Nevada Statutes

The Nevada Revised Statutes is a collection of volumes. Within each volume are a select number of titles. Each title contains a select number of chapters. Each chapter has a select number of sections.  Each statutory compilation has its own abbreviation.  In Nevada, the Nevada Revised Statutes is abbreviated as N.R.S. or Nev. Rev. Stat.

A citation to the N.R.S. may appear as:         Nev. Rev. Stat. 78.015       or            N.R.S. 78.015

Some citations also indicate the section symbol (§) before the numbers, such as:  N.R.S. § 78.015

Example:       Nev. Rev. Stat. § 78.015 (2011).

• The abbreviation “Nev. Rev. Stat.” refers to the statutory compilation – the Nevada Revised Statutes.
• The § is the section symbol.
• The number following § refers to the chapter number – in this case, chapter 78.
• The number after the decimal – in this case 015 – refers to a specific section.
• The number in the parenthesis is the year of the statutory compilation’s edition.  Citations are commonly followed by a year because Nevada statutory compilations are updated every two years.

The Nevada Revised Statutes was first published in 1957. So if you are researching pre-1957 Nevada statutes, you may see citations with abbreviations such as "B", "BH", "C", "RL", and "NCL." Legislative Counsel's Preface, included in Volume 1 of the Nevada Revised Statutes, has a section titled Legislative History explaining such abbreviations. It also includes examples illustrating legislative history of several N.R.S. sections.