Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 248 - Sheriffs
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 charge and collect the following fees:
For serving a summons or complaint, or any other process, by which an action or proceeding is commenced, except as a writ of habeas corpus, on every defendant............................................... $17
For traveling and making such service, per mile in going only, to be computed in all cases the distance actually traveled, for each mile.......................................................................................................... 2
If any two or more papers are required to be served in the same suit at the same time, where parties live in the same direction, one mileage only may be charged.
For taking a bond or undertaking in any case in which the sheriff is authorized to take a bond or undertaking 5
For a copy of any writ, process or other paper, if demanded or required by law, for each page 3
For serving every rule or order............................................................................... 15
For serving one notice required by law before the commencement of a proceeding for any type of eviction 26
For serving not fewer than 2 nor more than 10 such notices to the same location, each notice 20
For serving not fewer than 11 nor more than 24 such notices to the same location, each notice 17
For serving 25 or more such notices to the same location, each notice.......... 15
For mileage in serving such a notice, for each mile necessarily and actually traveled in going only 2
But 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.
For each service in a summary eviction, except service of any notice required by law before the commencement of the proceeding, and for serving notice of and executing a writ of restitution 21
For serving a subpoena, for each witness summoned........................................ 15
For traveling, per mile in serving subpoenas, or a venire, in going only, for each mile 2
When two or more witnesses or jurors live in the same direction, traveling fees must be charged only for the most distant.
For serving an attachment on property, or levying an execution, or executing an order of arrest or order for the delivery of personal property, together with traveling fees, as in cases of summons 15
For making and posting notices and advertising for sale, on execution or any judgment or order of sale, not to include the cost of publication in a newspaper........................................................... 15
For issuing each certificate of sale of property on execution or order of sale, and for recording the original certificate with the county recorder, which must be collected from the party receiving the certificate 5
For drawing and executing every sheriff’s deed, to be paid by the grantee, who shall in addition pay for the acknowledgment thereof................................................................................... 20
For serving a writ of possession or restitution, putting any person into possession entitled thereto 21
For traveling in the service of any process, not otherwise provided in this section, for each mile necessarily traveled, for going only, for each mile.............................................................................. 2
For mailing a notice of a writ of execution............................................................. 2
The sheriff may charge and collect $2 per mile traveled, for going only, on all papers not served, where reasonable effort has been made to effect service, but not to exceed $20.
2. The sheriff may also charge and collect:
(a) For commissions for receiving and paying over money on execution or process, where lands or personal property have been levied on, advertised or sold, on the first $500, 4 percent; on any sum in excess of $500, and not exceeding $1,000, 2 percent; on all sums above that amount, 1 percent.
(b) For commissions for receiving and paying over money on executions without levy, or where the lands or goods levied on are not sold, on the first $3,500, 2 percent, and on all amounts over that sum, one-half of 1 percent.
(c) For service of any process in a criminal case, or of a writ of habeas corpus, the same mileage as in civil cases, to be allowed, audited and paid as are other claims against the county.
(d) For all services in justice courts, the same fees as are allowed in subsection 1 and paragraphs (a), (b) and (c) of this subsection.
3. The sheriff is also entitled to further compensation for his or her trouble and expense in taking possession of property under attachment, execution or other process and of preserving the property, as the court from which the writ or order may issue certifies to be just and reasonable.
4. In service of a subpoena or a venire in criminal cases, the sheriff is entitled to receive mileage for the most distant only, where witnesses and jurors live in the same direction.
5. The fees allowed for the levy of an execution, for advertising and for making and collecting money on an execution or order of sale, must be collected from the defendants, by virtue of the execution or order of sale, in the same manner as the execution is directed to be made.
6. Except as otherwise provided by an ordinance adopted pursuant to the provisions of NRS 244.207, all fees collected by a sheriff must be paid into the county treasury of his or her county on or before the fifth working day of the month next succeeding the month in which the fees are collected.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 182; A 1973, 784, 1680; 1985, 1006; 1987, 649; 1989, 1144; 1991, 406; 1993, 1351; 1997, 1206; 2001, 1743, 3210; 2003, 227; 2017, 1053)

Structure Nevada Revised Statutes

Nevada Revised Statutes

Chapter 248 - Sheriffs

NRS 248.005 - Qualifications.

NRS 248.010 - Election; term of office; exception.

NRS 248.020 - Oath and bond.

NRS 248.030 - Office; hours to remain open.

NRS 248.040 - Deputies: Appointment and removal in smaller counties; oath; recording of appointment; bonds.

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

NRS 248.050 - Custody of jail and prisoners.

NRS 248.060 - Penalty for sheriff or jailer refusing to receive or arrest.

NRS 248.090 - General duties.

NRS 248.092 - Searches and rescues.

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.

NRS 248.110 - Practice of law prohibited.

NRS 248.120 - Process, writ and orders to be endorsed; provision of memorandum or copy upon request.

NRS 248.130 - Execution and endorsement of process; liability for failure to execute.

NRS 248.150 - Liability to creditor for failure to attach, levy or sell.

NRS 248.160 - Liability for collections.

NRS 248.170 - Sheriff not to purchase at sale.

NRS 248.180 - Collection of execution after expiration of term of office.

NRS 248.190 - Service on sheriff: Manner.

NRS 248.210 - Duties concerning riotous assembly; penalty.

NRS 248.220 - Sheriff may call upon Governor for military aid to assist civil authorities in suppressing violence.

NRS 248.230 - Penalty for failure to prevent duel.

NRS 248.242 - Crash reports and related materials: Provision upon receipt of reasonable fee; exceptions.

NRS 248.245 - Report of deaths to public administrator or person employed or contracted to perform the duties of public administrator in certain counties.

NRS 248.250 - Duties pertaining to criminal procedure in justice courts.

NRS 248.275 - Collection and deposit of fees; amount of commissions and mileage; entitlement to compensation.

NRS 248.285 - Fees of sheriff of Carson City.

NRS 248.300 - Sheriff to keep fee book.

NRS 248.310 - Quarterly financial statements.

NRS 248.320 - No other fees to be charged.

NRS 248.330 - Failure to comply with certain statutory requirements: Penalty.

NRS 248.340 - Punishment for taking excessive fees.

NRS 248.350 - Civil liability for excessive fees.

NRS 248.360 - Table of fees to be posted; penalties.

NRS 248.370 - Cost of publication.

NRS 248.380 - Fees payable in advance; execution.

NRS 248.390 - Mileage for service of more than one process.

NRS 248.400 - Computation of mileage.

NRS 248.410 - No fee for returns; penalties.