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AN ACT relating to justices’ courts; requiring a justice’s court or a county to collect
restitution ordered by the court; requiring that the money collected by a justice’s
court or county for restitution be paid to the person named in the order or deposited
to a fund for the compensation of victims of crime; and providing other matters
properly relating thereto.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Chapter 4 of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto a
new section to read as follows:
1. If a justice of the peace orders a defendant who is convicted of a
misdemeanor to make restitution to a person named in the order, the
justice’s court or the county in which the justice’s court is located shall
collect the restitution paid by the defendant.
2. All money for restitution collected by a justice’s court or county
pursuant to subsection 1 must be paid to the person named in the order
in the manner set forth in the order.
3. If a justice’s court or county that has collected money for
restitution pursuant to subsection 1 cannot, after a good faith effort,
locate the person named in the order, it shall deposit the money in a fund
for the compensation of victims of crime created by the office of the
district attorney of the county in which the court is located.
This act becomes effective upon passage and approval.~