USA Statutes : nevada
Title : Title 17 - STATE LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT
Chapter : CHAPTER 220 - REVISION OF STATUTES
The Legislative Counsel and the
Legal Division of the Legislative Counsel Bureau shall have the powers
and duties prescribed in this chapter.
[Part 5:304:1951; A 1953, 388]—(NRS A 1963, 1021)
The Legislative Counsel shall, from time to time:
1. Make recommendations to the Legislature for clarification of
specific statutes.
2. Call the attention of the Legislature to conflicting statutes,
and such other matter as he deems necessary.
[14:304:1951]—(NRS A 1963, 1021; 2003, 814 )
The Secretary of State shall make available
for inspection to the Legislative Counsel:
1. All records of his office which are or may be of use to the
Legislative Counsel.
2. Any books or statutes in his custody.
[9:304:1951]—(NRS A 1963, 1022; 1965, 952)
The Legislative Counsel shall:
1. Prepare annotations to Nevada Revised Statutes adopted by
chapter 2, Statutes of Nevada 1957.
2. Keep the material in Nevada Revised Statutes and its
annotations current as provided in NRS 220.160 .
[Part 2:304:1951; A 1953, 388]—(NRS A 1957, 4; 1963, 1022; 1989,
247, 591, 602)
The Legislative Counsel may, on such terms as he deems
appropriate and with the approval of the Legislative Commission, enter
into a contract with any publisher for the preparation and publication of
a digest of judicial opinions construing or concerning the law of this
state, or for cooperation in the preparation and publication of such a
digest.
(Added to NRS by 1989, 247)
Nevada Revised
Statutes shall contain:
1. The Constitution of the United States.
2. The Constitution of the State of Nevada.
3. The laws of this state of general application.
4. A full and accurate index of the statute laws.
5. Such annotations, historical notes, supreme court and district
court rules and other information as the Legislative Counsel deems
appropriate to include.
[Part 2:304:1951; A 1953, 388]—(NRS A 1963, 1022; 1969, 12)
1. In preparing the annotations and keeping Nevada Revised
Statutes current, the Legislative Counsel is authorized:
(a) To adopt such system of numbering as he deems practical.
(b) To cause the revision to be published in a number of volumes
deemed convenient.
(c) To cause the volumes to be bound in loose-leaf binders of good,
and so far as possible, permanent quality.
2. The pages of Nevada Revised Statutes must conform in size and
printing style to the pages of the Statutes of Nevada, and roman style
type must be used.
3. The Legislative Counsel shall classify and arrange the entire
body of statute laws in logical order throughout the volumes, the
arrangement to be such as will enable subjects of a kindred nature to be
placed under one general head, with necessary cross references.
4. Notes of decisions of the Supreme Court, historical references
and other material must be printed and arranged in such manner as the
Legislative Counsel finds will promote the usefulness thereof.
5. The Legislative Counsel in keeping Nevada Revised Statutes
current shall not alter the sense, meaning or effect of any legislative
act, but may renumber sections and parts of sections thereof, change the
wording of headnotes, rearrange sections, change reference numbers or
words to agree with renumbered chapters or sections, substitute the word
“chapter” for “article” and the like, substitute figures for written
words and vice versa, change capitalization for the purpose of
uniformity, correct inaccurate references to the titles of officers, the
names of departments or other agencies of the State, local governments,
or the Federal Government, and such other name changes as are necessary
to be consistent with the laws of this state and correct manifest
clerical or typographical errors.
6. The Legislative Counsel may create new titles, chapters and
sections of Nevada Revised Statutes, or otherwise revise the title,
chapter and sectional organization of Nevada Revised Statutes, all as may
be required from time to time, to effectuate the orderly and logical
arrangement of the statutes. Any new titles, chapters, sections and
organizational revisions have the same force and effect as the 58 titles
originally enacted and designated as the Nevada Revised Statutes pursuant
to chapter 2, Statutes of Nevada 1957.
7. The Legislative Counsel shall assign NRS numbers to such new
permanent and general laws enacted at any legislative session.
8. The Legislative Counsel shall resolve all nonsubstantive
conflicts between multiple laws enacted at any legislative session as if
made by a single enactment. If multiple amendments to a single section of
NRS are made during a legislative session, such amendments are all
effective and must be compiled in a manner that is consistent with the
intent of the Legislature as determined by the Legislative Counsel.
9. The Legislative Counsel shall substitute the name of any
agency, officer or instrumentality of the State or of a political
subdivision whose name is changed by law or to which powers, duties and
responsibilities have been transferred by law, for the name which the
agency, officer or instrumentality previously used or which was
previously vested with the same powers and charged with the same duties
and responsibilities.
[3:304:1951; A 1953, 388]—(NRS A 1963, 1022; 1965, 1459; 1989, 248;
2003, 327 , 2093 )
1. Upon completion of Nevada Revised Statutes, the Legislative
Counsel shall have it printed, lithoprinted or reproduced by any other
process by the State Printing Office and may create or cause to be
created reproductions of Nevada Revised Statutes, alone or in combination
with any other legal publications, on electronic discs or any other
available medium. The Legislative Commission shall determine the number
of copies which must be printed or reproduced of each page of each volume
of Nevada Revised Statutes with annotations.
2. Upon completion of the final printing or other reproduction,
the separate volumes must be bound as required in this chapter and
retained by the Legislative Counsel for safekeeping and disposition. The
Legislative Counsel shall sell each set, and may sell individual volumes,
discs, parts or pages when available, at a price to be set by the
Legislative Commission as near as possible to the cost of preparing,
printing and binding or other reproduction, and all proceeds of sales
must be deposited in the Legislative Fund.
3. A master copy of Nevada Revised Statutes must be kept in the
office of the Legislative Counsel, and the master copy must not be
removed from the office except in the custody of the Legislative Counsel.
[4:304:1951; A 1953, 388] + [7:304:1951; A 1953, 388]—(NRS A 1957,
4, 544; 1959, 609; 1963, 1023; 1965, 1460; 1967, 90; 1969, 1523; 1971,
1547; 1973, 1119, 1461; 1985, 463; 1989, 248, 591, 602; 1993, 1536; 1995,
1110; 1997, 16; 2005, 1081 )
Repealed. (See chapter 318, Statutes of Nevada
2005, at page 1094 .)
Money
in the Legislative Fund may be expended for:
1. Payment of the costs of printing, reproduction, binding and
mailing of Nevada Revised Statutes with annotations, supplements thereto
and other publications authorized by the Legislative Commission.
2. The purchase and maintenance of necessary equipment and the
purchase of supplies connected with such publications.
3. The payment of salaries, payroll costs and contract services of
personnel directly connected with such publications.
[4.5:304:1951; added 1955, 405]—(NRS A 1957, 544; 1959, 609; 1963,
1023; 1965, 1461; 1971, 1547; 1973, 1119; 1989, 249, 591, 603)
150 . The
Legislative Commission may accept gifts, grants and bequests of moneys
from any public or private source, which moneys shall be deposited in the
Legislative Fund and used for the purposes of NRS 220.150 .
(Added to NRS by 1963, 12; A 1963, 1008; 1973, 1120)
1. Upon the completion of Nevada Revised Statutes with
annotations, the Legislative Counsel shall prepare and have printed or
reproduced such replacement and supplementary pages for such laws and
annotations as may, from time to time, be necessary and may create or
cause to be created reproductions of the replacement and supplementary
pages, alone or in combination with any other legal publications, on
electronic discs or any other available medium. In any event, the
Legislative Counsel shall prepare replacement and supplementary pages
made necessary by the sessions of the legislature as soon as possible
after each session.
2. The intent of this section is that Nevada Revised Statutes be
kept current insofar as may be possible. To that end, the provisions of
this chapter, and in particular NRS 220.120 , apply to the preparation and printing or
reproduction of such replacement and supplementary pages.
3. Prices must be set by the Legislative Commission as near as
possible to the cost of preparing, printing and reproduction. All money
received for the sale of such replacement and supplementary pages must be
deposited to the credit of the Legislative Fund.
[12:304:1951; A 1953, 388]—(NRS A 1957, 5; 1963, 1024; 1965, 1461;
1971, 1548; 1973, 1120; 1989, 249, 591, 603; 1995, 1110)
The Legislative Counsel shall provide:
1. A complete set of Nevada Revised Statutes with annotations to
each person who becomes a member of the Legislature upon payment by the
member to the Legislative Counsel Bureau of the sum of $50; and
2. Sets of replacement or supplementary pages, as issued, without
charge, to each Legislator during his term of office if the Legislator
has acquired a set of Nevada Revised Statutes pursuant to subsection 1.
(Added to NRS by 1967, 1256; A 1973, 2; 1989, 249, 592, 604)
1. Each board of county commissioners shall provide a complete set
of Nevada Revised Statutes with annotations to each district court or
department thereof and each Justice Court or department thereof regularly
established in the county, and shall provide corresponding sets of
replacement or supplementary pages as issued.
2. The governing body of each city shall similarly provide for
each department of its municipal court.
3. If a justice of the peace is ex officio municipal judge, the
county and city shall share equally the cost for his court.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 484; A 1979, 508; 1989, 250, 592, 604)
1. The master copy of Nevada Revised Statutes, as printed and
bound in accordance with NRS 220.130 ,
must contain a certificate of the Director of the Statute Revision
Commission that he has compared each section thereof with the original
section of the enrolled bill by which Nevada Revised Statutes was adopted
and enacted, and that the sections in the published edition are correctly
copied. All other printed and bound copies of Nevada Revised Statutes
must contain a copy of the certificate.
2. Each set of replacement or supplementary pages, prepared in
accordance with NRS 220.160 and
published before January 1, 1963, for inclusion in the master copy of
Nevada Revised Statutes, must be accompanied by a certificate of the
Director of the Statute Revision Commission, and each set published after
January 1, 1963, by a certificate of the Legislative Counsel, that he has
compared each section thereof with the original section of the enrolled
bill, and that, with the exception of the changes authorized by law, the
sections set forth in the replacement or supplementary pages are
correctly copied. All other sets of replacement or supplementary pages
must be accompanied by a copy of the certificate. All such certificates
must be inserted in the bound copies of Nevada Revised Statutes in
chronological order immediately following the initial certificate of the
Director.
3. Copies of Nevada Revised Statutes, as printed, published,
revised, supplemented and certified in accordance with this chapter,
constitute the official codified version of Statutes of Nevada and may be
cited as prima facie evidence of the law in all of the courts of this
state. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, that evidence may
be rebutted by proof that the statutes cited differ from the official
Statutes of Nevada. That evidence may not be rebutted by proof that the
statutes differ from the official Statutes of Nevada in a manner
authorized pursuant to NRS 220.120 .
4. Nevada Revised Statutes and its component parts may be cited as
follows:
(a) Nevada Revised Statutes: NRS
(b) A title: title 00 of NRS
(c) A chapter: chapter 000 of NRS
(d) A section: NRS 000.000
[13:304:1951; A 1953, 388]—(NRS A 1957, 5; 1963, 1024; 1967, 35;
1989, 1167; 2003, 328 )
