Nevada · statute · Nev. Rev. Stat. ch. 1 · 93 active provisions
The following shall be the courts of justice for this State: 1. The Supreme Court. 2. The Court of Appeals. 3. The district courts. 4. Justice courts. 5. Such municipal courts as may from time to time be established by the Legislature in incorporated cities or towns.
The following courts are courts of record: 1. The Supreme Court; 2. The Court of Appeals; 3. The district courts; 4. The Justice courts; and 5. The municipal courts: (a) In any case in which a jury trial is required; or (b) If so designated pursuant to NRS 5.010.
The common law of England, so far as it is not repugnant to or in conflict with the Constitution and laws of the United States, or the Constitution and laws of this State, shall be the rule of decision in all the courts of this State.
Every written proceeding in a court of justice in this State, or before a judicial officer, shall be in the English language; but such abbreviations as are now commonly used in that language may be used, and numbers may be expressed by figures or numerals, in the customary manner.
1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 3.100, the District Court in and for Carson City shall sit at Carson City. 2. Except as provided in subsection 5 or NRS 3.100, every other court of justice, except justice or municipal court, shall sit at the county seat of the county in which it is held. 3. Justice courts must be…
1. The Supreme Court may, within the limits of available money, employ such persons as it deems necessary to provide an appropriate staff for the Judicial Department of the State Government. 2. The Supreme Court shall: (a) Determine the salaries and benefits of the persons employed pursuant to subsection 1, within limi…
The contact information for the office of each judge in this State must be made available to the public.
1. A judge authorized to hold or preside at a court appointed to be held in a city, precinct or town, may, by an order filed with the county clerk and published as he or she may prescribe, direct that the court be held or continued: (a) At any other place or location in the city or county than that appointed, when emer…
When the court is held at a place or location appointed as provided in NRS 1.070, every person held to appear at the court shall appear at the place or location so appointed.
The sitting of every court of justice must be public except as otherwise provided by law, but the judge of any court may exclude any minor during any criminal trial therein except when the minor is on trial or is testifying as a witness.
1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, each courthouse must contain a lactation room that members of the public may use to express breast milk. 2. The requirements of subsection 1 do not apply to a courthouse if the person who is responsible for the operation of the courthouse determines that: (a) The courtho…
Every court of this state and every justice, judge or clerk of any court shall have power to administer oaths or affirmations.
1. Any payment plan entered into by a defendant with a court must not require the defendant to pay interest or any fee charged specifically for entering into the payment plan. 2. A court may adopt any rules and procedures necessary to implement the provisions of this section. 3. The provisions of this section do not ap…
1. A court in this State may enter into contracts with issuers of credit cards or debit cards to provide for the acceptance of credit cards or debit cards by the court for the payment of money owed to the court for a fee, fine, administrative assessment, restitution or any other charge owed to the court. 2. If the issu…
1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, each court of justice for this State shall recycle or cause to be recycled, to the extent reasonably possible, the paper and paper products, electronic waste and other recyclable materials it produces. This subsection does not apply to: (a) Construction and demolition wa…
1. Before disposing of electronic waste, each court of justice in this State shall permanently remove any data stored on the electronic waste. 2. As used in this section, “electronic waste” means electronic equipment that has been discarded, is no longer wanted by the owner or for any other reason enters the waste coll…
The Supreme Court shall adopt rules not inconsistent with the laws of this State to provide for the electronic filing, storage and reproduction of documents filed with the courts of justice.
The courts of justice may be held, and judicial business may be transacted, on any day except as provided in NRS 1.130.
1. No court except a justice court or a municipal court shall be opened nor shall any judicial business be transacted except by a justice court or municipal court on Sunday, or on any day declared to be a legal holiday according to the provisions of NRS 236.015, except for the following purposes: (a) To give, upon thei…
1. Each court of justice in this State shall have a seal. 2. The Supreme Court shall adopt rules relating to the format of a seal required by subsection 1 and the use and storage of any such seal.
1. The seal of a court may be affixed by: (a) Impressing the seal on a document or on a substance attached to a document and capable of receiving the impression; or (b) Electronically reproducing the seal on a document in accordance with the provisions of subsection 2. 2. Each court that uses an electronically reproduc…
1. The court having acquired jurisdiction of an action shall not lose such jurisdiction by reason of any subsequent amendment or repeal of the law under which such jurisdiction was acquired unless such amendment or repealing act shall expressly provide that such jurisdiction is terminated, and such action shall proceed…
Every court shall have power: 1. To preserve and enforce order in its immediate presence. 2. To enforce order in the proceedings before it, or before a person or persons empowered to conduct a judicial investigation under its authority. 3. To compel obedience to its lawful judgments, orders and process, and to the lawf…
1. A justice of the Supreme Court or a judge of the Court of Appeals shall not act as such in an action or proceeding when the justice or the judge entertains actual bias or prejudice for or against one of the parties to the action. 2. A justice of the Supreme Court or a judge of the Court of Appeals shall not act as s…
1. A judge shall not act as such in an action or proceeding when the judge entertains actual bias or prejudice for or against one of the parties to the action. 2. A judge shall not act as such in an action or proceeding when implied bias exists in any of the following respects: (a) When the judge is a party to or inter…