Nevada Code § 82.221

Directors and officers: Exercise of powers and performance of duties; personal liability
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1. Directors and officers shall exercise
their powers in good faith and with a view to the interests of the corporation.
2. In performing their respective duties,
directors and officers are entitled to rely on information, opinions, reports,
books of account or statements, including financial statements and other
financial data, that are prepared or presented by:
(a) One or more directors, officers or employees
of the corporation reasonably believed to be reliable and competent in the
matters prepared or presented;
(b) Counsel, public accountants or other persons
as to matters reasonably believed to be within the preparer or presenters
professional or expert competence; or
(c) A committee upon which the person relying
thereon does not serve, established in accordance with NRS 82.206 as to matters within the
committees designated authority and matters on which the committee is
reasonably believed to merit confidence,
but a
director or officer is not entitled to rely on such information, opinions,
reports, books of account or statements if the director or officer has
knowledge concerning the matter in question that would cause reliance thereon
to be unwarranted.
3. A director or officer must not be found
to have failed to exercise his or her powers in good faith and with a view to
the interests of the corporation unless it is proved by clear and convincing
evidence that the director or officer has not acted in good faith and in a
manner reasonably believed by him or her to be with a view to the interests of
the corporation.
4. Except as otherwise provided in the
articles of incorporation or NRS 82.136 and 82.536 and chapter 35 of NRS, no action may be brought
against an officer or director of a corporation based on any act or omission
arising from failure in his or her official capacity to exercise due care
regarding the management or operation of the corporation unless the act or
omission involves intentional misconduct, fraud or knowing violation of the
law.
5. The articles of incorporation may
impose greater liability on a director or officer of a corporation than that
imposed by subsection 4.

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