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 attorney or representative of party to pay certain 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 the attorney or representative of a party to pay certain costs for causing a continuance or delay of a scheduled hearing 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 the attorney or representative of a party to pay any costs that are incurred by the hearings division of the department of administration for 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 attorney or representative of a party 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.