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NV Rev Stat § 3.160 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 3 - District Courts|NRS 3.160 - Missing volumes of Statutes of Nevada and Nevada Reports to be supplied.

Upon the certification by any district judge of any judicial district or by the county clerk of any county to the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau certifying that certain volumes of the Statutes of Nevada or Nevada Reports are missing from the library of any district judge, the Legislative Counsel Bureau shall furnish, free of charge from the supply on hand, to the district judge in any judicial district, the missing volumes of the Statutes of Nevada or Nevada Reports for use by the district judge in the district judge’s library.  [1:54:1935; 1931 NCL § 8452.10] — (NRS A 1969, 26; 1973, 1408; 1985, 222)
NV Rev Stat § 3.170 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 3 - District Courts|NRS 3.170 - Signing of records left unsigned by predecessor.

At any time after March 22, 1911, it shall be lawful for the district judge of each judicial district, during the judge’s continuance in office, to sign any and all minutes and records of the court of the district for which he or she is incumbent, in whatsoever district or county the same may be, left unsigned by the judge’s predecessor in office or by any district judge previously sitting in the district or county, and such minutes and records, when thus signed, shall have the same force and effect to which they would have been entitled had they been signed by such predecessor in office, or by such district judge previously sitting in the district or the county.  [1:161:1911; RL § 4923; NCL § 8470]
NV Rev Stat § 3.220 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 3 - District Courts|NRS 3.220 - Equal coextensive and concurrent jurisdiction.

The district judges shall possess equal coextensive and concurrent jurisdiction and power. They each shall have power to hold court in any county of this State. They each shall exercise and perform the powers, duties and functions of the court and of judges thereof and of judges at chambers. The decision in an action or proceeding may be written or signed at any place in the State by the judge who acted on the trial and may be forwarded to and filed by the clerk, who shall thereupon enter judgment as directed in the decision, or judgment may be rendered in open court, and, if so rendered, shall be entered by the clerk accordingly. If the public business requires, each judge may try causes and transact judicial business in the same county at the same time. Each judge shall have power to transact business which may be done in chambers at any point within the State, and court shall be held in each county at least once in every 6 months and as often and as long as the business of the county requires. All of this section is subject to the provision that each judge may direct and control the business in his or her own district and shall see that it is properly performed.  [1:59:1895; C § 2573; RL § 4922; NCL § 8469]
NV Rev Stat § 3.221 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 3 - District Courts|NRS 3.221 - Transfer of original jurisdiction to justice court.

If an action is filed in the district court and a district judge determines that the action is properly within the jurisdiction of the justice court pursuant to NRS 4.370, the district judge may transfer original jurisdiction of the action to the justice court.  (Added to NRS by 2003, 418; A 2003, 852)
NV Rev Stat § 3.223 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 3 - District Courts|NRS 3.223 - Jurisdiction of family courts.

  1. Except if the child involved is subject to the jurisdiction of an Indian tribe pursuant to the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978, 25 U.S.C. §§ 1901 et seq., in each judicial district in which it is established, the family court has original, exclusive jurisdiction in any proceeding:  (a) Brought pursuant to title 5 of NRS or chapter 31A, 123, 125, 125A, 125B, 125C, 126, 127, 128, 129, 130, 159A, 425 or 432B of NRS, except to the extent that a specific statute authorizes the use of any other judicial or administrative procedure to facilitate the collection of an obligation for support.  (b) Brought pursuant to NRS 442.255 and 442.2555 to request the court to issue an order authorizing an abortion.  (c) For judicial approval of the marriage of a minor.  (d) Otherwise within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court.  (e) To establish the date of birth, place of birth or parentage of a minor.  (f) To change the name of a minor.  (g) For a judicial declaration of the sanity of a minor.  (h) To approve the withholding or withdrawal of life-sustaining procedures from a person as authorized by law.  (i) Brought pursuant to NRS 433A.200 to 433A.330, inclusive, for an involuntary court-ordered admission to a mental health facility.  (j) Brought pursuant to NRS 441A.510 to 441A.720, inclusive, for an involuntary court-ordered isolation or quarantine.  2. The family court, where established and, except as otherwise provided in paragraph (m) of subsection 1 of NRS 4.370, the justice court have concurrent jurisdiction over actions for the issuance of a temporary or extended order for protection against domestic violence.  3. The family court, where established, and the district court have concurrent jurisdiction over any action for damages brought pursuant to NRS 41.134 by a person who suffered injury as the proximate result of an act that constitutes domestic violence.  (Added to NRS by 1991, 2175; A 1993, 545; 1995, 783; 1997, 1804, 2267; 1999, 486; 2003, 1114, 2207; 2005, 506; 2011, 2513; 2017, 887)
NV Rev Stat § 3.225 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 3 - District Courts|NRS 3.225 - Family court to encourage resolution of certain disputes through nonadversarial methods; cooperation to provide support services.

  1. The family court shall, wherever practicable and appropriate, encourage the resolution of disputes before the court through nonadversarial methods or other alternatives to traditional methods of resolution of disputes.  2. The family court or, in a judicial district that does not include a family court, the district court, shall enter into agreements or otherwise cooperate with local agencies that provide services related to matters within the jurisdiction of family courts to assist the family court or district court in providing the necessary support services to the families before the court.  (Added to NRS by 1991, 2175)
NV Rev Stat § 3.227 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 3 - District Courts|NRS 3.227 - Information form for family court: Development; contents; use.

In each judicial district that includes a county whose population is 100,000 or more:  1. The clerk of the district court shall develop an information form for family court. The information form for family court must be:  (a) Approved by the Chief Judge; and  (b) Used to obtain the information described in subsection 2 from a party who files the initial pleading in a case that involves a matter within the jurisdiction of the family court.  2. A party may not file in the district court the initial pleading in a case that involves a matter within the jurisdiction of the family court unless, at the same time that the party files the initial pleading, the party files an information form for family court which is signed by the party, his or her attorney or other legal representative and which specifies:  (a) Whether the party is also a party in any other pending case or was a party in any other previously decided case assigned to a department of the family court in the judicial district;  (b) Whether any other party in the initial pleading is also a party in any other pending case or was a party in any other previously decided case assigned to a department of the family court in the judicial district;  (c) Whether a child involved in the case is also involved in any other pending case or was involved in any other previously decided case assigned to a department of the family court in the judicial district, other than a case within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court pursuant to title 5 of NRS; and  (d) Any other information that the Chief Judge determines must be provided on the information form for family court, including, without limitation, any other information concerning a case described in paragraph (a), (b) or (c).  3. The Chief Judge and the clerk of the district court shall use the information provided on the information form for family court to assign cases to a department of the family court in accordance with subsection 3 of NRS 3.025.  (Added to NRS by 1999, 2020; A 2003, 1115)
NV Rev Stat § 3.230 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 3 - District Courts|NRS 3.230 - Statements upon matters of fact.

District judges shall not charge juries upon matters of fact but may state the evidence and declare the law. In stating the evidence, the judge should not comment upon the probability or improbability of its truth nor the credibility thereof. If the judge states the evidence, the judge must also inform the jury that they are not to be governed by the judge’s statement upon matters of fact.  [23:19:1865; B § 931; BH § 2445; C § 2526; RL § 4846; NCL § 8388]
NV Rev Stat § 3.240 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 3 - District Courts|NRS 3.240 - Written decisions.

A district judge may be required, in deciding any question of law, to reduce his or her decision to writing at the time such decision is made and note any exception thereto which may be taken by either party to a trial or proceeding before the judge.  [24:19:1865; B § 932; BH § 2446; C § 2527; RL § 4847; NCL § 8389]
NV Rev Stat § 3.241 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 3 - District Courts|NRS 3.241 - Ruling that provision of Nevada Constitution or Nevada Revised Statutes is unconstitutional: Prevailing party to provide copy of ruling to Attorney General.

If a district court holds that a provision of the Nevada Constitution or the Nevada Revised Statutes violates a provision of the Nevada Constitution or the United States Constitution, the prevailing party in the proceeding shall provide a copy of the ruling to the Office of the Attorney General.  (Added to NRS by 2013, 820)
NV Rev Stat § 3.243 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 3 - District Courts|NRS 3.243 - Report of certain statistical information to be submitted to Court Administrator.

In the time and manner prescribed by the Supreme Court, the Chief Judge of the judicial district or, if the district has no Chief Judge, a district judge designated by mutual consent of the district judges of that district, shall submit to the Court Administrator a report of the statistical information required pursuant to the uniform system for collecting and compiling statistical information regarding the State Court System which is prescribed by the Supreme Court.  (Added to NRS by 1999, 706; A 2015, 2550)
NV Rev Stat § 3.245 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 3 - District Courts|NRS 3.245 - Appointment of masters for criminal proceedings.

In any county in which the appointment of masters for criminal proceedings by a district court is authorized by the board of county commissioners, the local rules of practice adopted in a judicial district within the county may authorize the Chief Judge of a district court to appoint one or more masters for criminal proceedings to perform certain subordinate or administrative duties that the Nevada Supreme Court has approved to be assigned to such a master.  (Added to NRS by 1977, 1570; A 2003, 409)
NV Rev Stat § 3.250 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 3 - District Courts|NRS 3.250 - County clerk to be clerk of court.

The county clerk shall be clerk of the district court of his or her county.  [Part 1:108:1866; B § 2599; BH § 1636; C § 1782; RL § 2765; NCL § 4765]
NV Rev Stat § 3.260 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 3 - District Courts|NRS 3.260 - Deputy clerks.

  1. All clerks of the several district courts are hereby authorized to appoint deputies who shall have power to transact all official business pertaining to the office to the same extent as their principals.  2. The clerks of the district courts shall be responsible on their official bonds for all official malfeasance or nonfeasance of their deputies. Bonds for the faithful performance of their official duties may be required of the deputies by their principals.  3. All appointments of deputies under the provisions of this section shall be in writing and shall, together with the oaths of office of the deputies, be filed and recorded in a book provided for that purpose in the office of the recorder of the county within which the clerk of the district court legally holds and exercises his or her office. Revocations of such appointments shall also be filed and recorded as herein provided. From the time of the filing of appointments or revocations therein persons shall be deemed to have notice of the same.  [Part 1:101:1864; A 1905, 33; 1913, 108; 1919 RL § 2848; NCL § 4848] + [Part 2:101:1864; B § 3068; BH § 2280; C § 2452; RL § 2849; NCL § 4849] + [Part 3:101:1864; B § 3069; BH § 2281; C § 2453; RL § 2850; NCL § 4850]
NV Rev Stat § 3.270 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 3 - District Courts|NRS 3.270 - Duty of clerks to give receipts and pay over money.

  1. The clerk of a district court shall give a receipt on demand of any party paying a fee. The receipt shall specify the title or the case number of the cause in which the fee is paid and the date and the amount of the payment.  2. The several clerks of the district courts shall, on or before the 5th day of each month, pay over to the county treasurer all moneys received by them during the preceding month for court fees together with a brief note of the cases in which the same were received.  [Part 31:49:1883; BH § 2372; C § 2496; RL § 2033; NCL § 2964] — (NRS A 1959, 707; 1971, 537)
NV Rev Stat § 3.275 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 3 - District Courts|NRS 3.275 - Clerk to obtain and maintain information regarding cases.

  1. The clerk of each district court shall obtain and file information necessary to complete the report of statistical information required by NRS 3.243, including, without limitation, information relating to the referral of a criminal case to a specialty court program, using the case management system provided by the Court Administrator.  2. The clerk shall provide a form approved by the Court Administrator for obtaining the information required by subsection 1 for each civil case filed in the district court. No civil case may be filed in the district court unless the initial pleading is accompanied by the form, signed by the initiating party or his or her representative.  3. The clerk shall maintain information concerning the disposition of each criminal and civil case and, if applicable, whether a criminal defendant successfully completed the specialty court program to which he or she was referred.  4. The clerk shall maintain the information described in this section in a manner that allows the retrieval of statistics relating to each criminal and civil action filed in the district courts as required to complete the report required by NRS 3.243.  (Added to NRS by 1985, 1895; A 2009, 1353; 2015, 2550)
NV Rev Stat § 3.280 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 3 - District Courts|NRS 3.280 - Clerk to keep register of civil actions.

  1. The clerk shall keep among the records of the court a register of actions. The clerk shall enter therein the title of the action, if in district court, and the clerk may enter therein the title of the action in any other court, with brief notes under it, from time to time, of all papers filed and proceedings had therein.  2. For an alternate method of maintaining the register-of-actions record provided in subsection 1, the clerk of the district court may maintain an effective register of actions by means of photographing, microphotographing or mechanically or electronically storing the whole of all papers and records, necessary to the keeping of a register of actions, so long as the following control criteria of public recordkeeping is extant:  (a) The completeness and chronological sequence of registry are not disturbed;  (b) All such reproductions are placed in convenient and accessible files;  (c) Provisions are made for preserving, examining and using such files; and  (d) The initial register of actions in book or loose-leaf-book form is maintained for the purpose of assuring the commencement of actions serially, entering plaintiff, defendant, intervener or applicant, or the parties in ex rel., in the title together with attorneys of record in each case, and entering thereafter under each case only such documents by notation as have filing fees required to be paid or notation of waiver of the fees.  This subsection shall not be construed to be inconsistent with the laws, rules or district judge’s orders pertaining to control and custody of district court records.  [1911 CPA § 538; RL § 5480; NCL § 9027] — (NRS A 1971, 538)
NV Rev Stat § 3.300 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 3 - District Courts|NRS 3.300 - Power of clerks to take and certify acknowledgments and affidavits.

The clerks of the district courts shall have power in any part of the State to take and certify:  1. The acknowledgment of conveyances and the satisfaction of a judgment of any court.  2. An affidavit to be used in any court of justice in this state.  [Part 63:19:1865; B § 968; BH § 2482; C § 2563; RL § 4883; NCL § 8425]
NV Rev Stat § 3.305 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 3 - District Courts|NRS 3.305 - Destruction or disposal of exhibits by clerk.

When a district court orders the disposal of an exhibit, the clerk shall serve written notice upon the last attorney or attorneys of record, representing the parties to the action wherein the exhibit was admitted into evidence, to withdraw such exhibit, and upon the failure to make such withdrawal within 30 days after the service of notice, the clerk shall petition the court for an order requesting:  1. Destruction of the exhibit if such exhibit is found by the court to be of no value; or  2. Delivery of an exhibit of value to the board of county commissioners as the property of the county.  (Added to NRS by 1957, 708; A 1973, 439)
NV Rev Stat § 3.307 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 3 - District Courts|NRS 3.307 - Destruction or disposal of exhibits in civil actions.

A district court, on its own motion, may order destroyed or otherwise disposed of any exhibit or deposition introduced in the trial of a civil action or proceeding or filed in such action or proceeding which:  1. If appeal has not been taken from the decision of the district court in such action or proceeding, remains in the custody of the district court or clerk of such court 2 years after the time for appeal has expired.  2. If appeal has been taken, remains in the custody of the district court or clerk of such court 2 years after final determination thereof, or which remains in the custody of the district court or clerk of such court for a period of 2 years after:  (a) A motion for a new trial has been granted or a motion to set for trial has not been made within such 2 years;  (b) The filing of the remittitur where the action or proceeding, after appeal, has been remanded to the trial court for a new trial and the same has not been brought to trial within 2 years from the date of filing the remittitur;  (c) The dismissal of such action or proceeding; or  (d) The introduction or filing thereof where there is no provision for the destruction or other disposition of such exhibit or deposition and where, in the discretion of the district court, the same should be destroyed or otherwise disposed of.  The order shall be filed with the pleadings of each case in which any such order is made.  (Added to NRS by 1971, 318; A 1973, 439)
NV Rev Stat § 3.320 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 3 - District Courts|NRS 3.320 - Official reporter: Appointment; duties.

  1. The judge or judges of any district court may appoint, subject to the provisions of this chapter and other laws as to the qualifications and examinations of the appointee, one certified court reporter, to be known as official reporter of the court or department and to hold office during the pleasure of the judge appointing the official reporter. The appointee may be any business organization licensed by the Board if the person representing the business organization, who actually performs the reporting service, is a certified court reporter.  2. The official reporter, or any one of them if there are two or more, shall:  (a) At the request of either party or of the court in a civil action or proceeding, and on the order of the court, the district attorney or the attorney for the defendant in a criminal action or proceeding, make a record of all the testimony, the objections made, the rulings of the court, the exceptions taken, all arraignments, pleas and sentences of defendants in criminal cases, and all statements and remarks made by the district attorney or judge, and all oral instructions given by the judge; and  (b) When directed by the court or requested by either party, within such reasonable time after the trial of the case as may be designated by law or, in the absence of any law relating thereto, by the court, transcribe the record into a written transcript. The reporter shall certify that the action or proceeding was correctly reported and transcribed and, when directed by the law or court, shall file the written transcript with the clerk of the court.  3. As used in this section, "Board" means the Certified Court Reporters’ Board of Nevada, created by NRS 656.040.  [1:52:1907; A 1921, 96; NCL § 8455] — (NRS A 1973, 1321; 1981, 245; 1993, 1410; 2007, 1035; 2011, 669)
NV Rev Stat § 3.340 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 3 - District Courts|NRS 3.340 - Official reporter: Attention to duties; reporter pro tempore.

The official reporter of any district court shall attend to the duties of office in person except when excused for good and sufficient reason by order of the court, which order shall be entered upon the minutes of the court. Employment in his or her professional capacity elsewhere shall not be deemed a good and sufficient reason for such excuse. When the official reporter of any court has been excused in the manner provided in this section, the court may designate an official reporter pro tempore who shall perform the same duties and receive the same compensation during the term of his or her appointment as the official reporter.  [3:52:1907; RL § 4910; NCL § 8457] — (NRS A 2011, 670)
NV Rev Stat § 3.350 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 3 - District Courts|NRS 3.350 - Official reporter: Oath of office.

The official reporter of any court, or official reporter pro tempore, shall, before entering upon the duties of office, take and subscribe the constitutional oath of office.  [4:52:1907; RL § 4911; NCL § 8458]
NV Rev Stat § 3.360 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 3 - District Courts|NRS 3.360 - Official reporter: Transcript prima facie evidence.

The transcript of the official reporter, or official reporter pro tempore, of any court, duly appointed and sworn, when transcribed and certified as being a correct transcript of the testimony and proceedings in the case, is prima facie evidence of such testimony and proceedings.  [5:52:1907; RL § 4912; NCL § 8459] — (NRS A 2011, 670)