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NV Rev Stat § 294A.400 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 294A - Campaign Practices|NRS 294A.400 - Compilation by Secretary of State of reported information; public inspection. [Effective through December 31, 2019.]

Based on the reports received pursuant to this chapter, the Secretary of State shall, not later than February 15 of each odd-numbered year, prepare and make available for public inspection a compilation of:  1. The following totals for each candidate from whom reports of contributions and campaign expenses are required pursuant to this chapter:  (a) The total amount of monetary contributions to the candidate;  (b) The total amount of goods and services provided to the candidate in kind for which money would otherwise have been paid;  (c) The total amount of loans guaranteed by a third party and forgiveness of any loans previously made to the candidate;  (d) The total amount committed to the candidate via written commitments for contributions; and  (e) The total amount of campaign expenses.  2. The following totals for each person, committee, political party or nonprofit corporation from which reports of contributions and campaign expenses are required pursuant to this chapter:  (a) The total amount of monetary contributions to the person, committee, political party or nonprofit corporation;  (b) The total amount of goods and services provided to the person, committee, political party or nonprofit corporation in kind for which money would otherwise have been paid; and  (c) The total amount of independent expenditures or other expenditures, as applicable, made by the person, committee, political party or nonprofit corporation.  3. The following totals for each committee for political action for which reports of contributions and expenditures are required pursuant to this chapter:  (a) The total amount of monetary contributions to the committee for political action;  (b) The total amount of goods and services provided to the committee for political action in kind for which money would otherwise have been paid; and  (c) The total amount of expenditures made by the committee for political action.  4. The contributions made to and expenditures from a committee for the recall of a public officer in excess of $100.  5. The total contributions received by and expenditures made from a legal defense fund.  (Added to NRS by 1975, 592; A 1977, 1365; 1979, 489; 1983, 1375; 1987, 1142; 1989, 1070; 1991, 1399; 1997, 253; 2005, 2301; 2007, 979, 2541, 3371; 2011, 1724, 2121, 3305; 2013, 1363, 2411, 3835)
NV Rev Stat § 294A.400 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 294A - Campaign Practices|NRS 294A.400 - Compilation by Secretary of State of reported information; public inspection. [Effective January 1, 2020.]

Based on the reports received pursuant to this chapter, the Secretary of State shall, not later than February 15 of each odd-numbered year, prepare and make available for public inspection a compilation of:  1. The following totals for each candidate from whom reports of contributions and campaign expenses are required pursuant to this chapter:  (a) The total amount of monetary contributions to the candidate;  (b) The total amount of goods and services provided to the candidate in kind for which money would otherwise have been paid;  (c) The total amount of loans guaranteed by a third party and forgiveness of any loans previously made to the candidate;  (d) The total amount committed to the candidate via written commitments for contributions; and  (e) The total amount of campaign expenses.  2. The following totals for each person, organization, committee, political party or nonprofit corporation from which reports of contributions and campaign expenses are required pursuant to this chapter:  (a) The total amount of monetary contributions to the person, organization, committee, political party or nonprofit corporation;  (b) The total amount of goods and services provided to the person, organization, committee, political party or nonprofit corporation in kind for which money would otherwise have been paid; and  (c) The total amount of independent expenditures or other expenditures, as applicable, made by the person, organization, committee, political party or nonprofit corporation.  3. The following totals for each committee for political action for which reports of contributions and expenditures are required pursuant to this chapter:  (a) The total amount of monetary contributions to the committee for political action;  (b) The total amount of goods and services provided to the committee for political action in kind for which money would otherwise have been paid; and  (c) The total amount of expenditures made by the committee for political action.  4. The contributions made to and expenditures from a committee for the recall of a public officer in excess of $100.  5. The total contributions received by and expenditures made from a legal defense fund.  (Added to NRS by 1975, 592; A 1977, 1365; 1979, 489; 1983, 1375; 1987, 1142; 1989, 1070; 1991, 1399; 1997, 253; 2005, 2301; 2007, 979, 2541, 3371; 2011, 1724, 2121, 3305; 2013, 1363, 2411, 3835; 2019, 3957, effective January 1, 2020)
NV Rev Stat § 295.009 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 295 - Certain State and Local Ballot Questions|NRS 295.009 - General requirements for state or local petition for initiative or referendum: Must embrace one subject; must include description of effect.

  1. Each petition for initiative or referendum must:  (a) Embrace but one subject and matters necessarily connected therewith and pertaining thereto; and  (b) Set forth, in not more than 200 words, a description of the effect of the initiative or referendum if the initiative or referendum is approved by the voters. The description must appear on each signature page of the petition.  2. For the purposes of paragraph (a) of subsection 1, a petition for initiative or referendum embraces but one subject and matters necessarily connected therewith and pertaining thereto, if the parts of the proposed initiative or referendum are functionally related and germane to each other in a way that provides sufficient notice of the general subject of, and of the interests likely to be affected by, the proposed initiative or referendum.  (Added to NRS by 2005, 2837)
NV Rev Stat § 295.012 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 295 - Certain State and Local Ballot Questions|NRS 295.012 - Requirements for petition: Number of voters proposing must be apportioned equally among petition districts and number of signatures required from each petition district must be equal.

The number of registered voters required pursuant to Section 1 or 2 of Article 19 of the Nevada Constitution to propose a petition for initiative or referendum must be apportioned equally among the petition districts, and the number of signatures required from each petition district must be equal.  (Added to NRS by 2007, 2743; A 2009, 2592; 2011, 1788, 3307)
NV Rev Stat § 295.026 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 295 - Certain State and Local Ballot Questions|NRS 295.026 - Withdrawal of petition.

  1. A petition for initiative or referendum may be withdrawn if a person authorized pursuant to NRS 295.015 to withdraw the petition submits a notice of withdrawal to the Secretary of State on a form prescribed by the Secretary of State.  2. Once a petition for initiative or referendum is withdrawn pursuant to subsection 1, no further action may be taken on that petition.  (Added to NRS by 2017, 3369)
NV Rev Stat § 295.035 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 295 - Certain State and Local Ballot Questions|NRS 295.035 - Petition for initiative proposing amendment to Constitution: Secretary of State to use same number for identification of petition when submitted at successive elections.

If the initiative petition proposes an amendment to the Constitution, in resubmitting the initiative to the voters, the Secretary of State shall use the same identifying number or other identification used for the first submission.  (Added to NRS by 1963, 1384; A 1973, 332; 1985, 550)
NV Rev Stat § 295.045 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 295 - Certain State and Local Ballot Questions|NRS 295.045 - Petition for referendum: Filing; submission to voters at general election. [Effective through December 31, 2019.]

  1. A petition for referendum must be filed with the Secretary of State not less than 120 days before the date of the next succeeding general election.  2. The Secretary of State shall certify the questions to the county clerks, and they shall publish them in accordance with the provisions of law requiring county clerks to publish statewide measures pursuant to NRS 293.253.  3. The title of the statute or resolution must be set out on the ballot, and the question printed upon the ballot for the information of the voters must be as follows: "Shall the statute (setting out its title) be approved?"  4. Where a mechanical voting system is used, the title of the statute must appear on the list of offices and candidates and the statements of measures to be voted on and may be condensed to no more than 25 words.  5. The votes cast upon the question must be counted and canvassed as the votes for state officers are counted and canvassed.  (Added to NRS by 1963, 1383; A 1977, 247; 1979, 268; 1981, 13; 1985, 1112; 2005, 2838; 2015, 3177)
NV Rev Stat § 295.045 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 295 - Certain State and Local Ballot Questions|NRS 295.045 - Petition for referendum: Filing; submission to voters at general election. [Effective January 1, 2020.]

  1. A petition for referendum must be filed with the Secretary of State not less than 120 days before the date of the next succeeding general election.  2. The Secretary of State shall certify the questions to the county clerks.  3. The title of the statute or resolution must be set out on the ballot, and the question printed upon the ballot for the information of the voters must be as follows: "Shall the statute (setting out its title) be approved?"  4. Where a mechanical voting system is used, the title of the statute must appear on the list of offices and candidates and the statements of measures to be voted on and may be condensed to no more than 25 words.  5. The votes cast upon the question must be counted and canvassed as the votes for state officers are counted and canvassed.  (Added to NRS by 1963, 1383; A 1977, 247; 1979, 268; 1981, 13; 1985, 1112; 2005, 2838; 2015, 3177; 2019, 4124, effective January 1, 2020)
NV Rev Stat § 295.055 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 295 - Certain State and Local Ballot Questions|NRS 295.055 - Regulations specifying format of petition; each document of petition limited to voters of single petition district; removal of name from petition.

  1. The Secretary of State shall by regulation specify:  (a) The format for the signatures on a petition for an initiative or referendum and make free specimens of the format available upon request. The regulations must ensure that the format includes, without limitation, that:  (1) In addition to signing the petition, a person who signs a petition:  (I) Shall print the person’s given name followed by the person’s surname on the petition before the person’s signature; and  (II) Must indicate the petition district in which the person resides, if known.  (2) Each signature must be dated.  (b) The manner of fastening together several sheets circulated by one person to constitute a single document.  2. The registered voter may consult the list of the registered voters in this State posted on the website maintained by the Secretary of State pursuant to subsection 1 of NRS 293.4687 to determine the petition district in which the registered voter resides. The registered voter may rely on the information contained in the list when the registered voter indicates the appropriate petition district, unless the registered voter believes that the information is inaccurate.  3. Each document of the petition must bear the name of a petition district, and only registered voters of that petition district may sign the document.  4. A person who signs a petition may request that the county clerk remove the person’s name from the petition by transmitting a request in writing to the county clerk at any time before the petition is filed with the county clerk.  (Added to NRS by 1963, 1385; A 1985, 550; 1987, 1374; 2001, 644; 2007, 326; 2009, 2592; 2011, 1788)
NV Rev Stat § 295.056 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 295 - Certain State and Local Ballot Questions|NRS 295.056 - Requirements for submission of signatures to county clerk. [Effective through December 31, 2019.]

  1. Before a petition for initiative or referendum is filed with the Secretary of State, the petitioners must submit to each county clerk for verification pursuant to NRS 293.1276 to 293.1279, inclusive, the document or documents which were circulated for signature within the clerk’s county. The clerks shall give the person submitting a document or documents a receipt stating the number of documents and pages and the person’s statement of the number of signatures contained therein.  2. If a petition for initiative proposes a statute or an amendment to a statute, the document or documents must be submitted not later than:  (a) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (b), the second Tuesday in November of an even-numbered year.  (b) If the second Tuesday in November of an even-numbered year is the day of the general election, the next working day after the general election.  3. If a petition for initiative proposes an amendment to the Constitution, the document or documents must be submitted not later than the third Tuesday in June of an even-numbered year.  4. If the petition is for referendum, the document or documents must be submitted not later than the third Tuesday in June of an even-numbered year.  5. All documents which are submitted to a county clerk for verification must be submitted at the same time. If documents concerning the same petition are submitted for verification to more than one county clerk, the documents must be submitted to each county clerk on the same day. At the time that the petition is submitted to a county clerk for verification, the petitioners may designate a contact person who is authorized by the petitioners to address questions or issues relating to the petition.  (Added to NRS by 1983, 923; A 1985, 551, 1113; 1991, 2226; 1993, 2669; 1999, 3560; 2007, 326, 1186; 2011, 1789; 2017, 3370)
NV Rev Stat § 295.056 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 295 - Certain State and Local Ballot Questions|NRS 295.056 - Requirements for submission of signatures to county clerk. [Effective January 1, 2020.]

  1. Before a petition for initiative or referendum is filed with the Secretary of State, the petitioners must submit to each county clerk for verification pursuant to NRS 293.1276 to 293.1279, inclusive, the document or documents which were circulated for signature within the clerk’s county. The clerks shall give the person submitting a document or documents a receipt stating the number of documents and pages and the person’s statement of the number of signatures contained therein.  2. If a petition for initiative proposes a statute or an amendment to a statute, the document or documents must be submitted not later than the 15th day following the general election.  3. If a petition for initiative proposes an amendment to the Constitution, the document or documents must be submitted not later than the 15th day following the primary election.  4. If the petition is for referendum, the document or documents must be submitted not later than the 15th day following the primary election.  5. All documents which are submitted to a county clerk for verification must be submitted at the same time. If documents concerning the same petition are submitted for verification to more than one county clerk, the documents must be submitted to each county clerk on the same day. At the time that the petition is submitted to a county clerk for verification, the petitioners may designate a contact person who is authorized by the petitioners to address questions or issues relating to the petition.  (Added to NRS by 1983, 923; A 1985, 551, 1113; 1991, 2226; 1993, 2669; 1999, 3560; 2007, 326, 1186; 2011, 1789; 2017, 3370; 2019, 4124, effective January 1, 2020)
NV Rev Stat § 295.0575 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 295 - Certain State and Local Ballot Questions|NRS 295.0575 - Petition may consist of more than one document; circulator’s affidavit.

A petition for a constitutional amendment or a petition for a statewide measure proposed by an initiative or referendum may consist of more than one document. Each document of a petition must have attached to it when submitted an affidavit executed by the circulator thereof stating:  1. That the circulator personally circulated the document.  2. The contact information of the circulator, including, without limitation, the street address of the residence where the circulator actually resides, unless a street address has not been assigned. If a street address has not been assigned, the document must contain the mailing address of the circulator.  3. That the circulator is 18 years of age or older.  4. The number of signatures thereon.  5. That all the signatures were affixed in the circulator’s presence.  6. That each signer had an opportunity before signing to read the full text of the act or resolution on which the initiative or referendum is demanded.  (Added to NRS by 2007, 2543; A 2011, 1789, 3307)
NV Rev Stat § 295.0585 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 295 - Certain State and Local Ballot Questions|NRS 295.0585 - County clerk required to make copies of petition and signatures; copies to be made available to public.

After a petition for a constitutional amendment or a petition for a statewide measure proposed by an initiative or referendum is submitted for signature verification to the county clerk, the county clerk shall make true and correct copies of all the documents of the petition and signatures thereon and shall make such copies and signatures available to the public for a period of not less than 14 days.  (Added to NRS by 2007, 2542)
NV Rev Stat § 295.061 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 295 - Certain State and Local Ballot Questions|NRS 295.061 - Challenge to description of petition; challenge to legal sufficiency of petition.

  1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, whether an initiative or referendum embraces but one subject and matters necessarily connected therewith and pertaining thereto, and the description of the effect of an initiative or referendum required pursuant to NRS 295.009, may be challenged by filing a complaint in the First Judicial District Court not later than 15 days, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays excluded, after a copy of the petition is placed on file with the Secretary of State pursuant to NRS 295.015. All affidavits and documents in support of the challenge must be filed with the complaint. The court shall set the matter for hearing not later than 15 days after the complaint is filed and shall give priority to such a complaint over all other matters pending with the court, except for criminal proceedings.   2. The legal sufficiency of a petition for initiative or referendum may be challenged by filing a complaint in district court not later than 7 days, Saturdays, Sundays and holidays excluded, after the petition is certified as sufficient by the Secretary of State. All affidavits and documents in support of the challenge must be filed with the complaint. The court shall set the matter for hearing not later than 15 days after the complaint is filed and shall give priority to such a complaint over all other matters pending with the court, except for criminal proceedings.  3. If a description of the effect of an initiative or referendum required pursuant to NRS 295.009 is challenged successfully pursuant to subsection 1 and such description is amended in compliance with the order of the court, the amended description may not be challenged.  (Added to NRS by 1999, 3560; A 2005, 2839; 2007, 326, 1251; 2011, 3074)
NV Rev Stat § 295.075 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 295 - Certain State and Local Ballot Questions|NRS 295.075 - "Board" defined.

As used in NRS 295.075 to 295.125, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, "board" means the board of county commissioners.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 380; A 1999, 2120)
NV Rev Stat § 295.085 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 295 - Certain State and Local Ballot Questions|NRS 295.085 - Registered voters’ power of initiative and referendum concerning county ordinances.

The registered voters of a county may:  1. Propose ordinances to the board and, if the board fails to adopt an ordinance so proposed without change in substance, adopt or reject it at a general election.  2. Require reconsideration by the board of any adopted ordinance and, if the board fails to repeal an ordinance so reconsidered, approve or reject it at a general election.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 380; A 1993, 1032; 2005, 2839)
NV Rev Stat § 295.105 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 295 - Certain State and Local Ballot Questions|NRS 295.105 - Certification of sufficiency of petition; review of certification.

  1. Within 20 days after the petition is submitted to the county clerk pursuant to NRS 295.095, the county clerk shall complete a certificate as to its sufficiency.  2. If a petition is certified sufficient, or if a petition is certified insufficient and the petitioners’ committee does not elect to request board review under subsection 3 within the time required, the county clerk shall promptly present his or her certificate to the board and the certificate is a final determination as to the sufficiency of the petition.  3. If a petition has been certified insufficient, the committee may, within 2 days after receiving a copy of the certificate, file a request that it be reviewed by the board. The board shall review the certificate at its next meeting following the filing of the request and approve or disapprove it, and the determination of the board is a final determination as to the sufficiency of the petition.  4. A final determination as to the sufficiency of a petition is subject to judicial review. If the final determination is challenged by filing a complaint in district court, the court shall set the matter for hearing not later than 3 days after the complaint is filed and shall give priority to such a complaint over all other matters pending with the court, except for criminal proceedings. A final determination of insufficiency, even if sustained upon judicial review, does not prejudice the filing of a new petition for the same purpose.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 380; A 1989, 1183; 2001, 2965; 2005, 2839)