(On Behalf of the Administrative Office of the Courts)
January 29, 1997
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Referred to Committee on Judiciary
SUMMARY--Makes various changes concerning exemption from service as grand or trial juror. (BDR 1-790)
FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.
Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.
EXPLANATION - Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is material to be omitted.
AN ACT relating to juries; increasing the minimum age required to be exempt from service as a grand or trial juror; providing that a person who is the age of 65 years or over and who lives 65 miles or more from the court may be exempt from service as a grand juror or trial juror; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
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Section 1 NRS 6.020 is hereby amended to read as follows:
6.020 1. Upon satisfactory proof, made by affidavit or otherwise, the following-named persons, and no others except as otherwise provided in subsection 2 [,] or 3, are exempt from service as grand or trial jurors:
(a) Any federal or state officer.
(b) Any judge, justice of the peace or attorney at law.
(c) Any county clerk, recorder, assessor, sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable or police officer.
(d) Any locomotive engineer, locomotive fireman, conductor, brakeman, switchman or engine foreman.
(e) Any officer or correctional officer employed by the department of prisons.
(f) Any employee of the legislature or the legislative counsel bureau while the legislature is in session.
(g) Any physician, optometrist or dentist who is licensed to practice in this state.
2. All persons of the age of [65] 70 years or over are exempt from serving as grand or trial jurors. Whenever it appears to the satisfaction of the court, by affidavit or otherwise, that a juror is over the age of [65] 70 years, the court shall order the juror excused from all service as a grand or trial juror, if the juror so desires.
3. A person who is the age of 65 years or over who lives 65 miles or more from the court is exempt from serving as a grand or trial juror. Whenever it appears to the satisfaction of the court, by affidavit or otherwise, that a juror is the age of 65 years or over and lives 65 miles or more from the court, the court shall order the juror excused from all service as a grand or trial juror, if the juror so desires.