NRS 22.070 – Discharge from arrest on furnishing bail; form and conditions of bond.
When a direction to let the person arrested to bail is contained in the warrant of attachment, or endorsed thereon, the person arrested shall be discharged from the arrest upon executing and delivering to the officer, at any time before the return day of the warrant, a written undertaking, with two sufficient sureties, to the […]
NRS 22.080 – Return of warrant and undertaking by officer.
The officer shall return the warrant of arrest and the undertaking, if any, received by the officer from the person arrested, by the return day specified therein. [1911 CPA § 459; RL § 5401; NCL § 8948]
NRS 22.090 – Trial; court to hear answer and witnesses; adjournment.
When the person arrested has been brought up or appeared, the court or judge shall proceed to investigate the charge, and shall hear any answer which the person arrested shall make to the same, and may examine witnesses for or against the person arrested, for which an adjournment may be had from time to time […]
NRS 22.100 – Penalty for contempt.
1. Upon the answer and evidence taken, the court or judge or jury, as the case may be, shall determine whether the person proceeded against is guilty of the contempt charged. 2. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 22.110, if a person is found guilty of contempt, a fine may be imposed on the person […]
NRS 22.110 – Imprisonment until performance if contempt is omission to perform an act; penalty for failure or refusal to testify before grand jury.
1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, when the contempt consists in the omission to perform an act which is yet in the power of the person to perform, the person may be imprisoned until the person performs it. The required act must be specified in the warrant of commitment. 2. A person so […]
NRS 22.120 – Indictment for contemptuous conduct.
Persons proceeded against according to the provisions of this chapter shall also be liable to indictment for the same misconduct, if it be an indictable offense, but the court before which a conviction is had on an indictment, in passing sentence, shall take into consideration the punishment before inflicted. [1911 CPA § 463; RL § […]
NRS 22.130 – Proceedings when defendant does not appear; measure of damages in action on undertaking.
When the warrant of arrest has been returned served, if the person arrested does not appear on the return day, the court or judge may issue another warrant of arrest, or may order the undertaking to be prosecuted, or both. If the undertaking be prosecuted, the measure of damages in the action shall be the […]
NRS 22.140 – Excuses for not bringing arrested person before court; persons not to be unnecessarily restrained.
Whenever, by the provisions of this chapter, an officer is required to keep a person arrested on a warrant of attachment in custody, and to bring the person before a court or judge, the inability, from illness or otherwise, of the person to attend shall be a sufficient excuse for not bringing the person up; […]
NRS 22.040 – Issuance of warrants of attachment and commitment.
When the contempt is not committed in the immediate view and presence of the court or judge, a warrant of attachment may be issued to bring the person charged to answer, or, without a previous arrest, a warrant of commitment may, upon notice, or upon an order to show cause, be granted; and no warrant […]
NRS 22.050 – Amount of bail may be fixed by endorsement on warrant of attachment.
Whenever a warrant of attachment is issued pursuant to this chapter, the court or judge shall direct, by an endorsement on such warrant, that the person charged may be let to bail for his or her appearance, in an amount to be specified in such endorsement. [1911 CPA § 456; RL § 5398; NCL § […]