245.075 - County officer not to be interested in certain contracts or purchases; penalties.

245.075  County officer not to be interested in certain contracts or purchases; penalties.

      1.  Except as otherwise provided in NRS 281.230, 281A.430, 281A.530 and 332.800, it is unlawful for any county officer to be interested in any contract made by the county officer or be a purchaser or be interested in any purchase of a sale made by the county officer in the discharge of his or her official duties.

      2.  Any contract made in violation of subsection 1 may be declared void at the instance of the county interested or of any other person interested in the contract except the officer prohibited from making or being interested in the contract.

      3.  Any person violating this section, directly or indirectly, is guilty of a gross misdemeanor and shall forfeit his or her office.

      (Added to NRS by 1977, 1110; A 1987, 385; 2003, 891)