CLARK COUNTY BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS
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Daniel Stewart, Deputy County Manager |
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Approve, adopt, and authorize the Chair to sign a resolution to amend and restate the Resolution creating the Justice of the Peace Nominating Committee to recommend qualified nominees to the Board of County Commissioners for appointment to vacant justice of the peace offices, adopted on June 16, 2015, to permit the Board to waive the appointment of a Justice of the Peace Nominating Committee, or any procedures set forth by the Resolution, when an incumbent Justice of the Peace vacates the department after the election of his or her successor, but prior to the start of the elected successor's term, in order to appoint the elected successor to fill the vacancy. (For possible action)
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BACKGROUND:
NRS 4.150 authorizes the Clark County Board of Commissioners (Board) to appoint an individual to fill a vacancy that occurs in the office of Justice of the Peace. NRS 245.170 establishes the process by which the Board may make such an appointment, requiring, when permitted, the appointment of a suitable person who is an elector of Clark County to serve the remainder of the unexpired term. Pursuant to that statutory authority, on June 16, 2015, the Board adopted a resolution creating a Justice of the Peace Nominating Committee to recommend qualified nominees to the Board of County Commissioners for appointment to vacant justice of the peace offices.
The amended and restated resolution permits the Board to waive the appointment of a Nominating Committee, or any procedures set forth in the resolution, when an incumbent Justice of the Peace vacates the department after the election of his or her successor, but prior to the start of the elected successor's term, in order to appoint the elected successor to fill the vacancy.