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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…

NRS 4.010 Qualifications of justice of the peace. 1. A person may not be a candidate for or be eligible to the office of justice of the peace unless the person is a qualified elector, is registered to vote in the township and has never been removed or retired from any judicial of…

NRS 4.020 Number and election of justices of the peace. 1. There must be one justice court in each of the townships of the State, for which there must be elected by the qualified electors of the township at least one justice of the peace. Except as otherwise provided in subsectio…

NRS 4.025 Terms of justices of the peace. 1. The term of office of justices of the peace is 6 years. Each term begins on the first Monday of the January next after the appropriate general election. 2. If the board of county commissioners alters the boundaries of a township so tha…

NRS 4.030 Oath and bond of justice of the peace. Each justice of the peace elected or appointed in this State shall, before entering upon the duties of office: 1. Take the oath prescribed by law. 2. Execute a bond to the State of Nevada, to be approved by the board of county comm…

NRS 4.032 Justices of the peace pro tempore. 1. The board of county commissioners of each county shall select a number of persons it determines appropriate to comprise a panel of substitute justices of the peace. The persons so selected must possess the qualifications set forth i…

NRS 4.033 Senior justices of the peace. 1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or ordinance, a senior justice of the peace who serves in that capacity may serve temporarily in any justice court in this State, regardless of whether the senior justice of the peace is a resid…

NRS 4.035 Courses of instruction for justices of the peace; 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) I…

NRS 4.036 Attendance required at courses of instruction; penalty for unexcused absence; exception. 1. Each justice of the peace who is first elected or appointed to office after July 1, 1971, shall attend the instruction provided pursuant to NRS 4.035, on the first occasion when …

NRS 4.040 Salaries and compensation of justices of the peace. 1. The several boards of county commissioners of each county, at the regular meeting in December of any year immediately preceding a year in which an election of justices of the peace is held, shall fix the minimum com…

NRS 4.050 Claims and expenses. 1. When any justice of the peace is entitled to receive necessary traveling expenses for the transaction of public business, the board of county commissioners shall allow the justice of the peace the same per diem allowance and travel expenses as ar…

NRS 4.060 Fees for justice of the peace; disposition; special account for justice court; report to board of county commissioners. 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section and NRS 33.017 to 33.100, inclusive, each justice of the peace shall charge and collect the following …

NRS 4.063 Additional fees: Imposition; disposition of proceeds for support of programs for dispute resolution. 1. In a county whose population is 100,000 or more, the justice of the peace shall, on the commencement of any action or proceeding in the justice court for which a fee …

NRS 4.065 Additional fees: Imposition; disposition of proceeds. 1. The justice of the peace shall, on the commencement of any action or proceeding in the justice court for which a fee is required, and on the answer or appearance of any defendant in any such action or proceeding f…

NRS 4.071 Additional fees to offset costs of providing pro bono programs and free legal services to certain victims. 1. In addition to any other fee required by law, in each county that charges a fee pursuant to NRS 19.031 to offset a portion of the costs of providing legal servi…

NRS 4.073 Additional fees to offset costs of operating law library. 1. In addition to any other fee required by law, a board of county commissioners may impose by ordinance a filing fee to offset a portion of the costs of operating a law library established in that county by the …

NRS 4.075 Additional fees in certain smaller counties: Imposition; disposition of proceeds. 1. In a county whose population is less than 100,000, the board of county commissioners may, in addition to any other fee required by law, impose by ordinance a filing fee of not more than…

NRS 4.080 Justice of the peace to charge only fees authorized by law. A justice of the peace shall not charge any fee that is not authorized by law. [Part 17:49:1883; BH § 2358; C § 2482; RL § 2019; NCL § 2950]—(NRS A 1969, 411; 1991, 328; 1999, 1205)

NRS 4.090 Justice of the peace to keep record of fees charged. The justice of the peace shall keep in his or her office a fee book or electronic record in which he or she shall enter in detail the title of the matter, proceeding or action, and the fees charged therein. The fee bo…

NRS 4.100 Monthly financial statements. 1. On or before the 15th day of each month, a justice of the peace who receives fees pursuant to the provisions of NRS 4.060, 4.063 and 4.065 shall make out and file with the county official designated by the board of county commissioners o…

NRS 4.120 Punishment for taking excessive fees. If any justice of the peace shall take more or greater fees than are allowed by law, the justice of the peace shall be liable to indictment, and on conviction shall be removed from office and fined in any sum not exceeding $1,000. […

NRS 4.130 Table of fees to be posted. Any justice of the peace receiving fees as provided by law shall publish and set up by conventional or electronic means, in some conspicuous place in his or her office and on the Internet website of the justice court, a table of fees for publ…

NRS 4.140 Fees payable in advance; execution for fees due. All fees prescribed in NRS 4.060, 4.063 and 4.065 must be paid in advance, if demanded. If a justice of the peace has not received any or all of his or her fees, which are due the justice of the peace for services rendere…

NRS 4.150 Vacancy in office; duty of clerk of board of county commissioners. 1. If any vacancy occurs in the office of justice of the peace, the board of county commissioners shall either: (a) Appoint a person to fill the vacancy pursuant to NRS 245.170; or (b) Provide by resolut…

NRS 4.155 Townships with more than one justice of the peace. In townships where more than one justice of the peace has been provided for by NRS 4.020, such justices of the peace shall have concurrent and coextensive jurisdiction within the territorial limits provided by law, and …

NRS 4.157 Chief justice of the peace in certain townships: Selection; duties. 1. The justices of the peace of each justice court having more than one justice of the peace shall choose from among those justices of the peace a chief justice of the peace who is to be the presiding j…

NRS 4.160 Number of justices of the peace where townships altered. 1. When any justice of the peace, in the formation of a new township, shall be brought within the limits thereof, he or she shall be one of the justices of the peace allowed to such new township, and shall continu…

NRS 4.170 Duties of justices of the peace. The justices shall be conservators of the peace in their respective townships, and shall discharge such duties as may be prescribed by law. [2:82:1861; B § 2974; BH § 2099; C § 2318; RL § 1689; NCL § 2189]

NRS 4.175 Report of certain statistical information to be submitted to Court Administrator. In the time and manner prescribed by the Supreme Court, the justice of the peace of a township or, if there is more than one justice of the peace of a township, a justice of the peace desi…