Nevada Revised Statutes 338.131 – Prehire agreement: Authority of local government to enter; preferential employment of local residents authorized; exception; applicability of provisions governing payment of prevailing wages
1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a local government sponsoring or financing a public work may enter into a prehire agreement for the public work. Any such prehire agreement may contain a preference for hiring labor on the public work to local residents who possess a valid driver’s license or identification card issued by the Department of Motor Vehicles or other proof of current address which indicates that the person resides:
Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 338.131
- Contractor: means :
(a) A person who is licensed pursuant to the provisions of chapter 624 of NRS. See Nevada Revised Statutes 338.010
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- Local government: means every political subdivision or other entity which has the right to levy or receive money from ad valorem or other taxes or any mandatory assessments, and includes, without limitation, counties, cities, towns, boards, school districts and other districts organized pursuant to chapters 244A, 318, 318A, 379, 474, 538, 541, 543 and 555 of NRS, Nevada Revised Statutes 338.010
- person: means a natural person, any form of business or social organization and any other nongovernmental legal entity including, but not limited to, a corporation, partnership, association, trust or unincorporated organization. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.039
- Public work: means any project for the new construction, repair or reconstruction of a project financed in whole or in part from public money for:
(a) Public buildings;
(b) Jails and prisons;
(c) Public roads;
(d) Public highways;
(e) Public streets and alleys;
(f) Public utilities;
(g) Publicly owned water mains and sewers;
(h) Public parks and playgrounds;
(i) Public convention facilities which are financed at least in part with public money; and
(j) All other publicly owned works and property. See Nevada Revised Statutes 338.010
- Statute: A law passed by a legislature.
- Worker: means a skilled mechanic, skilled worker, semiskilled mechanic, semiskilled worker or unskilled worker in the service of a contractor or subcontractor under any appointment or contract of hire or apprenticeship, express or implied, oral or written, whether lawfully or unlawfully employed. See Nevada Revised Statutes 338.010
(a) Within the jurisdiction of the local government;
(b) Within a certain specified distance of the jurisdiction of the local government, as provided by the local government sponsoring or financing the public work; or
(c) Within a certain geographic area within the jurisdiction of the local government.
2. If any federal statute or regulation precludes the granting of federal assistance or reduces the amount of that assistance for a particular public work because of the provisions of subsection 1, those provisions do not apply insofar as their application would preclude or reduce federal assistance.
3. Nothing in this section shall be construed to authorize a contractor on a public work to pay any worker on the public work less than the applicable prevailing wage required pursuant to NRS 338.020 to 338.090, inclusive.