An ethics complaint against Nye County Commissioner Peter Liakopoulos will be heard by the Nevada Commission on Ethics June 13.

The commission meets monthly on the second Wednesday of the month.

A complaint filed against Liakopoulos includes allegations the commissioner violated ethics laws by voting on two issues that the complaint claims benefit Liakopoulos economically from his shows on KPVM-TV.

The first allegation involves a Feb. 20 vote to approve a reduction in hours at Pahrump Medical Center, a county-leased facility. Dr. Pejman Bady, the supervising physician at PMC, is one of the advertisers on a Liakopoulos television show.

The second incident concerns a March 20 vote to modify the annual Pahrump chip-sealing program to chip-seal 680 feet of Higley Avenue from Charleston Park Avenue to the television station.

Only one of the allegations concerning the vote on the chip-sealing project, will be moving forward to a hearing, a representative of the ethics commission said.

Nevada law prohibits public officers from voting on any matter in which they have a substantial and continuing business relationship.

Liakopoulos previously explained his vote, saying, "I pay for my time on the station and I don't get anything from the station." His shows are taped in a separate studio and aired on the TV station.

Liakopoulos said in a previous interview it only made sense to extend chip-sealing the extra feet to the TV station, since the county was chip-sealing Charleston Park Avenue to the east. Liakopoulos sponsored the item on the agenda in addition to voting on it. Fellow Commissioner Joni Eastley said the TV station may need the chip-sealing to improve communications in an emergency.

Commissioners voted to allow PMC to reduce its hours of operation from 14 hours to 12 hours daily. Liakopoulos said Bady is one of several doctors who advertise on his medical show.