Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 22 — Contempts

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Acts or omissions constituting contempts

The following acts or omissions shall be deemed contempts: 1. Disorderly, contemptuous or insolent behavior toward the judge while the judge is holding court, or engaged in judicial duties at chambers, or toward masters or arbitrators while sitting on a reference or arbitration, or other judicial proceeding. 2. A breac…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 22.020

Reentry on real property after ejectment by judgment or process

Every person dispossessed of or ejected from any real property by the judgment or process of any court of competent jurisdiction, and who, not having a right so to do, reenters into or upon or takes possession of any such real property, or induces or procures any person not having a right so to do, or aids or abets the…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 22.030

Summary punishment of contempt committed in immediate view and presence of court; affidavit or statement to be filed when contempt committed outside immediate view and presence of court; disqualification of judge

1. If a contempt is committed in the immediate view and presence of the court or judge at chambers, the contempt may be punished summarily. If the court or judge summarily punishes a person for a contempt pursuant to this subsection, the court or judge shall enter an order that: (a) Recites the facts constituting the c…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 22.040

Issuance of warrants of attachment and commitment

When the contempt is not committed in the immediate view and presence of the court or judge, a warrant of attachment may be issued to bring the person charged to answer, or, without a previous arrest, a warrant of commitment may, upon notice, or upon an order to show cause, be granted; and no warrant of commitment shal…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 22.050

Amount of bail may be fixed by endorsement on warrant of attachment

Whenever a warrant of attachment is issued pursuant to this chapter, the court or judge shall direct, by an endorsement on such warrant, that the person charged may be let to bail for his or her appearance, in an amount to be specified in such endorsement.

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 22.060

Duties of sheriff

Upon executing the warrant of attachment, the sheriff shall keep the person in custody, bring the person before the court or judge, and detain the person until an order be made in the premises, unless the person arrested entitle himself or herself to be discharged, as provided in NRS 22.070.

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 22.070

Discharge from arrest on furnishing bail; form and conditions of bond

When a direction to let the person arrested to bail is contained in the warrant of attachment, or endorsed thereon, the person arrested shall be discharged from the arrest upon executing and delivering to the officer, at any time before the return day of the warrant, a written undertaking, with two sufficient sureties,…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 22.080

Return of warrant and undertaking by officer

The officer shall return the warrant of arrest and the undertaking, if any, received by the officer from the person arrested, by the return day specified therein.

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 22.090

Trial; court to hear answer and witnesses; adjournment

When the person arrested has been brought up or appeared, the court or judge shall proceed to investigate the charge, and shall hear any answer which the person arrested shall make to the same, and may examine witnesses for or against the person arrested, for which an adjournment may be had from time to time if necessa…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 22.100

Penalty for contempt

1. Upon the answer and evidence taken, the court or judge or jury, as the case may be, shall determine whether the person proceeded against is guilty of the contempt charged. 2. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 22.110, if a person is found guilty of contempt, a fine may be imposed on the person not exceeding $500 or…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 22.110

Imprisonment until performance if contempt is omission to perform an act; penalty for failure or refusal to testify before grand jury

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, when the contempt consists in the omission to perform an act which is yet in the power of the person to perform, the person may be imprisoned until the person performs it. The required act must be specified in the warrant of commitment. 2. A person so imprisoned as a res…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 22.120

Indictment for contemptuous conduct

Persons proceeded against according to the provisions of this chapter shall also be liable to indictment for the same misconduct, if it be an indictable offense, but the court before which a conviction is had on an indictment, in passing sentence, shall take into consideration the punishment before inflicted.

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 22.130

Proceedings when defendant does not appear; measure of damages in action on undertaking

When the warrant of arrest has been returned served, if the person arrested does not appear on the return day, the court or judge may issue another warrant of arrest, or may order the undertaking to be prosecuted, or both. If the undertaking be prosecuted, the measure of damages in the action shall be the extent of the…

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Nev. Rev. Stat. § 22.140

Excuses for not bringing arrested person before court; persons not to be unnecessarily restrained

Whenever, by the provisions of this chapter, an officer is required to keep a person arrested on a warrant of attachment in custody, and to bring the person before a court or judge, the inability, from illness or otherwise, of the person to attend shall be a sufficient excuse for not bringing the person up; and the off…

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