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2015 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 3 - District Courts
NRS 3.025 - Chief Judge in certain judicial districts: Selection; duties; assignment of certain cases to same department of family court.

Universal Citation:
NV Rev Stat ยง 3.025 (2015)
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1. In each judicial district that includes a county whose population is 100,000 or more, the district judges of that judicial district shall choose from among those district judges a Chief Judge who is to be the presiding judge of the judicial district.

2. The Chief Judge shall:

(a) Assign cases to each judge in the judicial district;

(b) Prescribe the hours of court;

(c) Adopt such other rules or regulations as are necessary for the orderly conduct of court business; and

(d) Perform all other duties of the Chief Judge or of a presiding judge that are set forth in this chapter and any other provision of NRS.

3. If a case involves a matter within the jurisdiction of the family court and:

(a) The parties to the case are also the parties in any other pending case or were the parties in any other previously decided case assigned to a department of the family court in the judicial district; or

(b) A child involved in the case is also involved in any other pending case or was involved in any other previously decided case assigned to a department of the family court in the judicial district, other than a case within the jurisdiction of the juvenile court pursuant to title 5 of NRS,

↪ the § 1971, 1502; A 1981, 873; 1999, 706, 2020; 2003, 1114)

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