NRS398.225. National collegiate athletic associations: Compliance with procedural standards; basis of findings; nature of penalties and sanctions.

      1.  A national collegiate athletic association shall not impose a sanction on any institution located in this state, its employees, student athletes, students or boosters, for a violation of the rules of the association, or impose a sanction on an institution located in this state or its athletic conference for failure of the institution to impose sanctions on its employees, student athletes, students or boosters, unless the association complies with the minimum procedural standards set forth in NRS 398.155 to 398.255, inclusive.

      2.  Any finding of a violation by a national collegiate athletic association must be based upon and supported by a preponderance of evidence that:

      (a) Is of the type commonly relied upon by reasonable and prudent persons in the conduct of their affairs; and

      (b) Has been submitted and received in a hearing held and conducted in conformance with the provisions of NRS 398.155 to 398.255, inclusive.

      3.  Any penalty or sanction imposed by a national collegiate athletic association must be reasonable in light of the nature and gravity of the violation and must be consistent with penalties and sanctions previously imposed by the national collegiate athletic association upon other member institutions for violations of similar nature and gravity.

      (Added to NRS by 1991, 111; A 1997, 1614)