Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 6 - Juries
NRS 6.150 - Grand jurors and trial jurors in district and justice court. [Effective through December 31, 2021.] Grand jurors and trial jurors in district and justice court or trial jurors in municipal court. [Effective January 1, 2022.]


1. Each person summoned to attend as a grand juror or a trial juror in the district court or justice court is entitled to a fee of $40 for each day after the second day of jury selection that the person is in attendance in response to the venire or summons, including Sundays and holidays.
2. Each grand juror and trial juror in the district court or justice court actually sworn and serving is entitled to a fee of $40 a day as compensation for each day of service.
3. In addition to the fees specified in subsections 1 and 2, a board of county commissioners may provide that, for each day of such attendance or service, each person is entitled to be paid the per diem allowance and travel expenses provided for state officers and employees generally.
4. Each person summoned to attend as a grand juror or a trial juror in the district court or justice court and each grand juror and trial juror in the district court or justice court is entitled to receive 36.5 cents a mile for each mile necessarily and actually traveled if the home of the person summoned or serving as a juror is 30 miles or more from the place of trial.
5. If the home of a person summoned or serving as such a juror is 65 miles or more from the place of trial and the selection, inquiry or trial lasts more than 1 day, the person is entitled to receive an allowance for lodging at the rate established for state employees, in addition to his or her daily compensation for attendance or service, for each day on which the person does not return to his or her home.
6. In civil cases, any fee, per diem allowance, travel expense or other compensation due each juror engaged in the trial of the cause must be paid each day in advance to the clerk of the court, or the justice of the peace, by the party who has demanded the jury. If the party paying this money is the prevailing party, the money is recoverable as costs from the losing party. If the jury from any cause is discharged in a civil action without finding a verdict and the party who demands the jury subsequently obtains judgment, the money so paid is recoverable as costs from the losing party.
7. The money paid by the clerk of the court to jurors for their services in a civil action or proceeding, which the clerk of the court has received from the party demanding the jury, must be deducted from the total amount due them for attendance as such jurors, and any balance is a charge against the county.
[Part 2:96:1919; A 1933, 68; 1933, 152; 1937, 210; 1949, 10; 1951, 107; 1953, 134]—(NRS A 1965, 311; 1967, 277; 1975, 911; 1977, 926; 1979, 330; 1981, 326; 1993, 919; 2001, 752; 2003, 1348; 2007, 210, 596; 2015, 2555)

1. Each person summoned to attend as a grand juror or a trial juror in the district court or justice court, or a trial juror in the municipal court, is entitled to a fee of $40 for each day after the second day of jury selection that the person is in attendance in response to the venire or summons, including Sundays and holidays.
2. Each grand juror and trial juror in the district court or justice court, or trial juror in the municipal court, actually sworn and serving is entitled to a fee of $40 a day as compensation for each day of service.
3. In addition to the fees specified in subsections 1 and 2, a board of county commissioners or governing body of a city may provide that, for each day of such attendance or service, each person is entitled to be paid the per diem allowance and travel expenses provided for state officers and employees generally.
4. Each person summoned to attend as a grand juror or a trial juror in the district court or justice court, or a trial juror in the municipal court, and each grand juror and trial juror in the district court or justice court, or trial juror in the municipal court, is entitled to receive 36.5 cents a mile for each mile necessarily and actually traveled if the home of the person summoned or serving as a juror is 30 miles or more from the place of trial.
5. If the home of a person summoned or serving as such a juror is 65 miles or more from the place of trial and the selection, inquiry or trial lasts more than 1 day, the person is entitled to receive an allowance for lodging at the rate established for state employees, in addition to his or her daily compensation for attendance or service, for each day on which the person does not return to his or her home.
6. In civil cases, any fee, per diem allowance, travel expense or other compensation due each juror engaged in the trial of the cause must be paid each day in advance to the clerk of the court, or the justice of the peace, by the party who has demanded the jury. If the party paying this money is the prevailing party, the money is recoverable as costs from the losing party. If the jury from any cause is discharged in a civil action without finding a verdict and the party who demands the jury subsequently obtains judgment, the money so paid is recoverable as costs from the losing party.
7. The money paid by the clerk of the court to jurors for their services in a civil action or proceeding, which the clerk of the court has received from the party demanding the jury, must be deducted from the total amount due them for attendance as such jurors, and any balance is a charge against the county.
[Part 2:96:1919; A 1933, 68; 1933, 152; 1937, 210; 1949, 10; 1951, 107; 1953, 134]—(NRS A 1965, 311; 1967, 277; 1975, 911; 1977, 926; 1979, 330; 1981, 326; 1993, 919; 2001, 752; 2003, 1348; 2007, 210, 596; 2015, 2555; 2021, 1315, effective January 1, 2022)

Structure Nevada Revised Statutes

Nevada Revised Statutes

Chapter 6 - Juries

NRS 6.010 - Persons qualified to act as jurors.

NRS 6.020 - Exemptions from service.

NRS 6.030 - Grounds for excusing jurors.

NRS 6.040 - Penalty for failing to attend and serve as a juror.

NRS 6.045 - Designation by rule of district court; selection of trial jurors; list of qualified electors; duties. [Effective through December 31, 2021.] Designation by rule of district court; selection of trial jurors; list of qualified electors; dut...

NRS 6.090 - Procedures for forming panel; duties of sheriff and jury commissioner. [Effective through December 31, 2021.] Procedures for forming panel; duties of sheriff, chief of police or chief marshal and jury commissioner. [Effective January 1, 2...

NRS 6.100 - Discharge of excess trial jurors.

NRS 6.110 - Counties whose population is 100,000 or more: Selection of jurors and alternate jurors; listing and summoning jurors.

NRS 6.120 - Counties whose population is less than 100,000: Selection of jurors and alternate jurors; listing and summoning jurors.

NRS 6.130 - Permissible summoning of grand jury by filing of affidavit or petition by taxpayer.

NRS 6.132 - Summoning of grand jury by filing of petition by committee of registered voters.

NRS 6.135 - Impaneling of grand juries to investigate state affairs; payment of expenses.

NRS 6.140 - Application to appellate court for order directing selection and impaneling of grand jury.

NRS 6.145 - Recess of grand jury.

NRS 6.150 - Grand jurors and trial jurors in district and justice court. [Effective through December 31, 2021.] Grand jurors and trial jurors in district and justice court or trial jurors in municipal court. [Effective January 1, 2022.]

NRS 6.155 - Establishment of program to allow juror to donate money to which juror is entitled for juror’s services and expenses to local agency for prevention of child abuse and neglect.

NRS 6.160 - Payment of jurors.

NRS 6.180 - Expenses of jurors in civil cases.

NRS 6.190 - Terminating or threatening to terminate employment because of jury duty prohibited; civil action for unlawful termination; requiring employee to use sick leave or vacation time or to work certain hours prohibited; notice to employer; diss...