1.310 - Adjournment or continuance of action or proceeding during legislative session if party or attorney is member of Legislature or President of Senate. - Nevada Statutes

1.310  Adjournment or continuance of action or proceeding during legislative session if party or attorney is member of Legislature or President of Senate.

      1.  If a party to any action or proceeding in any court or before any administrative body is a member of the Legislature of the State of Nevada, or is President of the Senate, that fact is sufficient cause for the adjournment or continuance of the action or proceeding, including, without limitation, any discovery or other pretrial or posttrial matter involved in the action or proceeding, for the duration of any legislative session.

      2.  If an attorney for a party to any action or proceeding in any court or before any administrative body, who was actually employed before the commencement of any legislative session, is a member of the Legislature of the State of Nevada, or is President of the Senate, that fact is sufficient cause for the adjournment or continuance of the action or proceeding, including, without limitation, any discovery or other pretrial or posttrial matter involved in the action or proceeding, for the duration of any legislative session.

      3.  The adjournment or continuance provided for in subsections 1 and 2 must be granted without the imposition of terms.

      (Added to NRS by 1960, 365; A 1963, 313; 2001, 481)