NAC281A.410. Notification of subject; filing of response.

     1. Once a third-party request for an opinion has been properly filed with the Commission by a requester or initiated on the motion of the Commission and the Commission has determined that the Commission has jurisdiction over the matter presented in the third-party request for an opinion, the Executive Director shall forthwith notify the public officer or public employee who is the subject of the third-party request for an opinion and provide the public officer or public employee an opportunity to respond to the allegations contained in the third-party request for an opinion. Such a notification must be in writing and sent to the subject of the third-party request for an opinion by:

     (a) Personal delivery;

     (b) Certified mail, return receipt requested; or

     (c) Overnight delivery service in which proof of delivery is documented.

     2. A notice of a third-party request for an opinion made pursuant to this section must include, without limitation:

     (a) All information filed by the requester or information upon which the Commission based its motion, as appropriate;

     (b) A copy of chapter 281A of NRS;

     (c) A copy of this chapter;

     (d) An outline of the process used by the Commission to resolve third-party requests for opinions; and

     (e) A form prescribed by the Commission for waiving the time limits set forth in subsections 4, 5 and 6 of NRS 281A.440.

     3. The subject of a third-party request for an opinion may, within the time limit set forth in subsection 3 of NRS 281A.440, file with the Commission a written response to the allegations contained in the third-party request for an opinion. If the subject of a third-party request for an opinion files with the Commission a waiver of the time limits set forth in subsections 4, 5 and 6 of NRS 281A.440, the Executive Director may, for good cause shown, authorize one or more extensions, of not more than 30 days each, of the time limit set forth in subsection 3 of NRS 281.440 for the subject to file a written response to the allegations contained in the third-party request for an opinion.

     (Added to NAC by Comm’n on Ethics by R102-00, eff. 8-28-2000; A by R111-03, 10-30-2003; R186-05, 5-4-2006; R084-08, 9-18-2008; R134-10, 10-26-2011)—(Substituted in revision for NAC 281.188)