41-4801. Definitions In this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. ' Government attorney' means an attorney employed by this state as a staff attorney in the attorney general's office. 2. ' Private attorney' means any private attorney or law firm. 3. ' State' means this state, including state officers, agencies, departments, boards and commissions and units of organization, however designated, of the executive branch of this state, and any of its agents, but does not include those agencies as provided in section 41-192, subsection D.
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