Senate Bill No. 87–Committee on Judiciary

 

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AN ACT relating to courts; revising the provisions pertaining to the transaction of judicial business; 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 1.130 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    1.130  1.  No court except a justice’s court or a municipal

court shall be opened nor shall any judicial business be transacted

except by a justice’s court or municipal court on Sunday, or on any

day declared to be a legal holiday according to the provisions of

NRS 236.015, except for the following purposes:

    (a) To give, upon their request, instructions to a jury then

deliberating on their verdict.

    (b) To receive a verdict or discharge a jury.

    (c) For the exercise of the power of a magistrate in a criminal

action or in a proceeding of a criminal nature.

    (d) To receive communications by telephone and for the

issuance of a temporary order pursuant to subsection 5 of

NRS 33.020.

    (e) For the issue of a writ of attachment, which may be issued on

each and all of the days above enumerated upon the plaintiff, or

some person in his behalf, setting forth in the affidavit required by

law for obtaining the writ the additional averment as follows:

 

    That the affiant has good reason to believe, and does

believe, that it will be too late for the purpose of acquiring a

lien by the writ to wait until subsequent day for the issuance

of the same.

 

All proceedings instituted, and all writs issued, and all official acts

done on any of the days above specified, under and by virtue of this

section, shall have all the validity, force and effect of proceedings

commenced on other days, whether a lien be obtained or a levy

made under and by virtue of the writ.

    2.  Nothing herein contained shall affect private transactions of

any nature whatsoever.

    Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective upon passage and approval.

 

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