Nev. Rev. Stat. § 21.050 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 21 / Section 21.050
Enforcement of judgments requiring payment of money or delivery of property; performance of other act
Status: in_force

Where a judgment requires the payment of money or the delivery of real or personal property, the same shall be enforced in those respects by execution. Where it requires the performance of any other act, a certified copy of the judgment may be served upon the party against whom it is given, or upon the person or officer who is required thereby, or by law, to obey the same, and his or her obedience thereto enforced.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 10.125 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 10 / Section 10.125
“Writing” defined
Status: in_force

“Writing” includes printing and typewriting.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 19.0313 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 19 / Section 19.0313
Additional fees in civil actions: Programs of mediation in cases involving custody or visitation of child; neighborhood justice centers
Status: in_force

1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 19.034 , in a county whose population is 100,000 or more, the clerk of the court shall, on the commencement of any civil action or proceeding in the district court for which a filing fee is required, and on the filing of any answer or appearance in any such action or proceeding for which a filing fee is required, charge and collect not less than $5 but not more than $10 from the party commencing, answering or appearing in the action or proceeding. The fee required pursuant to this section is in addition to any other fee required by law.

2. On or before the first Monday of each month, the clerk of the court shall pay over to the county treasurer the amount of all fees collected by the clerk of the court pursuant to subsection 1 for use in the programs established in accordance with NRS 3.500 and 244.1607 .

3. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 19.034 , the board of county commissioners of any other county may impose by ordinance an additional filing fee of not more than $10 to be paid on the commencement of any civil action or proceeding in the district court for which a filing fee is required and on the filing of any answer or appearance in any such action or proceeding for which a filing fee is required. On or before the fifth day of each month, in a county where this fee has been imposed, the clerk of the court shall account for and pay over to the county treasurer all fees collected during the preceding month pursuant to this subsection for credit to an account for dispute resolution in the county general fund. The money in the account must be used only to support a program established pursuant to NRS 3.500 or 244.1607 .
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 10.095 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 10 / Section 10.095
“United States” defined
Status: in_force

“United States” may include the District of Columbia and territories or insular possessions.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 21.270 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 21 / Section 21.270
Examination of judgment debtor
Status: in_force

1. A judgment creditor, at any time after the judgment is entered, is entitled to an order from the judge of the court requiring the judgment debtor to appear and answer upon oath or affirmation concerning his or her property, before: (a) The judge or a master appointed by the judge; or (b) An attorney representing the judgment creditor, at a time and place specified in the order. No judgment debtor may be required to appear outside the county in which the judgment debtor resides.

2. If the judgment debtor is required to appear before any person other than a judge or master: (a) The oath or affirmation of the judgment debtor must be administered by a notary public; and (b) The proceedings must be transcribed by a court reporter or recorded electronically. The transcript or recording must be preserved for 2 years.

3. A judgment debtor who is regularly served with an order issued pursuant to this section, and who fails to appear at the time and place specified in the order, may be punished for contempt by the judge issuing the order.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 12.010 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 12 / Section 12.010
Assignment of thing in action not to prejudice defense
Status: in_force

Except as provided for secured transactions in chapters 104 to 104C, inclusive, of NRS, in the case of an assignment of a thing in action, the action by the assignee shall be without prejudice to any setoff or other defense existing at the time of, or before notice of, the assignment; but this section shall not apply to a negotiable promissory note, or bill of exchange, transferred in good faith and upon good consideration before due.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 21.240 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 21 / Section 21.240
Court may restrain waste until expiration of period for redemption; what is not considered waste
Status: in_force

Until the expiration of the time allowed for redemption, the court may restrain the commission of waste on the property, or may appoint a receiver to take charge of the property, or the proceeds thereof, by order granted with or without notice, on the application of the purchaser or the judgment creditor. But it shall not be deemed waste for the person in possession of the property at the time of sale, or entitled to possession afterwards, during the period allowed for redemption, to continue to use it in the same manner in which it was previously used; or to use it in the ordinary course of husbandry; or to make necessary repairs of buildings thereon; or to use wood or timber on the property therefor, or for the repair of fences, or for fuel for the person’s family while the person occupies the property.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 10.195 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 10 / Section 10.195
Prohibition of provisions in settlement agreement prohibiting or restricting disclosure of certain information; exceptions
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in NRS 233.190 :

1. A settlement agreement must not contain a provision that prohibits or otherwise restricts a party from disclosing factual information relating to a claim in a civil or administrative action if the claim relates to any of the following: (a) Conduct that if criminal liability were imposed would constitute a sexual offense pursuant to NRS 179D.097 and would be punishable as a felony, regardless of whether there was a criminal investigation, prosecution or conviction of such conduct; (b) Discrimination on the basis of sex by an employer or a landlord; or (c) Retaliation by an employer or a landlord against the claimant for his or her reporting of discrimination on the basis of sex.

2. If a settlement agreement is entered into on or after July 1, 2019, any provision in such an agreement that prohibits or otherwise restricts a party from disclosing factual information pursuant to subsection 1 is void and unenforceable.

3. A court shall not enter an order that prohibits or otherwise restricts the disclosure of factual information in a manner that conflicts with subsection 1.

4. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 5, upon the request of the claimant, the settlement agreement must contain a provision that prohibits the disclosure of: (a) The identity of the claimant; and (b) Any facts relating to the action that could lead to the disclosure of the identity of the claimant.

5. If a governmental agency or a public officer is a party to the settlement agreement pursuant to subsection 1, a claimant shall not request and the settlement agreement must not contain a provision pursuant to subsection 4.

6. Nothing in this section shall be construed to prohibit: (a) A court from considering any pleading or other record to determine the factual basis of a civil claim pursuant to subsection 1; or (b) An entry or enforcement of a provision in a settlement agreement pursuant to subsection 1 that prohibits disclosure by a party of the settlement amount.

7. As used in this section: (a) “ Claimant ” means a person who filed a claim in a civil action or an administrative action pursuant to subsection 1. (b) “ Employer ” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 33.220 . (c) “ Landlord ” means an owner of real property, or the owner's representative, who provides a dwelling unit on the real property for occupancy by another for valuable consideration.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.360 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.360
Disability must exist when right of action accrued
Status: in_force

No person shall avail himself or herself of a disability, unless it existed when his or her right of action accrued.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.370 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.370
Coexisting disabilities must be removed
Status: in_force

When two or more disabilities coexist, at the time the right of action accrues, the limitation shall not attach until they all be removed.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.580 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.580
Determining amount of money of certain contract claims
Status: in_force

1. If an amount contracted to be paid in a foreign money is measured by a specified amount of a different money, the amount to be paid is determined on the date of conversion.

2. If an amount contracted to be paid in a foreign money is to be measured by a different money at the rate of exchange prevailing on a date before default, that rate of exchange applies only to payments made within a reasonable time after default, not exceeding 30 days. Thereafter, conversion is made at the bank-offered spot rate on the date of conversion.

3. A monetary claim is neither usurious nor unconscionable because the agreement on which it is based provides that the amount of the debtor's obligation to be paid on the debtor's money, when received by the creditor, must equal a specified amount of the foreign money of the country of the creditor. If, because of unexcused delay in payment of a judgment or award, the amount received by the creditor does not equal the amount of the foreign money specified in the agreement, the court or arbitrator shall amend the judgment or award accordingly.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.120 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.120
What constitutes adverse possession under written instrument or judgment
Status: in_force

For the purpose of constituting adverse possession by any person claiming a title, founded upon a written instrument or judgment or decree, land shall be deemed to have been possessed and occupied in the following cases:

1. Where it has been usually cultivated or improved.

2. Where it has been protected by a substantial enclosure.

3. Where, though not enclosed, it has been used for the supply of fuel, or of fencing timber, for the purpose of husbandry; or for the use of pasturage, or for ordinary uses of the occupant.

4. Where a known farm or single lot has been partly improved, the portion of such farm or lot that may have been left not cleared, or not enclosed according to the usual course and custom of the adjoining country, shall be deemed to have been occupied for the same length of time as the part improved and cultivated.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 21.300 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 21 / Section 21.300
Debtor of judgment debtor may be examined
Status: in_force

After the issuing or return of an execution against property of the judgment debtor, or of any one of several debtors in the same judgment, and upon proof by affidavit or otherwise, to the satisfaction of the judge, that any person or corporation has property of such judgment debtor, or is indebted to the judgment debtor in an amount exceeding $50, the judge may, by an order, require such person or corporation, or any officer or member thereof, to appear at a specified time and place before the judge, or a master appointed by the judge, and answer concerning the same.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.285 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.285
Enforcement of right of contribution
Status: in_force

1. Whether or not judgment has been entered in an action against two or more tortfeasors for the same injury or wrongful death, contribution may be enforced by separate action.

2. Where a judgment has been entered in an action against two or more tortfeasors for the same injury or wrongful death, contribution may be enforced in that action by judgment in favor of one against other judgment defendants by motion upon notice to all parties to the action.

3. If there is a judgment for the injury or wrongful death against the tortfeasor seeking contribution, any separate action by the tortfeasor to enforce contribution must be commenced within 1 year after the judgment has become final by lapse of time for appeal or after appellate review.

4. If there is no judgment for the injury or wrongful death against the tortfeasor seeking contribution, the tortfeasor’s right of contribution is barred unless the tortfeasor has: (a) Discharged by payment the common liability within the statute of limitations period applicable to claimant's right of action against him or her and has commenced an action for contribution within 1 year after payment; or (b) Agreed while action is pending against him or her to discharge the common liability and has within 1 year after the agreement paid the liability and commenced an action for contribution.

5. The judgment of the court in determining the liability of the several defendants to the claimant for an injury or wrongful death shall be binding as among such defendants in determining their right to contribution.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 14.070 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 14 / Section 14.070
Service of process on operator of motor vehicle involved in crash
Status: in_force

1. The use and operation of a motor vehicle over the public roads, streets or highways, or in any other area open to the public and commonly used by motor vehicles, in the State of Nevada by any person, either as principal, master, agent or servant, shall be deemed an appointment by the operator, on behalf of the operator and the operator's principal, master, executor, administrator or personal representative, of the Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles to be his or her true and lawful attorney upon whom may be served all legal process in any action or proceeding against the operator or the operator's principal, master, executor, administrator or personal representative, growing out of such use or resulting in damage or loss to person or property, and the use or operation signifies his or her agreement that any process against him or her which is so served has the same legal force and validity as though served upon him or her personally within the State of Nevada.

2. Service of process must be made by leaving a copy of the process with a fee of $5 in the hands of the Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles or in the office of the Director, and the service shall be deemed sufficient upon the operator if notice of service and a copy of the process is sent by registered or certified mail by the plaintiff to the defendant at the address supplied by the defendant in the defendant's crash report, if any, and if not, at the best address available to the plaintiff, and a return receipt signed by the defendant or a return of the United States Postal Service stating that the defendant refused to accept delivery or could not be located, or that the address was insufficient, and the plaintiff's affidavit of compliance therewith are attached to the original process and returned and filed in the action in which it was issued. Personal service of notice and a copy of the process upon the defendant, wherever found outside of this state, by any person qualified to serve like process in the State of Nevada is the equivalent of mailing, and may be proved by the affidavit of the person making the personal service appended to the original process and returned and filed in the action in which it was issued.

3. The court in which the action is pending may order such continuances as may be necessary to afford the defendant reasonable opportunity to defend the action.

4. The fee of $5 paid by the plaintiff to the Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles at the time of the service must be taxed in the plaintiff's costs if the plaintiff prevails in the suit. The Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles shall keep a record of all service of process, including the day and hour of service.

5. The foregoing provisions of this section with reference to the service of process upon an operator defendant are not exclusive, except if the operator defendant is found within the State of Nevada, the operator defendant must be served with process in the State of Nevada.

6. The provisions of this section apply to nonresident motorists and to resident motorists who have left the State or cannot be found within the State following a crash which is the subject of an action for which process is served pursuant to this section.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.259 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.259
Effect of compliance with or failure to comply with NRS 11.258
Status: in_force

1. The court shall dismiss an action involving nonresidential construction if the attorney for the complainant fails to: (a) File an affidavit required pursuant to NRS 11.258 ; (b) File a report required pursuant to subsection 3 of NRS 11.258 ; or (c) Name the expert consulted in the affidavit required pursuant to subsection 1 of NRS 11.258 .

2. The fact that an attorney for a complainant has complied or failed to comply with the provisions of NRS 11.256 to 11.259 , inclusive, is admissible in the action.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.740 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.740
Applicability
Status: in_force

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, NRS 17.700 to 17.820 , inclusive, apply to a foreign-country judgment to the extent that the judgment: (a) Grants or denies recovery of a sum of money; and (b) Under the law of the foreign country where rendered, is final, conclusive and enforceable.

2. NRS 17.700 to 17.820 , inclusive, do not apply to a foreign-country judgment, even if the judgment grants or denies recovery of a sum of money, to the extent that the judgment is: (a) A judgment for taxes; (b) A fine or other penalty; or (c) A judgment for divorce, support or maintenance or other judgment rendered in connection with domestic relations.

3. A party seeking recognition of a foreign-country judgment has the burden of establishing that NRS 17.700 to 17.820 , inclusive, apply to the foreign-country judgment.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.190 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.190
Computation of costs in judgment; insertion by clerk
Status: in_force

1. Included in any judgment filed shall be a computation of the costs, if they have been ascertained. The clerk shall insert a computation of the costs in the copies and docket of the judgment.

2. If costs are not ascertained or included in the judgment at the time of entry, the clerk shall, within 2 days after costs are ascertained, insert the same in a blank left in the judgment for that purpose and shall make a similar insertion of costs in the copies and docket of the judgment.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 19.070 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 19 / Section 19.070
Limitation on fees charged by clerks
Status: in_force

A clerk of the court shall not charge any fee that is not authorized by law.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.350 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.350
Filing and status of foreign judgments
Status: in_force

An exemplified copy of any foreign judgment may be filed with the clerk of any district court of this state. The clerk shall treat the foreign judgment in the same manner as a judgment of the district court of this state. A judgment so filed has the same effect and is subject to the same procedures, defenses and proceedings for reopening, vacating or staying as a judgment of a district court of this state and may be enforced or satisfied in like manner.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 13.040 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 13 / Section 13.040
Venue in other cases
Status: in_force

In all other cases, the action shall be tried in the county in which the defendants, or any one of them, may reside at the commencement of the action; or, if none of the defendants reside in the State, or if residing in the State the county in which they so reside be unknown to the plaintiff, the same may be tried in any county which the plaintiff may designate in the complaint; and if any defendant, or defendants, may be about to depart from the State, such action may be tried in any county where either of the parties may reside or service be had, subject, however, to the power of the court to change the place of trial as provided in this chapter.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 18.160 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 18 / Section 18.160
Costs allowed judgment creditor; memorandum of costs; motion to tax
Status: in_force

1. A judgment creditor may claim costs for one or more of the following items: (a) Statutory fees for preparing or issuing an abstract of judgment. (b) Statutory fees for recording, receiving or filing an abstract of judgment. (c) Statutory fees for issuing a writ of execution, or any writ for the enforcement of any order or judgment. (d) Statutory fees for issuing an order of sale. (e) Statutory fees of sheriffs or constables in connection with serving, executing or levying any writ or making any return, or for keeping or caring for property held by virtue of such a writ. (f) Costs or disbursements incurred in connection with any proceeding supplementary to execution which have been approved as to necessity, propriety and amount by the judge ordering or conducting the proceeding.

2. A judgment creditor shall serve upon the adverse party either personally or by mail, and file at any time or times not more than 6 months after the items have been incurred and before the time the judgment is fully satisfied, a memorandum of the items of the judgment creditor’s costs and necessary disbursements, verified by the judgment creditor or the judgment creditor’s attorney, stating that to the best of his or her knowledge and belief the items are correct, and that they have been necessarily or reasonably incurred in the action or proceeding.

3. Any party dissatisfied with the costs claimed may, within 5 days after the service of a copy of the bill of costs, file a motion to have the same taxed by the court in which the judgment was rendered, or by the judge thereof at chambers.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 15.050 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 15 / Section 15.050
Vacation or modification of order made out of court without notice
Status: in_force

An order made out of court without notice to the adverse party, may be vacated or modified without notice by the judge who made it, but such proceeding must be limited to the same record upon which the order was made, or such order may be vacated or modified on notice, in the manner in which others motions are made.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.130 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.130
Computation of amount of judgment; interest
Status: in_force

1. In all judgments and decrees, rendered by any court of justice, for any debt, damages or costs, and in all executions issued thereon, the amount must be computed, as near as may be, in dollars and cents, rejecting smaller fractions, and no judgment, or other proceedings, may be considered erroneous for that omission.

2. When no rate of interest is provided by contract or otherwise by law, or specified in the judgment, the judgment draws interest from the time of service of the summons and complaint until satisfied, except for any amount representing future damages, which draws interest only from the time of the entry of the judgment until satisfied, at a rate equal to the prime rate at the largest bank in Nevada as ascertained by the Commissioner of Financial Institutions on January 1 or July 1, as the case may be, immediately preceding the date of judgment, plus 2 percent. The rate must be adjusted accordingly on each January 1 and July 1 thereafter until the judgment is satisfied.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.208 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.208
Action by contractor against Department of Transportation upon contract for construction, reconstruction, improvement or maintenance of highway
Status: in_force

An action by a contractor against the Department of Transportation upon a contract for the construction, reconstruction, improvement or maintenance of a highway must be commenced within 3 years after the date of the:

1. Completion of the contract; or

2. Determination of the engineer or decision of the Board of Directors of the Department of Transportation on an appeal of a claim arising from the contract as provided in the standard specifications for construction of roads and bridges adopted by the Department,

whichever occurs later.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 19.031 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 19 / Section 19.031
Additional fees in civil actions: Programs for legal aid
Status: in_force

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2 and NRS 19.034 , in each county in which legal services are provided without charge to indigent or elderly persons through a program for legal aid organized under the auspices of the State Bar of Nevada, a county or local bar association, a county or municipal program for legal services or other program funded by this State or the United States to provide legal assistance, the clerk of the court shall, on the commencement of any civil action or proceeding in the district court for which a filing fee is required, and on the filing of any answer or appearance in any such action or proceeding for which a filing fee is required, charge and collect a fee of $25 from the party commencing or appearing in the action or proceeding. These fees are in addition to any other fees required by law.

2. In each county described in subsection 1, the clerk of the court shall, on the commencement of any action provided for in chapter 125 of NRS , and on the filing of any answer or appearance in any such action, charge and collect a fee of $14 from the party commencing or appearing in the action. These fees are in addition to any other fees required by law.

3. On or before the first Monday of each month, the clerk of the court shall pay over to the county treasurer the amount of all fees collected by the clerk of the court pursuant to subsections 1 and 2. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 5, the county treasurer shall remit quarterly to the organization operating the program for legal services all the money received by the county treasurer from the clerk of the court.

4. The organization operating the program for legal services shall use any money received pursuant to subsection 3 as follows: (a) From each $25 collected pursuant to subsection 1: (1) Fifteen dollars and fifty cents for the benefit of indigent persons in the county; and (2) Nine dollars and fifty cents for the benefit of elderly persons in the county. (b) From each $14 collected pursuant to subsection 2: (1) Ten dollars for the benefit of indigent persons in the county; and (2) Four dollars for the benefit of elderly persons in the county.

5. If the county treasurer receives notice from the State or a political subdivision that an award of attorney's fees or costs has been made to an organization that receives money pursuant to this section and has been paid, the county treasurer shall: (a) Deduct an amount equal to the award from the amount to be paid to the organization; and (b) Remit an equal amount to the State or to the political subdivision that paid the fees or costs at the time when the county treasurer would have paid it to the organization.

6. The fees which are collected from a county must be used for the benefit of the indigent or elderly persons in that county.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 19.0333 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 19 / Section 19.0333
Additional fees for filing certain motions or papers after final order in action for dissolution of marriage: Special account for benefit of district court
Status: in_force

1. In addition to any other fees required by law, the first time a party files a motion or other paper that seeks to modify, adjust or enforce a final order that was issued pursuant to chapter 125 of NRS , the clerk of the court shall, if the original action was commenced by a petition for divorce filed by the parties jointly, collect: (a) A fee of $129 to be paid by the party who files the motion or other paper; and (b) A fee of $57 to be paid by the party who files an opposition, answer or response to the motion or other paper.

2. On or before the fifth day of each month, the clerk of the court shall account for and pay to the county treasurer all fees collected pursuant to subsection 1 during the preceding month. The county treasurer shall place the money in a special account in the county general fund administered by the county for the benefit of the district court. The county shall not charge a fee for administering the account. The money in the account must be used only to: (a) Acquire land on which to construct additional facilities for the district court or a regional justice center that includes the district court; (b) Construct or acquire additional facilities for the district court or a regional justice center that includes the district court; (c) Renovate or remodel existing facilities for the district court or a regional justice center that includes the district court; (d) Acquire furniture, fixtures and equipment necessitated by the construction or acquisition of additional facilities or the renovation of an existing facility for the district court or a regional justice center that includes the district court; (e) Acquire advanced technology; (f) Pay debt service on any bonds issued pursuant to subsection 3 of NRS 350.020 for the acquisition of land or facilities or the construction or renovation of facilities for the district court or a regional justice center that includes the district court; and (g) Establish or support a civil family law self-help center operated or overseen by the district court. Money that remains in the account at the end of a fiscal year does not revert to the county general fund, and the balance in the account must be carried forward to the next fiscal year.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 16.180 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 16 / Section 16.180
Proceedings when verdict informal
Status: in_force

If the verdict be informal or insufficient in not covering the whole issue or issues submitted, the verdict may be corrected by the jury, under the advice of the court, or the jury may again be sent out.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.010 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.010
Judgments of Utah territorial courts validated
Status: in_force

No judgments of the courts of justice rendered in the Territory of Utah, prior to the organization of the Territory of Nevada, whereby property was acquired within any portion of the Territory of Nevada, shall be invalid for any informality, and no property or rights of property acquired under such judgments shall be declared invalid by reason of any irregularity in the proceedings.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 21.230 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 21 / Section 21.230
Payments of redemption to purchaser, redemptioner or officer; documents to be served by redemptioner; sheriff to pay over money
Status: in_force

1. The payments mentioned in NRS 21.210 and 21.220 may be made to the purchaser or redemptioner, or for him or her to the officer who made the sale. When the judgment under which the sale has been made is payable in a specified kind of money or currency, payments must be made in the same kind of money or currency, and a tender of the money is equivalent to payment.

2. Notice of redemption must be served by a redemptioner upon the sheriff and the person from whom the redemptioner seeks to redeem together with: (a) A copy of the docket of the judgment under which the redemptioner claims the right to redeem, certified by the clerk of the court or of the county where the judgment is docketed, or, if he or she redeems upon a mortgage or other lien, a note of the record thereof, certified by the recorder. (b) A copy of any assignment necessary to establish the redemptioner’s claim, verified by the affidavit of the redemptioner, or the redemptioner’s agent, or of a subscribing witness thereto. (c) An affidavit by the redemptioner, or the redemptioner’s agent, showing the amount then actually due on the lien.

3. Upon the payment to the sheriff of any money for the redemption of property as provided in this chapter, the sheriff shall pay over the same to the person entitled thereto.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.770 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.770
Procedure for recognition of foreign-country judgment
Status: in_force

1. If recognition of a foreign-country judgment is sought as an original matter, the issue of recognition shall be raised by filing an action seeking recognition of the foreign-country judgment.

2. If recognition of a foreign-country judgment is sought in a pending action, the issue of recognition may be raised by counterclaim, cross-claim or affirmative defense.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 15.030 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 15 / Section 15.030
Transfer of motion when judge unable to hear parties
Status: in_force

When a notice of a motion is given, or an order to show cause is made returnable before a judge out of court, and at the time fixed for the motion, or, on the return day of the order, the judge is unable to hear the parties, the matter may be transferred by order of the judge to some other judge before whom it might originally have been brought.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.201 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.201
Actions for common-law wrongful termination of employment
Status: in_force

1. An action in tort for common-law wrongful termination of employment must be commenced within 2 years after the date of the termination of employment.

2. The time limitation set forth in subsection 1 is tolled from the date that an administrative complaint relating to the termination of employment is filed with a federal or state agency until 93 days after the conclusion of the administrative proceedings concerning the complaint.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.150 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.150
Additional requirements for adverse possession: Occupation continuously for 5 years; payment of taxes
Status: in_force

In no case shall adverse possession be considered established unless it be shown, in addition to the requirements of NRS 11.120 or 11.140 , that the land has been occupied and claimed for the period of 5 years, continuously, and that the party or persons, their predecessors and grantors have paid all taxes, state, county and municipal, which may have been levied and assessed against the land for the period mentioned, or have tendered payment thereof.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.640 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.640
Determining United States dollar value of foreign-money claims for limited purposes
Status: in_force

1. Computations under this section are for the limited purposes of the section and do not affect computation of the equivalent in United States dollars of the money of the judgment for the purpose of payment.

2. For the limited purpose of facilitating the enforcement of provisional remedies in an action, the value in United States dollars of assets to be seized or restrained pursuant to a writ of attachment, garnishment, execution or other legal process, the amount of United States dollars at issue for assessing costs, or the amount of United States dollars involved for a surety bond or other court-required undertaking must be ascertained as provided in subsections 3 and 4.

3. A party seeking process, costs, bond or other undertaking under subsection 2 shall compute in United States dollars the amount of the foreign money claimed from a bank-offered spot rate prevailing at or near the close of business on the banking day next preceding the filing of a request or application for the issuance of process or for the determination of costs, or an application for a bond or other court-required undertaking.

4. A party seeking the process, costs, bond or other undertaking under subsection 2 shall file with each request or application an affidavit or certificate executed in good faith by its counsel or a bank officer, stating the market quotation used and how it was obtained, and setting forth the calculation. Affected court officers incur no liability, after a filing of the affidavit or certificate, for acting as if the judgment were in the amount of United States dollars stated in the affidavit or certificate.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 10.010 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 10 / Section 10.010
Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this title, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 10.015 to 10.125 , inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 10.045 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 10 / Section 10.045
“Personal property” defined
Status: in_force

“Personal property” includes money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.170 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.170
Right of possession not affected by descent cast
Status: in_force

The right of a person to the possession of any real property shall not be impaired or affected by a descent being cast in consequence of the death of a person in possession of such property.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 19.030 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 19 / Section 19.030
Additional fees in civil actions: State General Fund
Status: in_force

1. Except as otherwise provided by specific statute, on the commencement of any civil action or proceeding in the district court, other than the commencement of a proceeding for an adoption, the clerk of the court, in addition to any other fees provided by law, shall charge and collect $32 from the party commencing the action or proceeding.

2. On or before the first Monday of each month, the clerk of the court shall pay over to the county treasurer an amount equal to $32 per civil case commenced as provided in subsection 1, for the preceding calendar month, and the county treasurer shall place that money to the credit of the State General Fund. The county treasurer shall remit quarterly all such fees turned over to the county treasurer by the clerk of the court to the State Controller to be placed by the State Controller in the State General Fund.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 10.015 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 10 / Section 10.015
“Affinity” defined
Status: in_force

“Affinity” when applied to the marriage relation signifies the connection existing in consequence of marriage between each of the married persons and the blood relatives of the other.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.340 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.340
Reversal of judgment; new action to be brought within 1 year
Status: in_force

If an action shall be commenced within the time prescribed therefor, and a judgment therein for the plaintiff be reversed on appeal, the plaintiff, or if the plaintiff dies and the cause of action survives, the plaintiff’s heirs or representatives, may commence a new action within 1 year after the reversal.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.330 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.330
Short title
Status: in_force

NRS 17.330 to 17.400 , inclusive, may be cited as the Uniform Enforcement of Foreign Judgments Act.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 14.075 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 14 / Section 14.075
Service of process on short-term lessor of vehicles where short-term lessee not United States resident
Status: in_force

1. When a short-term lessor enters into a lease with a short-term lessee who is not a resident of the United States and, as part of or associated with the lease, the short-term lessee purchases liability insurance from the short-term lessor in its capacity as an agent for an authorized insurer, the short-term lessor is authorized to accept and, if served, shall accept, service of a summons and complaint and any other required documents on behalf of the short-term lessee for any crash resulting from the operation of the vehicle within this State during the lease. If the short-term lessor has a registered agent for service of process on file with the Secretary of State, process must be served on the registered agent of the short-term lessor, either by first-class mail, return receipt requested, or by personal service.

2. Not later than 30 days after acceptance of service of process, the short-term lessor shall provide a copy of the summons and complaint and any other documents served on the short-term lessor to the short-term lessee by first-class mail, return receipt requested.

3. Notwithstanding the requirements of NRS 14.070 , service of process in compliance with subsection 1 shall be deemed a valid and effective service.

4. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, acceptance of service of process pursuant to subsection 1 does not create any duty, obligation or agency relationship other than that provided in subsection 1.

5. As used in this section: (a) “Lease,” “short-term lessee” and “short-term lessor” have the meanings ascribed to them in NRS 482.053 . (b) “ Liability insurance ” means insurance, including, without limitation, uninsured motorist coverage, whether offered separately or in combination with any other insurance, that provides coverage to a short-term lessee and any authorized driver pursuant to a lease and is nonduplicative of any standard liability coverage or self-insurance limits provided by the short-term lessor in its lease, for liability arising from the negligent operation of the vehicle during the lease. (c) “Vehicle” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 482.135 .
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 21.330 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 21 / Section 21.330
Proceedings on claim of third party to property or on denial of debt to judgment debtor
Status: in_force

If it appears that a person or corporation alleged to have property of the judgment debtor, or indebted to the judgment debtor, claims an interest in the property adverse to him or her, or denies the debt, the court or judge may authorize, by an order made to that effect, the judgment creditor to institute an action against such person or corporation for the recovery of such interest or debt; and the court or judge may, by order, forbid a transfer or other disposition of such interest or debt until an action can be commenced and prosecuted to judgment. Such order may be modified or vacated by the judge granting the same, or the court in which the action is brought, at any time, upon such terms as may be just.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 19.003 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 19 / Section 19.003
Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 19.007 and 19.010 have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 21.120 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 21 / Section 21.120
Garnishment in aid of execution; notice of writ of garnishment; third-party claims
Status: in_force

1. If personal property, including debts or credits due or to become due, is not in the possession or control of the debtor, the sheriff, upon instructions from the creditor and without requiring an order of court, shall serve a writ of garnishment in aid of execution upon the party in whose possession or control the property is found. Notice of the writ of garnishment must be served upon the judgment debtor in the same manner and form and within the time prescribed in NRS 21.075 and 21.076 for property levied upon by writ of execution.

2. If any property levied upon by writ of execution or by writ of garnishment in aid of execution is claimed by a third person as his or her property, the same rules prevail as to the contents and making of the claim, as to the holding of the property and as to a hearing to determine title thereto, as in the case of a claim after levy under writ of attachment, as provided for by law.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 18.070 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 18 / Section 18.070
Payment of costs on postponement; costs and attorney's fees on mistrial
Status: in_force

1. When an application is made to a court or master to postpone a trial, the payment of costs, occasioned by the postponement may be imposed, in the discretion of the court or master, as a condition of granting the postponement.

2. A court may impose costs and reasonable attorney's fees against a party or an attorney who, in the judgment of the court, purposely caused a mistrial to occur.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 21.100 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 21 / Section 21.100
Collections of minerals, art curiosities and paleontological remains exempt from execution
Status: in_force

1. Any bona fide owner of a collection or cabinet of metal-bearing ores, geological specimens, art curiosities, or paleontological remains who shall properly arrange, classify, number and catalog in a suitable book or books of reference any such collection of ores, specimens, curiosities or remains, whether the same be kept at a private residence or in a public hall or in a place of public business or traffic, shall be entitled to hold the same exempt from execution as other property is exempted from execution under the provisions of NRS 21.090 .

2. The owner of any collection or cabinet as described in subsection 1 shall keep constantly at or near such collection or cabinet, for free inspection of all visitors who may desire to examine the same, written or printed catalogs as provided in subsection 1. Any person owning such collection or cabinet who fails or neglects to comply with the provisions of this section shall forfeit all right to hold such collection or cabinet exempt from legal execution as provided herein.

3. Nothing in this section shall be construed so as to exempt from execution any numismatic collection, such as gold and silver coins, paper currency, bank notes, legal tender currency, national or state bonds, or any negotiable note, or valuable copper, bronze, nickel, platinum or other coin.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.214 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.214
Filing and contents of affidavit; recording affidavit; notice to judgment debtor; successive affidavits
Status: in_force

1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 484A.7047 , a judgment creditor or a judgment creditor's successor in interest may renew a judgment which has not been paid by: (a) Filing an affidavit with the clerk of the court where the judgment is entered and docketed, within 90 days before the date the judgment expires by limitation. The affidavit must be titled as an “Affidavit of Renewal of Judgment” and must specify: (1) The names of the parties and the name of the judgment creditor's successor in interest, if any, and the source and succession of his or her title; (2) If the judgment is recorded, the name of the county and the document number or the number and the page of the book in which it is recorded; (3) The date and the amount of the judgment and the number and page of the docket in which it is entered; (4) Whether there is an outstanding writ of execution for enforcement of the judgment; (5) The date and amount of any payment on the judgment; (6) Whether there are any setoffs or counterclaims in favor of the judgment debtor and the amount or, if a setoff or counterclaim is unsettled or undetermined it will be allowed as payment or credit on the judgment; (7) The exact amount due on the judgment; (8) If the judgment was docketed by the clerk of the court upon a certified copy from any other court, and an abstract recorded with the county clerk, the name of each county in which the transcript has been docketed and the abstract recorded; and (9) Any other fact or circumstance necessary to a complete disclosure of the exact condition of the judgment. All information in the affidavit must be based on the personal knowledge of the affiant, and not upon information and belief. (b) If the judgment is recorded, recording the affidavit of renewal in the office of the county recorder in which the original judgment is filed within 3 days after the affidavit of renewal is filed pursuant to paragraph (a).

2. The filing of the affidavit renews the judgment to the extent of the amount shown due in the affidavit.

3. The judgment creditor or the judgment creditor's successor in interest shall notify the judgment debtor of the renewal of the judgment by sending a copy of the affidavit of renewal by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the judgment debtor at his or her last known address within 3 days after filing the affidavit.

4. Successive affidavits for renewal may be filed within 90 days before the preceding renewal of the judgment expires by limitation.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 16.070 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 16 / Section 16.070
Jury to be sworn; court may order jury into custody of officer
Status: in_force

1. As soon as the jury is completed, the judge or the judge’s clerk shall administer an oath or affirmation to the jurors in substantially the following form: Do you, and each of you, (solemnly swear, or affirm under the pains and penalties of perjury) that you will well and truly try the case now pending before this court and a true verdict render according to the evidence given (so help you God)?

2. As soon as the alternate juror or jurors are selected, the judge or the judge’s clerk shall administer an oath or affirmation to them in substantially the following form: Do you, and each of you, (solemnly swear, or affirm under the pains and penalties of perjury) that, if required to replace a regular juror or jurors you will well and truly try the case now pending before this court, and a true verdict render according to the evidence given (so help you God)?

3. After the oath or affirmation has been administered and the jury has been fully impaneled, the court may order the jury into the custody of the sheriff or other officer selected by the court. The jurors shall not be allowed to separate or depart from the custody of the sheriff or other officer except by order of the court. The sheriff shall in such cases, at the charge of the parties to action, prepare suitable and comfortable accommodations and provide food for the jury pending the trial.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 20.020 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 20 / Section 20.020
Justification of sureties
Status: in_force

In all cases not otherwise provided for in titles 2 to 6, inclusive, of NRS, where sureties are required to justify, they shall appear before the officer or person authorized to take the justification, and may be examined under oath by such officer or person and the adverse party, touching their qualifications as sureties, which examination shall be reduced to writing and subscribed by the sureties if required. If, upon such examination, it shall appear to such officer or person that the sureties, or either of them, have the necessary qualifications of such, the officer or person shall so endorse upon the statement, and cause the same to be filed, and thereupon the justification shall be complete.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.280 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.280
Legal disability prevents running of statute
Status: in_force

NRS 11.260 and 11.270 shall not apply to minors or others under any legal disability to sue at the time when the right of action first accrues, but all such persons may commence an action at any time within 1 year after the removal of the disability.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 21.210 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 21 / Section 21.210
Time and manner of redemption
Status: in_force

The judgment debtor or redemptioner may redeem the property from the purchaser any time within 1 year after the sale on paying the purchaser the amount of his or her purchase price with 1 percent per month thereon in addition, to the time of redemption, together with:

1. The amount of any assessment, taxes or payments toward liens which were created prior to the purchase, which the purchaser may have paid thereon after purchase, and interest on such amount; and

2. If the purchaser is also a creditor, having a prior lien to that of the redemptioner, other than the judgment under which the purchase was made, the amount of such lien, with interest.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 21.010 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 21 / Section 21.010
Writ of execution: Limitations of time
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in NRS 125B.050 for enforcement of a judgment for support of a child, the party in whose favor judgment is given may, at any time before the judgment expires, obtain the issuance of a writ of execution for its enforcement as prescribed in this chapter. The writ ceases to be effective when the judgment expires.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.275 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.275
Action against estate for which letters of administration have not been issued
Status: in_force

1. Except as provided in subsection 2, no action can be maintained against an estate for which letters of administration have not been issued unless it is commenced within 3 years next after the death of the decedent.

2. This section does not affect: (a) Any lien created by a mortgage or deed of trust which is recorded or a security agreement which is filed. (b) The rights of any person who is in possession of personal property of the estate.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.140 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.140
What constitutes adverse possession under claim of title not founded on written instrument
Status: in_force

For the purpose of constituting an adverse possession, by a person claiming title, not founded upon a written instrument, judgment or decree, land shall be deemed to have been possessed and occupied in the following cases only:

1. Where it has been protected by a substantial enclosure.

2. Where it has been usually cultivated or improved.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.780 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.780
Effect of recognition of foreign-country judgment
Status: in_force

If the court in a proceeding under NRS 17.770 finds that the foreign-country judgment is entitled to recognition under NRS 17.700 to 17.820 , inclusive, then, to the extent that the foreign-country judgment grants or denies recovery of a sum of money, the foreign-country judgment is:

1. Conclusive between the parties to the same extent as the judgment of a sister state entitled to full faith and credit in this State would be conclusive; and

2. Enforceable in the same manner and to the same extent as a judgment rendered in this State.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 13.030 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 13 / Section 13.030
Venue of actions by or against counties
Status: in_force

1. Actions against a county may be commenced in the district court of the judicial district embracing the county; but actions between counties shall be commenced in a court of competent jurisdiction in any county not a party to the action.

2. Immediately on the service of process, the officer served shall deliver such process and all papers accompanying such service to the district attorney for the county.

3. Actions brought for or against the county shall be in the name of the county.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 22.140 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 22 / Section 22.140
Excuses for not bringing arrested person before court; persons not to be unnecessarily restrained
Status: in_force

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 officer shall not confine a person arrested upon the warrant in a prison, or otherwise restrain him or her of personal liberty, except so far as may be necessary to secure his or her personal attendance.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.450 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.450
“Bank-offered spot rate” defined
Status: in_force

“Bank-offered spot rate” means the spot rate of exchange at which a bank will sell foreign money at a spot rate.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.790 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.790
Stay of proceedings pending appeal of foreign-country judgment
Status: in_force

If a party establishes that an appeal from a foreign-country judgment is pending or will be taken, the court may stay any proceedings with regard to the foreign-country judgment until the appeal is concluded, the time for appeal expires or the appellant has had sufficient time to prosecute the appeal and has failed to do so.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 20.035 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 20 / Section 20.035
Limitation on amount of bond in litigation involving Master Settlement Agreement
Status: in_force

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, if an appeal is taken of a judgment in a civil action involving a signatory, or a successor in interest or affiliate of a signatory, of the Master Settlement Agreement in which an appellant is required to give a bond in order to secure a stay of execution of the judgment during the pendency of any or all such appeals, the total cumulative sum of all the bonds required from all the appellants involved in the civil action must not exceed $50,000,000.

2. If the plaintiff proves by a preponderance of evidence that an appellant who posted a bond pursuant to subsection 1 is purposefully dissipating or diverting assets outside of the ordinary course of its business to evade the ultimate payment of the judgment, the court may, if it determines that such an order is necessary to prevent such dissipation or diversion, require the appellant to post a bond in an amount that does not exceed the full amount of the judgment.

3. The provisions of this section do not limit the discretion of a court, for good cause shown, to set the bond on appeal in an amount less than the amount otherwise required by law.

4. For the purposes of this section: (a) “ Affiliate ” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 370A.030 . (b) “ Master Settlement Agreement ” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 370A.070 .
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.200 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.200
Computation of time
Status: in_force

1. The time in NRS 11.190 shall be deemed to date from the last transaction or the last item charged or last credit given; and whenever any payment on principal or interest has been or shall be made upon an existing contract, whether it be a bill of exchange, promissory note or other evidence of indebtedness if such payment be made after the same shall have become due, the limitation shall commence from the time the last payment was made.

2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, any payment on a debt, affirmation of a debt or other activity taken relating to a debt by a debtor after the time in NRS 11.190 has expired does not revive the applicable limitation.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 18.060 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 18 / Section 18.060
Costs of appeal to Court of Appeals or Supreme Court; discretion of court
Status: in_force

In the following cases the costs of an appeal to the Court of Appeals or the Supreme Court shall be in the discretion of the court:

1. Where a new trial is ordered.

2. When a judgment is modified.

In the event no order is made by the court relative to the costs in the two instances mentioned in this section, the party obtaining any relief shall have his or her costs.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 12.080 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 12 / Section 12.080
Parent or guardian may maintain action for injury of minor child
Status: in_force

The parents jointly, or either parent, without preference to either, may maintain an action for the injury of a minor child who has not been emancipated, if the injury is caused by the wrongful act or neglect of another. A guardian may maintain an action for the injury of his or her unemancipated ward, if the injury is caused by the wrongful act or neglect of another, the action by the guardian to be prosecuted for the benefit of the ward. Any such action may be maintained against the person causing the injury, or, if the person is employed by another person who is responsible for his or her conduct, also against that other person.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.070 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.070
No cause of action effectual unless party or predecessor seized or possessed within 5 years
Status: in_force

No cause of action or defense to an action, founded upon the title to real property, or to rents or to services out of the same, shall be effectual, unless it appears that the person prosecuting the action or making the defense, or under whose title the action is prosecuted or the defense is made, or the ancestor, predecessor, or grantor of such person, was seized or possessed of the premises in question within 5 years before the committing of the act in respect to which said action is prosecuted or defense made.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 12.107 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 12 / Section 12.107
Limitation on commencement of lawsuit against manufacturer or distributor of firearm or ammunition or trade association related to firearms or ammunition; exception for breach of contract or warranty
Status: in_force

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, the State of Nevada is the only governmental entity in this state that may commence a lawsuit against a manufacturer or distributor of a firearm or ammunition or a trade association related to firearms or ammunition for damages, abatement or injunctive relief resulting from or relating to the lawful design or manufacture of a firearm or ammunition or the marketing or sale of a firearm or ammunition to the public.

2. The provisions of this section do not prohibit a county, city, local government or other political subdivision of this state or an agency thereof from commencing a lawsuit against a manufacturer or distributor of a firearm or ammunition for breach of contract or warranty concerning a firearm or ammunition purchased by the county, city, local government or other political subdivision of this state or agency thereof.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 10.145 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 10 / Section 10.145
Signature by mark
Status: in_force

As used in this title, signature or subscription includes mark when the person cannot write, his or her name being written near it by a person who writes his or her own name as a witness; but when a signature is by mark it must, in order that it may be acknowledged or may serve as the signature to any sworn statement, be witnessed by two persons who must subscribe their own names as witnesses thereto.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.470 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.470
“Distributive proceeding” defined
Status: in_force

“Distributive proceeding” means a judicial or nonjudicial proceeding for the distribution of a fund in which one or more foreign-money claims is asserted and includes an accounting, an assignment for the benefit of creditors, a foreclosure, the liquidation or rehabilitation of a corporation or other entity and the distribution of an estate, trust or other fund.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 21.140 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 21 / Section 21.140
Penalties for selling without notice; defacing notice
Status: in_force

1. An officer selling without the notice prescribed by NRS 21.075 , 21.076 and 21.130 forfeits $500 to the aggrieved party, in addition to the party’s actual damages.

2. It is unlawful for a person to willfully take down or deface the notice posted pursuant to NRS 21.130 , if done before the sale or, if the judgment is satisfied before sale, before the satisfaction of the judgment. In addition to any other penalty, any person who violates this subsection shall forfeit $500 to the aggrieved party.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.930 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.930
Effect of registration
Status: in_force

1. Subject to subsection 2, a Canadian judgment registered under NRS 17.925 has the same effect provided in NRS 17.780 for a judgment a court determines to be entitled to recognition.

2. A Canadian judgment registered under NRS 17.925 may not be enforced by sale or other disposition of property, or by seizure of property or garnishment, until 31 days after notice under NRS 17.935 of registration is served. The court for cause may provide for a shorter or longer time. This subsection does not preclude use of relief available under law of this State other than NRS 17.900 to 17.955 , inclusive, to prevent dissipation, disposition or removal of property.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 20.030 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 20 / Section 20.030
Surety bond or cash may be furnished in lieu of personal sureties
Status: in_force

In all cases where a bond or undertaking is required by the provisions of titles 2 to 6, inclusive, of NRS, the party required to give such bond or undertaking may furnish such bond or undertaking with a surety or bonding company, authorized to do business under the laws of this state and to furnish such bonds or undertakings, to be approved by the court, judge, clerk, or deputy clerk, in lieu of personal sureties. A party may, also, in lieu of a bond or undertaking required by titles 2 to 6, inclusive, of NRS, deposit with the court, or clerk thereof, cash in the amount of the bond or undertaking required.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.270 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.270
Action to recover estate sold by executor or administrator
Status: in_force

No action for the recovery of any estate sold by an executor or administrator in the course of any probate proceeding can be maintained by any heir or other person claiming under the decedent, unless it be commenced within 3 years next after the sale. An action to set aside the sale may be instituted and maintained at any time within 3 years from the discovery of the fraud or other lawful grounds upon which the action is based.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 22.060 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 22 / Section 22.060
Duties of sheriff
Status: in_force

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 .
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.060 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.060
Action for recovery of mining claims: Occupation and possession; other applicable provisions
Status: in_force

1. No action for the recovery of mining claims, or for the recovery of the possession thereof, shall be maintained, unless it appears that the plaintiff, or those through or from whom the plaintiff claims, were seized or possessed of such mining claim, or were the owners thereof, according to the laws and customs of the district embracing the same, within 2 years before the commencement of such action.

2. Occupation and adverse possession of a mining claim shall consist in holding and working the same, in the usual and customary mode of holding and working similar claims in the vicinity thereof.

3. All of the provisions of this chapter which apply to other real estate, so far as applicable, shall be deemed to include and apply to mining claims; provided, (a) That in such application “2 years” shall be held to be the period intended whenever the term “5 years” is used; and (b) That when the terms “legal title” or “title” are used, they shall be held to include title acquired by location or occupation, according to the usages, laws and customs of the district embracing the claim.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.700 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.700
Short title
Status: in_force

NRS 17.700 to 17.820 , inclusive, may be cited as the Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 22.120 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 22 / Section 22.120
Indictment for contemptuous conduct
Status: in_force

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.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 14.025 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 14 / Section 14.025
Certain requirements for proof of service of process filed with court
Status: in_force

1. In addition to any other requirements set forth by law, a proof of service of process filed with a court of competent jurisdiction in Nevada must include: (a) The name, residential or business address and telephone number of the person who performed the service of process; (b) The date and time that the legal process was served; (c) The manner in which the legal process was served; (d) If practicable, the name of the person who was personally served or a physical description of that person; and (e) A notation of: (1) The license number of the process server or the registration number of the employee of a licensed process server who performed the service of process; or (2) The reason why the person who performed the service of process was not required to be licensed under chapter 648 of NRS or another provision of law.

2. A proof of service that does not include the information required by subsection 1 may be construed as legally insufficient by a court of competent jurisdiction.

3. As used in this section, “process server” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 648.014 .
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.290 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.290
No limitation of action for deposit of money or property; exception
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in subsection 5 of NRS 104.3118 , to actions brought to recover money or other property deposited with any bank, credit union, banker, trust company or savings and loan society, there is no limitation.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.040 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.040
Summons: Contents and service
Status: in_force

The summons, as provided in NRS 17.030 , shall describe the judgment, and require the person summoned to show cause why the person should not be bound by it, and shall be served in the same manner, and returnable within the same time, as the original summons. It shall not be necessary to file a new complaint.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.090 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.090
Judgment by confession for debt due or contingent liability
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided by law, a judgment by confession may be entered without action, either for money due or to become due or to secure any person against contingent liability on behalf of the defendant, or both, in the manner prescribed by this section and NRS 17.100 and 17.110 .
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.540 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.540
“Spot rate” defined
Status: in_force

“Spot rate” means the rate of exchange at which foreign money is sold by a bank or other dealer in foreign exchange for immediate or next-day availability or for settlement by immediate payment in cash or equivalent, by charge to an account, or by an agreed delayed settlement not exceeding 2 days.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 10.165 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 10 / Section 10.165
Performance of secular acts
Status: in_force

Whenever any act of a secular nature, other than a work of necessity or mercy, is appointed by law or contract to be performed upon a particular day, which day falls upon a holiday or a nonjudicial day, it may be performed upon the next business day with the same effect as if it had been performed upon the day appointed; and if such act is to be performed at a particular hour it may be performed at the same hour of the next business day.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.500 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.500
“Money” defined
Status: in_force

“Money” means a medium of exchange for the payment of obligations or a store of value authorized or adopted by a government or by intergovernmental agreement.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 21.150 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 21 / Section 21.150
Conduct of sales of real and personal property under execution: Place and time; who may not be purchasers; sales of parcels; directions of judgment debtor
Status: in_force

1. All sales of property under execution must be made at auction to the highest bidder between the hours of 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. All sales of real property must be made at the courthouse of the county in which the property or some part thereof is situated.

2. After sufficient property has been sold to satisfy the execution, more property must not be sold.

3. The officer holding the execution and the officer's deputy shall not become a purchaser or be interested in any purchase at such sale.

4. When the sale is of personal property capable of manual delivery, it shall be in view of those who attend the sale and be sold in such parcels as are likely to bring the highest price.

5. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 6, when the sale is of real property and consisting of several known lots or parcels, they shall be sold separately, or when a portion of such real property is claimed by a third person and the third party requires it to be sold separately, such portion shall be thus sold. If the land to be sold under execution consists of a single parcel, or two or more contiguous parcels, situated in two or more counties, notice of the sale must be posted and published in each of such counties, as provided in this chapter. The judgment debtor, if present at the sale, may also direct the order in which property, real or personal, shall be sold. When such property consists of several known lots or parcels, or of articles which can be sold to advantage separately, the sheriff shall be bound to follow such directions.

6. The provisions of subsection 5 do not apply to a sale pursuant to NRS 40.430 .
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.310 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.310
Death of person entitled to bring action before limitation expires; death of person against whom an action may be brought
Status: in_force

1. If the person entitled to bring an action dies before the expiration of the time limited for the commencement thereof, and the cause of action survives, an action may be commenced by the person’s representatives, after the expiration of that time, and within 1 year from the person’s death.

2. If a person against whom an action may be brought dies before the expiration of the time limited for the commencement thereof, and the cause of action survives, an action may be commenced against the person’s executors or administrators after the expiration of that time, and within 1 year after the issuing of letters testamentary or of administration; provided: (a) The final account of such executor or administrator in the estate of such decedent be not sooner filed, and that a claim therefor be presented as required by the law governing estates of deceased persons. (b) That no real estate of a deceased person shall be liable for the debts of the deceased person other than recorded encumbrances, unless letters testamentary or of administration be granted within 3 years from the date of the death of such decedent, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.955 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.955
Uniformity of application and construction
Status: in_force

In applying and construing the Uniform Registration of Canadian Money Judgments Act, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among states that enact it.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 20.037 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 20 / Section 20.037
Limitation on amount of bond to secure stay of execution of judgment pending appeal; exceptions
Status: in_force

1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law or court rule, and except as otherwise provided in this section and NRS 20.035 , if an appeal is taken of a judgment in a civil action in which an appellant is required to give a bond in order to secure a stay of execution of the judgment during the pendency of any or all such appeals, the total cumulative sum of all the bonds required from all the appellants involved in the civil action must not exceed the lesser of $50,000,000 or the amount of the judgment.

2. If an appellant is a small business concern, the amount of the appellant's bond required pursuant to subsection 1 must not exceed the lesser of $1,000,000 or the amount of the judgment.

3. If the plaintiff proves by a preponderance of evidence that an appellant who posted a bond pursuant to subsection 1 or 2 is purposefully dissipating or diverting assets outside of the ordinary course of its business to evade the ultimate payment of the judgment, the court may, if the court determines that such an order is necessary to prevent such dissipation or diversion, require the appellant to post a bond in an amount that does not exceed the full amount of the judgment.

4. The provisions of this section do not limit the discretion of a court, for good cause shown, to set the bond on appeal in an amount less than the amount otherwise required by law.

5. For the purposes of this section, “small business concern” has the meaning ascribed to it in the Small Business Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 631 et seq., and any regulations adopted pursuant thereto.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.600 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.600
Judgments and awards on foreign-money claims; times of money conversion; form of judgment
Status: in_force

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, a judgment or award on a foreign-money claim must be stated in an amount of the money of the claim.

2. A judgment or award on a foreign-money claim is payable in that foreign money or, at the option of the debtor, in the amount of United States dollars which will purchase that foreign money on the date of conversion at a bank-offered spot rate.

3. Assessed costs must be entered in United States dollars.

4. Each payment in United States dollars must be accepted and credited on a judgment or award on a foreign-money claim in the amount of the foreign money that could be purchased by the dollars at a bank-offered spot rate of exchange at or near the close of business on the date of conversion for that payment.

5. A judgment or award made in an action or distributive proceeding on both a defense, set-off, recoupment or counterclaim and the adverse party's claim must be netted by converting the money of the smaller into the money of the larger, and by subtracting the smaller from the larger, and specify the rates of exchange used.

6. A judgment substantially in the following form complies with subsection 1: IT IS ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that the plaintiff __________________ (insert name) __________________________ recover of the defendant ________________________ (insert name) ________________________ the sum of ____________ (insert amount in the foreign money) ____________ plus interest on that sum at the rate of __________ (insert rate--see NRS 17.620 ) __________ percent a year or, at the option of the judgment debtor, the number of United States dollars which will purchase the __________ (insert name of foreign money) __________ with interest due, at a bank-offered spot rate at or near the close of business on the banking day next before the day of payment, together with assessed costs of __________ (insert amount) __________ United States dollars.

7. If a contract claim is of the type covered by subsection 1 or 2 of NRS 17.580 , the judgment or award must be entered for the amount of money stated to measure the obligation to be paid in the money specified for payment or, at the option of the debtor, the number of United States dollars which will purchase the computed amount of the money of payment on the date of conversion at a bank-offered spot rate.

8. A judgment must be filed and indexed in foreign money in the same manner, and has the same effect as a lien, as other judgments. It may be discharged by payment.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.080 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.080
Seisin within 5 years; when necessary in action for real property
Status: in_force

No action for the recovery of real property, or for the recovery of the possession thereof other than mining claims, shall be maintained, unless it appears that the plaintiff or the plaintiff’s ancestor, predecessor or grantor was seized or possessed of the premises in question, within 5 years before the commencement thereof.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 18.050 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 18 / Section 18.050
Discretion of court in allowing costs
Status: in_force

Except as limited by this section, in other actions in the district court, part or all of the prevailing party's costs may be allowed and may be apportioned between the parties, or on the same or adverse sides. If, in the judgment of the court, the plaintiff believes he or she was justified in bringing the action in the district court, and the plaintiff recovers at least $700 in money or damages, or personal property of that value, the court may allow the plaintiff part or all of his or her costs.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.080 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.080
Trial of issues; amount of judgment if verdict found against defendant
Status: in_force

The issues formed may be tried as in other cases, but when the defendant denies, in his or her answer, any liability on the obligation upon which the judgment was rendered, if a verdict be found against the defendant, it shall be for the amount remaining unsatisfied on such original judgment, with interest thereon.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.170 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.170
Dockets open for public inspection without charge
Status: in_force

The docket kept by the clerk shall be open at all times during office hours for the inspection of the public without charge. The clerk shall arrange the several dockets kept by the clerk in such a manner as to facilitate their inspection.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 16.120 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 16 / Section 16.120
Deliberation of jury: How and where conducted
Status: in_force

1. After hearing the charge, the jury shall retire for deliberation until they agree upon their verdict or are discharged by the court and must be kept together in a room provided for them, under charge of one or more officers, unless at the discretion of the court they are permitted to depart for home overnight. When the jury is kept together, the officer in charge shall keep the jury separate from other persons. The officer shall not permit any communication to them, or make any himself or herself, unless by order of the court, except to ask them if they have agreed upon their verdict. The officer shall not, before the verdict is rendered, communicate to any person the state of their deliberations or the verdict agreed upon.

2. Each party to the action may appoint one or more persons, one of whom on each side is entitled to remain with the officer in charge of the jury, and to be present at all times when any communication is had with any member of the jury except when they are permitted to depart for home overnight, and no communication, either oral or written, may be made to or received from any of the jurors while they are kept together, except in the presence of and hearing of persons selected by the parties; and in case of a written communication, it must not be delivered until read by them.

3. At each adjournment of the court, whether the jurors are permitted to depart for home overnight or are kept in charge of officers, they must be admonished by the judge or another officer of the court that it is their duty not to: (a) Communicate among themselves or with any other person concerning their deliberations or any other subject connected with the trial; or (b) Read, watch or listen to any report of or commentary on the trial or any person connected with the trial by any medium of information, including without limitation newspapers, television and radio.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 10.185 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 10 / Section 10.185
Voidability of release of liability given in connection with claim for personal injury sustained by releasor
Status: in_force

1. A release of liability given in connection with any claim for personal injury sustained by a releasor is voidable by a releasor within 60 days after its signing by the releasor, if the releasor signed the release: (a) Within 30 days after the event that initially caused his or her injury; and (b) Without the assistance or guidance of an attorney.

2. To void the release of liability pursuant to subsection 1, the releasor shall: (a) Sign a written notice disclosing the election of the releasor to void the release; and (b) Within 10 days after signing the notice: (1) Send the original notice or a signed copy of the notice to the releasee; and (2) Return any consideration paid by the releasee.

3. A release of liability is void on the date that the notice and any consideration described in subsection 2 are received by the releasee.

4. As used in this section: (a) “ Personal injury ” means any mental or physical injury. The term does not include property damage. (b) “ Release of liability ” means an agreement executed between a releasor and releasee. (c) “Releasee” means a party who is being released by the releasor from any claim described in subsection 1. (d) “Releasor” means a party who agrees to release the releasee from any claim described in subsection 1.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 19.035 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 19 / Section 19.035
Fees not to be charged or collected for services rendered certain governments or officers
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, the clerk of the court shall neither charge nor collect any fee for any service rendered by the clerk of the court to:

1. The State of Nevada;

2. The county in which he or she is clerk of the court;

3. Any city or town within that county;

4. The school district of that county;

5. Any general improvement district which is located within that county; or

6. Any officer of the State, that county or any such city, town, school district or general improvement district in the officer's official capacity.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 21.340 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 21 / Section 21.340
Disobedience of master's orders; contempts
Status: in_force

If any person, party or witness disobey an order of the master, properly made in the proceedings before the master under this chapter, he or she may be punished by the court or judge ordering the reference, for a contempt.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 18.090 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 18 / Section 18.090
Costs in actions by or against executors and trustees
Status: in_force

In an action prosecuted or defended by an executor, administrator, trustee of express trust, or a person expressly authorized by statute, costs may be recovered as in an action by and against a person prosecuting and defending in his or her own right; but such costs shall, by the judgment, be made chargeable only upon the estate, fund, or party represented, unless the court shall direct the same to be paid by the plaintiff or defendant, personally, for mismanagement or bad faith in the action or defense.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.258 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.258
Attorney required to consult expert; required affidavit of attorney; required report of expert
Status: in_force

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, in an action involving nonresidential construction, the attorney for the complainant shall file an affidavit with the court concurrently with the service of the first pleading in the action stating that the attorney: (a) Has reviewed the facts of the case; (b) Has consulted with an expert; (c) Reasonably believes the expert who was consulted is knowledgeable in the relevant discipline involved in the action; and (d) Has concluded on the basis of the review and the consultation with the expert that the action has a reasonable basis in law and fact.

2. The attorney for the complainant may file the affidavit required pursuant to subsection 1 at a later time if the attorney could not consult with an expert and prepare the affidavit before filing the action without causing the action to be impaired or barred by the statute of limitations or repose, or other limitations prescribed by law. If the attorney must submit the affidavit late, the attorney shall file an affidavit concurrently with the service of the first pleading in the action stating the reason for failing to comply with subsection 1 and the attorney shall consult with an expert and file the affidavit required pursuant to subsection 1 not later than 45 days after filing the action.

3. In addition to the statement included in the affidavit pursuant to subsection 1, a report must be attached to the affidavit. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, the report must be prepared by the expert consulted by the attorney and must include, without limitation: (a) The resume of the expert; (b) A statement that the expert is experienced in each discipline which is the subject of the report; (c) A copy of each nonprivileged document reviewed by the expert in preparing the report, including, without limitation, each record, report and related document that the expert has determined is relevant to the allegations of negligent conduct that are the basis for the action; (d) The conclusions of the expert and the basis for the conclusions; and (e) A statement that the expert has concluded that there is a reasonable basis for filing the action.

4. In an action in which an affidavit is required to be filed pursuant to subsection 1: (a) The report required pursuant to subsection 3 is not required to include the information set forth in paragraphs (c) and (d) of subsection 3 if the complainant or the complainant’s attorney files an affidavit, at the time that the affidavit is filed pursuant to subsection 1, stating that he or she made reasonable efforts to obtain the nonprivileged documents described in paragraph (c) of subsection 3, but was unable to obtain such documents before filing the action; (b) The complainant or the complainant’s attorney shall amend the report required pursuant to subsection 3 to include any documents and information required pursuant to paragraph (c) or (d) of subsection 3 as soon as reasonably practicable after receiving the document or information; and (c) The court may dismiss the action if the complainant and the complainant’s attorney fail to comply with the requirements of paragraph (b).

5. An expert consulted by an attorney to prepare an affidavit pursuant to this section must not be a party to the action.

6. As used in this section, “ expert ” means a person who is licensed in a state to engage in the practice of professional engineering, land surveying, architecture or landscape architecture.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.202 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.202
Actions for damages for injury or wrongful death caused by deficiency in construction of improvements to real property
Status: in_force

1. No action may be commenced against the owner, occupier or any person performing or furnishing the design, planning, supervision or observation of construction, or the construction of an improvement to real property more than 10 years after the substantial completion of such an improvement, for the recovery of damages for: (a) Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, any deficiency in the design, planning, supervision or observation of construction or the construction of such an improvement; (b) Injury to real or personal property caused by any such deficiency; or (c) Injury to or the wrongful death of a person caused by any such deficiency.

2. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, an action may be commenced against the owner, occupier or any person performing or furnishing the design, planning, supervision or observation of construction, or the construction of an improvement to real property at any time after the substantial completion of such an improvement, for the recovery of damages for any act of fraud in causing a deficiency in the design, planning, supervision or observation of construction or the construction of such an improvement. The provisions of this subsection do not apply to any lower-tiered subcontractor who performs work that covers up a defect or deficiency in another contractor's trade if the lower-tiered subcontractor does not know, and should not reasonably know, of the existence of the alleged defect or deficiency at the time of performing such work. As used in this subsection, “lower-tiered subcontractor” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 624.608 .

3. The provisions of this section do not apply: (a) To a claim for indemnity or contribution. (b) In an action brought against: (1) The owner or keeper of any hotel, inn, motel, motor court, boardinghouse or lodging house in this State on account of his or her liability as an innkeeper. (2) Any person on account of a defect in a product.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 14.060 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 14 / Section 14.060
Proceedings where there are several defendants and part only are served
Status: in_force

Where the action is against two or more defendants, and the summons is served on one or more but not on all of them, the plaintiff may proceed as follows:

1. If the action be against the defendants jointly indebted upon a contract, the plaintiff may proceed against the defendant served, unless the court otherwise directs; and if the plaintiff recover judgment, it may be entered against all the defendants thus jointly indebted, so far only as that it may be enforced against the joint property of all and the separate property of the defendant served; or

2. If the action be against defendants severally liable, the plaintiff may proceed against the defendants served in the same manner as if they were the only defendants.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.210 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.210
Mutual open accounts; accrual of cause of action
Status: in_force

In an action brought to recover a balance due upon a mutual, open and current account, where there have been reciprocal demands between the parties, the cause of action shall be deemed to have accrued from the time of the last item proved in the account on either side.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 21.200 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 21 / Section 21.200
Real property sold subject to redemption; who may redeem; redemptioner defined
Status: in_force

1. Property sold subject to redemption, as provided in NRS 21.190 , or any part sold separately, may be redeemed in the manner hereinafter provided by the following persons or their successors in interest: (a) The judgment debtor or the judgment debtor’s successor in interest, in the whole or any part of the property. (b) A creditor having a lien by judgment or mortgage on the property sold, or on some share or part thereof, subsequent to that on which the property was sold.

2. The person mentioned in paragraph (b) of subsection 1 is termed a “redemptioner” in this chapter.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 10.175 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 10 / Section 10.175
Seals of public offices: Impressions on documents
Status: in_force

A seal of a public office, when required to any writ or process or proceeding, or to authenticate a copy of any record or document, may be impressed with wax, wafer, or any other substance, and then attached to the writ, process or proceeding, or to the copy of the record or document, or it may be impressed on the paper alone.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.430 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.430
Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in NRS 17.410 to 17.660 , inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 17.440 to 17.550 , inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.940 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.940
Petition to vacate registration
Status: in_force

1. Not later than 30 days after notice under NRS 17.935 is served, the person against whom the judgment was registered may petition the court to vacate the registration. The court for cause may provide for a shorter or longer time for filing the petition.

2. A petition under this section may assert only: (a) A ground that could be asserted to deny recognition of the judgment under the Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act; or (b) A failure to comply with a requirement of NRS 17.900 to 17.955 , inclusive, for registration of the judgment.

3. A petition filed under this section does not itself stay enforcement of the registered judgment.

4. If the court grants a petition under this section, the registration is vacated, and any act under the registration to enforce the registered judgment is void.

5. If the court grants a petition under this section on a ground under paragraph (a) of subsection 2, the court also shall render a judgment denying recognition of the Canadian judgment. A judgment rendered under this subsection has the same effect as a judgment denying recognition to a judgment on the same ground under the Uniform Foreign-Country Money Judgments Recognition Act.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 16.090 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 16 / Section 16.090
Order of proceedings after jury has been sworn
Status: in_force

When the jury has been sworn, the trial must proceed in the following order, unless the judge for special reasons otherwise directs:

1. The pleadings may be read by counsel for the respective parties, as they may prefer, or, if not so read, counsel for the respective parties may state the issue during their opening statements. If the pleadings are not read before jury voir dire, the court or either counsel, as the court directs, may state the nature of the case to the jury and advise the jurors of the witnesses whom each side proposes to call. After the jury has been selected and sworn, counsel for the plaintiff and defendant, shall make opening statements if they desire.

2. The plaintiff and defendant shall then each offer the evidence upon his or her part.

3. The parties may then respectively offer rebutting evidence only, unless the court for good reason, in furtherance of justice, permits them to offer evidence upon their original case.

4. When the evidence is concluded, unless the case is submitted to the jury by either or both sides without argument, the plaintiff must commence and may conclude the argument.

5. If several plaintiffs or defendants, having separate claims or defenses, appear by different counsel, the court shall determine their relative order in the evidence and argument.

6. The court shall settle and give the instructions to the jury before the argument begins, but this does not prevent the giving of further instructions which may become necessary by reason of the argument.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 10.065 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 10 / Section 10.065
“Property” defined
Status: in_force

“Property” includes both real and personal property.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 20.015 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 20 / Section 20.015
Form of undertaking
Status: in_force

Whenever a party to an action or proceeding desires to give an undertaking pursuant to any provision of titles 2 to 6, inclusive, of NRS, it is sufficient if the sureties sign an undertaking indicating that they are bound to the obligations imposed by the statute under which the undertaking is given. Such undertaking may be in substantially the following form:

In the ________________________________________________ court ________________________________ (state title of the action). Whereas the above-named ________________________________ desires to give an undertaking for ________________________________ (state purpose) as provided by NRS ________________ Now, therefore, we the undersigned sureties, do hereby obligate ourselves, jointly and severally to ________________________________ (name the obligee) under the provisions of NRS ________________ in the sum of $ _____________ Dated this _____________ day of the month of ___________ of the year __________
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 19.034 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 19 / Section 19.034
Reduced fees for adoption of child with special needs or petition relating to agreement for postadoptive contact
Status: in_force

1. If the agency which provides child welfare services, or a child-placing agency licensed by the Division of Child and Family Services of the Department of Health and Human Services pursuant to chapter 127 of NRS , consents to the adoption of a child with special needs pursuant to NRS 127.186 , the clerk of the court shall reduce the total filing fee to not more than $1 for filing the petition to adopt such a child.

2. If a natural parent or adoptive parent who has entered into an agreement that provides for postadoptive contact pursuant to NRS 127.187 files a petition pursuant to subsection 1 or 2 of NRS 127.1885 , the clerk of the court shall reduce the total filing fee to not more than $1 for filing the petition.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 16.160 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 16 / Section 16.160
Court may adjourn from time to time while jury absent; sealed verdict
Status: in_force

While the jury are absent the court may adjourn from time to time in respect to other business, but it shall, nevertheless, be deemed open for every purpose connected with the cause submitted to the jury until a verdict is rendered or the jury discharged. The court may direct the jury to bring in a sealed verdict at the opening of the court, in case of an agreement during a recess or adjournment for the day.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.370 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.370
Stay of enforcement of foreign judgment
Status: in_force

1. If the judgment debtor shows the court that an appeal from the foreign judgment is pending or will be taken, or that a stay of execution has been granted, the court shall stay enforcement of the foreign judgment until the appeal is concluded, the time for appeal expires or the stay of execution expires or is vacated, upon proof that the judgment debtor has furnished the security for the satisfaction of the judgment required by the state in which it was rendered.

2. If the judgment debtor shows the court any ground upon which enforcement of a judgment of any court of this state would be stayed, including, without limitation, a showing that an appeal is pending or will be taken, that a stay has been granted, requested or will be requested, or that the time for taking an appeal has not yet expired, the court shall stay enforcement of the foreign judgment for an appropriate period, upon requiring the same security for satisfaction of the judgment which is required in this state, including, without limitation, security determined pursuant to NRS 20.035 or 20.037 , if applicable.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 21.070 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 21 / Section 21.070
Execution to issue to sheriff
Status: in_force

Where the execution is against the property of the judgment debtor, it may be issued to the sheriff of any county in the State. Where it requires the delivery of real or personal property, it shall be issued to the sheriff of the county where the property, or some part thereof, is situated. Executions may be issued at the same time to different counties.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 19.020 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 19 / Section 19.020
Commencement of civil action; administration of estate; appeal from Justice Court
Status: in_force

1. At the time of the commencement of every civil action or other proceeding in the several district courts, the plaintiff shall pay the clerk of the court in which the action is commenced the sum of $3, except as otherwise provided by specific statute.

2. At the commencement of any proceeding in any district court for the purpose of procuring an appointment of administration upon the estate of any deceased person, the party instituting the proceeding shall pay the clerk of the court the sum of $1.50.

3. Whenever any appeal is taken in a civil action or proceeding from the judgment or decision of a justice court, or other tribunal inferior to the district court, the party appealing shall, before the return to the appeal may be filed in the appellate court, pay to the clerk of the appellate court the sum of $5.

4. The several fees provided for in this section are designated as court fees, and no such action may be deemed commenced, proceedings instituted, nor appeal perfected until the court fees are paid.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.030 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.030
Parties not summoned in action on joint obligation may be summoned after judgment
Status: in_force

When a judgment is recovered against one or more of several persons jointly indebted upon an obligation, by proceedings as provided in NRS 14.060 , those who were not originally served with the summons and did not appear to the action may be summoned to show cause why they should not be bound by the judgment in the same manner as though they had been originally served with the summons.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.110 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.110
Occupation under written instrument or judgment; when deemed adverse
Status: in_force

Whenever it shall appear that the occupant, or those under whom the occupant claims, entered into the possession of premises, under claim of title, exclusive of any other right, founding such claim upon a written instrument as being a conveyance of the premises in question, or upon the decree or judgment of a competent court, and that there has been a continued occupation and possession of the premises included in such instrument, decree, or judgment, or of some part of such premises, under such claim, for 5 years, the premises so included shall be deemed to have been held adversely, except that where the premises so included consists of a tract divided into lots, the possession of one lot shall not be deemed a possession of any other lot of the same tract.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 22.090 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 22 / Section 22.090
Trial; court to hear answer and witnesses; adjournment
Status: in_force

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 necessary.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 14.065 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 14 / Section 14.065
Exercise of jurisdiction on any basis consistent with State and Federal Constitutions; service of summons to confer jurisdiction
Status: in_force

1. A court of this state may exercise jurisdiction over a party to a civil action on any basis not inconsistent with the Constitution of this state or the Constitution of the United States.

2. Personal service of summons upon a party outside this state is sufficient to confer upon a court of this state jurisdiction over the party so served if the service is made by delivering a copy of the summons, together with a copy of the complaint, to the party served in the manner provided by statute or rule of court for service upon a person of like kind within this state.

3. The method of service provided in this section is cumulative, and may be utilized with, after or independently of other methods of service.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.630 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.630
Enforcement of foreign judgments
Status: in_force

1. If an action is brought to enforce a judgment of another jurisdiction expressed in a foreign money and the judgment is recognized in this state as enforceable, the enforcing judgment must be entered as provided in NRS 17.600 , whether or not the foreign judgment confers an option to pay in an equivalent amount of United States dollars.

2. A foreign judgment may be filed in accordance with any rule or statute of this state providing a procedure for its recognition and enforcement.

3. A satisfaction or partial payment made upon the foreign judgment, on proof thereof, must be credited against the amount of foreign money specified in the judgment, notwithstanding the entry of judgment in this state.

4. A judgment entered on a foreign-money claim only in United States dollars in another state must be enforced in this state in United States dollars only.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 22.050 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 22 / Section 22.050
Amount of bail may be fixed by endorsement on warrant of attachment
Status: in_force

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.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 19.050 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 19 / Section 19.050
Clerks to receive costs of publication
Status: in_force

Except as otherwise provided in subsection 8 of NRS 127.186 , when by law any publication is required to be made by a clerk of the court of any suit, process, notice, order or other paper, the cost of such publication shall, if demanded, be tendered by the party to whom such order, process, notice or other paper was granted before the clerk of the court shall be compelled to make publication thereof.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 12.100 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 12 / Section 12.100
Action not to abate by death of any party after verdict
Status: in_force

After verdict shall have been rendered in any action for a wrong, such action shall not abate by the death of any party, but the case shall proceed thereafter in the same manner as in cases where the cause of action now survives by law.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 21.320 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 21 / Section 21.320
Judge may order property applied toward satisfaction of judgment
Status: in_force

The judge or master may order any property of the judgment debtor not exempt from execution, in the hands of such debtor or any other person, or due to the judgment debtor, to be applied toward the satisfaction of the judgment.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 16.140 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 16 / Section 16.140
Jury may come into court for further instructions
Status: in_force

After the jury has retired for deliberation, if there is a disagreement among them as to any part of the testimony, or if they desire to be informed of any point of law arising in the cause, they may require the officer to conduct them into court. Upon their being brought into court, the court may order the court reporter to read the portion of the testimony which they request, or any part thereof, and the court may provide any information requested on the law. This shall be in the presence of or after notice to the parties or counsel.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 21.060 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 21 / Section 21.060
Execution may issue after death of party
Status: in_force

Notwithstanding the death of a party after the judgment, execution thereon may be issued, in case of the death of the plaintiff, the same as if the plaintiff were living, upon the application of the plaintiff’s executor or administrator, or successor in interest, to the court in which the judgment was rendered; and in case of the death of the defendant, if the judgment be for the recovery of real or personal property, execution may be issued against such property, in the same manner and with the same effect as if the defendant were still living.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.660 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.660
Supplementary general principles of law
Status: in_force

Unless displaced by particular provisions of NRS 17.410 to 17.660 , inclusive, the principles of law and equity, including the law merchant, and the law relative to capacity to contract, principal and agent, estoppel, fraud, misrepresentation, duress, coercion, mistake, bankruptcy or other validating or invalidating causes supplement the provisions of those sections.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.390 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.390
Judgment creditor may bring action to enforce judgment
Status: in_force

A judgment creditor may elect to bring an action to enforce his or her judgment instead of proceeding under NRS 17.330 to 17.400 , inclusive.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.100 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.100
Written statement made by defendant; form
Status: in_force

A statement in writing shall be made, signed by the defendant and verified by his or her oath, to the following effect:

1. It shall authorize the entry of judgment for a specified sum.

2. If it be money due, or to become due, it shall state concisely the facts out of which it arose, and shall show that the sum confessed therefor is justly due, or to become due.

3. If it be for the purpose of securing the plaintiff against a contingent liability, it shall state concisely the facts constituting the liability, and shall show that the sum confessed therefor does not exceed the same.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.550 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.550
“State” defined
Status: in_force

“State” means a state of the United States, the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico or a territory or insular possession subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 16.060 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 16 / Section 16.060
Challenges for cause tried by court
Status: in_force

Challenges for cause shall be tried by the court. The juror challenged and any other person may be examined as a witness on the trial of the challenge.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 22.010 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 22 / Section 22.010
Acts or omissions constituting contempts
Status: in_force

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 breach of the peace, boisterous conduct or violent disturbance in the presence of the court, or in its immediate vicinity, tending to interrupt the due course of the trial or other judicial proceeding.

3. Disobedience or resistance to any lawful writ, order, rule or process issued by the court or judge at chambers.

4. Disobedience of a subpoena duly served, or refusing to be sworn or answer as a witness.

5. Rescuing any person or property in the custody of an officer by virtue of an order or process of such court or judge at chambers.

6. Disobedience of the order or direction of the court made pending the trial of an action, in speaking to or in the presence of a juror concerning an action in which the juror has been impaneled to determine, or in any manner approaching or interfering with such juror with the intent to influence the verdict.

7. Abusing the process or proceedings of the court or falsely pretending to act under the authority of an order or process of the court.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.905 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.905
Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in NRS 17.900 to 17.955 , inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 17.910 and 17.915 have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 22.020 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 22 / Section 22.020
Reentry on real property after ejectment by judgment or process
Status: in_force

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 person therein, is guilty of a contempt of the court by which such judgment was rendered or from which such process issued, and shall be tried and punished therefor in the same manner and form as provided by law in cases of contempt not committed in the presence of the court or justice of the peace. Upon conviction for such contempt, the court or justice of the peace shall immediately issue an alias process directing the proper officer to restore possession to the party entitled to the property under the original judgment, decree or process.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 18.130 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 18 / Section 18.130
When plaintiff may be required to secure costs; affidavits of sureties; dismissal of action if undertaking not filed
Status: in_force

1. When a plaintiff in an action resides out of the State, or is a foreign corporation, security for the costs and charges which may be awarded against such plaintiff may be required by the defendant, by the filing and service on plaintiff of a written demand therefor within the time limited for answering the complaint. When so required, all proceedings in the action shall be stayed until an undertaking, executed by two or more persons, be filed with the clerk, to the effect that they will pay such costs and charges as may be awarded against the plaintiff by judgment, or in the progress of the action, not exceeding the sum of $500; or in lieu of such undertaking, the plaintiff may deposit $500, lawful money, with the clerk of the court, subject to the same conditions as required for the undertaking. The plaintiff, upon filing the undertaking or depositing the security, shall notify the defendant of such filing or deposit, and the defendant, after receipt of such notice, shall have 10 days or the period allowed under N.R.C.P. 12(a) , whichever is longer, in which to answer or otherwise plead to the complaint.

2. A new or an additional undertaking may be ordered by the court or judge upon proof that the original undertaking is insufficient security, and proceedings in the action stayed until such new or additional undertaking be executed and filed.

3. Each of the sureties on the undertaking mentioned in subsection 1 shall annex to the same an affidavit that the surety is a resident and householder, or freeholder, within the county and is worth double the amount specified in the undertaking, over and above all the surety’s just debts and liabilities, exclusive of property exempt from execution.

4. After the lapse of 30 days from the service of notice that security is required, or of an order for new or additional security, upon proof thereof, and that no undertaking as required has been filed, the court or judge may order the action to be dismissed.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.350 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.350
Action stayed by injunction
Status: in_force

When the commencement of one action shall be stayed by injunction or statutory prohibition, the time of the continuance of the injunction or prohibition shall not be part of the time limited for the commencement of the action.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 16.080 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 16 / Section 16.080
Discharge and replacement of jurors who become unable or disqualified to perform duties
Status: in_force

After the impaneling of the jury and before verdict, the court may discharge a juror upon a showing of the juror’s sickness, a serious illness or death of a member of the juror’s immediate family, an undue hardship, an extreme inconvenience, any other inability to perform the juror’s duty or a public necessity. Alternate jurors, in the order in which they were selected, shall replace jurors who become unable or disqualified to perform their duties. If an alternate juror is required to replace a regular juror after the jury has retired to deliberate, the court shall recall the jury, seat the alternate and resubmit the case to the jury. If no alternate juror has been selected, the trial may proceed with the remaining jurors, only if the parties so agree. If the parties do not so agree, the jury shall be discharged, and a new jury then or afterwards impaneled.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.255 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.255
Actions by or on behalf of this State
Status: in_force

1. The provisions of this chapter concerning actions other than for the recovery of real property shall apply to actions brought in the name of the State, or for the benefit of the State, in the same manner as to actions by private individuals.

2. Except as provided in NRS 11.030 and 11.040 , there shall be no limitation of actions brought in the name of the State, or for the benefit of the State, for the recovery of real property.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.030 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.030
When action cannot be brought by grantee from this State
Status: in_force

No action can be brought for or in respect to real property by any person claiming under letters patent, or grants from this State, unless the same might have been commenced by the State as herein specified in case such patent had not been issued or grant made.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 10.135 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 10 / Section 10.135
Interpretation
Status: in_force

As used in this title, every mode of oral statement, under oath or affirmation, is embraced by the term “testify,” and every written one in the term “depose.”
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 12.070 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 12 / Section 12.070
Parent or guardian may maintain action for seduction
Status: in_force

Either of the parents or the guardian of a male or female minor child under the age of 16 years may, on behalf of that child, bring an action for the seduction of that child, against a person 3 or more years older than the child. The parent or guardian, as plaintiff, need not show that the child was living with the parent or guardian or was in the service of the parent or guardian at the time of the seduction or later, or that the parent or guardian suffered a loss of service.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.070 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.070
Written allegations
Status: in_force

If the defendant, in his or her answer, deny the judgment, or set up any defense which may have arisen subsequently, the summons, with the affidavit annexed, and the answer shall constitute the written allegations in the case. If the defendant deny his or her liability on the obligation upon which the judgment was recovered, a copy of the original complaint and judgment, the summons, with the affidavit annexed, and the answer shall constitute such written allegations.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 14.090 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 14 / Section 14.090
Service of process at residence accessible only through gate
Status: in_force

1. A person who resides at a location to which access is not reasonably available except through a gate may be lawfully served with any legal process in the manner provided in this section. If there is: (a) A guard posted at the gate and the guard denies access to the residence for service of process, service of process is effective upon leaving a copy thereof with the guard. (b) No guard posted at the gate and entry through the gate is not reasonably available, the court may, if it is satisfied by affidavit that those facts are true, allow service of process by mailing a copy thereof to the residence by certified or registered mail.

2. The manner of service authorized by this section is supplemental to and does not affect the validity of any other manner of service authorized by law.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 18.140 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 18 / Section 18.140
Plaintiffs for whom bond or undertaking not required
Status: in_force

In any civil action or proceeding wherein the State, or the people of the State, is a party plaintiff, or any state officer, in his or her official capacity or in behalf of the State, or any county, city and county, city or town, or the United States of America, or the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, a federal corporation, is a party plaintiff, no bond, written undertaking, or security can be required of the State, or the people thereof, or of the United States of America, or the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, a federal corporation, or any officer thereof, or of any county, city and county, city or town; but on complying with the other provisions of NRS the State, or the people thereof, or the United States of America, or the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, a federal corporation, or any officer thereof acting in his or her official capacity, has the same rights, remedies and benefits as if the bond, undertaking, or security were given and approved as required by this or any other law of the State of Nevada.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.480 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.480
“Foreign money” defined
Status: in_force

“Foreign money” means money other than money of the United States of America.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 21.080 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 21 / Section 21.080
Property liable to execution; property not affected by execution until levy; exemption of certain trusts
Status: in_force

1. All goods, chattels, money and other property, real and personal, of the judgment debtor, or any interest therein of the judgment debtor not exempt by law, and all property and rights of property seized and held under attachment in the action, are liable to execution. Subject to the provisions of chapters 104 to 104C, inclusive, of NRS, shares and interests in any corporation or company, and debts and credits and other property not capable of manual delivery, may be attached in execution in like manner as upon writs of attachments. Gold dust and bullion must be returned by the officer as so much money collected, at its current value, without exposing the same to sale. Until a levy, property is not affected by the execution.

2. This chapter does not authorize the seizure of, or other interference with, any money, thing in action, lands or other property held in spendthrift trust or in a discretionary or support trust governed by chapter 163 of NRS for a judgment debtor, or held in such trust for any beneficiary, pursuant to any judgment, order or process of any bankruptcy or other court directed against any such beneficiary or trustee of the beneficiary. This subsection does not apply to the interest of the beneficiary of a trust where the fund so held in trust has proceeded from the beneficiary unless: (a) The beneficiary is the settlor of the trust; and (b) The trust is a spendthrift trust that was created in compliance with the provisions of chapter 166 of NRS .
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.217 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.217
Actions for damages for injury arising from sexual assault of adult
Status: in_force

1. An action to recover damages for an injury to a person arising from the sexual assault of the plaintiff which occurred when the plaintiff was 18 years of age or older may be commenced against the alleged perpetrator or person convicted of the sexual assault at any time after the sexual assault occurred. In such an action, if the alleged injury to the plaintiff is the result of a series of two or more acts constituting sexual assault, the plaintiff is not required to identify which specific act in the series of acts caused the alleged injury.

2. As used in this section, “ sexual assault ” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 200.366 .
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.750 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.750
Standards for recognition of foreign-country judgment
Status: in_force

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 2 and 3, a court of this State shall recognize a foreign-country judgment to which NRS 17.700 to 17.820 , inclusive, apply.

2. A court of this State may not recognize a foreign-country judgment if: (a) The judgment was rendered under a judicial system that does not provide impartial tribunals or procedures compatible with the requirements of due process of law; (b) The foreign court did not have personal jurisdiction over the defendant; or (c) The foreign court did not have jurisdiction over the subject matter.

3. A court of this State need not recognize a foreign-country judgment if: (a) The defendant in the proceeding in the foreign court did not receive notice of the proceeding in sufficient time to enable the defendant to defend; (b) The judgment was obtained by fraud that deprived the losing party of an adequate opportunity to present its case; (c) The judgment or the cause of action on which the judgment is based is repugnant to the public policy of this State or of the United States; (d) The judgment conflicts with another final and conclusive judgment; (e) The proceeding in the foreign court was contrary to an agreement between the parties under which the dispute in question was to be determined otherwise than by proceedings in that foreign court; (f) In the case of jurisdiction based only on personal service, the foreign court was a seriously inconvenient forum for the trial of the action; (g) The judgment was rendered in circumstances that raise substantial doubt about the integrity of the rendering court with respect to the judgment; or (h) The specific proceeding in the foreign court leading to the judgment was not compatible with the requirements of due process of law.

4. A party resisting recognition of a foreign-country judgment has the burden of establishing that a ground for nonrecognition stated in subsection 2 or 3 exists.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 21.260 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 21 / Section 21.260
Recovery by purchaser from judgment creditor after eviction from property because of irregularities of sale; revival of original judgment
Status: in_force

1. If the purchaser of real property sold on execution, or the purchaser’s successor in interest, or a redemptioner is evicted therefrom because of irregularities in the proceedings concerning the sale or of the reversal or discharge of the judgment, the person may recover the price paid, with interest, from the judgment creditor.

2. If the purchaser of property at a sheriff's sale, or the purchaser’s successor in interest, fails to recover possession in consequence of irregularity in the proceedings concerning the sale, or because the property sold was not subject to execution and sale, the court having jurisdiction thereof shall, on petition of such party in interest, or the party’s attorney, revive the original judgment for the amount paid by the purchaser at the sale, with interest thereon from the time of payment at the same rate that the original judgment bore, and when so revived, the judgment has the same effect as an original judgment of the court of that date, and bearing interest as aforesaid, and any other or after-acquired property, rents, issues or profits of the debtor is liable to levy and sale, under execution in satisfaction of the debt if: (a) No property of the debtor bona fide sold upon the recording of the petition is subject to the lien of the judgment; and (b) The notice of the recording of the petition is made by recording a notice thereof in the office of the recorder of the county where the property is situated, and that the judgment must be revived in the name of the original plaintiff or plaintiffs, for the use of the petitioner, the party in interest.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 13.060 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 13 / Section 13.060
Transfer of cases for trial to other counties within judicial district when actions uncontested; stipulations
Status: in_force

In any civil action where the complaint or petition is uncontested, or where the parties so stipulate, the court in the county where the action is brought may, upon application of the parties, or of the complainant or petitioner if the action is uncontested and all required notices have been given, transfer the action for trial to another county within the same judicial district.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 19.033 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 19 / Section 19.033
Additional fees in action for dissolution of marriage or termination of domestic partnership
Status: in_force

1. In each county, on the commencement of any action for divorce or the termination of a domestic partnership in the district court, the clerk of the court shall charge and collect, in addition to other fees required by law, a fee of $30. The fee must be paid by the party commencing the action.

2. On or before the first Monday of each month, the clerk of the court shall pay over to the county treasurer an amount equal to all fees collected by the clerk of the court pursuant to subsection 1, and the county treasurer shall place that amount to the credit of the State General Fund. Quarterly, the county treasurer shall remit all money so collected to the State Controller, who shall place the money in an account in the State General Fund for use by the Director of the Department of Employment, Training and Rehabilitation to administer the provisions of NRS 388.605 to 388.655 , inclusive.

3. The board of county commissioners of any county may impose by ordinance an additional filing fee of not more than $6 to be paid by the defendant in an action for divorce, annulment or separate maintenance. In a county where this fee has been imposed: (a) On the appearance of a defendant in the action in the district court, the clerk of the court, in addition to any other fees provided by law, shall charge and collect from the defendant the prescribed fee to be paid upon the filing of the first paper in the action by the defendant. (b) On or before the fifth day of each month, the clerk of the court shall account for and pay to the county treasurer all fees collected during the preceding month pursuant to paragraph (a).
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.800 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.800
Statute of limitations
Status: in_force

An action to recognize a foreign-country judgment must be commenced within the earlier of the time during which the foreign-country judgment is effective in the foreign country or 15 years from the date that the foreign-country judgment became effective in the foreign country.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 18.010 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 18 / Section 18.010
Award of attorney's fees
Status: in_force

1. The compensation of an attorney and counselor for his or her services is governed by agreement, express or implied, which is not restrained by law.

2. In addition to the cases where an allowance is authorized by specific statute, the court may make an allowance of attorney's fees to a prevailing party: (a) When the prevailing party has not recovered more than $20,000; or (b) Without regard to the recovery sought, when the court finds that the claim, counterclaim, cross-claim or third-party complaint or defense of the opposing party was brought or maintained without reasonable ground or to harass the prevailing party. The court shall liberally construe the provisions of this paragraph in favor of awarding attorney's fees in all appropriate situations. It is the intent of the Legislature that the court award attorney's fees pursuant to this paragraph and impose sanctions pursuant to Rule 11 of the Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure in all appropriate situations to punish for and deter frivolous or vexatious claims and defenses because such claims and defenses overburden limited judicial resources, hinder the timely resolution of meritorious claims and increase the costs of engaging in business and providing professional services to the public.

3. In awarding attorney's fees, the court may pronounce its decision on the fees at the conclusion of the trial or special proceeding without written motion and with or without presentation of additional evidence.

4. Subsections 2 and 3 do not apply to any action arising out of a written instrument or agreement which entitles the prevailing party to an award of reasonable attorney's fees.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.710 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.710
Definitions
Status: in_force

As used in NRS 17.700 to 17.820 , inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 17.720 and 17.730 have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 14.010 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 14 / Section 14.010
Notice of pendency of actions affecting real property: Recording
Status: in_force

1. In an action for the foreclosure of a mortgage upon real property, or affecting the title or possession of real property, the plaintiff, at the time of filing the complaint, and the defendant, at the time of filing his or her answer, if affirmative relief is claimed in the answer, shall record with the recorder of each county in which the property, or any part thereof, is situated, a notice of the pendency of the action, containing the names of the parties, the object of the action and a description of the property in that county affected thereby, and the defendant shall also in the notice state the nature and extent of the relief claimed in the answer.

2. A notice of an action affecting real property which is pending in any United States District Court for the District of Nevada may be recorded and indexed in the same manner and in the same place as provided with respect to actions pending in courts of this state.

3. From the time of recording only, except as otherwise provided in NRS 14.017 , the pendency of the action is constructive notice to a purchaser or encumbrancer of the property affected thereby. In case of the foreclosure of the mortgage, all purchasers or encumbrancers, by unrecorded deed or other instrument in writing made before the recording of the notice, and after the date of the mortgage, shall be deemed purchasers or encumbrancers after the recording of the notice, and subject thereto, unless NRS 14.017 is applicable or they can show that, at the time of recording the notice, the plaintiff had actual notice of the purchase or encumbrance.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.360 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.360
Affidavit; notice of filing judgment and affidavit
Status: in_force

1. At the time of the filing of the foreign judgment, the judgment creditor or the judgment creditor’s attorney shall file with the clerk of the court an affidavit setting forth the name and last known post office address of the judgment debtor and the judgment creditor. The affidavit must also include a statement that the foreign judgment is valid and enforceable, and the extent to which it has been satisfied.

2. Promptly upon filing the foreign judgment and affidavit, the judgment creditor or someone on behalf of the judgment creditor shall mail notice of the filing of the judgment and affidavit, attaching a copy of each to the notice, to the judgment debtor and to the judgment debtor’s attorney of record, if any, each at his or her last known address by certified mail, return receipt requested. The notice shall include the name and post office address of the judgment creditor and the judgment creditor's attorney, if any, in this state. The judgment creditor shall file with the clerk of the court an affidavit setting forth the date upon which the notice was mailed.

3. No execution or other process for enforcement of a foreign judgment may issue until 30 days after the date of mailing the notice of filing.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.020 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.020
Effect of laws of limitation of other states or countries
Status: in_force

When a cause of action has arisen in another state, or in a foreign country, and by the laws thereof an action thereon cannot there be maintained against a person by reason of the lapse of time, an action thereon shall not be maintained against the person in this State, except in favor of a citizen thereof who has held the cause of action from the time it accrued.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.2055 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.2055
Actions for damages for injury or wrongful death caused by deficiency in construction of improvements to real property: Determination of date of substantial completion of improvement to real property
Status: in_force

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, for the purposes of this section and NRS 11.202 , the date of substantial completion of an improvement to real property shall be deemed to be the date on which: (a) The final building inspection of the improvement is conducted; (b) A notice of completion is issued for the improvement; or (c) A certificate of occupancy is issued for the improvement, whichever occurs later.

2. If none of the events described in subsection 1 occurs, the date of substantial completion of an improvement to real property must be determined by the rules of the common law.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 19.040 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 19 / Section 19.040
Table to be posted
Status: in_force

Every clerk of the court 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 clerk of the court, a table of fees according to this chapter for the inspection of all persons who have business in the office of the clerk of the court.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 19.03135 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 19 / Section 19.03135
Additional fees in civil actions: Programs for prevention and treatment of substance use disorders
Status: in_force

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 $10 to be paid on the commencement of any civil action or proceeding in the district court for which a filing fee is required and on the filing of any answer or appearance in any such action or proceeding for which a filing fee is required, except as otherwise required pursuant to NRS 19.034 .

2. On or before the fifth day of each month, in a county where a fee has been imposed pursuant to subsection 1, the clerk of the court shall account for and pay over to the county treasurer any such fees collected by the clerk of the court during the preceding month for credit to an account for programs for the prevention and treatment of alcohol and drug use disorders in the county general fund. The money in that account must be used only to support programs for the prevention or treatment of alcohol or drug use disorder, or both, which may include, without limitation, any program for treatment of drug or alcohol use disorder established in a judicial district pursuant to NRS 176A.230 .
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 14.030 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 14 / Section 14.030
Service of process when artificial person fails to appoint registered agent or when street address of registered agent is not staffed
Status: in_force

1. If any artificial person described in NRS 14.020 fails to appoint a registered agent, or fails to file a statement of change of registered agent pursuant to NRS 77.340 before the effective date of a vacancy in the agency pursuant to NRS 77.330 or 77.370 , on the production of a certificate of the Secretary of State showing either fact, which is conclusive evidence of the fact so certified to be made a part of the return of service, or if the street address of the registered agent of the artificial person is not staffed as required pursuant to NRS 14.020 , which fact is to be made part of the return of service, the artificial person may be served with any and all legal process, or a demand or notice described in NRS 14.020 , by delivering a copy to the Secretary of State or, in the absence of the Secretary of State, to any deputy secretary of state, and such service is valid to all intents and purposes. The copy must: (a) Include a specific citation to the provisions of this section. The Secretary of State may refuse to accept such service if the proper citation is not included. (b) Be accompanied by a fee of $10. The Secretary of State shall keep a copy of the legal process received pursuant to this section in the Office of the Secretary of State for at least 1 year after receipt thereof and shall make those records available for public inspection during normal business hours.

2. In all cases of such service, the defendant has 40 days, exclusive of the day of service, within which to answer or plead.

3. Before such service is authorized, the plaintiff shall make or cause to be made and filed an affidavit setting forth the facts, showing that due diligence has been used to ascertain the whereabouts of the officers of the artificial person to be served, and the facts showing that direct or personal service on, or notice to, the artificial person cannot be had.

4. If it appears from the affidavit that there is a last known address of the artificial person or any known officers thereof, the plaintiff shall, in addition to and after such service on the Secretary of State, mail or cause to be mailed to the artificial person or to the known officer, at such address, by registered or certified mail, a copy of the summons and a copy of the complaint, and in all such cases the defendant has 40 days after the date of the mailing within which to appear in the action.

5. This section provides an additional manner of serving process, and does not affect the validity of any other valid service.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 19.0312 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 19 / Section 19.0312
Additional fees in civil actions: Pro bono programs and programs for abused or neglected children and victims of domestic violence
Status: in_force

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, 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 services without a charge to indigent or elderly persons, a board of county commissioners may impose by ordinance a filing fee to offset a portion of the costs of providing pro bono programs and of providing legal services without a charge to abused or neglected children and victims of domestic violence to be remitted to the organization operating the program for legal services that receives the fees charged pursuant to NRS 19.031 for programs for the indigent in an amount not to exceed: (a) Ten dollars to be paid on the commencement of any civil action or proceeding in the district court for which a filing fee is required and on the filing of any answer or appearance in any such action or proceeding for which a filing fee is required. (b) Twenty-five dollars to be paid on the filing of any motion or other paper that seeks to modify or adjust a final order that was issued pursuant to chapter 125, 125B or 125C of NRS and on the filing of any answer or response to such a motion or other paper.

2. A board of county commissioners may not by ordinance impose a filing fee pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 1 for: (a) A motion filed solely to adjust the amount of support for a child set forth in a final order; or (b) A motion for reconsideration or for a new trial that is filed within 10 days after a final judgment or decree has been issued.

3. On or before the first Monday of each month, in a county in which a fee has been imposed pursuant to subsection 1, the clerk of the court shall account for and pay over to the county treasurer any such fees collected by the clerk of the court during the preceding month. The county treasurer shall remit quarterly to the organization to which the fees are to be paid pursuant to subsection 1 all the money received by the county treasurer from the clerk of the court.

4. Any fees collected pursuant to this section must be used for the benefit of the persons to whom the organization operating the program for legal services that receives money pursuant to this section provides legal services without a charge.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.025 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.025
Payment of judgment in favor of minor
Status: in_force

Whenever a judgment for a sum of money is entered in favor of a minor, the court may:

1. Direct the money to be paid to either parent, or if the parents of the minor are living separate and apart, to the custodial parent, or if no custody award has been made, to the parent with whom the minor is living, or if a general guardian or guardian of the estate of the minor has been appointed, to the guardian, with or without the filing of any bond; or

2. Require a general guardian or guardian ad litem to be appointed and the money to be paid to the guardian or guardian ad litem with or without the filing of any bond,

as in the discretion of the court seems to be in the best interests of the minor.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.650 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.650
Effect of currency revalorization
Status: in_force

1. If, after an obligation is expressed or a loss is incurred in a foreign money, the country issuing or adopting that money substitutes a new money in place of that money, the obligation or the loss must be treated as if expressed or incurred in the new money at the rate of conversion the issuing country establishes for the payment of like obligations or losses denominated in the former money.

2. If substitution under subsection 1 occurs after a judgment or award is entered on a foreign-money claim, the court or arbitrator shall amend the judgment or award by a like conversion of the former money.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 10.085 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 10 / Section 10.085
“State” defined
Status: in_force

“State” when applied to the different parts of the United States, includes the District of Columbia and the territories.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.225 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.225
Right to contribution
Status: in_force

1. Except as otherwise provided in this section and NRS 17.235 to 17.305 , inclusive, where two or more persons become jointly or severally liable in tort for the same injury to person or property or for the same wrongful death, there is a right of contribution among them even though judgment has not been recovered against all or any of them.

2. The right of contribution exists only in favor of a tortfeasor who has paid more than his or her equitable share of the common liability, and the tortfeasor’s total recovery is limited to the amount paid by the tortfeasor in excess of his or her equitable share. No tortfeasor is compelled to make contribution beyond his or her own equitable share of the entire liability.

3. A tortfeasor who enters into a settlement with a claimant is not entitled to recover contribution from another tortfeasor whose liability for the injury or wrongful death is not extinguished by the settlement nor in respect to any amount paid in a settlement which is in excess of what was reasonable.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 10.055 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 10 / Section 10.055
“Process” defined
Status: in_force

“Process” signifies a writ or summons in the course of judicial proceedings.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 18.120 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 18 / Section 18.120
Interest and costs must be included by clerk in judgment
Status: in_force

The clerk shall include in the judgment entered up by the clerk any interest on the verdict or judgment of the court or master, from the time it was rendered or made, and the costs, if the same have been taxed or ascertained; and the clerk shall, within 2 days after the same shall be taxed or ascertained, if not included in the judgment, insert the same in a blank to be left in the judgment for that purpose, and shall make a similar insertion of the costs in the copies and docket of the judgment.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.390 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.390
Acknowledgment or new promise must be in writing; exception
Status: in_force

No acknowledgment or promise shall be sufficient evidence of a new or continuing contract whereby to take the case out of the operation of this chapter, unless the same be contained in some writing signed by the party to be charged thereby, except as provided in NRS 11.200 .
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.2565 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.2565
“Action involving nonresidential construction” defined
Status: in_force

1. “ Action involving nonresidential construction ” means an action that: (a) Is commenced against a design professional; and (b) Involves the design, construction, manufacture, repair or landscaping of a nonresidential building or structure, of an alteration of or addition to an existing nonresidential building or structure, or of an appurtenance, including, without limitation, the design, construction, manufacture, repair or landscaping of a new nonresidential building or structure, of an alteration of or addition to an existing nonresidential building or structure, or of an appurtenance. The term includes, without limitation, an action for professional negligence.

2. As used in this section: (a) “ Appurtenance ” means a structure, installation, facility, amenity or other improvement that is appurtenant to or benefits one or more nonresidential buildings or structures, but is not a part of the nonresidential building or structure. The term includes, without limitation, the parcel of real property, recreational facilities, walls, sidewalks, driveways, landscaping and other structures, installations, facilities and amenities associated with or benefiting one or more nonresidential buildings or structures. (b) “ Design professional ” means a person who holds a professional license or certificate issued pursuant to chapter 623, 623A or 625 of NRS or a person primarily engaged in the practice of professional engineering, land surveying, architecture or landscape architecture.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 21.280 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 21 / Section 21.280
Proceedings in aid of execution; appearance of judgment debtor before court; arrest; bail or commitment
Status: in_force

After the issuing of an execution against property, and upon proof by affidavit of a party or otherwise, to the satisfaction of the court or of the judge thereof, that any judgment debtor has property which the judgment debtor unjustly refuses to apply toward the satisfaction of the judgment, such court or judge may by an order require the judgment debtor to appear at a specified time and place before such judge, or master appointed by the judge, to answer concerning the same; and such proceedings may thereupon be had for the application of the property of the judgment debtor toward the satisfaction of the judgment as are provided upon the return of an execution. Instead of the order requiring the attendance of the judgment debtor, the judge may, upon affidavit of the judgment creditor, the judgment creditor’s agent, or attorney, if it appear to the judge that there is danger of the debtor absconding, order the sheriff to arrest the debtor and bring the debtor before such judge. Upon being brought before the judge, the judgment debtor may be ordered to enter into an undertaking, with sufficient surety, that the debtor will attend from time to time before the judge, or master, as shall be directed during the pendency of proceedings, and until the final determination thereof, and will not in the meantime dispose of any portion of the debtor’s property not exempt from execution. In default of entering into such undertaking, the judgment debtor may be committed to prison.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 19.007 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 19 / Section 19.007
“Clerk of the court” defined
Status: in_force

“ Clerk of the court ” means:

1. In a county where the district court in and for that county has not appointed a clerk, the county clerk when acting as ex officio clerk of the district court.

2. In a county where the district court in and for that county has appointed a clerk, the clerk of the district court.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 16.110 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 16 / Section 16.110
Instructions to jury
Status: in_force

1. The court shall reduce to writing the instructions to be given to the jury, unless the parties agree otherwise, and shall read such instructions to the jury. The court shall give instructions only as to the law of the case. An original and one copy of each instruction requested by any party shall be tendered to the court. The copies shall be numbered and indicate who tendered them. Copies of instructions given on the court's own motion or modified by the court shall be so identified. When requested instructions are refused, the judge shall write on the margin of the original the word “refused” and initial or sign the notation. The instructions given to the jury shall be firmly bound together and the judge shall write the word “given” at the conclusion thereof and sign the last of the instructions to signify that all have been given. After the instructions are given, the judge shall not clarify, modify or in any manner explain them to the jury except in writing unless the parties agree to oral instructions.

2. After the jury has reached a verdict and been discharged, the originals of all instructions, whether given, modified or refused, shall be preserved by the clerk as part of the proceedings.

3. Conferences with counsel to settle instructions may be held in chambers at the option of the court. In any event, conferences on instructions must be out of the presence of the jury.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.530 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.530
“Rate of exchange” defined
Status: in_force

“Rate of exchange” means the rate at which money of one country may be converted into money of another country in a free financial market convenient to or reasonably usable by a person obligated to pay or to state a rate of conversion. If separate rates of exchange apply to different kinds of transactions, the term means the rate applicable to the particular transaction giving rise to the foreign-money claim.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.165 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.165
Easement by prescription when owner opens land for use by public for pedestrian access and improves land for that specific purpose
Status: in_force

1. If an owner of land opens his or her land for use by the public for pedestrian access and has improved such land for that specific purpose, no such use by any person or the public, no matter for how long of a period, of any land shall ever ripen into an easement by prescription, if the owner of the land posts at each entrance to the land or at intervals of not more than 200 feet along the boundary of such land a sign reading substantially as follows: Right to pass by permission, and subject to control, of owner: NRS 11.165 .

2. Regardless of whether an owner of land has recorded a notice pursuant to NRS 111.3655 or has posted signs on such land pursuant to subsection 1, if an owner of land opens his or her land for use by the public for pedestrian access and has improved such land for that specific purpose, no such use of such land by any person or the public on or after October 1, 2017, shall ever ripen to confer upon the public or any governmental entity a vested right to continue to make such use permanently, in the absence of an express written grant of easement or other conveyance of such land for such use, or irrevocable offer of dedication of such property for such use, made by the owner, which has been accepted by the governmental entity to which the offer of dedication was made.

3. The governing body of any city or county pursuant to the powers granted in NRS 278.010 to 278.630 , inclusive, may by ordinance establish provisions governing the size, placement and composition of a sign posted by an owner of land pursuant to subsection 1.

4. As used in this section, “governmental entity” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 363C.040 .
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 22.070 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 22 / Section 22.070
Discharge from arrest on furnishing bail; form and conditions of bond
Status: in_force

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, to the effect that the person arrested will appear on the return of the warrant and abide the order of the court or judge thereupon, or they will pay as may be directed the sum specified in the warrant.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 21.005 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 21 / Section 21.005
Determination of gross weekly salary or wage of employee for purposes of chapter
Status: in_force

1. For the purposes of this chapter: (a) Except as otherwise provided in paragraphs (b) and (c), the gross weekly salary or wage of an employee must be determined by dividing the employee's gross earnings for the current calendar year as of the date the most recent writ of garnishment was issued by the total number of weeks the employee has worked in the current calendar year. (b) If the most recent writ of garnishment was issued at the beginning of the current calendar year before an employee received any earnings in the current calendar year, but the employee received earnings in the previous calendar year, the gross weekly salary or wage of the employee must be determined by dividing the employee's gross earnings for the previous calendar year by the total number of weeks the employee worked in the previous calendar year. (c) If an employee has not been employed long enough to have been paid as of the date the most recent writ of garnishment was issued, or if the provisions of paragraph (a) or (b) do not otherwise apply, the gross weekly salary or wage of the employee is the anticipated gross weekly earnings of the employee as determined by his or her employer.

2. For the purpose of determining the total number of weeks an employee has worked in the current calendar year pursuant to paragraph (a) of subsection 1 or the total number of weeks an employee worked in the previous calendar year pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 1, if the total number of weeks is not exact, the number must be: (a) Rounded down if the number of days the employee was on the payroll of the employer in excess of a whole week is 3 days or less; and (b) Rounded up if the number of days the employee was on the payroll of the employer in excess of a whole week is 4 days or more.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.500 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.500
Recommencement of actions dismissed for lack of subject matter jurisdiction
Status: in_force

1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, and except as otherwise provided in this section, if an action that is commenced within the applicable period of limitations is dismissed because the court lacked jurisdiction over the subject matter of the action, the action may be recommenced in the court having jurisdiction within: (a) The applicable period of limitations; or (b) Ninety days after the action is dismissed, whichever is later.

2. An action may be recommenced only one time pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 1.

3. An action may not be recommenced pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 1 more than 5 years after the date on which the original action was commenced.

4. Paragraph (b) of subsection 1 does not apply to a contract that is subject to the provisions of chapters 104 to 104C, inclusive, of NRS.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 15.040 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 15 / Section 15.040
Enforcement of order for payment of money
Status: in_force

Whenever an order for the payment of a sum of money is made by a court, it may be enforced by execution in the same manner as if it were a judgment.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 16.030 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 16 / Section 16.030
Drawing and examination of jurors; administration of oath or affirmation
Status: in_force

1. Except when the jurors are drawn by a jury commissioner, in preparing for the selection of the jury, the clerk, under the direction of the judge, shall place in a box ballots containing the names of the persons summoned who have appeared and have not been excused. The clerk shall mix the ballots and draw from the box the number of names needed to complete the jury in accordance with the procedure provided either in subsection 3 or subsection 4, as the judge directs.

2. Whenever the jurors are drawn by the jury commissioner, the judge may also direct the jury commissioner to draw, in advance, the names of additional jurors in the order they would be used to replace discharged or excused jurors pursuant to subsections 3 and 4.

3. The judge may require that eight names be drawn, and the persons whose names are called must be examined as to their qualifications to serve as jurors. If any persons are excused or discharged, or if the ballots are exhausted before the jury is selected, additional names shall be drawn from the jury box and those persons summoned and examined as provided by law until the jury is selected.

4. The judge may require that the clerk draw a number of names to form a panel of prospective jurors equal to the sum of the number of regular jurors and alternate jurors to be selected and the number of peremptory challenges to be exercised. The persons whose names are called must be examined as to their qualifications to serve as jurors. If any persons on the panel are excused for cause, they must be replaced by additional persons who must also be examined as to their qualifications. The jury must consist of eight persons, unless the parties consent to a lesser number. The parties may consent to any number not less than four. This consent must be entered by the clerk in the minutes of the trial. When a sufficient number of prospective jurors has been qualified to complete the panel, each side shall exercise its peremptory challenges out of the hearing of the panel by alternately striking names from the list of persons on the panel. After the peremptory challenges have been exercised, the persons remaining on the panel who are needed to complete the jury shall, in the order in which their names were drawn, be regular jurors or alternate jurors.

5. Before persons whose names have been drawn are examined as to their qualifications to serve as jurors, the judge or the judge’s clerk shall administer an oath or affirmation to them in substantially the following form: Do you, and each of you, (solemnly swear, or affirm under the pains and penalties of perjury) that you will well and truly answer all questions put to you touching upon your qualifications to serve as jurors in the case now pending before this court (so help you God)?

6. The judge shall conduct the initial examination of prospective jurors and the parties or their attorneys are entitled to conduct supplemental examinations which must not be unreasonably restricted.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 19.0315 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 19 / Section 19.0315
Additional fees in civil actions: Programs for alternative dispute resolution
Status: in_force

1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 19.034 , on the commencement of any civil action or proceeding in the district court for which a filing fee is required, and on the filing of any answer or appearance in any such action or proceeding for which a filing fee is required, a board of county commissioners may impose by ordinance a filing fee in an amount not to exceed $15 to offset a portion of the costs of providing programs of alternative dispute resolution on the party commencing, answering or appearing in the action or proceeding. These fees are in addition to any other fee required by law.

2. On or before the first Monday of each month, the clerk of the court shall pay over to the county treasurer the amount of all fees collected by the clerk of the court pursuant to subsection 1 for credit to an account for court programs for alternative dispute resolution in the county general fund. The money in the account must be used only to support programs for the arbitration of civil actions pursuant to NRS 38.250 and programs for the resolution of disputes through the use of other alternative methods of resolving disputes pursuant to NRS 38.258 .

3. The provisions of this section apply only in judicial districts in which a program for alternative dispute resolution has been established pursuant to NRS 38.250 or 38.258 .

4. As used in this section, “ alternative dispute resolution ” means alternative methods of resolving disputes, including, without limitation, arbitration and mediation.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.260 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.260
Action to recover estate sold by guardian
Status: in_force

No action for the recovery of any estate sold by a guardian can be maintained by the protected person, or by any person claiming under the protected person, unless it is commenced within 3 years next after the termination of the guardianship.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 14.050 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 14 / Section 14.050
Service by publication on unknown parties generally
Status: in_force

If any plaintiff shall allege that there are, or that the plaintiff verily believes that there are, persons, other than heirs, interested in the subject matter of the complaint, whose names the plaintiff cannot insert therein because they are unknown to the plaintiff, and shall describe the interest of such persons and how derived, so far as the plaintiff’s knowledge extends, the court or the judge thereof shall make an order for the publication of summons, reciting, moreover, the substance of the allegations of the complaint in relation to the interest of such unknown parties; and, after the completion of service by such publication, the court shall have jurisdiction of such persons, and any judgment or decree rendered in the action shall apply to and conclude such persons with respect to such interest in the subject matter of the action.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 16.050 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 16 / Section 16.050
Grounds for challenges for cause
Status: in_force

1. Challenges for cause may be taken on one or more of the following grounds: (a) A want of any of the qualifications prescribed by statute to render a person competent as a juror. (b) Consanguinity or affinity within the third degree to either party. (c) Standing in the relation of debtor and creditor, guardian and protected person, master and servant, employer and clerk, or principal and agent, to either party, being a member of the family of either party or a partner, or united in business with either party, or being security on any bond or obligation for either party. (d) Having served as a juror or been a witness on a previous trial between the same parties for the same cause of action or being then a witness therein. (e) Interest on the part of the juror in the event of the action, or in the main question involved in the action, except the interest of the juror as a member or citizen of a municipal corporation. (f) Having formed or expressed an unqualified opinion or belief as to the merits of the action, or the main question involved therein, but the reading of newspaper accounts of the subject matter before the court shall not disqualify a juror either for bias or opinion. (g) The existence of a state of mind in the juror evincing enmity against or bias to either party.

2. A challenge for cause for standing in the relation of debtor and creditor when the party to an action is a public utility as defined in NRS 704.020 may be allowed only where the circumstances as determined by the court so warrant.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.330 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.330
Action by enemy alien; war suspends limitation
Status: in_force

When a person shall be an alien subject, or citizen of a country at war with the United States, the time of the continuance of the war shall not be a part of the period limited for the commencement of the action; but nothing in this section shall be so construed as to consider any citizen or person of any state engaged in rebellion against the United States Government as an alien.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 22.100 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 22 / Section 22.100
Penalty for contempt
Status: in_force

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 the person may be imprisoned not exceeding 25 days, or both.

3. In addition to the penalties provided in subsection 2, if a person is found guilty of contempt pursuant to subsection 3 of NRS 22.010 , the court may require the person to pay to the party seeking to enforce the writ, order, rule or process the reasonable expenses, including, without limitation, attorney's fees, incurred by the party as a result of the contempt.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 21.290 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 21 / Section 21.290
Third party may pay judgment
Status: in_force

After the issuing of an execution against property, any person indebted to the judgment debtor may pay to the sheriff the amount of the person’s debt, or so much thereof as may be necessary to satisfy the execution, and the sheriff's receipt shall be a sufficient discharge for the amount so paid.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.820 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.820
Saving clause
Status: in_force

NRS 17.700 to 17.820 , inclusive, do not prevent the recognition under principles of comity or otherwise of a foreign-country judgment not within the scope of NRS 17.700 to 17.820 , inclusive.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.730 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.730
“Foreign-country judgment” defined
Status: in_force

“ Foreign-country judgment ” means a judgment of a court of a foreign country.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 21.095 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 21 / Section 21.095
Property exempt from execution upon judgment for medical bill
Status: in_force

The primary dwelling, including a mobile or manufactured home, of a judgment debtor is exempt from execution upon a judgment for a medical bill. The parcel of land upon which the dwelling is situated and any appurtenances thereto are also exempt if they are owned by the judgment debtor. These exemptions apply during the:

1. Lifetime of the judgment debtor, his or her spouse, his or her dependent adult child if that child is mentally or physically disabled or a joint tenant if the person was a joint tenant when the judgment was entered; or

2. Minority of any child of the judgment debtor, if the judgment debtor or joint tenant resides in the dwelling, or the spouse, dependent or minor child of the judgment debtor resides in the dwelling.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 17.560 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 17 / Section 17.560
Variation by agreement
Status: in_force

1. The effect of NRS 17.410 to 17.660 , inclusive, may be varied by agreement of the parties made before or after commencement of an action or distributive proceeding or the entry of judgment.

2. Parties to the transaction may agree upon the money to be used in a transaction giving rise to a foreign-money claim and may agree to use different moneys for different aspects of the transaction. Stating the price in a foreign money for one aspect of a transaction does not alone require the use of that money for other aspects of the transaction.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.220 — NV Code / Title 2 / Chapter 11 / Section 11.220
Action for relief not otherwise provided for
Status: in_force

An action for relief, not hereinbefore provided for, must be commenced within 4 years after the cause of action shall have accrued, regardless of whether the underlying cause of action is analogous to that of any other cause of action with a statute of limitations expressly prescribed by law.