357.100 - Action based upon certain public disclosures may only be brought by Attorney General or original source of information. - Nevada Statutes

357.100  Action based upon certain public disclosures may only be brought by Attorney General or original source of information.

      1.  No action may be maintained pursuant to this chapter that is based upon the public disclosure of allegations or transactions in a criminal, civil or administrative hearing, in an investigation, report, hearing or audit conducted by or at the request of a house of the Legislature, an auditor or the governing body of a political subdivision, or from the news media, unless the action is brought by the Attorney General or an original source of the information.

      2.  As used in this section, “original source” means a person:

      (a) Who has direct and independent knowledge of the information on which the allegations were based;

      (b) Who voluntarily provided the information to the State or political subdivision before bringing an action based on the information; and

      (c) Whose information provided the basis or caused the making of the investigation, hearing, audit or report that led to the public disclosure.

      (Added to NRS by 1999, 828)