282.200 - Forfeiture of office or appointment upon failure to file new or additional bond; suspension of functions of office.
282.200 Forfeiture of office or appointment upon failure to file new or additional bond; suspension of functions of office.
1. If any officer or person fails within 10 days from the date of a personal service, or within 30 days from the date of the first insertion of a publication or posted service, to file a new or additional bond or undertaking, the office or appointment of the person or officer so failing shall become vacant, and such officer or person shall forfeit such office or appointment. The office or appointment shall be filled as in other cases of vacancy, and in the manner provided by law, and the person applying to be released from liability on the bond or undertaking shall not be liable thereon after the date provided for the vacating and forfeiting of such office or appointment.
2. If a number of sureties on any bond or undertaking, representing half the amount of the penalty thereof, unite in the same, or file and serve separate statements as provided in NRS 282.180 to 282.220, inclusive, the right of such officer or person to exercise the duties and functions of such office or appointment immediately ceases until the officer or person files and has accepted and approved a new or additional bond or undertaking.
3. Whenever, by operation of NRS 282.180 to 282.220, inclusive, the functions of any sheriff become suspended, the county clerk shall succeed to all the powers and discharge all the duties of the sheriff of the county, during such suspension of the functions of the sheriff.
[3:15:1867; B § 2931; BH § 1752; C § 1889; RL § 2882; NCL § 4909]—(NRS A 1959, 25)