{"data":{"id":"us-nv/nrs-258.125","jurisdiction":"us-nv","citation":"NRS 258.125","heading":"Fees; expenses; accounting.","body":"1. Constables are entitled to the following fees for their services:\nFor serving a summons or any other process in civil cases............................ $26\nFor summoning a jury before a justice of the peace........................................... 26\nFor taking a bond or undertaking........................................................................... 26\nFor serving an attachment against the property of a defendant........................ 26\nFor serving subpoenas, for each witness.............................................................. 26\nFor a copy of any writ, process or order or other paper, when demanded or required by law, per folio 3\nFor drawing and executing every constable’s deed, to be paid by the grantee, who must also pay for the acknowledgment thereof.................................................................................................................. 26\nFor each certificate of sale of real property under execution............................ 26\nFor levying any writ of execution or writ of garnishment, or executing an order of arrest in civil cases, order for delivery of personal property or any other order in a civil case, except an order of eviction, with traveling fees as for summons............................................................................................................................... 26\nFor serving one notice required by law before the commencement of a proceeding for any type of eviction 26\nFor serving not fewer than 2 nor more than 10 such notices to the same location, each notice 20\nFor serving not fewer than 11 nor more than 24 such notices to the same location, each notice 17\nFor serving 25 or more such notices to the same location, each notice.......... 15\nExcept as otherwise provided in subsection 3, for mileage in serving such a notice, for each mile necessarily and actually traveled in going only.......................................................................................... 3\nBut if two or more notices are served at the same general location during the same period, mileage may only be charged for the service of one notice.\nFor each service in a summary eviction, except service of any notice required by law before commencement of the proceeding, and for serving notice of and executing a writ of restitution 26\nFor making and posting notices, and advertising property for sale on execution, not to include the cost of publication in a newspaper.................................................................................................... 26\nFor each warrant lawfully executed, unless a higher amount is established by the board of county commissioners............................................................................................................................... 48\nFor mailing a notice of a writ of execution............................................................. 3\nExcept as otherwise provided in subsection 3, for mileage in serving summons, attachment, execution, order, venire, subpoena, notice, summary eviction, writ of restitution or other process in civil suits, for each mile necessarily and actually traveled, in going only.......................................................................... 3\nBut when two or more persons are served in the same suit, mileage may only be charged for the most distant, if they live in the same direction.\nExcept as otherwise provided in subsection 3, for mileage in making a diligent but unsuccessful effort to serve a summons, attachment, execution, order, venire, subpoena or other process in civil suits, for each mile necessarily and actually traveled, in going only.................................................................. 3\nBut mileage may not exceed $30 for any unsuccessful effort to serve such process.\n2. A constable is also entitled to receive:\n(a) For receiving and taking care of property on execution, attachment or order, and for executing an order of arrest in civil cases, compensation for the constable’s trouble and expense, to be allowed by the court which issued the writ or order, upon the affidavit of the constable that the charges are correct and the expenses necessarily incurred.\n(b) For collecting all sums on execution or writ, to be charged against the defendant, on the first $3,500, 2 percent thereof, and on all amounts over that sum, 1 percent.\n(c) For service in criminal cases, the same fees as are allowed sheriffs for like services, to be allowed, audited and paid as are other claims against the county.\n(d) For removing or causing the removal of, pursuant to NRS 487.230, a vehicle that has been abandoned on public property, $100.\n(e) For providing any other service authorized by law for which no fee is established by this chapter, the fee provided for by ordinance by the board of county commissioners.\n3. For each service for which a constable is otherwise entitled pursuant to subsection 1 to a fee based on the mileage necessarily and actually traveled in performing the service, a board of county commissioners may provide by ordinance for the constable to be entitled, at the option of the person paying the fee, to a flat fee for the travel costs of that service.\n4. Deputy sheriffs acting as constables are not entitled to retain for their own use any fees collected by them, but the fees must be paid into the county treasury on or before the fifth working day of the month next succeeding the month in which the fees were collected.\n5. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 6, constables shall, on or before the fifth working day of each month, account for and pay to the county treasurer all fees collected during the preceding month, except fees which may be retained as compensation.\n6. Every 5 business days, constables in an office established by the board of county commissioners as an enterprise fund shall account for and pay to the county treasurer any fee collected during the preceding period.","path":["TITLE 20 — COUNTIES AND TOWNSHIPS: FORMATION, GOVERNMENT AND OFFICERS","CHAPTER 258 - CONSTABLES"],"source_url":"https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-258.html#NRS258Sec125","current_through":"2025 session (NRS as revised 2026-08-25)","vintage":"","retrieved_at":"2026-09-03T05:51:35Z","sha256":"ccc9ab939c70ca3a861cbe13e1eaefc8e4976b9a962ad8e68387ea1eda6c7e1f","source_id":"us-nv","stale":true,"prev":"us-nv/nrs-258.120","next":"us-nv/nrs-258.135"},"notice":"GroundRules: Original legal text. Not legal advice."}