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2025 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 5 - Municipal Courts
NRS 5.021 - Chief municipal judge of certain municipal courts: Selection; duties.
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NV Rev Stat § 5.021 (2025)
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1. The municipal judges of each municipal court having more than one municipal judge shall choose from among those municipal judges a chief municipal judge who is to be the presiding judge of that court.
2. The chief municipal judge shall:
(a) Assign cases to each judge in the municipal court;
(b) Prescribe the hours of court;
(c) Adopt such other rules as are necessary for the orderly conduct of court business; and
(d) Perform all other duties of the chief municipal judge or of the presiding judge of a municipal court that are set forth in this chapter and any other provision of NRS.
(Added to NRS by 2017, 274; A 2023, 2606)
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