Nevada Revised Statutes 31.630 – Qualifications of bail
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The qualifications of bail shall be as follows:
Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 31.630
- Arrest: Taking physical custody of a person by lawful authority.
- Bail: Security given for the release of a criminal defendant or witness from legal custody (usually in the form of money) to secure his/her appearance on the day and time appointed.
- county: includes Carson City. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.033
- Liabilities: The aggregate of all debts and other legal obligations of a particular person or legal entity.
1. Each of them shall be a resident and householder, or freeholder, within the county.
2. Each shall be worth the amount specified in the order of arrest, or the amount to which the order is reduced, as provided in this chapter, over and above all debts and liabilities of the bail, exclusive of property exempt from execution; but the judge, or clerk, on justification, may allow more than two sureties to justify severally in amounts less than that expressed in the order, if the whole justification be equivalent to that of two sufficient bail.