NRS244.3821. Establishment of medical scholarship program; appropriation of money; acceptance of contributions.

      1.  In addition to the powers elsewhere conferred upon all counties, except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, any county may establish a medical scholarship program to induce students in the medical professions to return to the county for practice.

      2.  Any county whose population is 100,000 or more may only establish a medical scholarship program to induce students in the medical professions to return to the less populous rural communities of the county for practice.

      3.  Students in the medical professions for the purposes of NRS 244.382 to 244.3823, inclusive, include persons studying to be physician assistants licensed pursuant to chapter 630 or 633 of NRS.

      4.  The board of county commissioners of a county that has established a medical scholarship program may appropriate money from the general fund of the county for medical scholarship funds and may accept private contributions to augment the scholarship funds.

      (Added to NRS by 1973, 632; A 1979, 515; 1995, 104; 2001, 779; 2007, 1852)