NAC645C.600. Establishment; appointment, rights and duties of members.

     1. The Commission may establish an advisory committee to assist the Commission with any matter that the Commission determines to be appropriate for submission to an advisory committee.

     2. The Administrator may establish an advisory committee to assist the Administrator in the review of a matter that is the subject of an investigation conducted pursuant to NAC 645C.480 if the appraiser who is the subject of the investigation agrees to participate in an informal review of the matter with the advisory committee.

     3. The Commission will create and maintain a list of persons who are approved by the Commission to serve on an advisory committee. A person approved to serve on an advisory committee must meet the qualifications for appointment to the Commission set forth in subsection 1 of NRS 645C.190.

     4. If the Administrator or the Commission determines that an advisory committee should be formed, the Administrator shall appoint three persons to serve on the advisory committee from the list of persons approved by the Commission to serve on the advisory committee. At least one of the persons appointed must be a current or former member of the Commission. The Administrator shall appoint one member of the advisory committee who is a current or former member of the Commission to serve as chair of the advisory committee.

     5. A member of an advisory committee:

     (a) Serves at the pleasure of the Commission and without compensation;

     (b) Shall abstain from participating in any proceeding in which the member of the advisory committee would be prohibited from participating if he or she were a member of the Commission; and

     (c) Shall not testify before the Commission on any substantive matter relating to an informal conference in which the member of the advisory committee has participated.

     6. Each member of an advisory committee is entitled to receive a per diem allowance and travel expenses as provided for state officers and employees generally for the period during which the member was engaged in the discharge of his or her official duties.

     (Added to NAC by Comm’n of Appraisers of Real Estate by R119-00, eff. 9-25-2000)