“Eligible family” means a person or family, selected without regard to race, creed, national origin, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression, determined by the Division to require such assistance as is made available by this chapter on account of insufficient personal or family income after taking into consideration, without limitation, such factors as:

1. 1. The amount of the total income of that person or family available for housing needs;
2. 2. The size of the family;
3. 3. The cost and condition of housing facilities available;
4. 4. The ability of the person or family to compete successfully in the normal private housing market and to pay the amounts at which private enterprise is providing decent, safe and sanitary housing;
5. 5. If appropriate, standards established for various federal programs determining eligibility based on income of those persons and families; and

6. 6. Service in the Armed Forces of the United States with a minimum of 90 days on active duty at some time between:

   1. (a) April 21, 1898, and June 15, 1903;
   2. (b) April 6, 1917, and November 11, 1918;
   3. (c) December 7, 1941, and December 31, 1946;
   4. (d) June 25, 1950, and January 31, 1955; or

   5. (e) January 1, 1961, and May 7, 1975,

      and at least 2 years’ continuous residence in Nevada immediately preceding any application for assistance under this chapter.

(Added to NRS by 1975, 626; A 1979, 1186; 1989, 1214; 2017, 1069)