Senate Joint Resolution No. 5–Committee on Judiciary

 

(On Behalf of Encouraging Businesses to Organize and
Conduct Business in Nevada (SCR 19))

 

February 22, 2001

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Referred to Committee on Judiciary

 

SUMMARY—Proposes to amend Nevada Constitution to authorize legislature to establish business court. (BDR C‑254)

 

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.

 

Senate Joint RESOLUTION—Proposing to amend section 6 of article 6 of the Constitution of the State of Nevada to authorize the legislature to establish a business court as a division of a district court and to prescribe its jurisdiction.

 

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

1-2  Jointly, That section 6 of article 6 of the Constitution of the State of

1-3  Nevada be amended to read as follows:

1-4    Sec. 6.  1.  The District Courts in the several Judicial Districts of this

1-5  State have original jurisdiction in all cases excluded by law from the

1-6  original jurisdiction of justices’ courts. They also have final appellate

1-7  jurisdiction in cases arising in Justices Courts and such other inferior

1-8  tribunals as may be established by law. The District Courts and the Judges

1-9  thereof have power to issue writs of Mandamus, Prohibition, Injunction,

1-10  Quo-Warranto, Certiorari, and all other writs proper and necessary to the

1-11  complete exercise of their jurisdiction. The District Courts and the Judges

1-12  thereof shall also have power to issue writs of Habeas Corpus on petition

1-13  by, or on behalf of any person who is held in actual custody in their

1-14  respective districts, or who has suffered a criminal conviction in their

1-15  respective districts and has not completed the sentence imposed pursuant to

1-16  the judgment of conviction.

1-17    2.  The legislature may provide by law for:

1-18    (a) Referees in district courts.

1-19    (b) The establishment of a family court as a division of any district

1-20  court and may prescribe its jurisdiction.

 

 

2-1    (c) The establishment of a business court as a division of any district

2-2  court and may prescribe its jurisdiction.

 

2-3  H