1. If the State Public Charter School Authority receives an application pursuant to subsection 1 of NRS 388A.249 or subsection 4 of NRS 388A.252, it shall consider the application at a meeting which must be held not later than 60 days after receipt of the application or a later period mutually agreed upon by the committee to form the charter school and the State Public Charter School Authority. Notice of the meeting must be posted in accordance with chapter 241 of NRS. The State Public Charter School Authority shall review the application in accordance with the requirements for review set forth in subsections 2 and 3 of NRS 388A.249. The State Public Charter School Authority may approve an application only if the requirements of subsection 3 of NRS 388A.249 are satisfied. Not more than 30 days after the meeting, the State Public Charter School Authority shall provide written notice of its determination to the applicant.
2. If the State Public Charter School Authority denies or fails to act upon an application, the denial or failure to act must be based upon a finding that the requirements of subsection 3 of NRS 388A.249 have not been satisfied. The State Public Charter School Authority shall include in the written notice the reasons for the denial or the failure to act and the deficiencies. The staff designated by the State Public Charter School Authority shall meet with the applicant to confer on the method to correct the identified deficiencies. The applicant must be granted 30 days after receipt of the written notice to correct any deficiencies identified in the written notice and resubmit the application.
3. If the State Public Charter School Authority denies an application after it has been resubmitted pursuant to subsection 2, the applicant may, not more than 30 days after the receipt of the written notice from the State Public Charter School Authority, appeal the final determination to the district court of the county in which the proposed charter school will be located.
(Added to NRS by 1997, 1846; A 1999, 3295; 2001, 3127; 2005, 1098, 2399, 2537; 2007, 2569; 2011, 2361, 3047; 2013, 1665, 2913; 2015, 3271, 3799; 2019, 2305) — (Substituted in revision for part of NRS 386.525)