Assembly Joint Resolution No. 14–Committee on
Government Affairs

 

April 30, 2001

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Referred to Concurrent to Committees on Government Affairs
and Constitutional Amendments

 

SUMMARY—Proposes to amend Nevada Constitution to remove requirement that Legislature fix compensation of elected county officers. (BDR C‑1526)

 

FISCAL NOTE:                     Effect on Local Government: No.

                     Effect on the State: No.

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

Assembly Joint RESOLUTION—Proposing to amend the Constitution of the State of Nevada to remove the requirement that the Legislature fix the compensation of elected county officers.

 

1-1     Resolved by the Assembly and Senate of the State of Nevada,

1-2  Jointly, That section 32 of article 4 of the Constitution of the State of

1-3  Nevada be amended to read as follows:

1-4    Sec. 32.  The Legislature shall have power to increase, diminish,

1-5  consolidate or abolish the following county officers: County Clerks,

1-6  County Recorders, Auditors, Sheriffs, District Attorneys and Public

1-7  Administrators. The Legislature shall provide for their election by the

1-8  people, and fix by law their duties . [and compensation.] County Clerks

1-9  shall be ex-officio Clerks of the Courts of Record and of the Boards of

1-10  County Commissioners in and for their respective counties.

 

1-11  H