Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 173 - Indictment and Information
NRS 173.045 - District attorney or Attorney General to be informant; endorsement of names of witnesses; affidavits.


1. All informations must be filed in the court having jurisdiction of the offenses specified therein, by the Attorney General when acting pursuant to a specific statute or by the district attorney of the proper county as informant, and his or her name must be subscribed thereto by him or her or by his or her deputy.
2. The district attorney or the Attorney General shall endorse thereon the names of such witnesses as are known at the time of filing the information. The district attorney or Attorney General shall not endorse the name of any witness whom he or she does not reasonably expect to call.
3. In all cases in which the defendant has not had or waived a preliminary examination there must be filed with the information the affidavit of some credible person verifying the information upon the personal knowledge of affiant that the offense was committed.
(Added to NRS by 1967, 1412; A 1975, 655; 1989, 163; 1997, 2365)

Structure Nevada Revised Statutes

Nevada Revised Statutes

Chapter 173 - Indictment and Information

NRS 173.015 - First pleading by State.

NRS 173.025 - Courts may act upon information for all offenses.

NRS 173.035 - Information may be filed following preliminary examination when accused is bound over or when preliminary examination is waived; when information is filed on affidavit; limitation of time; amended information may include additional char...

NRS 173.045 - District attorney or Attorney General to be informant; endorsement of names of witnesses; affidavits.

NRS 173.049 - Court clerk may accept information filed electronically; procedure; service.

NRS 173.055 - Duties of district attorney or Attorney General; written statement containing reasons why information not filed.

NRS 173.065 - Judge may require Attorney General to prosecute if district attorney refuses.

NRS 173.075 - Nature and contents generally.

NRS 173.085 - Surplusage.

NRS 173.095 - Amendment; notice of habitual criminality, habitually fraudulent felon or habitual felon.

NRS 173.105 - Charging defendant by fictitious or erroneous name: Insertion of true name.

NRS 173.115 - Joinder of offenses. [Effective through December 31, 2021.] Joinder of offenses. [Effective January 1, 2022.]

NRS 173.125 - Prosecution not required to elect between different offenses or counts; plea of guilty or guilty but mentally ill to one offense does not preclude prosecution for other offenses.

NRS 173.135 - Joinder of defendants.

NRS 173.145 - Issuance of warrant or summons.

NRS 173.155 - Form of warrant; fixing and endorsement of amount of bail.

NRS 173.165 - Manner of proceeding on giving bail in another county.

NRS 173.175 - Ordering defendant charged with felony into custody unless increased bail is given.

NRS 173.185 - Form of summons.

NRS 173.195 - Execution of warrant and service of summons.

NRS 173.205 - Return of warrant and summons; reissuance.