396.545 - Payment of fees and expenses of dependent child of police or highway patrol officer, firefighter or volunteer ambulance driver or attendant killed in line of duty or service; Trust Fund for
396.545 Payment of fees and expenses of dependent child of police or highway patrol officer, firefighter or volunteer ambulance driver or attendant killed in line of duty or service; Trust Fund for the Education of Dependent Children.
1. To the extent of legislative appropriation, the Board of Regents shall pay all registration fees, laboratory fees and expenses for required textbooks and course materials assessed against or incurred by a dependent child of:
(a) A police officer, firefighter or officer of the Nevada Highway Patrol who was killed in the line of duty; or
(b) A volunteer ambulance driver or attendant who was killed while engaged as a volunteer ambulance driver or attendant,
Ê for classes taken towards satisfying the requirements of an undergraduate degree at a school within the System. No such payment may be made for any fee assessed after the child reaches the age of 23 years.
2. There is hereby created in the State Treasury a Trust Fund for the Education of Dependent Children. The Board of Regents shall administer the Trust Fund. The Board of Regents may accept gifts and grants for deposit in the Trust Fund. All money held by the State Treasurer or received by the Board of Regents for that purpose must be deposited in the Trust Fund. The money in the Trust Fund must be invested as the money in other state funds is invested. After deducting all applicable charges, all interest and income earned on the money in the Trust Fund must be credited to the Trust Fund.
3. As used in this section:
(a) “Firefighter” means a person who is a salaried employee or volunteer member of a fire prevention or suppression unit organized by a local government and whose principal duty is to control and extinguish fires.
(b) “Local government” means a county, city, unincorporated town or metropolitan police department.
(c) “Police officer” means a person who is a salaried employee of a police department or other law enforcement agency organized or operated by a local government and whose principal duty is to enforce the law.
(d) “Volunteer ambulance driver or attendant” means a person who is a driver of or attendant on an ambulance owned or operated by:
(1) A nonprofit organization that provides volunteer ambulance service in any county, city or town in this State; or
(2) A political subdivision of this State.
(Added to NRS by 1995, 2219; A 1997, 469; 2005, 327, 361)