1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 239.0115, any information furnished under NRS 416.040 and designated as confidential by the person providing the information shall be maintained as confidential by the Governor and any other person who obtains information which he or she knows to be confidential under this section.
2. The Governor shall not make known in any manner any particulars of the information to any person other than those he or she designates in writing as having a need to know such information.
3. No subpoena or other judicial order may be issued compelling the Governor or any other person to divulge or make known the confidential information, except when the information is relevant to proceedings under subsection 6.
4. Nothing in this section prohibits use of confidential information to prepare statistics or other general data for publication in such a manner that the identity of particular persons or business establishments is protected.
5. Any person or business establishment who is served with a subpoena to give oral testimony or to produce any book, paper, correspondence, memorandum, account, agreements or other document or record pursuant to this chapter may apply to any district court for a protective order as provided by Rule 26 of the Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure.
6. In addition to any other penalties provided by law, a person who willfully discloses confidential information in violation of this section is subject to removal from office or immediate dismissal from public employment.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 550; A 2007, 2102)