NAC281A.435. Basis for finding by investigatory panel; unanimous finding required for determination that there is not just and sufficient cause to render opinion.

     1. A finding by an investigatory panel as to whether there is just and sufficient cause for the Commission to render an opinion on a third-party request for an opinion must be based on credible evidence.

     2. A finding by an investigatory panel that there is not just and sufficient cause for the Commission to render an opinion on a third-party request for an opinion must be unanimous.

     3. As used in this section, “credible evidence” means the minimal level of any reliable and competent form of proof provided by witnesses, records, documents, exhibits, concrete objects, and other such similar means, that supports a reasonable belief by an investigatory panel that the Commission should hear the matter and render an opinion on the third-party request for an opinion. The term does not include a newspaper article or other media report if the article or report is offered as the only evidence to support the allegation.

     (Added to NAC by Comm’n on Ethics by R102-00, eff. 8-28-2000; A by R134-10, 10-26-2011)—(Substituted in revision for NAC 281.194)