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2022 Official Opinions Op. Nev. Att'y Gen. 1 (2022)

handle is hein.sag/sagnv0126 and id is 1 raw text is: AARON D. FORD
Attorney General
KYLE E. N. GEORGE
First Assistant Attorney General
CHRISTINE JONES BRADY
Second Assistant Attorney General

STATE OF NEVADA
OFFICE OF THE ATTORNEY GENERAL
100 North Carson Street
Carson City, Nevada 89701

JESSICA L. ADAIR
Chief of Staff
LESLIE NINO PIRO
General Counsel
HEIDI PARRY STERN
Solicitor General

December 5, 2022

OPINION NO. 2022-03

PREVAILING WAGE; REDEVELOP-
MENT AGENCIES: COMPENSATION:
NRS 279.500 should be construed to pro-
mote its goal of fairly compensating the
workers who build taxpayer-supported
projects. Where a developer receives the
benefit of more than $100,000.00 in tax-
payer-funded financial incentives, it will
generally have to bear the burden of pay-
ing its employees the regional prevailing
wage. Nevada courts will likely be critical
of attempts to structure around that fun-
damental tradeoff.

Bryan Pack, City Attorney
Office of the City Attorney
10 E. Mesquite Blvd.
Mesquite, NV 89027
Dear City Attorney Pack,
Pursuant to NRS 228.150, you have requested an opinion on several is-
sues related to Nevada's prevailing-wage statute, NRS 338.020 to 338.090, and
the Community Redevelopment Law, NRS chapter 279. Taken together, those
statutes generally require a developer to pay the prevailing wage for work on
a project if the developer has received more than $100,000 in financial incen-
tives from a redevelopment agency for that project.
You write that the City of Mesquite Redevelopment Agency (the
Agency) has regularly made grants of no more than $99,999 with the un-
derstanding that separate grants below $100,000.01 do not trigger the prevail-
ing-wage statute. You ask three questions related to that practice in the con-
text of an unnamed project in the City of Mesquite (the City). This opinion
will address all three questions.

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