426.365 - Creation; membership; terms of members; removal of member.
426.365 Creation; membership; terms of members; removal of member.
1. The Nevada Commission on Services for Persons with Disabilities, consisting of 11 voting members and 2 or more nonvoting members, is hereby created within the Office.
2. The Director of the Department shall appoint as voting members of the Commission 11 persons who have experience with or an interest in and knowledge of the problems of and services for persons with disabilities. The majority of the voting members of the Commission must be persons with disabilities or the parents or family members of persons with disabilities.
3. The Director of the Department and the Chief of the Office shall serve as nonvoting, ex officio members of the Commission and each may designate an alternate within his or her office to attend any meeting of the Commission in his or her place.
4. The Director of the Department may appoint as nonvoting members of the Commission such other representatives of State Government as the Director deems appropriate.
5. After the initial term of an appointed member, the term of an appointed member is 3 years. An appointed member may be reappointed for an additional term of 3 years. An appointed member may not serve more than two terms. A vacancy on the Commission must be filled in the same manner as the original appointment. An appointed member who serves for more than 1 year of a term to which another person was appointed may be appointed to serve only one additional full term as an appointed member.
6. The Director of the Department may remove an appointed member of the Commission for malfeasance in office or neglect of duty. Absence from two consecutive meetings of the Commission constitutes good and sufficient cause for removal of an appointed member by the Director.
(Added to NRS by 2009, 655)