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- NRS 258.007 · Certification as category I or category II peace officer required in certain townships; forfeiture of office.
- NRS 258.010 · Election; appointment of sheriff to serve ex officio; term of office; abolition of office.
- NRS 258.020 · Oath and bond.
- NRS 258.030 · Vacancy when office not abolished: Applicable law governing appointment.
- NRS 258.040 · Compensation.
- NRS 258.050 · Expenses; claims.
- NRS 258.060 · Deputies; certification of deputy as category I or category II peace officer required in certain townships.
- NRS 258.065 · Clerical and operational staff: Appointment; powers; oath; bond; compensation; duties.
- NRS 258.070 · Duties and powers of constable or deputy; circumstances under which constable or deputy has powers of peace officer and may carry firearm; certain constables and deputies required to wear badges; duties and powers of sheriff or deputy.
- NRS 258.0703 · Processes, writs and orders: Endorsement and memorandum of receipt.
- NRS 258.0705 · Processes, writs and orders: Service or execution; return; liability for damages.
- NRS 258.0707 · Liability for neglect or refusal to attach, levy upon or sell property pursuant to writ of execution or attachment.
- NRS 258.075 · Report of deaths to public administrator or certain other person in certain counties.
- NRS 258.080 · Duties in new township.
- NRS 258.090 · Liability on bond: Tender of fees and indemnity bond.
- NRS 258.110 · Unlawful failure to arrest offender; penalty.
- NRS 258.120 · Purchasing judgment prohibited; penalty.
- NRS 258.125 · Fees; expenses; accounting.
- NRS 258.135 · Acceptance of credit card, debit card or electronic transfer of money for payment of fees owed constable; convenience fee.
- NRS 258.170 · No other fees to be charged.
- NRS 258.180 · Fee book.
- NRS 258.190 · Quarterly financial statements.
- NRS 258.200 · Failure to comply with certain statutory requirements: Penalty.
- NRS 258.205 · Penalties for failure of constable to file report, oath or other document with county or Peace Officers’ Standards and Training Commission.
- NRS 258.210 · Punishment for taking excessive fees.
- NRS 258.220 · Table of fees to be posted; penalties.
- NRS 258.230 · Fees payable in advance; execution.
- NRS 258.240 · Limitation on mileage.
- NRS 259.010 · Coroners’ districts; inapplicability of certain provisions of chapter.
- NRS 259.020 · Sheriffs are ex officio coroners; exceptions.
- NRS 259.025 · Account for support of office of county coroner.
- NRS 259.030 · Travel and subsistence.
- NRS 259.040 · Deputies.
- NRS 259.045 · Coroner to notify next of kin of decedent of fact of death; authority to notify and provide coroner’s report to decedent’s parents, guardians, adult children or custodians.
- NRS 259.047 · Test of decedent for communicable diseases; report of results.
- NRS 259.049 · Program to promote mental health of certain persons; program to provide bereavement services to public.
- NRS 259.050 · Investigation into cause of death; postmortem examination; inquest.
- NRS 259.053 · Postmortem examination by forensic pathologist: Determination of cause of death; death certificate.
- NRS 259.060 · Penalty for failure to attend as juror.
- NRS 259.070 · Oath of juror.
- NRS 259.080 · Fees of jurors; expenses of transportation of jury.
- NRS 259.090 · Inquest: Summoning and examination of witnesses; examination of decedent; adjournment.
- NRS 259.100 · Witness failing to attend punishable for contempt.
- NRS 259.110 · Rendition of verdict: Certification; contents.
- NRS 259.120 · Testimony to be reduced to writing and filed with clerk of district court.
- NRS 259.130 · Warrant to issue for accused.
- NRS 259.140 · Service and return of warrant.
- NRS 259.145 · Fee of justice of the peace for holding inquest.
- NRS 259.150 · Inventory of money and property of decedent; delivery to county treasurer; signs prohibiting entrance to residence of decedent; penalty for disregard of prohibition.
- NRS 259.160 · Duties of county treasurer pertaining to money and property of decedent.
- NRS 259.170 · Payment to representatives of decedent.
- NRS 259.180 · Burial of decedent; payment of expenses.
- NRS 260.010 · Creation of office by ordinance; restrictions on creation; appointment; term of office; cooperation of county commissioners with Board on Indigent Defense Services and Department of Indigent Defense Services.
- NRS 260.020 · Joint action to establish office.
- NRS 260.030 · Qualifications; representation of indigent person charged with public offense.
- NRS 260.040 · Compensation; deputies and employees; private practice of law limited; expenses; deputies in certain counties governed by merit personnel system.
- NRS 260.050 · Interview with and representation of indigent person.
- NRS 260.060 · Appointment and compensation of other or additional defense counsel.
- NRS 260.065 · County may contract for services of State Public Defender.
- NRS 260.070 · Annual or quarterly reports.
- NRS 260.080 · Construction of chapter.
- NRS 265.010 · Requirement of more than 1,000 inhabitants for incorporation.
- NRS 265.030 · Disincorporation to follow general election.
- NRS 265.040 · Disincorporation to be automatic.
- NRS 265.050 · Duties of county commissioners on disincorporation; establishment of special district.
- NRS 265.060 · Disposition of records; justice of peace to complete all unfinished business of court.
- NRS 265.070 · Expenses of disincorporation; salaries of officers whose offices are abolished.
- NRS 265.080 · Disincorporated cities lose all corporate existence.
- NRS 265.090 · City’s governing board may file declaration of incorporation; duties of Attorney General.
- NRS 265.100 · Provisions mandatory.
- NRS 265.110 · County commissioners may disincorporate city upon petition of majority of resident voters; conditions.
- NRS 265.120 · Dissolution not to invalidate or affect rights, penalties or contracts.
- NRS 265.130 · Appointment of trustees by county commissioners.
- NRS 265.140 · Trustees: Oath and bond.
- NRS 265.150 · Trustees: Duties.
- NRS 265.160 · Trustees: Payment of money; final settlement; compensation.
- NRS 265.170 · Annual revenues to be disposed of for benefit of city or town.
- NRS 265.180 · Limitation on use of money by county commissioners.
- NRS 266.005 · Inapplicability to certain cities.
- NRS 266.007 · Special election may be held upon determination by city council that emergency exists.
- NRS 266.010 · Home rule granted; limitations.
- NRS 266.015 · Municipal government vested in mayor and city council.
- NRS 266.016 · Definitions.
- NRS 266.017 · Area suitable for incorporation.
- NRS 266.018 · Notice to incorporate: Filing; contents.
- NRS 266.019 · Petition for incorporation: Contents; form.
- NRS 266.021 · Petition for incorporation: Information; affidavits.
- NRS 266.022 · Petition for incorporation: Invalidation of signatures; number of signatures; filing.
- NRS 266.023 · Verification of signatures; request to remove name from petition.
- NRS 266.024 · Amendment of petition; verification of additional signatures.
- NRS 266.026 · Determination of sufficiency of petition; review by board of county commissioners.
- NRS 266.0261 · Request for report from Committee on Local Government Finance; submission of copies of petition to planning agencies, local governments and Department of Taxation.
- NRS 266.0262 · Review of petition by planning agencies and local governments.
- NRS 266.0263 · Estimated fiscal effect of incorporation: Statement by Department of Taxation; review of statement by Committee on Local Government Finance.
- NRS 266.0264 · Determination by Committee on Local Government Finance that proposed area is unsuitable for incorporation.
- NRS 266.0265 · Judicial review of determination that proposed area is unsuitable for incorporation.
- NRS 266.027 · Public hearing on petition and report of Committee on Local Government Finance.
- NRS 266.028 · Record of public hearing; testimony at hearing; additional hearings.
- NRS 266.0285 · Factors for consideration in determining advisability of incorporation and feasibility of proposed city.
- NRS 266.029 · Opinion of board of county commissioners on advisability of incorporation and feasibility of proposed city; election required.