Amendment No. 954

Senate Amendment to Assembly Bill No. 86 (BDR 1-576)

Proposed by: Committee on Judiciary

Amendment Box: Resolves conflict with A.B. No. 20.

Resolves Conflicts with: AB20

Amends: Summary: Title: Preamble: Joint Sponsorship:

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Receded Not | Receded Not

Amend the bill as a whole by renumbering sec. 2 as sec. 3 and adding a new section designated sec. 2, following section 1, to read as follows:

"Sec. 2. Section 4 of Assembly Bill No. 20 of this session is hereby amended to read as follows:

Sec. 4. NRS 4.010 is hereby amended to read as follows:

4.010 1. A person [who is] shall not be a [qualified elector is not] candidate for or be eligible to the office of justice of the peace [.] unless he is a qualified elector and has never been removed or retired from any judicial office by the commission on judicial discipline. For the purposes of this subsection, a person shall not be ineligible to be a candidate for the office of justice of the peace if a decision to remove or retire him from a judicial office is pending appeal before the supreme court or has been overturned by the supreme court.

2. A justice of the peace must have a high school diploma or its equivalent as determined by the state board of education and:

(a) In a county whose population is 400,000 or more, a justice of the peace in a township whose population is 100,000 or more must be an attorney who is licensed and admitted to practice law in the courts of this state.

(b) In a county whose population is less than 400,000, a justice of the peace in a township whose population is 250,000 or more must be an attorney who is licensed and admitted to practice law in the courts of this state.

3. Subsection 2 does not apply to any person who held the office of justice of the peace on June 30, 1999.".