NAC616B.926. “Wages” defined.  


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  • In the case of an offender confined at a county jail, city jail or other local detention facility who is injured or killed in the course and scope of his or her employment in the work program, the term “wages”:

         1. Includes only the money he or she earns in the work program before any deductions are made from those earnings.

         2. Does not include:

         (a) The value of room and board, medical care or other goods or services provided by the county jail, city jail or other local detention facility;

         (b) The value of good time earned towards reducing the sentence of the offender; or

         (c) Income from any source other than the work program.

     (Added to NAC by Div. of Industrial Relations by R209-97, eff. 4-17-98)