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NRS 3.225 Family court to encourage resolution of certain disputes through nonadversarial methods; cooperation to provide support services. 1. The family court shall, wherever practicable and appropriate, encourage the resolution of disputes before the court through nonadversaria…

NRS 3.227 Information form for family court: Development; contents; use. In each judicial district that includes a county whose population is 100,000 or more: 1. The clerk of the district court shall develop an information form for family court. The information form for family co…

NRS 3.230 Statements upon matters of fact. District judges shall not charge juries upon matters of fact but may state the evidence and declare the law. In stating the evidence, the judge should not comment upon the probability or improbability of its truth nor the credibility the…

NRS 3.240 Written decisions. A district judge may be required, in deciding any question of law, to reduce his or her decision to writing at the time such decision is made and note any exception thereto which may be taken by either party to a trial or proceeding before the judge. …

NRS 3.241 Ruling that provision of Nevada Constitution or Nevada Revised Statutes is unconstitutional: Prevailing party to provide copy of ruling to Attorney General. If a district court holds that a provision of the Nevada Constitution or the Nevada Revised Statutes violates a p…

NRS 3.243 Report of certain statistical information to be submitted to Court Administrator. In the time and manner prescribed by the Supreme Court, the Chief Judge of the judicial district or, if the district has no Chief Judge, a district judge designated by mutual consent of th…

NRS 3.245 Appointment of masters for criminal proceedings. In any county in which the appointment of masters for criminal proceedings by a district court is authorized by the board of county commissioners, the local rules of practice adopted in a judicial district within the coun…

NRS 3.250 County clerk to be clerk of court. The county clerk shall be clerk of the district court of his or her county. [Part 1:108:1866; B § 2599; BH § 1636; C § 1782; RL § 2765; NCL § 4765]

NRS 3.260 Deputy clerks. 1. All clerks of the several district courts are hereby authorized to appoint deputies who shall have power to transact all official business pertaining to the office to the same extent as their principals. 2. The clerks of the district courts shall be re…

NRS 3.270 Duty of clerks to give receipts and pay over money. 1. The clerk of a district court shall give a receipt on demand of any party paying a fee. The receipt shall specify the title or the case number of the cause in which the fee is paid and the date and the amount of the…

NRS 3.275 Clerk to obtain and maintain information regarding cases. 1. The clerk of each district court shall obtain and file information necessary to complete the report of statistical information required by NRS 3.243, including, without limitation, information relating to the …

NRS 3.280 Clerk to keep register of civil actions. 1. The clerk shall keep among the records of the court a register of actions. The clerk shall enter therein the title of the action, if in district court, and the clerk may enter therein the title of the action in any other court…

NRS 3.300 Power of clerks to take and certify acknowledgments and affidavits. The clerks of the district courts shall have power in any part of the State to take and certify: 1. The acknowledgment of conveyances and the satisfaction of a judgment of any court. 2. An affidavit to …

NRS 3.305 Destruction or disposal of exhibits by clerk. When a district court orders the disposal of an exhibit, the clerk shall serve written notice upon the last attorney or attorneys of record, representing the parties to the action wherein the exhibit was admitted into eviden…

NRS 3.307 Destruction or disposal of exhibits in civil actions. A district court, on its own motion, may order destroyed or otherwise disposed of any exhibit or deposition introduced in the trial of a civil action or proceeding or filed in such action or proceeding which: 1. If a…

NRS 3.310 Bailiffs and deputy marshals: Appointment; duties; qualifications; compensation. 1. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the judge of each district court may appoint a bailiff for the court in counties polling 4,500 or more votes. In counties polling less th…

NRS 3.320 Official reporter: Appointment; duties. 1. The judge or judges of any district court may appoint, subject to the provisions of this chapter and other laws as to the qualifications and examinations of the appointee, one certified court reporter, to be known as official r…

NRS 3.340 Official reporter: Attention to duties; reporter pro tempore. The official reporter of any district court shall attend to the duties of office in person except when excused for good and sufficient reason by order of the court, which order shall be entered upon the minut…

NRS 3.350 Official reporter: Oath of office. The official reporter of any court, or official reporter pro tempore, shall, before entering upon the duties of office, take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office. [4:52:1907; RL § 4911; NCL § 8458]

NRS 3.360 Official reporter: Transcript prima facie evidence. The transcript of the official reporter, or official reporter pro tempore, of any court, duly appointed and sworn, when transcribed and certified as being a correct transcript of the testimony and proceedings in the ca…

NRS 3.370 Official reporter: Compensation. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, for his or her services the official reporter or reporter pro tempore is entitled to the following compensation: (a) For being available to report civil and criminal testimony and proceedi…

NRS 3.380 Sound recording equipment: Installation; operation; transcription of recording; use of transcript; provision by party of certified court reporter; effect. 1. The judge or judges of any district court may, with the approval of the board of county commissioners of any one…

NRS 3.405 Judicial officers: Appointment; powers and duties; findings; designation of alternative title. 1. In an action to establish paternity, the court may appoint a judicial officer to take testimony and recommend orders. 2. The court may appoint a judicial officer to hear al…

NRS 3.415 Time for disposition of cases. To the extent necessary to comply with the requirements of the Federal Government concerning the enforcement of the obligation of support of a child, to avoid jeopardizing the receipt by the Division of Social Services of the Department of…

NRS 3.475 Establishment of programs of mandatory mediation in county whose population is 700,000 or more. 1. In a county whose population is 700,000 or more, the district court shall establish by rule approved by the Supreme Court a program of mandatory mediation in cases that in…

NRS 3.500 Establishment of programs of mandatory mediation in county whose population is less than 700,000. 1. In a county whose population is 100,000 or more and less than 700,000, the district court shall establish by rule approved by the Supreme Court a program of mandatory me…