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AN ACT relating to courts; increasing the number of district judges in the eighth judicial
district; increasing the number of those district judges who must be judges of the
family court; 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:
Sec. 2. The additional district judges required for the eighth judicial
district pursuant to section 1 of this act must be selected at the general
election held on November 7, 2000, and take office on January 1, 2001.
The terms of these judges expire on January 6, 2003.
Sec. 3. 1. There is hereby appropriated from the state general fund to
the district judges’ salary account the sum of $199,500 for the salaries of
the additional district judges required pursuant to section 1 of this act.
2. Any remaining balance of the appropriation made by subsection 1
must not be committed for expenditure after June 30, 2001, and reverts to
the state general fund as soon as all payments of money committed have
been made.
Sec. 4. The provisions of subsection 1 of NRS 354.599 do not apply to
any additional expenses of a local government that are related to the
provisions of this act.
Sec. 5. 1. This section and sections 2 and 4 of this act become
effective on October 1, 1999.
2. Sections 1 and 3 of this act become effective on January 1, 2001.
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