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3	3	- 82nd Session (2023)
4	4	Senate Bill No. 8–Committee on Government Affairs
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6	6	CHAPTER..........
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8	8	AN ACT relating to juvenile justice; designating criminal
9	9	investigators employed by the Division of Child and Family
10	10	Services of the Department of Health and Human Services as
11	11	category II peace officers; and providing other matters
12	12	properly relating thereto.
13	13	Legislative Counsel’s Digest:
14	14	Existing law classifies peace officers as category I, category II or category III
15	15	peace officers and requires peace officers in each category to meet certain training
16	16	and educational requirements. (NRS 289.460, 289.470, 289.480, 289.510) Section
17	17	1 of this bill designates criminal investigators employed by the Division of Child
18	18	and Family Services of the Department of Health and Human Services as category
19	19	II peace officers. Section 2 of this bill makes a conforming change necessitated by
20	20	the addition of criminal investigators to the list of category II peace officers in
21	21	section 1.
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23	23	EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
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26	26	THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN
27	27	SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
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29	29	Section 1. NRS 289.470 is hereby amended to read as follows:
30	30	289.470 “Category II peace officer” means:
31	31	1. The bailiffs of the district courts, justice courts and
32	32	municipal courts whose duties require them to carry weapons and
33	33	make arrests;
34	34	2. Subject to the provisions of NRS 258.070, constables and
35	35	their deputies;
36	36	3. Inspectors employed by the Nevada Transportation
37	37	Authority who exercise those powers of enforcement conferred by
38	38	chapters 706 and 712 of NRS;
39	39	4. Special investigators who are employed full-time by the
40	40	office of any district attorney or the Attorney General;
41	41	5. Investigators of arson for fire departments who are specially
42	42	designated by the appointing authority;
43	43	6. Investigators for the State Forester Firewarden who are
44	44	specially designated by the State Forester Firewarden and whose
45	45	primary duties are related to the investigation of arson;
46	46	7. Agents of the Nevada Gaming Control Board who exercise
47	47	the powers of enforcement specified in NRS 289.360, 463.140 or
48	48	463.1405, except those agents whose duties relate primarily to
49	49	auditing, accounting, the collection of taxes or license fees, or the
50	50	investigation of applicants for licenses;
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54	54	- 82nd Session (2023)
55	55	8. Investigators and administrators of the Division of
56	56	Compliance Enforcement of the Department of Motor Vehicles who
57	57	perform the duties specified in subsection 2 of NRS 481.048;
58	58	9. Officers and investigators of the Section for the Control of
59	59	Emissions From Vehicles and the Enforcement of Matters Related
60	60	to the Use of Special Fuel of the Department of Motor Vehicles who
61	61	perform the duties specified in subsection 3 of NRS 481.0481;
62	62	10. Legislative police officers of the State of Nevada;
63	63	11. Parole counselors of the Division of Child and Family
64	64	Services of the Department of Health and Human Services;
65	65	12. Criminal investigators who are employed by the Division
66	66	of Child and Family Services of the Department of Health and
67	67	Human Services;
68	68	13. Juvenile probation officers and deputy juvenile probation
69	69	officers employed by the various judicial districts in the State of
70	70	Nevada or by a department of juvenile justice services established
71	71	by ordinance pursuant to NRS 62G.210 whose official duties require
72	72	them to enforce court orders on juvenile offenders and make arrests;
73	73	[13.] 14. Field investigators of the Taxicab Authority;
74	74	[14.] 15. Security officers employed full-time by a city or
75	75	county whose official duties require them to carry weapons and
76	76	make arrests;
77	77	[15.] 16. The chief of a department of alternative sentencing
78	78	created pursuant to NRS 211A.080 and the assistant alternative
79	79	sentencing officers employed by that department;
80	80	[16.] 17. Agents of the Cannabis Compliance Board who
81	81	exercise the powers of enforcement specified in NRS 289.355;
82	82	[17.] 18. Criminal investigators who are employed by the
83	83	Secretary of State; and
84	84	[18.] 19. The Inspector General of the Department of
85	85	Corrections and any person employed by the Department as a
86	86	criminal investigator.
87	87	Sec. 2. NRS 289.480 is hereby amended to read as follows:
88	88	289.480 “Category III peace officer” means a peace officer
89	89	whose authority is limited to correctional services, including the
90	90	superintendents and correctional officers of the Department of
91	91	Corrections. The term does not include a person described in
92	92	subsection [18] 19 of NRS 289.470.
93	93	Sec. 3. This act becomes effective upon passage and approval.
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