1. 1. The Division shall, by regulation, prescribe when:

   1. (a) Vocational rehabilitation maintenance must be paid to an injured employee; and

   2. (b) Vocational rehabilitation maintenance must cease to be paid to an injured employee.

      An injured employee must not receive vocational rehabilitation maintenance after the injured employee’s program of vocational rehabilitation ends pursuant to NRS 616C.555.

2. 2. As used in this section, “vocational rehabilitation maintenance” means the amount of compensation paid to an injured employee while the injured employee is participating in a program of vocational rehabilitation developed pursuant to NRS 616C.555.

(Added to NRS by 1993, 668)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 616.5175)