1. The board of hospital trustees shall hold meetings at least once each month, and shall keep a complete record of all its transactions.

2. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 241.0355:

(a) In counties where three county commissioners are not members of the board, three members of the board constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

(b) And except as otherwise provided in paragraph (c), in counties where three county commissioners are members of the board, any five of the members constitute a quorum for the transaction of business.

(c) In counties where the board of county commissioners is the board of hospital trustees, a majority of the board constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business.

3. The board of hospital trustees may hold a closed meeting to discuss:

(a) Providing a new health care service at the county hospital or materially expanding a health care service that is currently provided by the county hospital; or

(b) The acquisition of an additional facility by the county hospital or the material expansion of an existing facility of the county hospital.

4. Subsection 3 must not be construed to authorize the board of hospital trustees to hold a closed meeting to discuss a change of management or ownership or the dissolution of the county hospital.

5. Minutes of a closed meeting held pursuant to subsection 3, any supporting material and any recording or transcript of the closed meeting become public records 5 years after the date on which the meeting is held or when the board of hospital trustees determines that the matters discussed no longer require confidentiality, whichever occurs first.

[Part 2:169:1929; A 1937, 194; 1949, 83; 1955, 165] + [Part 4:169:1929; A 1937, 194; 1943, 17; 1955, 194] — (NRS A 1960, 93, 407; 1991, 288; 2001, 1129; 2015, 1269)