Assembly Bill No. 87

Assembly Bill No. 87-Committee on Judiciary

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AN ACT relating to courts; providing for the collection of certain fees in municipal courts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

[Approved May 12, 1997]

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

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Section 1. NRS 5.073 is hereby amended to read as follows:
5.073 1. The practice and proceedings in the municipal court must conform, as nearly as practicable, to the practice and proceedings of justices' courts in similar cases. An appeal perfected transfers the action to the district court for trial anew, unless the municipal court is designated as a court of record as provided in NRS 5.010. The municipal court must be treated and considered as a justice's court whenever the proceedings thereof are called into question.
2. Each municipal judge shall charge and collect such fees prescribed in NRS 4.060 that are within the jurisdictional limits of the municipal court.
Sec. 2. NRS 266.550 is hereby amended to read as follows:
266.550 1. The municipal court shall have such powers and jurisdiction in the city as are now provided by law for justices' courts, wherein any person or persons are charged with the breach or violation of the provisions of any ordinance of such city or of this chapter, of a police or municipal nature . [; but the] The trial and proceedings in such cases [shall] must be summary and without a jury.
2. The powers of the municipal court include the power to charge and collect those fees authorized pursuant to NRS 5.073.
Sec. 3. This act becomes effective upon passage and approval.
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