Student Worker - ASUN Director of Ethics and Compliance

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The Associated Students of the University of Nevada is made up of every undergraduate student at the University of Nevada. ASUN provides a means for students to voice concerns and address issues at the university, local, state, national, and international levels.

Responsibilities

The duties of the ASUN Director of Ethics and Compliance are as follows:

• The ASUN Director of Ethics and Compliance shall issue advisory opinions concerning the law, legislation, or any other act of the Association

• To update and distribute the Constitution for the purpose of engrossing any Constitutional Amendments as passed by the Association and approved by the Board of Regents. The ASUN Director of Ethics and Compliance is designated the responsibility to publish current editions of the Associated Student’s Constitution

• The ASUN Director of Ethics and Compliance shall act as President if, by reason of death, resignation, removal from office, inability, or failure to qualify, there is no President, Vice President, Speaker of the Senate, Director of Clubs and Organizations, or Director of Programming to act as President

• The ASUN Director of Ethics and Compliance shall investigate alleged violations of the Election Code and prosecute offenders before the Judicial Council

• The ASUN Director of Ethics and Compliance shall prosecute any case, at the ASUN Director of Ethics and Compliance’s or Judicial Council’s discretion, filed by a third party, even in cases where the plaintiff seeks to dismiss the charge

• The ASUN Director of Ethics and Compliance shall act as the representative of the Director of Elections and Democratic Education before the ASUN Judicial Council

• The ASUN Director of Ethics and Compliance shall ensure that all regulations concerning petitions are followed fully

• The ASUN Director of Ethics and Compliance shall deliver and provide for all petitions (for each election) or for initiative and referendums to the President of the Associated Students and the Director of Elections and Democratic before the Candidates’ Meeting

• The ASUN Director of Ethics and Compliance shall assist any student interested in writing a petition for initiative and referendum

• The ASUN Director of Ethics and Compliance shall certify that a petition question is an impartial and accurate description of the proposal and shall assign the petition an Official Name and Number, if the petition creates a law, prepare an Official Summary of the petition, to confer with the office of Legal Counsel or designee for approval of language on questions of student fees, and to create the petition and return to the Primary Proponent three (3) copies of the petition

• The ASUN Director of Ethics and Compliance shall verify that there are a sufficient number of valid signatures on each petition, by checking the student status of each person who signed the petition, to immediately notify the Primary Proponent(s) if the verifying official discovers that the petition submitted lacks sufficient valid signatures, and to preserve the petition for the same time period as the Director of Elections and Democratic Education preserves the ballots for the election for which the petition qualified or attempted to qualify for placement on the ballot

• The ASUN Director of Ethics and Compliance shall notify Candidates and all others cited of charges during elections

• The ASUN Director of Ethics and Compliance supervise ballot tabulation

• The ASUN Director of Ethics and Compliance shall rele