§ 450.140 — Meetings of board; quorum; closed meetings

Nevada § 450.140

• Jurisdiction: Nevada
• Title 40: PUBLIC HEALTH AND SAFETY
• Ch. 450: County

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1. The board of hospital trustees shall hold meetings at least once each month, and shall keep a complete record of all its transactions.
2. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 241.0355 :
(a) In counties where three county commissioners are not members of the board, three members of the board constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
(b) And except as otherwise provided in paragraph (c), in counties where three county commissioners are members of the board, any five of the members constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.
(c) In counties where the board of county commissioners is the board of hospital trustees, a majority of the board constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business.
3. The board of hospital trustees or any hospital governing board appointed pursuant to NRS 450.175 may hold a closed meeting exempt from the provisions of chapter 241 of NRS to discuss:
(a) Providing a new health care service at the county hospital or materially expanding a health care service that is currently provided by the county hospital;
(b) The acquisition of an additional facility by the county hospital or the material expansion of an existing facility of the county hospital;
(c) Matters before a review committee to deliberate the character, alleged misconduct, professional competence or physical or mental health of a provider of health care; or
(d) Matters related to a medical audit or the quality assurance programs of the county hospital.
4. The provisions of subsection 3 must not be construed to:
(a) Authorize the board of hospital trustees or the hospital governing board to hold a closed meeting to discuss a change of management or ownership or the dissolution of the county hospital; or
(b) Prohibit the public from obtaining a report that is otherwise available to the public pursuant to state or federal law.
5. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, minutes of a closed meeting held pursuant to subsection 3, any supporting material and any recording or transcript of the closed meeting become public records 5 years after the date on which the meeting is held or when the board of hospital trustees or hospital governing board, as applicable, determines that the matters discussed no longer require confidentiality, whichever occurs first. Minutes of a closed meeting held pursuant to subsection 3, any supporting material and any recording or transcript of the closed meeting that contains privileged information are not public records. Nothing in this section shall be construed to limit the disclosure of information that is discoverable as part of a legal proceeding or pursuant to court order.
6. As used in this section:
(a) “Provider of health care” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 629.031 .
(b) “Review committee” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 49.117 .

Legislative History

[Part 2:169:1929; A 1937, 194 ; 1949, 83 ; 1955, 165 ] + [Part 4:169:1929; A 1937, 194 ; 1943, 17 ; 1955, 194 ]—(NRS A 1960, 93 , 407 ; 1991, 288 ; 2001, 1129 ; 2015, 1269 ; 2023, 866 )