NRS 617.150 – “Subcontractors” defined.
“Subcontractors” shall include independent contractors. [15:44:1947; 1943 NCL § 2800.15]
NRS 617.080 – “Employee”: Persons excluded.
“Employee” excludes: 1. Any person whose employment is both casual and not in the course of the trade, business, profession or occupation of his or her employer. 2. Any person engaged in household domestic service, farm, dairy, agricultural or horticultural labor, or in stock or poultry raising, except as otherwise provided in this chapter. 3. […]
NRS 617.091 – “Employee”: Lessees engaged in mining or operating a reduction plant.
Except as provided in subsection 2 of NRS 617.250, a lessee engaged in either mining or operating a reduction plant shall be deemed to be: 1. An employee of the lessor; and 2. For the purposes of this chapter, employed at the average wage paid to a miner employed regularly in the same locality. (Added […]
NRS 617.100 – “Employee”: Subcontractors and employees.
1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 617.175, subcontractors, independent contractors and the employees of either shall be deemed to be employees of the principal contractor for the purposes of this chapter. 2. This section does not affect the relationship between a principal contractor and a subcontractor or independent contractor for any purpose outside the […]
NRS 617.105 – “Employee”: Real estate licensees.
Any real estate licensee doing business in this State and receiving wages, commissions or other compensation based upon sales shall be deemed for the purpose of this chapter to earn wages of $1,500 per month. (Added to NRS by 1977, 928; A 1999, 1731)
NRS 617.110 – “Employer” defined.
“Employer” means: 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4 of NRS 617.210, the State and each county, city, school district, and all public and quasi-public corporations therein, without regard to the number of persons employed. 2. Every person, firm, voluntary association and private corporation, including any public service corporation, which has in service any […]
NRS 617.120 – “Independent contractor” defined.
“Independent contractor” means any person who renders service for a specified recompense for a specified result, under the control of the person’s principal as to the result of the person’s work only and not as to the means by which such result is accomplished. [12:44:1947; 1943 NCL § 2800.12]
NRS 617.130 – “Medical benefits” defined.
1. “Medical benefits” means medical, surgical, hospital or other treatments, nursing, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, crutches and apparatus, including prosthetic devices. 2. The term does not include: (a) Exercise equipment, a hot tub or a spa for an employee’s home; (b) Membership in an athletic or health club; (c) Except as otherwise provided in […]
NRS 617.135 – “Police officer” defined.
“Police officer” includes: 1. A sheriff, deputy sheriff, officer of a metropolitan police department or city police officer; 2. A chief, inspector, supervisor, commercial officer or trooper of the Nevada Highway Patrol Division of the Department of Public Safety; 3. A chief, investigator or agent of the Investigation Division of the Department of Public Safety; […]
NRS 617.140 – “Silicosis” defined.
“Silicosis” shall mean a disease of the lungs caused by breathing silica dust (silicon dioxide) producing fibrous nodules, distributed through the lungs and demonstrated by X-ray examination or by autopsy. [Part 26:44:1947; A 1949, 365; 1953, 297]