Assembly Bill No. 663-Committee on Labor and Management
June 29, 1997
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Referred to Committee on Labor and Management
SUMMARY--Authorizes appeals officer in proceeding relating to industrial insurance to order certain persons to pay costs for causing continuance or delay of hearing. (BDR 53-1587)
FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.
Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.
EXPLANATION - Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is material to be omitted.
AN ACT relating to industrial insurance; authorizing an appeals officer in a proceeding relating to industrial insurance to order a party, or the attorney or representative of a party, who causes a continuance or delay in a scheduled hearing to pay costs incurred by the hearings division of the department of administration under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1 Chapter 616D of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to read as follows:
1. An appeals officer, in conducting hearings or other proceedings pursuant to the provisions of chapters 616A to 616D, inclusive, of NRS or regulations adopted pursuant to those chapters, may order a party, or the attorney or representative of a party, to pay costs that are incurred by the hearings division of the department of administration, including, but not limited to, the cost of a court reporter or an interpreter.
2. Before ordering the payment of such costs, the appeals officer must find that the costs were incurred because the party, attorney or representative caused a continuance or delay in a scheduled hearing by his failure, without good cause, to comply with an order of the appeals officer or a regulation adopted pursuant to chapters 616A to 616D, inclusive, of NRS.