2010 Nevada Code
TITLE 7 BUSINESS ASSOCIATIONS; SECURITIES; COMMODITIES
Chapter 78 Private Corporations
NRS 78.635 Appointment of receiver or trustee of insolvent corporation: Powers.

NRS 78.635 Appointment of receiver or trustee of insolvent corporation: Powers.

1. The district court, at the time of ordering the injunction, or at any time afterwards, may appoint a receiver or receivers or a trustee or trustees for the creditors and stockholders of the corporation.

2. Receivers or trustees shall have full power and authority:

(a) To demand, sue for, collect, receive and take into possession all the goods and chattels, rights and credits, moneys and effects, lands and tenements, books, papers, choses in action, bills, notes and property, of every description of the corporation;

(b) To institute suits at law or in equity for the recovery of any estate, property, damages or demands existing in favor of the corporation;

(c) In their discretion to compound and settle with any debtor or creditor of the corporation, or with persons having possession of its property or in any way responsible at law or in equity to the corporation at the time of its insolvency or suspension of business, or afterwards, upon such terms and in such manner as they shall deem just and beneficial to the corporation; and

(d) In case of mutual dealings between the corporation and any person to allow just setoffs in favor of such person in all cases in which the same ought to be allowed according to law and equity.

3. A debtor who shall have in good faith paid a debt to the corporation without notice of its insolvency or suspension of business, shall not be liable therefor, and the receiver or receivers or trustee or trustees shall have power to sell, convey and assign all the estate, rights and interests, and shall hold and dispose of the proceeds thereof under the directions of the district court.

[Part 47:177:1925; NCL 1646]-(NRS A 1969, 93)