NRS616A.135. “Employee”: Persons performing volunteer work for private organizations as part of public programs.

  Persons who, under a written agreement between a public agency and a private organization, perform volunteer work for a private organization as part of a public program and who are not specifically covered by any other provisions of chapters 616A to 616D, inclusive, of NRS, while engaging in that volunteer work, may be deemed by an insurer, for the purposes of those chapters, as employees of the public agency at a wage of $100 per month. Such persons are entitled to the benefits of those chapters when the public agency complies with the provisions of those chapters and the regulations adopted pursuant to them.

      (Added to NRS by 1981, 1016; A 1981, 1538; 1985, 576; 1993, 694; 1995, 2008; 1997, 2766, 2767)