Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 173 - Indictment and Information
NRS 173.055 - Duties of district attorney or Attorney General; written statement containing reasons why information not filed.


1. The Attorney General when acting pursuant to a specific statute or the district attorney of the proper county shall inquire into all cases of preliminary examinations as provided by law, concerning the commission of any offense, whether the offenders are committed to jail, recognized or held to bail.
2. If the district attorney or the Attorney General determines in any such case that an information ought not to be filed, the district attorney or Attorney General shall file with the clerk of the court having jurisdiction of the supposed offense a written statement containing the reasons, in fact and in law, for not filing any information in the case. The statement must be filed within 15 days after the holding of the preliminary examination.
(Added to NRS by 1967, 1412; A 1975, 655; 1979, 1093; 1989, 164)

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.