The county school district trustees may form a nonprofit association, to be known as the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association, composed of all of the school districts of the State for the purposes of controlling, supervising and regulating all interscholastic athletic events and other interscholastic events in the public schools. This section does not prohibit a public school, which is authorized by the Association to do so, from joining an association formed for similar purposes in another state.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 316; A 1989, 689; 2005, 2824)
1. The county school district trustees may form a nonprofit association, to be known as the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association, composed of all of the school districts of the State for the purposes of controlling, supervising and regulating all interscholastic athletic events and other interscholastic events in the public schools. This section does not prohibit a public school, which is authorized by the Association to do so, from joining an association formed for similar purposes in another state.
2. Any board formed to govern the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association must include at least three members who are parents or guardians of pupils who participate in a sanctioned sport. Of the members who are parents or guardians of pupils who participate in a sanctioned sport:
(a) At least one member must be a resident of a county whose population is 700,000 or more;
(b) At least one member must be a resident of a county whose population is 100,000 or more but less than 700,000;
(c) At least one member must be a resident of a county whose population is less than 100,000; and
(d) Each member must not be an employee of or an immediate family member of an employee of a school district, charter school or private school.
3. Any advisory board formed to advise a governing board of the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association must include at least three members who are pupils currently participating in a sanctioned sport. Of the members who are pupils currently participating in a sanctioned sport:
(a) At least one member must be a resident of a county whose population is 700,000 or more;
(b) At least one member must be a resident of a county whose population is 100,000 or more but less than 700,000;
(c) At least one member must be a resident of a county whose population is less than 100,000; and
(d) Each member must not be an employee of or an immediate family member of an employee of a school district.
4. The terms of each member of a board formed to govern the Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association who is a parent or guardian of a pupil who participates in a sanctioned sport and each pupil who is a member of an advisory board to such a governing board must be consistent in duration with the terms of other members of the applicable board and be served in full-year increments during any year that a pupil who is a member or a pupil whose parent or guardian is a member participates in one or more sanctioned sports.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 316; A 1989, 689; 2005, 2824; 2021, 3401, effective July 1, 2022)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 385B - Nevada Interscholastic Activities Association
NRS 385B.015 - "Child of a military family" defined.
NRS 385B.020 - "Pupil" defined.
NRS 385B.030 - "Sanctioned sport" defined.
NRS 385B.040 - "School" defined.
NRS 385B.045 - "Zone of attendance" defined.
NRS 385B.110 - Membership of charter schools, private schools and parochial schools.
NRS 385B.180 - Requests to join similar association in another state.