NRS391.3161. Request for hearing officer; appointment; procedures for challenging selection of hearing officer; duties of hearing officer.

      1.  Each request for the appointment of a person to serve as a hearing officer must be submitted to the Superintendent of Public Instruction.

      2.  Within 10 days after receipt of such a request, the Superintendent of Public Instruction shall request that the Hearings Division of the Department of Administration appoint a hearing officer.

      3.  The State Board shall prescribe the procedures for exercising challenges to a hearing officer, including, without limitation, the number of challenges that may be exercised and the time limits in which the challenges must be exercised.

      4.  A hearing officer shall conduct hearings in cases of demotion, dismissal or a refusal to reemploy based on the grounds contained in subsection 1 of NRS 391.31297.

      5.  This section does not preclude the employee and the superintendent from mutually selecting an attorney who is a resident of this State, an arbitrator provided by the American Arbitration Association or a representative of an agency or organization that provides alternative dispute resolution services to serve as a hearing officer to conduct a particular hearing.

      (Added to NRS by 1973, 789; A 1979, 1608, 1833; 1985, 1048; 1993, 183; 2005, 464)