Title 3

NRS 41.297 Order of court; hearing on objections; disposition of order. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, the court shall make an order changing the name of the minor as prayed for in the petition upon being satisfied by the statements in the petition or other evid…

NRS 41.298 Petitions filed under other provisions of law. In addition to a petition to change the name of an unemancipated minor filed pursuant to this chapter, such a petition may be filed in any action brought under the provisions of chapter 122A, 125, 125C, 126, 128 or 129 of …

NRS 41.299 Provisions do not apply to unemancipated minor in legal custody of agency which provides child welfare services. 1. The provisions of NRS 41.291 to 41.299, inclusive, do not apply to an unemancipated minor who is in the legal custody of an agency which provides child w…

NRS 41.2991 “Agency which provides child welfare services” defined. As used in NRS 41.2991 to 41.2999, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, “agency which provides child welfare services” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 432B.030. (Added to NRS by 2019, 2087)

NRS 41.2993 Verified petition. 1. An attorney representing an unemancipated minor in the legal custody of an agency which provides child welfare services who desires to have the name of the minor changed may file a verified petition with the clerk of the district court of the dis…

NRS 41.2995 When notice to parent is required. 1. Unless the verified consent of each parent is stated in the petition, and except as otherwise provided in this section, upon the filing of the petition filed by the attorney representing the unemancipated minor in the legal custod…

NRS 41.2997 Order of court; hearing on objection; disposition of order; factors to be considered by court in determining best interest of unemancipated minor and making specific findings. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, the court shall make an order changing the …

NRS 41.2999 Petitions filed under other provisions of law. In addition to a petition to change the name of an unemancipated minor in the legal custody of an agency which provides child welfare services which is filed pursuant to this chapter, such a petition may be filed in any a…

NRS 41.300 Insane persons; presumption of legal capacity on discharge. After a person’s insanity has been judicially determined, such person can make no conveyance or other contract, or delegate any power or waive any right until the person’s restoration to presumed legal capacit…

NRS 41.310 Adjudication of sanity. The district courts of the several counties shall have jurisdiction to hear and determine the question as to whether or not a person, previously adjudicated to be insane, shall be adjudicated to be sane. [2:23:1941; 1931 NCL § 3536.01]

NRS 41.320 Petition seeking restoration of status as sane; notice. Any person, on behalf of an alleged insane person, may file a petition in the district court seeking an order restoring the alleged insane person to the status of a sane person. Upon the filing of the petition for…

NRS 41.325 Notice of adjudication of sanity to be given to Administrative Officer and Medical Director of Northern Nevada Adult Mental Health Services. After any proceeding in which a person, previously adjudicated to be insane, is adjudicated to be sane, the clerk of the distric…

NRS 41.330 Conduct of proceedings by county officers; no fees to be charged. All proceedings under NRS 41.300 to 41.330, inclusive, shall be conducted by the appropriate county officials, including the district attorney, without cost or expense of any kind to the petitioner or al…

NRS 41.331 Definitions. As used in NRS 41.331 to 41.338, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 41.332 to 41.335, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. (Added to NRS by 1969, 553; 2001, 27)

NRS 41.332 “Actual malice” defined. “Actual malice” is that state of mind arising from hatred or ill will toward the plaintiff and does not include that state of mind occasioned by a good faith belief in the truth of the publication or broadcast. (Added to NRS by 1969, 553)

NRS 41.333 “Exemplary damages” defined. “Exemplary damages” are damages which may, in the discretion of the court or jury, be recovered in addition to general and special damages for the sake of example and by way of punishing a defendant who has made a publication or broadcast w…

NRS 41.334 “General damages” defined. “General damages” are damages for loss of reputation, shame, mortification and hurt feelings. (Added to NRS by 1969, 553)

NRS 41.335 “Special damages” defined. “Special damages” are only those damages which a plaintiff alleges and proves that the plaintiff has suffered in respect to the plaintiff’s property, business, trade, profession or occupation, including such amounts of money as the plaintiff …

NRS 41.336 Special damages; notice and demand for correction. 1. In any action for damages for the publication of a libel in a newspaper, or of a slander by radio or television broadcast, the plaintiff may recover no more than special damages unless a correction is demanded by th…

NRS 41.337 General, special and exemplary damages. If a correction is demanded as provided in NRS 41.336 and is not published or broadcast within 20 days in substantially as conspicuous a manner in the newspaper or by the broadcaster as the statements claimed to be libelous or sl…

NRS 41.338 Correction before demand. A correction published or broadcast in substantially as conspicuous a manner by the newspaper or broadcaster as the statements claimed to be libelous or slanderous, prior to the receipt of a demand therefor, shall have the same effect as thoug…

NRS 41.340 Liability of owners or operators of broadcasting stations for defamation published by another; exercise of due care. The owner, licensee or operator of a visual or sound radio broadcasting station or network of stations, and the agents or employees of any such owner, l…

NRS 41.350 Liability of owner or operator originating broadcast. If any defamatory statement or matter is published or uttered in or as a part of a broadcast over the facilities of a network of visual or sound radio broadcasting stations, the owner, licensee or operator of any su…

NRS 41.360 Liability when broadcast cannot be censored. In no event, however, shall any owner, licensee or operator of such station or network of stations, or the agents or employees thereof, be liable for any damages for any defamatory statement or matter published or uttered by…

NRS 41.365 Action for damages. 1. Subject to the provisions of subsection 2, a person who has suffered injury as the proximate result of perjury or subornation of perjury committed by another may bring an action for the recovery of his or her actual damages and any punitive damag…

NRS 41.370 Public policy against causes of action for breach of promise, alienation of affections and criminal conversation. The remedies provided by law for the enforcement of actions based upon alleged alienation of affections and breach of contract to marry before March 5, 194…

NRS 41.380 Causes of action abolished. All civil causes of action for breach of promise to marry, alienation of affections, and criminal conversation, are hereby abolished; but this section does not abolish any cause of action for criminal conversation which accrued before July 1…

NRS 41.390 Time for commencing accrued causes of action for criminal conversation. 1. All causes of action for criminal conversation which have accrued before July 1, 1979, must be commenced within 60 days after July 1, 1979. 2. All such actions not so commenced are thereafter fo…

NRS 41.400 Act or contract gives no right of action. No act done within this state operates to give rise, either within or without this state, to any of the rights of action abolished by NRS 41.370 to 41.420, inclusive. No contract to marry made or entered into in this state oper…

NRS 41.410 Unlawful to file actions after July 1, 1979. After July 1, 1979, it is unlawful for any person, either as litigant or attorney, to file, cause to be filed, threaten to file, or threaten to cause to be filed, in any court of this state, any pleading or paper setting for…

NRS 41.420 Penalty. Any person who shall violate any of the provisions of NRS 41.370 to 41.420, inclusive, upon conviction, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor. [6:53:1943; 1943 NCL § 4071.05] JURISDICTION OVER PROCEEDINGS IN WHICH INDIANS ARE PARTIES

NRS 41.430 Conditions for jurisdiction of State of Nevada. 1. Pursuant to the provisions of section 7, chapter 505, Public Law 280 of the 83d Congress, approved August 15, 1953, and being 67 Stat. 588, and sections 401 to 403, inclusive, of Title IV, Public Law 284 of the 90th Co…

NRS 41.440 Imposition of liability. Any liability imposed upon a spouse, son, daughter, parent, brother, sister or other immediate member of a family arising out of his or her driving and operating a motor vehicle with the permission, express or implied, of such owner is hereby i…

NRS 41.450 Operator to be made party defendant; recourse on recovery of judgment. In any action against an owner on account of imputed negligence as imposed by NRS 41.440, the operator of the motor vehicle whose negligence is imputed to the owner shall be made a party defendant i…

NRS 41.460 When debtor in possession or long-term lessee deemed owner of motor vehicle. 1. For the purpose of imposing liability pursuant to NRS 41.440 and for no other purpose, where a vehicle is subject to: (a) A security interest, the debtor in possession shall be deemed to be…

NRS 41.470 Imposition of liability for minor’s willful misconduct. 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 424.085, any act of willful misconduct of a minor which results in any injury or death to another person or injury to the private property of another or to public property is…

NRS 41.472 Imposition of liability for minor’s negligence or willful misconduct regarding firearm. 1. If a parent, guardian or other person legally responsible for a minor under the age of 18 years: (a) Knows that the minor has previously been adjudicated delinquent or has been c…

NRS 41.480 Imposition of liability; conditions and limitations on actions based on acts and omissions of officers or directors. 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 41.519, a nonprofit corporation, association or organization formed under the laws of this State is not immune fr…

NRS 41.485 Conditions and limitations on actions: Acts and omissions of volunteers of charitable organizations. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a volunteer of a charitable organization is immune from liability for civil damages as a result of an act or omission: …

NRS 41.491 Limitations on liability. 1. No civil action for an injury or illness which results from the consumption or use of wholesome food or a grocery product that is fit for human use may be brought against: (a) A person or an employee of a person who, in good faith, donates …

NRS 41.495 Limitations on liability. 1. The board of trustees of a school district or the governing body of a charter school that allows or establishes a school-based health center is not liable for any civil damages as a result of any act or omission by a person employed by or v…

NRS 41.500 General rule; volunteers; members of search and rescue organization; persons rendering cardiopulmonary resuscitation or using defibrillator; presumptions relating to emergency care rendered on public school grounds or in connection with public school activities; busine…

NRS 41.503 Hospital care or assistance necessitated by traumatic injury; presumption regarding follow-up care. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2 and NRS 41.504, 41.505 and 41.506: (a) A hospital which has been designated as a center for the treatment of trauma by th…

NRS 41.504 Physicians, physician assistants, anesthesiologist assistants and registered nurses who give instruction or provide supervision to emergency medical attendant, physician assistant, anesthesiologist assistant or nurse during emergency; emergency medical attendants, phys…

NRS 41.505 Physicians, physician assistants, anesthesiologist assistants, nurses and dentists. 1. Any person licensed under the provisions of chapter 630, 632 or 633 of NRS and any person who holds an equivalent license issued by another state, who renders emergency care or assis…

NRS 41.506 Physicians, physician assistants and nurses who render certain emergency obstetrical care; licensed medical facilities in which certain emergency obstetrical care is rendered. 1. Any person licensed under the provisions of chapter 630, 632 or 633 of NRS and any person …