Nevada Revised Statutes Section 656.290 - Professions, Occupations and Businesses

Disciplinary proceedings: Subpoenas; witnesses; record of hearing; restoration of license or certificate.

1. The Board may subpoena and bring before it any person in this state and take testimony orally or by deposition, or both, with the same fees and mileage and in the same manner as prescribed in civil cases in courts of this state.

2. Any district court, upon the application of the accused or complainant or of the Board may, by order, require the attendance of witnesses and the production of relevant books and papers before the Board in any hearing relative to the application for or refusal, recall, suspension or revocation of a license or certificate, and the court may compel obedience to its order by proceedings for contempt.

3. The Board shall provide a court reporter to transcribe the testimony and preserve a record of all proceedings at the hearing of any case wherein a license or certificate is revoked or suspended. The notice of hearing, complaint and all other documents in the nature of pleadings and written motions filed in the proceedings, the transcript of testimony, the report of the Board and its orders constitute the record of the proceedings. The Board shall furnish a transcript of the record to any person interested in the hearing upon payment therefor of the statutory fees for transcription as provided in NRS 3.370.

4. At any time after the suspension or revocation of any license or certificate, the Board may restore it to the accused without examination upon unanimous vote by the Board.

Last modified: February 27, 2006