Nev. Admin. Code § 281A.310

Current through September 16, 2024

Section 281A.310 - Determination of relationships within third degree of consanguinity or affinity

1. For the purposes of NRS 281A.065, the Commission will determine the relationships of a public officer or employee, or the spouse or domestic partner of the public officer or employee, by blood, adoption, marriage or domestic partnership within the third degree of consanguinity or affinity pursuant to the following table:

Consanguinity Table
First Degree	Second Degree	Third Degree	Fourth Degree
Children Parents	Grandparents Brothers Sisters Grandchildren	Great-Grandparents Uncles Aunts Nephews Nieces Great-Grandchildren	Great-Great-Grandparents Great Uncles Great Aunts First Cousins Great Nephews Great Nieces
Relationship by affinity: Any person whose relationship to the spouse or domestic partner of the public officer or employee is listed in the columns for the first, second, or third degree of consanguinity is within the third degree of affinity to the public officer or employee, and if that person has a spouse or domestic partner, that spouse or domestic partner will be deemed to be within the same degree of affinity for the purposes of NRS 281A.065. Spouses of public officers or employees are related in the first degree of affinity by marriage, and domestic partners of public officers or employees are related in the first degree of affinity by domestic partnership. For adoption and other relationships by marriage or domestic partnership, the degree of relationship is the same as the degree of underlying relationship by blood.

2. As used in this section:

(a) "Domestic partner" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 281A.085; and

(b) "Domestic partnership" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 281A.086.

Nev. Admin. Code § 281A.310

Added to NAC by Comm'n on Ethics by R084-08, eff. 9-18-2008; A by R048-14, eff. 10/24/2014; A by R108-18A, eff. 8/21/2018; A by R108-18AP, eff. 8/30/2018; A by R136-23A, eff. 6/5/2024

NRS 281A.290