1.  When a public officer authorized to execute process finds or has reason to apprehend that resistance will be made to the execution of that process, the officer may command as many inhabitants of the officer’s county as the officer thinks proper, and may call upon the Governor for military aid in the manner provided by law, to assist the officer in overcoming the resistance, and, if necessary, in seizing, arresting and confining the resisters and their aiders and abettors, to be punished according to law.

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Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 281.290

  • county: includes Carson City. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.033
  • Public officer: means a person elected or appointed to a position which:

    (a) Is established by the Constitution or a statute of this State, or by a charter or ordinance of a political subdivision of this State; and

    (b) Involves the continuous exercise, as part of the regular and permanent administration of the government, of a public power, trust or duty. See Nevada Revised Statutes 281.005

2.  The officer shall certify, to the court from which the process issued, the names of the resisters and their aiders and abettors, to the end that they be proceeded against for their contempt of court.