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The Supreme Court must adopt rules for electronic filing, storage, and reproduction of court-filed documents, as long as the rules are not inconsistent with state law.
Courts of justice may be held, and judicial business may be transacted, on any day, except as provided in NRS 1.130.
Courts other than justice courts and municipal courts may not open or conduct judicial business on Sundays or legal holidays, except for listed urgent judicial functions and attachment-writ procedures.
Each court of justice in this State must have a seal.
A court seal may be impressed or electronically reproduced, and courts using electronic seals must follow Supreme Court electronic filing and safeguard rules plus consistent local procedures.
A court that already has jurisdiction over a case keeps it even if the law is later amended or repealed, unless the new law expressly ends that jurisdiction.
Every court has power to keep order, enforce lawful orders and judgments, and control its ministerial officers.
Supreme Court justices and Court of Appeals judges must not sit in a case when they have actual or implied bias; a party seeking disqualification must file a written charge stating the facts.
A judge must not act in a case when actual or implied bias exists, and may disqualify themselves on their own motion for actual or implied bias.
A party seeking to disqualify a judge for actual or implied bias or prejudice must file a supporting affidavit and serve a copy on the judge, subject to specific timing rules.
If an order request is refused or only conditionally granted, the same order cannot be requested again from another judge unless that judge is in a higher court.
No action or proceeding in a court of justice shall be affected by a vacancy in the office of all or any of the judges, or by the failure of a term thereof.
A judge or justice of the peace generally may not have a partner or associate acting as attorney or counsel in any court in the State; a part-time judge may do so only if that partner or associate does not practice before the judge or in a court under the judge’s appellate jurisdiction.
A court or administrative body must grant a continuance when a qualifying legislator, President of the Senate, or covered attorney files the request during a legislative session.
The office of Court Administrator is created.
The Court Administrator is appointed by the Supreme Court, serves at the Court’s pleasure, and receives an annual salary set by the Supreme Court within legislative appropriation limits.
The Court Administrator may appoint assistants and set their compensation, but only with Supreme Court approval and within legislative appropriations.
The Court Administrator and the Administrator’s assistants may not engage in private law practice during the Administrator’s term.
The Court Administrator must carry out court-administration, budgeting, statistics, reporting, accounting, and other assigned tasks under the direction of the Supreme Court.
The Court Administrator must prepare and submit an annual report on workplace equity to specified officials, and the report must not identify any person.
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