Assembly Bill No. 472–Assemblymen Arberry, Buckley, Goldwater,

Mortenson, Parks, Anderson, Dini, Claborn, de Braga, Chowning, Parnell,

Koivisto, McClain, Williams, Neighbors, Lee, Thomas, Segerblom

and Perkins

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AN ACT relating to the judicial system; increasing the additional salary for longevity paid to

certain justices and judges; making an appropriation; 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. NRS 3.030 is hereby amended to read as follows:

  1. 3.030 1. Until the first Monday in January 1997, the annual base
  1. salary of each district judge is $79,000. From and after the first Monday in
  1. January 1997, the annual base salary of each district judge is $100,000.
  1. 2. If a district judge has served in his office for at least [5] 4 years, he
  1. is entitled to an additional salary of [1] 2 percent of his base salary for each
  1. year of service. The additional salary must not exceed 22 percent of his
  1. base salary.
  1. 3. The base salaries and the additional salary for longevity must be
  1. paid in biweekly installments out of the district judges’ salary account of
  1. the supreme court.
  1. 4. No salary of any district judge may be paid in advance.

Sec. 2. NRS 213.015 is hereby amended to read as follows:

213.015 1. A member of the board who has served as a district judge

or as a justice of the supreme court, or any combination thereof, for at least

[6] 4 years, is entitled to compensation as a member of the board in the

amount of [1] 2 percent of his annual salary as a justice of the supreme

court for each year of service as a district judge or as a justice of the

supreme court, or any combination thereof. The compensation received by

a justice for his service on the board must not exceed 22 percent of his

annual salary as a justice of the supreme court.

2. The salaries provided for in this section must be paid out of money

provided by direct legislative appropriation from the state general fund.

Sec. 3. 1. There is hereby appropriated from the state general fund to

the Supreme Court for carrying out the amendatory provisions of this act:

For the fiscal year 1999-2000 $182,612

For the fiscal year 2000-2001 $205,367

2. Any balance of the sums appropriated by subsection 1 remaining at

the end of the respective fiscal years must not be committed for expenditure

after June 30 of the respective fiscal years and reverts to the state general

fund as soon as all payments of money committed have been made.

Sec. 4. This act becomes effective on July 1, 1999.

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