TITLE 20 - COUNTIES AND TOWNSHIPS: FORMATION, GOVERNMENT AND OFFICERS
- Chapter 243 - Counties: Creation; Boundaries; Seats; Abolishment
- Chapter 244 - Counties: Government
- ADVERTISING OF COUNTY’S RESOURCES AND ADVANTAGES
- AGRICULTURE AND FAIRS
- AIRCRAFT NOISE
- APPROVED YOUTH SHELTERS
- CERTIFICATION OF PROPERTY MANAGERS
- CONTRACTS
- COUNTY CODE
- COUNTY MANAGERS
- COUNTY PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSIONS
- COUNTY PARK COMMISSIONS
- COUNTY PRINTING
- COUNTY PROPERTY
- DISTRICT FOR COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT
- FINANCIAL POWERS
- GENERAL POWERS
- GENERAL PROVISIONS
- GRAFFITI
- HEALTH AND SAFETY
- JUVENILE FORESTRY CAMPS
- MEDICAL SCHOLARSHIPS
- MUSEUMS, ART CENTERS AND HISTORICAL SOCIETIES
- NEVADA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
- OFFICE OF COORDINATOR OF SERVICES FOR VETERANS
- ORDINANCES
- ORGANIZATIONS FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
- RECREATIONAL AND CULTURAL CENTERS
- REGULATION AND LICENSING OF OUTDOOR ASSEMBLIES
- REGULATION, TAXATION AND LICENSING OF BUSINESSES ANDOCCUPATIONS
- WILDLIFE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
- Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements
- COUNTY BOND LAW
- COUNTY BONDS FOR SWIMMING POOLS AND FACILITIES
- COUNTY ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT REVENUE BOND LAW
- COUNTY FAIR AND RECREATION BOARDS
- COUNTY SEWAGE AND WASTEWATER LAW
- DISTRICT FOR THE SUPPORT OF PUBLIC PARKS
- FACILITATION OF TRANSPORTATION
- MINOR LEAGUE BASEBALL STADIUM PROJECT
- PERFORMING ARTS CENTER
- STREET BEAUTIFICATION PROJECTS
- SURCHARGE FOR ENHANCEMENT OR IMPROVEMENT OF TELEPHONESYSTEM USED FOR REPORTING EMERGENCY
- TAXING DISTRICT TO PROVIDE TELEPHONE NUMBER FOR USE INEMERGENCY
- Chapter 245 - Counties: Officers and Employees Generally
- Chapter 246 - County Clerks
- Chapter 247 - County Recorders
- 247.005 - “Document” defined.
- 247.010 - Election; term of office; exceptions.
- 247.020 - Oath and bond.
- 247.040 - Deputies.
- 247.050 - Office; hours to remain open.
- 247.060 - Power to take acknowledgment and proof of documents affecting real property; fees deposited in county general fund.
- 247.070 - Subscription to and microfilming of county newspapers.
- 247.080 - Custody and responsibility for documents deposited in office.
- 247.090 - Public inspection of documents on file in recorder’s office.
- 247.100 - Documents to be recorded in order received; maintenance and public inspection of records of transactions conducted in recorder’s office and fees collected.
- 247.110 - Duties and powers concerning document deposited for recording; required format for certain documents submitted for recording; when document is considered recorded.
- 247.115 - Authority to accept electronic documents for recording.
- 247.120 - Manner of recording specified documents.
- 247.130 - Recording in general series called “Official Records.”
- 247.145 - Presentation of document for recording; denial of request to record document.
- 247.150 - Indexes: Requirements; methods; contents.
- 247.155 - Recorder may require electronic version or other copy of documents with large number of names.
- 247.160 - Date of indexing imparts notice when document inserted into record book other than that designated by law.
- 247.170 - Indexing of document recorded as deed of trust, mortgage or financing statement.
- 247.180 - Recording and indexing of document conveying, encumbering or mortgaging both real and personal property; county recorder to provide copy of document or access to digital document to county a
- 247.190 - Notice provided by recorded document; names of signers to be typed or printed beneath original signatures; affidavit.
- 247.200 - Documents affecting real property to be recorded in county where situated.
- 247.210 - Recordation of certified copy or abstract of document recorded in another state.
- 247.215 - Certificate of marriage: Production of certified abstract in lieu of certified copy.
- 247.251 - Use of facsimile signature: Conditions and restrictions.
- 247.305 - Fees: Amount; collection; disposition of excess payment; payment to county treasurer.
- 247.306 - Account for acquisition or improvement of technology used in recorder’s office; annual report.
- 247.310 - Fees for recording certain affidavits concerning mining claims; payment of fees to county treasurer.
- 247.320 - Recording and providing certified copies of deeds or judgments for United States; no fee to be charged.
- 247.330 - Fees payable in advance.
- 247.340 - No other fees to be charged.
- 247.370 - Penalty for willfully taking unauthorized fees.
- 247.380 - Penalty for willfully taking excessive fees.
- 247.390 - Table of fees to be posted; penalties.
- 247.410 - Liability for wrongful acts.
- Chapter 248 - Sheriffs
- Chapter 249 - County Treasurers
- 249.010 - Election; term of office; certain county clerks ex officio county treasurers; exceptions.
- 249.020 - Oath.
- 249.030 - Bond.
- 249.040 - Removal of county treasurer when suit on bond.
- 249.050 - Facsimile signature.
- 249.060 - Deputies.
- 249.070 - County treasurer and deputies may administer oaths.
- 249.080 - Office; hours to remain open.
- 249.085 - Monthly report of administrative assessments paid by Justice Courts.
- 249.090 - Receipt and disbursement of money.
- 249.100 - Arrangement of accounts.
- 249.110 - Inspection of books and office.
- 249.120 - Payment of county warrants; limitation.
- 249.130 - Refusal to redeem warrant.
- 249.140 - Redemption of order; interest.
- 249.150 - Redemption of county orders; receipt for taxes.
- Chapter 250 - County Assessors
- Chapter 251 - County Auditors and Comptrollers
- Chapter 252 - District Attorneys
- 252.010 - Qualifications.
- 252.020 - Election; term of office.
- 252.030 - Bond.
- 252.050 - Office; hours to remain open; penalties; attendance at meetings of board of county commissioners and at county seat in certain counties.
- 252.060 - Filling of vacancy in office; temporary disablement.
- 252.070 - Deputies; clerical, investigational and operational staff.
- 252.080 - Public prosecutor.
- 252.090 - Attendance of courts in county.
- 252.100 - Appointment of attorney if district attorney unable or fails to act; deduction from salary.
- 252.110 - Duties.
- 252.120 - District attorney or partner not to appear as or assist counsel against State or county; penalty.
- 252.130 - Receipts for money or property received in official capacity.
- 252.140 - Accounting and payment of money to county treasurer.
- 252.150 - Action by county treasurer when district attorney fails to account.
- 252.155 - Submission of reports to Legislative Commission.
- 252.160 - Rendition of legal opinions to county, township and district officers.
- 252.170 - Attendance at certain meetings of board of county commissioners; duties.
- 252.180 - Restrictions on presentation of claims against county.
- Chapter 253 - Public Administrators and Guardians
- Chapter 254 - County Engineers
- Chapter 255 - County Surveyors
- 255.010 - Creation of office.
- 255.020 - Appointment.
- 255.025 - Qualifications.
- 255.030 - Oath and bond.
- 255.040 - Vacancy.
- 255.050 - Office.
- 255.060 - Salary; compensation in lieu of salary; mileage; filing of statement of account by certain surveyors.
- 255.070 - Deputies: Appointment; oaths.
- 255.080 - Certificate admissible in evidence.
- 255.090 - Survey by disinterested person when county surveyor an interested party.
- 255.100 - Survey ordered by court or board of county commissioners.
- 255.110 - Records and maps: Duties; public inspection.
- 255.120 - Survey: Courses; variation of meridian.
- 255.130 - Certification of subdivision plat; fees.
- Chapter 257 - Townships
- Chapter 258 - Constables
- 258.005 - Qualifications.
- 258.010 - Election; appointment of sheriff to serve ex officio; term of office; abolition of office.
- 258.020 - Oath and bond.
- 258.030 - Vacancy when office not abolished: Applicable law governing appointment.
- 258.040 - Compensation.
- 258.050 - Expenses; claims.
- 258.060 - Deputies.
- 258.065 - Clerks: Appointment; oath; bond; compensation; duties.
- 258.070 - Duties; powers of sheriff or deputy.
- 258.072 - Accident reports and related materials: Provision upon receipt of reasonable fee; exceptions.
- 258.075 - Report of deaths to public administrator in certain counties.
- 258.080 - Duties in new township.
- 258.090 - Liability on bond: Tender of fees and indemnity bond.
- 258.110 - Failure to receive or arrest offender; penalty.
- 258.120 - Purchasing judgment prohibited; penalty.
- 258.125 - Fees; expenses; accounting.
- 258.170 - No other fees to be charged.
- 258.180 - Fee book.
- 258.190 - Quarterly financial statements.
- 258.200 - Failure to comply with certain statutory requirements: Penalty.
- 258.210 - Punishment for taking excessive fees.
- 258.220 - Table of fees to be posted; penalties.
- 258.230 - Fees payable in advance; execution.
- Chapter 259 - Coroners
- 259.010 - Coroners’ districts; inapplicability of chapter.
- 259.020 - Sheriffs are ex officio coroners; exceptions.
- 259.025 - Account for support of office of county coroner.
- 259.030 - Travel and subsistence.
- 259.040 - Deputies.
- 259.045 - Coroner to notify next of kin of decedent of fact of death.
- 259.050 - Investigation into cause of death; inquest.
- 259.060 - Penalty for failure to attend as juror.
- 259.070 - Oath of juror.
- 259.080 - Fees of jurors; expenses of transportation of jury.
- 259.090 - Inquest: Summoning and examination of witnesses; examination of decedent; adjournment.
- 259.100 - Witness failing to attend punishable for contempt.
- 259.110 - Rendition of verdict: Certification; contents.
- 259.120 - Testimony to be reduced to writing and filed with clerk of district court.
- 259.130 - Warrant to issue for accused.
- 259.140 - Service and return of warrant.
- 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.
- 259.160 - Duties of county treasurer pertaining to money and property of decedent.
- 259.170 - Payment to representatives of decedent.
- 259.180 - Burial of decedent; payment of expenses.
- 259.200 - Fee of justice of the peace for holding inquest.
- Chapter 260 - County Public Defenders
- 260.010 - Creation of office by ordinance; restrictions on creation; appointment; term of office.
- 260.020 - Joint action to establish office.
- 260.030 - Qualifications; representation of indigent person charged with public offense.
- 260.040 - Compensation; deputies and employees; private practice of law limited; expenses; deputies in certain counties governed by merit personnel system.
- 260.050 - Interview with and representation of indigent person.
- 260.060 - Magistrate or district court may appoint and compensate other defense counsel.
- 260.065 - County may contract for services of State Public Defender.
- 260.070 - Annual reports.
- 260.075 - Reports to Legislative Commission.