239.005 - Definitions. - Nevada Statutes

239.005  Definitions.  As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires:

      1.  “Actual cost” means the direct cost related to the reproduction of a public record. The term does not include a cost that a governmental entity incurs regardless of whether or not a person requests a copy of a particular public record.

      2.  “Committee” means the Committee to Approve Schedules for the Retention and Disposition of Official State Records.

      3.  “Division” means the Division of State Library and Archives of the Department of Cultural Affairs.

      4.  “Governmental entity” means:

      (a) An elected or appointed officer of this State or of a political subdivision of this State;

      (b) An institution, board, commission, bureau, council, department, division, authority or other unit of government of this State or of a political subdivision of this State;

      (c) A university foundation, as defined in NRS 396.405; or

      (d) An educational foundation, as defined in NRS 388.750, to the extent that the foundation is dedicated to the assistance of public schools.

      (Added to NRS by 1977, 455; A 1979, 179; 1983, 1298; 1985, 126; 1993, 209, 1538; 1995, 511; 1997, 2385; 2001, 936)