Sections
General Provisions 293.010 – 293.121
Applicability and Administration 293.124 – 293.1275
General Elections 293.12755
Circulation and Sufficiency of Certain Petitions 293.127563 – 293.12795
Major Political Parties 293.128 – 293.167
Minor Political Parties 293.171 – 293.174
Nominations and Candidates 293.175 – 293.227
Regulation of Elections 293.247 – 293.2504
Statewide Measures: Preparation of Arguments; Publication 293.252 – 293.253
Voters? Bill of Rights 293.2543 – 293.2549
Voters? Privileges 293.2555
Ballots 293.256 – 293.2694
Voting Systems Generally 293.2696 – 293.2699
Meetings With Indian Tribes 293.269905
Mail Ballot Voting 293.269911 – 293.269937
Use of System of Approved Electronic Transmission by Certain Persons 293.269951
Voting by Persons Detained in Jails 293.269971 – 293.269975
Voting At Polls 293.270 – 293.307
Voting At Polling Places Established as Vote Centers 293.3072 – 293.3075 v2
Voting by Provisional Ballot Under Certain Circumstances 293.3078 – 293.3086
Early Voting by Personal Appearance 293.356 – 293.361
Returns and Canvass 293.3625 – 293.397
Ties, Recounts and Contests 293.400 – 293.435
Locations Used for Polling Places 293.437
Lists of Registered Voters in Local Jurisdictions 293.440
Election Expenses 293.442 – 293.460
Miscellaneous Provisions 293.462 – 293.4815
Voter Preregistration and Registration Generally; Registrars 293.484 – 293.562
Delivery of Rosters, Sample Ballots and Other Information Before Elections 293.563 – 293.567
Voter Preregistration and Registration Through Department of Motor Vehicles 293.5727 – 293.5767
Automatic Voter Registration 293.5768 – 293.57699
Voter Registration During Certain Periods Preceding and On Election Day 293.5772 – 293.5887
Statewide Voter Preregistration and Registration Systems and Databases 293.671 – 293.675
Unlawful Acts and Penalties 293.700 – 293.840
Election Security 293.870 – 293.877
Confidential and Personal Information of Certain Persons 293.900 – 293.920

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Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes > Chapter 293 - Elections

  • Allegation: something that someone says happened.
  • Answer: The formal written statement by a defendant responding to a civil complaint and setting forth the grounds for defense.
  • Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
  • Charity: An agency, institution, or organization in existence and operating for the benefit of an indefinite number of persons and conducted for educational, religious, scientific, medical, or other beneficent purposes.
  • Conveyance: shall be construed to embrace every instrument in writing, except a last will and testament, whatever may be its form, and by whatever name it may be known in law, by which any estate or interest in lands is created, aliened, assigned or surrendered. See Nevada Revised Statutes 111.010
  • Conviction: A judgement of guilt against a criminal defendant.
  • Council: means the Nevada Advisory Council on Federal Assistance created by Nevada Revised Statutes 358.010
  • Decedent: A deceased person.
  • Defendant: In a civil suit, the person complained against; in a criminal case, the person accused of the crime.
  • Deposition: An oral statement made before an officer authorized by law to administer oaths. Such statements are often taken to examine potential witnesses, to obtain discovery, or to be used later in trial.
  • Executor: A male person named in a will to carry out the decedent
  • Fee simple: Absolute title to property with no limitations or restrictions regarding the person who may inherit it.
  • Fiduciary: A trustee, executor, or administrator.
  • Foreclosure: A legal process in which property that is collateral or security for a loan may be sold to help repay the loan when the loan is in default. Source: OCC
  • Indemnification: In general, a collateral contract or assurance under which one person agrees to secure another person against either anticipated financial losses or potential adverse legal consequences. Source: FDIC
  • Injunction: An order of the court prohibiting (or compelling) the performance of a specific act to prevent irreparable damage or injury.
  • Joint session: When both chambers of a legislature adopt a concurrent resolution to meet together.
  • Joint tenancy: A form of property ownership in which two or more parties hold an undivided interest in the same property that was conveyed under the same instrument at the same time. A joint tenant can sell his (her) interest but not dispose of it by will. Upon the death of a joint tenant, his (her) undivided interest is distributed among the surviving joint tenants.
  • Lands: shall be construed as coextensive in meaning with lands, tenements and hereditaments, and shall include in its meaning all possessory right to the soil for mining and other purposes. See Nevada Revised Statutes 111.010
  • Mortgagee: The person to whom property is mortgaged and who has loaned the money.
  • Mortgagor: The person who pledges property to a creditor as collateral for a loan and who receives the money.
  • Oral argument: An opportunity for lawyers to summarize their position before the court and also to answer the judges' questions.
  • Plaintiff: The person who files the complaint in a civil lawsuit.
  • Pleadings: Written statements of the parties in a civil case of their positions. In the federal courts, the principal pleadings are the complaint and the answer.
  • Precedent: A court decision in an earlier case with facts and law similar to a dispute currently before a court. Precedent will ordinarily govern the decision of a later similar case, unless a party can show that it was wrongly decided or that it differed in some significant way.
  • Presiding officer: A majority-party Senator who presides over the Senate and is charged with maintaining order and decorum, recognizing Members to speak, and interpreting the Senate's rules, practices and precedents.
  • Probable cause: A reasonable ground for belief that the offender violated a specific law.
  • Probate: Proving a will
  • Public defender: Represent defendants who can't afford an attorney in criminal matters.
  • Public law: A public bill or joint resolution that has passed both chambers and been enacted into law. Public laws have general applicability nationwide.
  • Reporter: Makes a record of court proceedings and prepares a transcript, and also publishes the court's opinions or decisions (in the courts of appeals).
  • Restrictive covenant modification document: means a certified copy of a written instrument which redacts from the written instrument any language identified in a court order issued pursuant to Nevada Revised Statutes 111.010
  • Restrictive covenant modification form: means the form prescribed by the Real Estate Division of the Department of Business and Industry pursuant to Nevada Revised Statutes 111.010
  • Right of survivorship: The ownership rights that result in the acquisition of title to property by reason of having survived other co-owners.
  • Service of process: The service of writs or summonses to the appropriate party.
  • Tenancy in common: A type of property ownership in which two or more individuals have an undivided interest in property. At the death of one tenant in common, his (her) fractional percentage of ownership in the property passes to the decedent
  • Testator: A male person who leaves a will at death.
  • Testify: Answer questions in court.
  • Uniform Commercial Code: A set of statutes enacted by the various states to provide consistency among the states' commercial laws. It includes negotiable instruments, sales, stock transfers, trust and warehouse receipts, and bills of lading. Source: OCC