experience; appeal.
- NRS 612.253 - Provision of certain documents or communications by electronic mail or other electronic communication.
- NRS 612.260 - Records and reports of employing units: Inspection; destruction.
- NRS 612.265 - Disclosure of information by Employment Security Division and Administrator; duty of Division of Industrial Relations of Department of Business and Industry to provide certain information to Administrator; penalty for improper use or dissemination of certain information; privileged communications.
- NRS 612.270 - Depositions; subpoenas; payment of witnesses.
- NRS 612.275 - Order to appear and testify; penalty for failure to obey court order or subpoena of Administrator or Board of Review.
- NRS 612.280 - Protection against self-incrimination.
- NRS 612.285 - Cooperation with Department of Labor.
- NRS 612.290 - Advance to Unemployment Compensation Fund; application.
- NRS 612.295 - Reciprocal arrangements with state and federal agencies.
- NRS 612.300 - Reimbursements in accordance with reciprocal arrangements.
- NRS 612.305 - Employment Security Council: Creation; membership; compensation of members; meetings; Secretary; Board of Review.
- NRS 612.310 - Employment Security Council: Duties.
- NRS 612.330 - Acceptance of Wagner-Peyser Act; establishment and maintenance of free public employment offices.
- NRS 612.335 - Payment.
- NRS 612.340 - Amount of weekly benefit.
- NRS 612.344 - Election of base period following period of temporary disability or rehabilitation; establishment of new benefit year.
- NRS 612.350 - Weekly benefit for unemployment.
- NRS 612.355 - Duration of benefits.
- NRS 612.357 - Deduction and withholding of federal individual income tax.
- NRS 612.360 - Benefits due deceased or incapacitated person.
- NRS 612.365 - Overpayments and recovery.
- NRS 612.371 - Reimbursement of benefits paid if back pay awarded for same period.
- NRS 612.375 - General conditions; reductions in benefits.
- NRS 612.3755 - Prohibition on denial of benefits for unemployment related to domestic violence; request for evidence to support claim.
- NRS 612.376 - Person employed by private employer while incarcerated not eligible for certain benefits.
- NRS 612.377 - Definitions.
- NRS 612.3772 - Other provisions of chapter applicable to extended benefits.
- NRS 612.3774 - Conditions of eligibility: Findings by Administrator.
- NRS 612.3776 - Amount of weekly extended benefit.
- NRS 612.3778 - Benefit amount for partial period.
- NRS 612.378 - Maximum amount of extended benefit payable during year.
- NRS 612.3782 - Amended determination of entitlement based on increase of regular compensation.
- NRS 612.3784 - Notice of commencement or termination of extended benefit period.
- NRS 612.3786 - Extended benefit payments not chargeable against experience rating of base-period employer.
- NRS 612.380 - Leaving last or next to last employment without good cause or to seek other employment.
- NRS 612.383 - Discharge for crimes in connection with employment.
- NRS 612.385 - Discharge for misconduct.
- NRS 612.390 - Failure to apply for available or suitable work or to accept suitable work when offered.
- NRS 612.392 - Failure to accept suitable work or engage in effort to obtain work: Effect on extended benefits. [Each provision of this section expires by limitation on date it is no longer required by federal law to be in effect.]
- NRS 612.395 - Unemployment as result of labor dispute.
- NRS 612.400 - Receipt of benefits under another unemployment compensation law.
- NRS 612.405 - Extended benefits payable under Interstate Benefit Payment Plan.
- NRS 612.420 - Receipt of wages in lieu of notice; severance pay; waiver or modification of period of disqualification under certain circumstances.
- NRS 612.425 - Paid vacation; waiver or modification of period of disqualification under certain circumstances.
- NRS 612.430 - Receipt of pay for vacation on termination of employment; waiver or modification of period of disqualification under certain circumstances.
- NRS 612.432 - Vacation or recess for holiday.
- NRS 612.434 - Period between academic years or terms; paid sabbatical leave.
- NRS 612.436 - Sports or athletic events.
- NRS 612.445 - Repayment of benefits received as result of false statement or failure to disclose material fact; penalty for unemployment insurance fraud; disqualification. [Effective through June 30, 2020.]
- NRS 612.445 - Repayment of benefits received as result of false statement or failure to disclose material fact; penalty for unemployment insurance fraud; disqualification. [Effective July 1, 2020.]
- NRS 612.448 - Alien status.
- NRS 612.450 - Procedure.
- NRS 612.455 - Regulations of Administrator; employer to provide unemployed person with statements and materials.
- NRS 612.457 - Withholding of benefits for obligation for support of child.
- NRS 612.460 - Unemployed person may request determination of status; written determination by Administrator; notice to employers during base period.
- NRS 612.465 - Effective period of initial determination; payment of benefits.
- NRS 612.470 - Notice to insured worker.
- NRS 612.475 - Notice to employers of new or additional claim; employer’s duties and rights upon receipt of notice.
- NRS 612.480 - Redeterminations.
- NRS 612.485 - Finality of determination or redetermination.
- NRS 612.490 - Appeal Tribunals: Appointment; alternate.
- NRS 612.495 - Appeal to Appeal Tribunal: Initiation of appeal from determination or redetermination; intervention of employing unit; withdrawal of appeal.
- NRS 612.500 - Hearing on appeal: Procedure; evidence; record; witnesses; trial de novo in certain circumstances.
- NRS 612.505 - Consolidated appeals.
- NRS 612.510 - Notice of decision of Appeal Tribunal; time for further appeal.
- NRS 612.515 - Appeal to Board of Review.
- NRS 612.520 - Removal or transfer of appeals from one Appeal Tribunal to another Appeal Tribunal.
- NRS 612.525 - Appeal to courts: Time for appeal; exhaustion of administrative remedies; appeal by Administrator.
- NRS 612.530 - Judicial review of decision of Board of Review: Commencement of action in district court; parties; service of petition; answer; summary hearings; appeals to appellate court.
- NRS 612.533 - Introduction of certain evidence concerning claims for benefits prohibited in separate or subsequent proceeding.
- NRS 612.535 - Payment; registration of employer with Division.
- NRS 612.540 - Rate.
- NRS 612.545 - Base.
- NRS 612.550 - Rates for employers.
- NRS 612.551 - Charging of benefits to account of employer; grounds for removal of charges on account of employer; appeal of certain determinations of Administrator; effect of certain determinations on claimant.
- NRS 612.553 - Nonprofit organizations, political subdivisions and Indian tribes: Payment of contributions or reimbursement in lieu of contributions.
- NRS 612.555 - Employing unit becoming employer within calendar quarter subject to chapter from beginning of quarter; exception.
- NRS 612.560 - When employing unit ceases to be employer.
- NRS 612.565 - Employing unit not subject to chapter may elect to become employer subject to chapter; conditions.
- NRS 612.570 - Employing unit may elect that services not covered by chapter shall be deemed to constitute employment; conditions.
- NRS 612.580 - Termination of employer’s election by Administrator.
- NRS 612.583 - "Benefits" defined.
- NRS 612.585 - Establishment and control.
- NRS 612.590 - Accounts; deposits; refunds.
- NRS 612.595 - Withdrawals.
- NRS 612.600 - Management of money upon discontinuance of Unemployment Trust Fund.
- NRS 612.605 - Creation; receipt and use of money.
- NRS 612.606 - Additional contributions by employer required for support of program for employment and training of unemployed persons and persons employed in this State; exceptions.
- NRS 612.607 - Deposit, transfer and expenditure of payments for program for employment and training of unemployed persons and persons employed in this State.
- NRS 612.608 - Accrual and submission of payments for program for employment and training of unemployed persons and persons employed in this State; disregard of fractions.
- NRS 612.609 - Disbursement of delinquent payments by employers.
- NRS 612.610 - Reimbursement.
- NRS 612.6102 - Definitions.
- NRS 612.6104 - "Benefits" defined.
- NRS 612.6106 - "Bond" defined.
- NRS 612.6108 - "Bond administrative expense" defined.
- NRS 612.611 - "Bond obligation" defined.
- NRS 612.6112 - "Credit agreement" defined.
- NRS 612.6114 - "Federal advance" defined.
- NRS 612.6116 - "Special bond contributions" defined.
- NRS 612.6118 - "Unemployment Compensation Bond Fund" defined.
- NRS 612.612 - Legislative findings and declarations.
- NRS 612.6122 - State Board of Finance authorized to issue bonds to repay loans from Federal Government for payment of unemployment compensation and to establish adequate balances in Unemployment Trust Fund; contents of bond.
- NRS 612.6124 - Security for bonds.
- NRS 612.6128 - Procedure for payment of bond-related obligations.
- NRS 612.613 - Creation; sources; uses.
- NRS 612.6132 - Payment of special bond contributions; exceptions.
- NRS 612.6134 - Faith of State pledged not to impair bonds.
- NRS 612.618 - Payment that is returned or dishonored does not constitute timely payment; additional fee.
- NRS 612.620 - Interest on unpaid contributions.
- NRS 612.625 - Civil action: Notice; attachment.
- NRS 612.630 - Summary judgment: Filing certificate; where to be filed; contents; entry of judgment.
- NRS 612.635 - Judgments: Recording of abstract or copy; liens; priorities; execution.
- NRS 612.640 - Appeals to appellate court.
- NRS 612.642 - Required notice to State Contractors’ Board.
- NRS 612.645 - Division authorized to act on behalf of State; filing fees, costs or bonds not required of State; additional fee for recording, copying or certifying documents.
- NRS 612.650 - Priorities under legal dissolutions or distributions.
- NRS 612.655 - Refunds and adjustments.
- NRS 612.660 - Arbitrary assessments upon failure of employer to file report or upon filing of incorrect or insufficient report.
- NRS 612.665 - Notice of arbitrary assessment: Contents; finality of assessment.
- NRS 612.670 - Readjustment or modification of assessment.
- NRS 612.675 - Jeopardized collections: Assessment; stay of collection of assessment.
- NRS 612.680 - Liens: Creation; notice; foreclosure; release; compromise and satisfaction.
- NRS 612.685 - Creditors and debtors of employer: Notice of delinquency of payment owed by employer; power of State to satisfy debt owed to it.
- NRS 612.686 - Creditors and debtors of employer: Duties; certain transfers of property prohibited; demand to transmit certain property to Administrator.
- NRS 612.687 - Liability of contractor to assure payment of amounts due from subcontractors.
- NRS 612.690 - Liability of assignee, receiver, trustee and others selling property of employing unit: Notice to Division.
- NRS 612.695 - Liability of employer and purchaser or transferee upon sale or transfer of assets and quitting business.
- NRS 612.700 - Waiver of rights void.
- NRS 612.705 - Limitation of fees; unlawful solicitation; attorney’s fees.
- NRS 612.710 - Assignment of benefits void; exemption from execution and attachment.
- NRS 612.7102 - Administrator authorized to require employer to withhold income to satisfy judgment.
- NRS 612.7104 - Notice to person who is subject to withholding.
- NRS 612.7106 - Notice to employer to withhold income; contents; notice may be issued electronically.
- NRS 612.7108 - Duties of employer upon receipt of notice to withhold.
- NRS 612.711 - Notice to withhold binding upon employer; employer may deduct amount for reimbursement of costs; electronic transfer of payments by employer.
- NRS 612.7112 - Unlawful to use withholding as basis for refusing to hire, discharging or taking disciplinary action against employee; liability; penalty.
- NRS 612.7114 - Enforcement proceedings against employer for refusal to withhold or misrepresentation of employee income; remedies and penalties.
- NRS 612.7116 - Employer and Administrator immunity.
- NRS 612.715 - False statement or failure to disclose material fact to obtain or increase benefit.
- NRS 612.717 - False statement or failure to disclose material fact concerning termination of employment.
- NRS 612.720 - Conspiracy to obtain or increase benefit; series of false statements to obtain or increase benefit.
- NRS 612.725 - False statement or failure to disclose material fact to obtain or increase benefit under federal law or law of another state.
- NRS 612.730 - False statement or failure to disclose material facts by employer to prevent or reduce payment of benefits; willful failure or refusal to pay contributions or make reports; plan or scheme to avoid application of or reduce payment required by chapter.
- NRS 612.732 - Transfer or acquisition of business to obtain lower contribution rate; activity of employer to obtain more favorable contribution rate; advising another person to violate provisions of chapter.
- NRS 612.735 - Violations of chapter, rules, regulations and orders.
- NRS 612.740 - Forfeits and interest.
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