A person wishing to apply for employment with the City must
fill out and submit a City employment application and a resume. All
applications and/or resumes are to be submitted to the Human Resource
Department by deadlines set forth in the job advertisement. A person
may apply for any position although no vacancies exist. Such applications
will be kept on file for a period of six months.
Any employee of the City of Las Vegas who drives or operates City-owned motor vehicles or motorized equipment shall have a valid New Mexico drivers's license required for the job classification and must possess a valid drivers license at all times. He/she shall strictly obey all traffic regulations as contained in Chapter
12 of the Municipal Code of Las Vegas and as contained in the State's Motor Vehicle Code. City employees shall at all times drive City-owned vehicles and motorized equipment in a safe and prudent manner, pursuant to administrative regulation.
A. Driving course. All employees of the City of Las Vegas are required
to take part in, and successfully complete, the City's defensive driving
course. The defensive driving course shall be taken within one year
of employment and renewed when required by the Safety Office.
B. Insurability.
(1) A City employee, whose job requires him/her to drive a City-owned
vehicle, must be insurable by the City's insurance carrier.
(2) All employees whose jobs require them to drive City-owned motor vehicles
or motorized equipment shall immediately report all traffic citations
received, including those received off-duty and while driving private
vehicles, to the immediate supervisor and/or department director .
The City shall monitor insurability.
(3) Moving vehicle violations, on- or off-duty, resulting in the loss
of the valid New Mexico driver's license of an employee which is required
to have such a license as a condition of the employment shall be terminated
on the grounds that the employee is no longer qualified to perform
his duty pursuant to administrative regulation.
Nepotism, as defined in §
66-7 herein, is prohibited in the City of Las Vegas. No relative of a City employee, by blood or marriage, may be employed in any position with the City in which the employee may directly supervise, control or influence the work or employment status of the relative or the affairs of the organizational unit in which the relative is employed. The term "relative" includes spouse, child, stepchild, mother, father, grandparents, mother-in-law, father-in-law, brother, sister, brother-in-law and sister-in-law.