Nevada · statute · Nev. Rev. Stat. ch. 282 · 30 active provisions
1. Members of the Legislature and all officers, executive, judicial and ministerial, shall, before entering upon the duties of their respective offices, provide the official bond required by law, when such bond shall be required, and take and subscribe to the official oath. 2. All officers elected, except Senators and…
Members of the Legislature and all officers, executive, judicial and ministerial, shall, before they enter upon the duties of their respective offices, take and subscribe to the following oath: I, ........................., do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I will support, protect and defend the Constitution and Gover…
No fees shall be charged by any person for administering and certifying the oath of office.
All official bonds required by law of officers shall be: 1. In form joint and several. 2. Made payable to the State of Nevada. 3. In such penal sum and with such conditions as may be required by law.
1. Every official bond executed by any officer pursuant to law shall be deemed and taken to be in force, and shall be obligatory upon the principal and sureties thereon for any and all breaches of the condition or conditions thereof committed during the time such officer shall continue to discharge any of the duties of…
1. Every official bond executed by any officer pursuant to law shall be in force and obligatory upon the principal and sureties thereon, to and for the State of Nevada, and to and for the use and benefit of all persons who may be injured or aggrieved by the wrongful act or default of such officer in the officer’s offic…
Whenever any official bond shall not contain the substantial matter, or condition or conditions, required by law, or there shall be any defect in the approval or filing thereof, such bond shall not be void so as to discharge such officer and the officer’s sureties, but they shall be bound to the State or party interest…
The official bonds of officers shall be approved and filed as follows: 1. The official bond of the State Treasurer shall be approved by the Governor, and filed and recorded in the Office of the Secretary of State. 2. The official bonds of all county and township officers shall be approved by the board of county commiss…
1. Whenever the sureties, or any one of them, on the official bond of any county or township officer shall die, remove without the State, become insolvent or insufficient, or the penalty of such bond shall become insufficient on account of recoveries had thereon, or otherwise, the board of county commissioners of the p…
Whenever the official bond of the State Treasurer becomes insufficient from any cause, like proceedings as provided in NRS 282.090 may be had with reference thereto before the district court of the district in which such officer holds office. Proceedings shall be commenced by a written motion supported by affidavit.
Every such additional bond shall be of like force and obligation upon the principal and sureties thereon, and shall subject the officer and the officer’s sureties to the same liabilities as are prescribed respecting the original bonds of officers.
Unless otherwise expressly provided, there shall be at least two sureties upon the official bond of every officer.
Subscriptions to official bonds shall be taken singly, and for a liability not exceeding the amount subscribed.
In all cases where official bonds are required from county or township officers, the officer whose duty it is to approve such bonds shall not accept or approve any bonds unless the sureties thereon severally justify before a person authorized to administer oaths, as follows: 1. On a bond given by a county officer, that…
When the penal sum of any bond amounts to more than $2,000, the sureties may become severally liable for portions not less than $500 of such penal sum, making in the aggregate at least two sureties for the whole penal sum.
1. If the official bond of the State Treasurer or any county or township officer becomes insufficient by reason of the insolvency of any of the sureties thereon, or from any other cause, so that it does not contain at least two good and sufficient sureties for the whole penal sum named in the bond, and any liability oc…
A blanket fidelity bond or blanket position bond may be furnished at county expense for all elected county officers except the county treasurer. This blanket bond must be in an amount not less than $10,000, and conditioned on the faithful performance of the respective duties of the several officers covered. The board o…
Every employee of an incorporated city who regularly handles public funds as part of the employee’s official duties shall be required to furnish a corporate surety bond from an insurance company licensed in the State of Nevada. The form of the bond shall be determined by the State Board of Examiners, and all bonds shal…
1. The State Treasurer and every district, county, township and city officer within the State of Nevada, who is required by law to give an official bond, may have a surety company, which has complied with all the laws of this state relating to surety companies, execute such bond for the faithful performance of the duti…
Any surety on the official bond of the State Treasurer or any county or city officer, or on the official bond of any executor or administrator, or on the bond or undertaking of any person, where, by law, a bond or undertaking is required, may be released from all liability thereon accruing, from and after proper procee…
1. Any surety desiring to be released from liability on the bond of the State Treasurer shall file with the Governor or Secretary of State a statement in writing duly subscribed by the surety, or someone in the surety’s behalf, setting forth: (a) The name and office of the person for whom the surety is surety; (b) The…
1. If any officer or person fails within 10 days from the date of a personal service, or within 30 days from the date of the first insertion of a publication or posted service, to file a new or additional bond or undertaking, the office or appointment of the person or officer so failing shall become vacant, and such of…
In case a new or additional bond or undertaking is filed, the sureties on the original bond or undertaking, not asking to be released, and on the new or additional bond or undertaking shall be and continue liable for the official acts of such officer or person jointly and severally, the same as if all were sureties on…
Whenever a statement is filed, or filed and served, as provided in NRS 282.180 to 282.220, inclusive, the proper authority shall prescribe the penalty or amount in which a new or additional bond or undertaking shall be filed, and if no such order be made, then such new or additional bond or undertaking shall be execute…
The faith of the State is pledged to the provisions of all surety bonds which have been issued or undertaken under the provisions of chapter 193, Statutes of Nevada 1937, as amended, which established the bond trust fund, and the State consents to suit against it on such bonds. In cases of loss to a county, township, i…