408.116 - Legal actions; process.
408.116 Legal actions; process.
1. All legal notices, writs, service and process issued or ordered by a court of competent jurisdiction wherein the Department is named as a defendant must be personally served upon both the Director and the Chair of the Board or, in the absence of the Director and the Chair of the Board, the process must be served personally upon both the Secretary of State and one of the Deputy Directors.
2. All legal actions brought and defended by the Department must be in the name of the State of Nevada on relation of its Department.
3. This section is not a consent on the part of the Department to be sued.
(Added to NRS by 1957, 666; A 1979, 1764; 1987, 1799; 1989, 1299; 2003, 2521)
NRS 408.118 Study of operations of Department: Legislative approval required. Before the Board or the Director may enter into an agreement providing for a study of the operations of the Department, the process to be used to select a person to perform the study and the proposed agreement for the study must be approved by the Legislature by concurrent resolution, or by the Interim Finance Committee if the Legislature is not in session.
(Added to NRS by 1989, 1298)