Nevada · statute · Nev. Rev. Stat. ch. 248 · 39 active provisions
1. No person is eligible to the office of sheriff unless the person: (a) Will have attained the age of 21 years on the date he or she would take office if so elected; (b) Is a qualified elector; (c) Is registered to vote in the county which the office represents; and (d) On or after January 1, 2010, meets the requireme…
Unless the arrangement is altered pursuant to the mechanism set forth in NRS 244.1507: 1. Sheriffs must be elected by the qualified electors of their respective counties. 2. Sheriffs must be chosen by the electors of their respective counties at the general election in 1922, and at the general election every 4 years th…
Before entering upon the discharge of his or her duties, each sheriff shall: 1. Take the oath of office. 2. Give a bond to his or her county in the penal sum of not less than $10,000 nor more than $50,000, with two or more sureties, residing in his or her county, or by any qualified surety company, to be approved by th…
Sheriffs shall keep an office at the county seat of their county which shall be kept open in accordance with the provisions of NRS 245.040.
1. Except as provided in NRS 248.045, each sheriff may: (a) Appoint, in writing signed by him or her, one or more deputies, who may perform all the duties devolving on the sheriff of the county and such other duties as the sheriff may from time to time direct. The appointment of a deputy sheriff must not be construed t…
1. The sheriff of a metropolitan police department may appoint one or more police officers who have the same powers and duties as deputy sheriffs. The appointment and removal of those police officers by the sheriff of a metropolitan police department must be made in accordance with the provisions of the civil service s…
The sheriff of each county shall have the custody of the jail of his or her county and the prisoners in the same, and shall appoint the keeper thereof, for whose conduct the sheriff shall be responsible, and whom the sheriff may remove at pleasure.
If any sheriff or keeper of a jail shall willfully refuse to receive or arrest any person charged with a criminal offense, such sheriff or jailer is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
Sheriffs and their deputies shall keep and preserve the peace in their respective counties, and quiet and suppress all affrays, riots and insurrections, for which purpose, and for the service of process in civil or criminal cases, and in apprehending or securing any person for felony, or breach of the peace, they may c…
The sheriff is responsible for searches and rescues within his or her county.
The sheriff shall: 1. Except in a county whose population is 700,000 or more, attend in person, or by deputy, all sessions of the district court in his or her county. 2. Obey all the lawful orders and directions of the district court in his or her county. 3. Execute the process, writs or warrants of courts of justice,…
A sheriff shall not engage in the practice of law.
When any process, writ or order is delivered to the sheriff to be served or executed, the sheriff shall: 1. Forthwith endorse upon it the year, month, day and hour of its receipt. 2. Give to the person delivering it, if required, on payment of his or her fee, a written memorandum signed by him or her, stating the names…
A sheriff to whom any process, writ, order or paper is delivered shall: 1. Execute the same with diligence, according to its command, or as required by law. 2. Return it without delay to the proper court or officer, with his or her certificate endorsed thereon of the manner of its service or execution, or, if not serve…
If the sheriff to whom a writ of execution or writ of attachment is delivered shall neglect or refuse, after being required by the creditor or the creditor’s attorney to attach, or to levy upon or sell, any property of the party charged in the writ which is liable to be attached or levied upon and sold, the sheriff sha…
If a sheriff neglects or refuses to pay over on demand to the person entitled thereto any money which may come into the sheriff’s hands by virtue of his or her office, after deducting his or her legal fees, the amount thereof, with 25 percent damages, and interest at the rate of 7 percent per annum from the time of the…
No sheriff shall become the purchaser, nor procure any person to become the purchaser for him or her, of any property, real or personal, by him or her exposed to sale by virtue of any execution or other process; and all such purchases made by any sheriff, or any person in the sheriff’s behalf, shall be absolutely null…
Any sheriff, at the expiration of his or her term of office, having any execution or final process which the sheriff may have levied and not collected, shall be and is authorized to proceed and collect such execution in the same manner as if his or her term of office had not expired.
Service of a paper upon the sheriff may be made by delivering it to the sheriff in person, or by delivering it to one of the sheriff’s deputies, or to a person belonging to and in the office, during office hours, or, if no such person be there, by leaving it in a conspicuous place in the office.
1. When six or more persons, whether armed or not, shall be unlawfully or riotously assembled in any city or town, the sheriff of the county and the sheriff’s deputies shall go among the persons so assembled, or as near as possible, and shall command them, in the name of the people of the United States and the State of…
When there is an unlawful or riotous assembly, with the intent to commit a felony, or to offer violence to person or property, or to resist, by force, the laws of the State, and the fact is made to appear to the sheriff of the county, the sheriff may call upon the Governor for military aid in the manner provided by law…
If any sheriff shall have knowledge of an intention on the part of any two persons to fight with a deadly weapon or weapons, and the sheriff shall not use and exert his or her official authority to arrest the parties and prevent the deed, the sheriff shall be fined in a sum not exceeding $1,000.
A sheriff shall, within 7 days after receipt of a written request of a person who claims to have sustained damages as a result of a crash, or his or her legal representative or insurer, and upon receipt of a reasonable fee to cover the cost of reproduction, provide the person, his or her legal representative or insurer…
In counties having a population of less than 100,000, the sheriff shall report immediately all deaths which the sheriff gains knowledge of in the performance of his or her duties to the public administrator or the person employed or contracted with pursuant to NRS 253.125, as applicable.
Sheriffs and their deputies shall perform such duties as are required by NRS 258.070.