284.015 - Definitions. - Nevada Statutes

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

      1.  “Commission” means the Personnel Commission.

      2.  “Department” means the Department of Personnel.

      3.  “Director” means the Director of the Department.

      4.  “Disability,” includes, but is not limited to, physical disability, mental retardation and mental or emotional disorder.

      5.  “Essential functions” has the meaning ascribed to it in 29 C.F.R. § 1630.2.

      6.  “Public service” means positions providing service for any office, department, board, commission, bureau, agency or institution in the Executive Department of the State Government operating by authority of the Constitution or law, and supported in whole or in part by any public money, whether the money is received from the Government of the United States or any branch or agency thereof, or from private or any other sources.

      [2:351:1953]—(NRS A 1963, 485, 1282; 1965, 674; 1981, 1683; 1983, 618; 1993, 469; 2003, 1436)