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NRS 5.023 Municipal judges pro tempore. 1. The governing body of the city shall select a number of persons it determines appropriate to comprise a panel of substitute municipal judges. The persons selected must not have ever been removed or retired from any judicial office by the…

NRS 5.024 Senior municipal judges. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or city charter, a senior municipal judge who serves in that capacity or a senior justice of the peace who serves in that capacity and who formerly served as a municipal judge may serve temporarily i…

NRS 5.0245 Appointment of referee or judicial officer for civil infraction hearing; written objection; designation of alternative title for judicial officer. 1. A municipal court may appoint a referee or judicial officer to take testimony and recommend orders and a judgment in an…

NRS 5.025 Courses of instruction for municipal judges; payment of costs. 1. The Court Administrator shall, at the direction of the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court, arrange for the giving of instruction, at the National Judicial College in Reno, Nevada, or elsewhere: (a) In cou…

NRS 5.026 Attendance required at courses of instruction; penalty for unexcused absence; exception. 1. Each municipal judge who is first elected or appointed to office after July 1, 1971, shall attend the instruction provided pursuant to NRS 5.025, on the first occasion when such …

NRS 5.030 Compensation of municipal judges. Each municipal judge is entitled to receive compensation as fixed by the charter of the city or, if not fixed by a charter, by the governing body of the city, to be paid by the city. That compensation must not be diminished during the p…

NRS 5.040 Municipal judges: Power to take and certify acknowledgments. Municipal judges, within their respective cities, may take and certify: 1. The acknowledgment of conveyances and the satisfaction of a judgment of any court. 2. An affidavit to be used in any court of justice …

NRS 5.045 Report of certain statistical information to be submitted to Court Administrator. In the time and manner prescribed by the Supreme Court, the municipal judge of a city or, if there is more than one municipal judge for a city, a municipal judge designated by mutual conse…

NRS 5.050 Jurisdiction. 1. Municipal courts have jurisdiction of civil actions or proceedings: (a) For the violation of any ordinance of their respective cities. (b) To determine whether a person has committed a civil infraction punishable pursuant to NRS 484A.703 to 484A.705, in…

NRS 5.0503 Transfer of original jurisdiction of criminal case to justice court or another municipal court. 1. A municipal court may, on its own motion, transfer original jurisdiction of a criminal case filed with that court to a justice court or another municipal court if: (a) Th…

NRS 5.0505 Transfer of original jurisdiction of criminal case to district court. 1. A municipal court may, on its own motion, transfer original jurisdiction of a criminal case filed with that court to a district court in this State if the defendant agrees to participate in a prog…

NRS 5.052 Administration of program of supervision for persons with suspended sentences or persons sentenced to residential confinement. 1. If the city in which a municipal court is situated has a department of alternative sentencing, the chief of that department shall administer…

NRS 5.055 Suspension of sentence; conditions of suspension; reduction of sentence; arrest for violation of condition of suspension. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 2 and 3, NRS 211A.127 or another specific statute, or unless the suspension of a sentence is expressl…

NRS 5.057 Determination if defendant is a veteran or member of military; alternative program of treatment. 1. As soon as possible after a defendant is arrested or cited, the municipal judge shall attempt to determine whether the defendant is a veteran or a member of the military …

NRS 5.060 Process, writs and warrants. 1. Municipal judges and municipal courts may issue all legal process, writs and warrants necessary and proper to the complete exercise of their powers. 2. All warrants issued by the municipal court must run to any sheriff or constable of the…

NRS 5.065 Use of facsimile signature: Conditions and restrictions. 1. Each municipal judge may use a facsimile signature produced through a mechanical device in place of his or her handwritten signature whenever the necessity arises and upon approval of the Supreme Court, subject…

NRS 5.070 Municipal courts always open. There shall be no terms in municipal courts. These courts shall always be open. [40:19:1865; B § 945; BH § 2459; C § 2540; RL § 4860; NCL § 8402]

NRS 5.073 Conformity of practice and proceedings to those of justice courts; exception; imposition and collection of fees. 1. The practice and proceedings in the municipal court must conform, as nearly as practicable, to the practice and proceedings of justice courts in similar c…

NRS 5.0755 “Residential confinement” defined. As used in NRS 5.0755 to 5.078, inclusive, “residential confinement” means the confinement of a person convicted of a misdemeanor to the person’s place of residence under the terms and conditions established by the sentencing court. (…

NRS 5.076 Power to order; conditions of sentence; maximum term; arrest for violation of condition. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 7, in lieu of imposing any punishment other than a minimum sentence required by statute, a municipal judge may sentence a person convic…

NRS 5.077 Establishment and modification of terms and conditions. 1. In sentencing a person to a term of residential confinement, a municipal judge may establish the terms and conditions of that confinement. 2. The municipal judge may, at any time, modify the terms and conditions…

NRS 5.078 Violation of terms and conditions. If it is determined that the convicted person violated any term or condition of the convicted person’s residential confinement, the sentence may be rescinded, modified or continued. If it is rescinded, another punishment authorized by …

NRS 5.080 Notice of intention to appeal; bail. 1. After filing a notice of intention to appeal, which shall include a statement of the character of the judgment, with the municipal court and serving such notice upon the city attorney, a defendant who has been convicted of a crimi…

NRS 5.090 Judgment on appeal; notice to municipal court; payment of fines. 1. When an appeal of a civil or criminal case from a municipal court to a district court has been perfected and the district court has rendered a judgment on appeal, the district court shall, within 10 day…