Assembly Bill No. 39–Committee on Judiciary

 

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AN ACT relating to the revision of statutes; directing the Legislative Counsel to resolve all nonsubstantive conflicts between legislative acts and give effect to multiple amendments to a single section of the Nevada Revised Statutes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

    Section 1. NRS 220.120 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    220.120  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 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.

    Sec. 2.  NRS 220.170 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    220.170  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. [That] 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

    Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective upon passage and approval.

 

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