Grounds for denial, suspension or revocation of certificate or license: Additional grounds.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 656.250
in effectThe Board may refuse to issue or renew or may suspend or revoke any certificate or license if the certified court reporter, including a designated representative of a court reporting firm if he or she holds a certificate, in performing or attempting to perform or pretending to perform any act as a certified court reporter has:
1. Willfully failed to take full and accurate stenographic notes of any proceedings;
2. Willfully altered any stenographic notes taken at any proceedings;
3. Willfully failed accurately to transcribe verbatim any stenographic notes taken at any proceedings;
4. Willfully altered a transcript of stenographic notes taken at any proceedings;
5. Affixed his or her signature to any transcript of his or her stenographic notes or certified to the correctness of such a transcript unless the transcript was prepared by the certified court reporter or was prepared under the certified court reporters immediate supervision;
6. Demonstrated unworthiness or incompetency to act as a certified court reporter in such a manner as to safeguard the interests of the public;
7. Professionally associated with or loaned his or her name to another for the illegal practice by another of court reporting, or professionally associated with any natural person or business entity holding itself out in any manner contrary to the provisions of this chapter;
8. Habitually been intemperate in the use of intoxicating liquor or controlled substances;
9. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 10, willfully violated any of the provisions of this chapter or the regulations adopted by the Board to enforce this chapter;
10. Violated any regulation adopted by the Board relating to:
(a) Unprofessional conduct;
(b) Agreements for the provision of ongoing services as a certified court reporter or ongoing services which relate to the practice of court reporting;
(c) The avoidance of a conflict of interest; or
(d) The performance of the practice of court reporting in a uniform, fair and impartial manner and avoiding the appearance of impropriety;
11. Failed within a reasonable time to provide information requested by the Board as the result of a formal or informal complaint to the Board, which would indicate a violation of this chapter; or
12. Failed without excuse to transcribe stenographic notes of a proceeding and file or deliver to an ordering party a transcript of the stenographic notes:
(a) Within the time required by law or agreed to by verbal or written contract;
(b) Within a reasonable time required for filing the transcript; or
(c) Within a reasonable time required for delivery of the transcript.
Source: NV Statutes (Official Site)URL: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/NRS-656.htmlFetched: 10/4/2026