Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 259 - Coroners
NRS 259.145 - Fee of justice of the peace for holding inquest.


1. A justice of the peace is entitled, for each day necessarily employed in holding an inquest, to a fee of $23.
2. This fee must be paid out of the county treasury as other demands against the county are paid.
[17:107:1909; A 1933, 259; 1949, 152; 1953, 127]—(NRS A 1979, 1370; 1993, 1353; 2001, 3213)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 259.200)

Structure Nevada Revised Statutes

Nevada Revised Statutes

Chapter 259 - Coroners

NRS 259.010 - Coroners’ districts; inapplicability of certain provisions of chapter.

NRS 259.020 - Sheriffs are ex officio coroners; exceptions.

NRS 259.025 - Account for support of office of county coroner.

NRS 259.030 - Travel and subsistence.

NRS 259.040 - Deputies.

NRS 259.045 - Coroner to notify next of kin of decedent of fact of death; authority to notify and provide coroner’s report to decedent’s parents, guardians, adult children or custodians.

NRS 259.047 - Test of decedent for communicable diseases; report of results.

NRS 259.049 - Program to promote mental health of certain persons; program to provide bereavement services to public.

NRS 259.050 - Investigation into cause of death; postmortem examination; inquest.

NRS 259.053 - Postmortem examination by forensic pathologist: Determination of cause of death; death certificate.

NRS 259.060 - Penalty for failure to attend as juror.

NRS 259.070 - Oath of juror.

NRS 259.080 - Fees of jurors; expenses of transportation of jury.

NRS 259.090 - Inquest: Summoning and examination of witnesses; examination of decedent; adjournment.

NRS 259.100 - Witness failing to attend punishable for contempt.

NRS 259.110 - Rendition of verdict: Certification; contents.

NRS 259.120 - Testimony to be reduced to writing and filed with clerk of district court.

NRS 259.130 - Warrant to issue for accused.

NRS 259.140 - Service and return of warrant.

NRS 259.145 - Fee of justice of the peace for holding inquest.

NRS 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.

NRS 259.160 - Duties of county treasurer pertaining to money and property of decedent.

NRS 259.170 - Payment to representatives of decedent.

NRS 259.180 - Burial of decedent; payment of expenses.

NRS 259.200 - Fee of justice of the peace for holding inquest.