Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 248 - Sheriffs

NRS 248.005 - Qualifications. - 1. No person is eligible to the office of sheriff...

NRS 248.010 - Election; term of office; exception. - Unless the arrangement is altered pursuant to the mechanism set...

NRS 248.020 - Oath and bond. - Before entering upon the discharge of his or her duties,...

NRS 248.030 - Office; hours to remain open. - Sheriffs shall keep an office at the county seat of...

NRS 248.040 - Deputies: Appointment and removal in smaller counties; oath; recording of appointment; bonds. - 1. Except as provided in NRS 248.045, each sheriff may:...

NRS 248.045 - Appointment and removal of police officers by sheriff of metropolitan police department; appointment and removal of deputies in larger counties. - 1. The sheriff of a metropolitan police department may appoint...

NRS 248.050 - Custody of jail and prisoners. - The sheriff of each county shall have the custody of...

NRS 248.060 - Penalty for sheriff or jailer refusing to receive or arrest. - If any sheriff or keeper of a jail shall willfully...

NRS 248.090 - General duties. - Sheriffs and their deputies shall keep and preserve the peace...

NRS 248.092 - Searches and rescues. - The sheriff is responsible for searches and rescues within his...

NRS 248.100 - Attendance at sessions of district court required in certain counties; duty to obey lawful orders of district court and to execute process, writs and warrants. - The sheriff shall: 1. Except in a county whose population...

NRS 248.110 - Practice of law prohibited. - A sheriff shall not engage in the practice of law....

NRS 248.120 - Process, writ and orders to be endorsed; provision of memorandum or copy upon request. - When any process, writ or order is delivered to the...

NRS 248.130 - Execution and endorsement of process; liability for failure to execute. - A sheriff to whom any process, writ, order or paper...

NRS 248.150 - Liability to creditor for failure to attach, levy or sell. - If the sheriff to whom a writ of execution or...

NRS 248.160 - Liability for collections. - If a sheriff neglects or refuses to pay over on...

NRS 248.170 - Sheriff not to purchase at sale. - No sheriff shall become the purchaser, nor procure any person...

NRS 248.180 - Collection of execution after expiration of term of office. - Any sheriff, at the expiration of his or her term...

NRS 248.190 - Service on sheriff: Manner. - Service of a paper upon the sheriff may be made...

NRS 248.210 - Duties concerning riotous assembly; penalty. - 1. When six or more persons, whether armed or not,...

NRS 248.220 - Sheriff may call upon Governor for military aid to assist civil authorities in suppressing violence. - When there is an unlawful or riotous assembly, with the...

NRS 248.230 - Penalty for failure to prevent duel. - If any sheriff shall have knowledge of an intention on...

NRS 248.242 - Crash reports and related materials: Provision upon receipt of reasonable fee; exceptions. - A sheriff shall, within 7 days after receipt of a...

NRS 248.245 - Report of deaths to public administrator or person employed or contracted to perform the duties of public administrator in certain counties. - In counties having a population of less than 100,000, the...

NRS 248.250 - Duties pertaining to criminal procedure in justice courts. - Sheriffs and their deputies shall perform such duties as are...

NRS 248.275 - Collection and deposit of fees; amount of commissions and mileage; entitlement to compensation. - 1. The sheriff of each county in this State may...

NRS 248.285 - Fees of sheriff of Carson City. - The provisions of NRS 248.275 apply to the sheriff of...

NRS 248.300 - Sheriff to keep fee book. - Each sheriff shall keep in his or her office a...

NRS 248.310 - Quarterly financial statements. - 1. On the first Monday of January, April, July and...

NRS 248.320 - No other fees to be charged. - Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4 of NRS 482.2155,...

NRS 248.330 - Failure to comply with certain statutory requirements: Penalty. - Any sheriff who shall violate any of the provisions of...

NRS 248.340 - Punishment for taking excessive fees. - If any sheriff shall take more or greater fees than...

NRS 248.350 - Civil liability for excessive fees. - No sheriff shall, directly or indirectly, ask, demand or receive...

NRS 248.360 - Table of fees to be posted; penalties. - Any sheriff receiving fees as provided by law shall publish...

NRS 248.370 - Cost of publication. - When by law any publication is required to be made...

NRS 248.380 - Fees payable in advance; execution. - All fees prescribed in this chapter shall be payable in...

NRS 248.390 - Mileage for service of more than one process. - When any sheriff serves more than one process in the...

NRS 248.400 - Computation of mileage. - Mileage shall be computed from the courthouse of the county...

NRS 248.410 - No fee for returns; penalties. - No sheriff shall be allowed to charge or receive any...