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2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 18 - Costs and Disbursements › NRS 18.170 - Notice of motion for order allowing costs and necessary disbursements; order.

A judgment creditor claiming costs or necessary disbursements reasonably incurred in aid of the collection of a judgment or of any execution issued thereon, other than those specified in NRS 18.160, including items which have been disallowed by the judge in the supplemental proceeding, shall serve the adverse party either personally or by mail, and file, at any time or times not more than 6 months after such item has been incurred and prior to the time the judgment is fully satisfied, a notice of motion for an order allowing the same, specifying the items claimed and the amount thereof, and supported by an affidavit of the party or the party’s attorney or agent stating that to the best of his or her knowledge and belief the items are correct and showing that the costs were reasonable, and the disbursements reasonably and necessarily incurred. The court or judge hearing such motion shall make such order respecting the costs or disbursements so claimed as the circumstances justify, allowing the same in whole or in part, or disallowing the same.
(Added to NRS by 1963, 310)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 18 - Costs and Disbursements › NRS 18.180 - Entry of amount of costs on margin of judgment.

Within 2 days after the costs are tried or ascertained, or after the time for making a motion to tax the same has expired, the clerk or judge shall enter the amount thereof on the margin of the judgment, and thereafter they shall be included together with the amount of the fee charged for issuance thereof in any execution issued upon such judgment.
(Added to NRS by 1963, 311)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 19 - Fees › NRS 19.007 - "Clerk of the court" defined.

"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.
(Added to NRS by 2015, 2556)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 19 - Fees › NRS 19.010 - "Folio" defined.

"Folio," when used as a measure for computing fees or compensation, shall be construed to mean 100 words, counting every figure necessarily used as a word. Any portion of a folio, when in the whole draft or paper there should not be a complete folio, and when there shall be an excess over the last folio exceeding a quarter of a folio, shall be computed as a folio. The filing of a paper shall be construed to include the certificate of the same.
[34:49:1883; BH § 2375; C § 2499; RL § 2036; NCL § 2967]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 19 - Fees › NRS 19.016 - Additional fee for filing and recording bond of notary public: Technology in office of county clerk.

1. If a county clerk imposes an additional fee pursuant to subsection 2 of NRS 19.013, the proceeds collected from such a fee must be accounted for separately in the county general fund. Any interest earned on money in the account, after deducting any applicable charges, must be credited to the account. 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.
2. The money in the account must be used only in the office of the county clerk, including, without limitation, to:
(a) Acquire, improve, support or maintain technology;
(b) Train employees in the operation of the technology; and
(c) Acquire temporary or permanent staff or professional services to implement, support or maintain technology that enhances customer service, improves efficiency or promotes transparency in government.
(Added to NRS by 2007, 3390; A 2013, 39; 2021, 571)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 19 - Fees › NRS 19.020 - Commencement of civil action; administration of estate; appeal from Justice Court.

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.
[28:49:1883; A 1921, 338; NCL § 2961] + [29:49:1883; BH § 2370; C § 2494; RL § 2031; NCL § 2962]—(NRS A 1977, 467; 2001, 684; 2017, 2564)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 19 - Fees › NRS 19.030 - Additional fees in civil actions: State General Fund.

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.
[1:151:1947; A 1955, 482] + [2:151:1947; A 1949, 90; 1955, 482]—(NRS A 1969, 25; 1981, 1369; 1983, 335; 1997, 2270; 2001, 2907; 2015, 2558)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 19 - Fees › NRS 19.0303 - Additional fees in civil actions: Programs for court security.

1. In any county, 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 $20 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 court security in the county general fund. The money in that account must be administered by the county and:
(a) May be used only for programs for court security or to reimburse the county for any capital costs incurred for maintaining any judicial departments that are added by the 75th Session of the Nevada Legislature;
(b) Must not be used to supplant existing budgets for bailiffs or deputy marshals who are assigned to work in a courtroom; and
(c) If any balance remains, may be carried forward to the next fiscal year.
3. As used in this section, "programs for court security" includes, without limitation:
(a) Funding for additional positions for bailiffs, marshals, security guards or similar personnel;
(b) Supplementing existing funding used to pay bailiffs, marshals, security guards and similar personnel;
(c) Acquiring necessary capital goods for court security;
(d) Providing security training and education to personnel;
(e) Conducting security audits; and
(f) Acquiring or using appropriate technology relating to court security.
(Added to NRS by 2009, 2480)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 19 - Fees › NRS 19.031 - Additional fees in civil actions: Programs for legal aid.

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.
(Added to NRS by 1975, 587; A 1977, 467; 1981, 1710; 1983, 598; 1985, 770; 1989, 582; 1993, 479; 2001, 684; 2015, 2560)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 19 - Fees › NRS 19.0312 - Additional fees in civil actions: Pro bono programs and programs for abused or neglected children and victims of domestic violence.

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.
(Added to NRS by 2001, 2679; A 2005, 198; 2015, 2561)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 19 - Fees › NRS 19.0313 - Additional fees in civil actions: Programs of mediation in cases involving custody or visitation of child; neighborhood justice centers.

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.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 919; A 1993, 1213; 1997, 2362; 2001, 685; 2015, 2561)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 19 - Fees › NRS 19.03135 - Additional fees in civil actions: Programs for prevention and treatment of substance use disorders.

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.
(Added to NRS by 1997, 2362; A 1999, 556; 2001, 686; 2019, 4419)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 19 - Fees › NRS 19.0315 - Additional fees in civil actions: Programs for alternative dispute resolution.

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.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 1345; A 2001, 686; 2005, 199, 391; 2015, 2562)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 19 - Fees › NRS 19.033 - Additional fees in action for dissolution of marriage or termination of domestic partnership.

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).
(Added to NRS by 1985, 384; A 1989, 917, 1908; 1991, 529; 1993, 1356, 1501; 1995, 562, 1028; 2001, 1424, 2908; 2015, 1370, 2562)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 19 - Fees › NRS 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.

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.
(Added to NRS by 2015, 1976)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 19 - Fees › NRS 19.034 - Reduced fees for adoption of child with special needs or petition relating to agreement for postadoptive contact.

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.
(Added to NRS by 2001, 684; A 2003, 15; 2015, 2563; 2017, 1990)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 19 - Fees › NRS 19.035 - Fees not to be charged or collected for services rendered certain governments or officers.

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.
(Added to NRS by 1967, 319; A 1977, 423; 1989, 665; 2015, 2563)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 19 - Fees › NRS 19.040 - Table to be posted.

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.
[Part 23:49:1883; BH § 2364; C § 2488; RL § 2025; NCL § 2956]—(NRS A 2015, 2563)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 19 - Fees › NRS 19.050 - Clerks to receive costs of publication.

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.
[24:49:1883; BH § 2365; C § 2489; RL § 2026; NCL § 2957]—(NRS A 2001, 686; 2015, 2563)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 19 - Fees › NRS 19.060 - Payment in advance.

Except as otherwise provided by specific statute, all fees prescribed in this chapter must be paid in advance, if demanded. If a clerk of the court has not received any or all of the fees which may be due for services rendered by the clerk of the court in any suit or proceeding, the clerk of the court may have execution therefor in the clerk’s name against the party or parties from whom they are due, to be issued from the court where the action is pending, upon the order of the judge or court upon affidavit filed.
[25:49:1883; BH § 2366; C § 2490; RL § 2027; NCL § 2958]—(NRS A 1997, 2270; 2015, 2564)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 19 - Fees › NRS 19.070 - Limitation on fees charged by clerks.

A clerk of the court shall not charge any fee that is not authorized by law.
[17:49:1883; BH § 2358; C § 2482; RL § 2109; NCL § 2950]—(NRS A 1999, 1205; 2015, 2564)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 19 - Fees › NRS 19.080 - Clerks to keep fee books or electronic records.

The clerk of the court shall keep in his or her office, open to public inspection, a fee book or electronic record in which the clerk of the court shall enter in detail the fees charged with the title or the case number of the matter, proceeding or action in which they were charged.
[18:49:1883; BH § 2359; C § 2483; RL § 2020; NCL § 2951]—(NRS A 1971, 538; 2015, 2564)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 19 - Fees › NRS 19.090 - Monthly financial statements of clerks.

1. The clerk of the court shall, on or before the 15th day of each month, make out and file with the county official designated by the board of county commissioners a full and correct statement under oath of all fees, percentage or compensation, of whatever nature or kind, received in his or her official capacity during the preceding month. In the statement, the clerk of the court shall set forth the cause in which and the services for which such compensations were received.
2. Nothing in this section shall be so construed as to require personal attendance in filing the statements, and such statements may be transmitted by mail, express or otherwise directed to the county official designated by the board of county commissioners.
[19:49:1883; BH § 2360; C § 2484; RL § 2021; NCL § 2952]—(NRS A 1963, 5; 2015, 2564)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 19 - Fees › NRS 19.110 - Clerks prohibited from taking more or greater fees than authorized by law.

The clerk of the court shall not take more or greater fees than are authorized by law.
[22:49:1883; BH § 2363; C § 2487; RL § 2024; NCL § 2955]—(NRS A 1999, 1205; 2015, 2564)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 20 - Bonds and Undertakings; Deposits in Lieu Thereof › NRS 20.010 - Undertaking with sureties; affidavits.

1. In all cases where an undertaking with sureties is required by the provisions of titles 2 to 6, inclusive, of NRS, the judge, justice, or clerk, or other officer taking the same, shall, unless it is otherwise provided in NRS, require the sureties to accompany the same with an affidavit that they are each worth the sum specified in the undertaking, over and above all their just debts and liabilities, exclusive of property exempt from execution.
2. When the amount specified in an undertaking exceeds $3,000, and there are more than two sureties thereon, they may state in their affidavits that they are severally worth amounts less than that expressed in the undertaking, if the whole amount be equivalent to that of two sufficient sureties.
[1911 CPA § 542; RL § 5484; NCL § 9031]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 20 - Bonds and Undertakings; Deposits in Lieu Thereof › NRS 20.015 - Form of undertaking.

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:
UNDERTAKING
State of Nevada }
}ss.
County of.................................... }
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 ……….
.......................................................................
(Signature of Principal)
.......................................................................
.......................................................................
(Signature of Sureties)
(Added to NRS by 1975, 1015; A 2001, 18)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 20 - Bonds and Undertakings; Deposits in Lieu Thereof › NRS 20.020 - Justification of sureties.

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.
[1911 CPA § 543; RL § 5485; NCL § 9032]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 20 - Bonds and Undertakings; Deposits in Lieu Thereof › NRS 20.030 - Surety bond or cash may be furnished in lieu of personal sureties.

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.
[1911 CPA § 544; A 1927, 80; NCL § 9033]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 20 - Bonds and Undertakings; Deposits in Lieu Thereof › NRS 20.035 - Limitation on amount of bond in litigation involving Master Settlement Agreement.

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.
(Added to NRS by 2001, 1007; A 2005, 476)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 20 - Bonds and Undertakings; Deposits in Lieu Thereof › NRS 20.037 - Limitation on amount of bond to secure stay of execution of judgment pending appeal; exceptions.

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.
(Added to NRS by 2015, 1521)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 20 - Bonds and Undertakings; Deposits in Lieu Thereof › NRS 20.040 - Undertaking, bond or security not required in action by or against State, county, city or officer thereof.

1. In any action or proceeding before any court or other tribunal in this State, wherein the State of Nevada or any county, city or town of this State, or any officer thereof in his or her official capacity, is a party plaintiff or defendant, no bond, undertaking or security shall be required of the State, county, city or town, or such officer in his or her official capacity, but on complying with the other provisions of law the State, county, city or town, or officer thereof, acting as aforesaid, shall have the same rights, remedies and benefits as though such bond, undertaking or security were given and approved as required by law.
2. The provisions of this section shall only apply where such action or proceeding is prosecuted or defended in the name of the State, county, city, town or officer thereof for the public benefit, and shall not be applicable where such action or proceeding is so prosecuted or defended for the benefit of a private individual or for the enforcement or protection of a private right.
[1911 CPA § 545; RL § 5487; NCL § 9034]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 20 - Bonds and Undertakings; Deposits in Lieu Thereof › NRS 20.050 - Bond or undertaking to be approved by clerk of court.

1. In all cases where a bond or other undertaking, except a bail bond, is required by the provisions of titles 2 to 5, inclusive, of NRS or in any civil action arising under any other title of NRS or by the Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure or Nevada Rules of Appellate Procedure, the bond or undertaking shall be presented to the clerk of the court in which the action or proceeding is pending, for approval of the clerk of the court, before being filed or deposited.
2. The clerk of the court may refuse approval of a surety for any bond or other undertaking if a power of attorney-in-fact which covers the agent whose signature appears on the bond or other undertaking is not on file with the clerk of the court.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 385; A 1975, 1197)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 21 - Enforcement of Judgments › NRS 21.005 - Determination of gross weekly salary or wage of employee for purposes of chapter.

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.
(Added to NRS by 2017, 1964)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 21 - Enforcement of Judgments › NRS 21.010 - Writ of execution: Limitations of time.

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.
[1911 CPA § 338; RL § 5280; NCL § 8836]—(NRS A 1979, 1172; 1987, 2249; 1989, 586)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 21 - Enforcement of Judgments › NRS 21.027 - Writ to levy on property in safe-deposit box at financial institution: Separate writ required; service of notice of writ; effect of writ.

1. If a writ of execution or garnishment is levied on property in a safe-deposit box maintained at a financial institution, a separate writ must be issued from any writ that is issued to levy on an account of the judgment debtor with the financial institution. Notice of the writ must be served personally on the financial institution and promptly thereafter on any third person who is named on the safe-deposit box.
2. During the period in which the writ of execution or garnishment is in effect, the financial institution must not allow the contents of the safe-deposit box to be removed other than as directed by the sheriff or by court order.
3. The sheriff may allow the person in whose name the safe-deposit box is held to open the safe-deposit box so that the contents may be removed pursuant to the levy. The financial institution may refuse to allow the forcible opening of the safe-deposit box to allow the removal of the property levied upon unless the judgment creditor pays in advance the cost of forcibly opening the safe-deposit box and of repairing any damage caused thereby.
(Added to NRS by 2011, 1890)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 21 - Enforcement of Judgments › NRS 21.030 - Satisfaction of judgment on joint contract.

When a writ of execution is issued on a judgment recovered against two or more persons, in an action upon a joint contract, in which action all the defendants were not served with summons, or did not appear, it shall direct the sheriff to satisfy the judgment out of the joint property of all the defendants, and the individual property only of the defendants who were served or who appeared in the action. In other respects the writ shall contain the directions specified in subsections 1 and 4 of NRS 21.020.
[1911 CPA § 340; RL § 5282; NCL § 8838]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 21 - Enforcement of Judgments › NRS 21.040 - Return of execution.

The execution shall be returnable to the clerk with whom the judgment roll is filed not less than 10 nor more than 60 days after its receipt by the sheriff.
[1911 CPA § 341; RL § 5283; NCL § 8839]—(NRS A 1969, 386)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 21 - Enforcement of Judgments › NRS 21.050 - Enforcement of judgments requiring payment of money or delivery of property; performance of other act.

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.
[1911 CPA § 342; RL § 5284; NCL § 8840]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 21 - Enforcement of Judgments › NRS 21.060 - Execution may issue after death of party.

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.
[1911 CPA § 343; RL § 5285; NCL § 8841]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 21 - Enforcement of Judgments › NRS 21.070 - Execution to issue to sheriff.

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.
[1911 CPA § 344; RL § 5286; NCL § 8842]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 21 - Enforcement of Judgments › NRS 21.076 - Notice of writ of execution: Manner and time of service.

The notice required by NRS 21.075 must be served by the sheriff on the judgment debtor by regular mail at the debtor’s last known address or, if the debtor is represented by an attorney, at the attorney’s office. The service must be mailed by the next business day after the day the writ of execution was served.
(Added to NRS by 1989, 1136)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 21 - Enforcement of Judgments › NRS 21.080 - Property liable to execution; property not affected by execution until levy; exemption of certain trusts.

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.
[1911 CPA § 345; A 1939, 60; 1931 NCL § 8843]—(NRS A 1965, 913; 2007, 895; 2009, 807)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 21 - Enforcement of Judgments › NRS 21.095 - Property exempt from execution upon judgment for medical bill.

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.
(Added to NRS by 1989, 10)