2009 Nevada Code
TITLE 14 - PROCEDURE IN CRIMINAL CASES
Chapter 179 - Special Proceedings of a Criminal Nature; Sealing Records of Criminal Proceedings; Rewards; Forms
CRIMINAL EXTRADITION (UNIFORM ACT)
179.205 - Arrest without warrant.

179.205  Arrest without warrant.  The arrest of a person may be lawfully made also by any peace officer or a private person, without a warrant upon reasonable information that the accused stands charged in the courts of a state with a crime punishable by death or imprisonment for a term exceeding 1 year; but when so arrested the accused must be taken before a judge or magistrate with all practicable speed and complaint must be made against the person under oath setting forth the ground for the arrest as in NRS 179.203. Thereafter the answer shall be heard as if the person had been arrested on a warrant.

      (Added to NRS by 1967, 1101)

     

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