Nevada § 258.125 - Fees; expenses; accounting

§ 258.125. Fees; expenses; accounting

2. A constable is also entitled to receive: (a) For receiving and taking care of property on execution, attachment or order, and

for executing an order of arrest in civil cases, compensation for the constable's

trouble and expense, to be allowed by the court which issued the writ or order, upon

the affidavit of the constable that the charges are correct and the expenses necessarily

incurred. (b) For collecting all sums on execution or writ, to be charged against the defendant,

on the first $3,500, 2 percent thereof, and on all amounts over that sum, 1 percent. (c) For service in criminal cases, the same fees as are allowed sheriffs for like

services, to be allowed, audited and paid as are other claims against the county. (d) For removing or causing the removal of, pursuant to NRS 487.230 , a vehicle that has been abandoned on public property, $100. (e) For providing any other service authorized by law for which no fee is established

by this chapter, the fee provided for by ordinance by the board of county commissioners. 3. For each service for which a constable is otherwise entitled pursuant to subsection

1 to a fee based on the mileage necessarily and actually traveled in performing the

service, a board of county commissioners may provide by ordinance for the constable

to be entitled, at the option of the person paying the fee, to a flat fee for the

travel costs of that service. 4. Deputy sheriffs acting as constables are not entitled to retain for their own use

any fees collected by them, but the fees must be paid into the county treasury on

or before the fifth working day of the month next succeeding the month in which the

fees were collected. 5. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 6, constables shall, on or before the

fifth working day of each month, account for and pay to the county treasurer all fees

collected during the preceding month, except fees which may be retained as compensation. 6. Every 5 business days, constables in an office established by the board of county

commissioners as an enterprise fund shall account for and pay to the county treasurer

any fee collected during the preceding period.