Department created; Board of State Prison Commissioners
Applied in 3 court decisions — leading case Haney v. State (2008)
Most recently applied in Haney v. State (June 2008)
(Added to NRS by 1977, 845; A 2001 Special Session, 192)
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
1. The Department of Corrections is hereby created.
2. The head of the Department is the Board of State Prison Commissioners.
3. The Governor is the President of the Board. The Secretary of State is the Secretary of the Board.
4. Any two members of the Board constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
5. The Secretary shall keep full and correct records of all the transactions and proceedings of the Board.
Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.