41.0349  Indemnification of present or former public officer, employee, immune contractor or State Legislator.  In any civil action brought against any present or former officer, employee, immune contractor, member of a board or commission of the State or a political subdivision or State Legislator, in which a judgment is entered against the person based on any act or omission relating to the person’s public duty or employment, the State or political subdivision shall indemnify the person unless:

1.  The person failed to submit a timely request for defense;

2.  The person failed to cooperate in good faith in the defense of the action;

3.  The act or omission of the person was not within the scope of the person’s public duty or employment; or

4.  The act or omission of the person was wanton or malicious.

(Added to NRS by 1979, 1735; A 1987, 543)