218D.965 - Style and form; meaning and interpretation of new and omitted matter. - Nevada Statutes

218D.965  Style and form; meaning and interpretation of new and omitted matter.

      1.  The Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau is authorized to set the style and form of the printing of the bound volumes of the Statutes of Nevada.

      2.  In printing the section or part of the law reenacted in an amendatory law, the Director shall cause to be printed between brackets or in strike out type the words, phrases or provisions of the existing law, if any, which have been stricken out or eliminated by the adoption of the amendments as the same appears in the enrolled bill. The Director shall cause to be printed in italics all new words, phrases or provisions, if any, which have been inserted into or added to the law by passage of such amendment.

      3.  In ascertaining the correct reading, status and interpretation of an amendatory law, the matter in italics shall be read and interpreted as part of the law.

      [20:129:1879; added 1881, 146; A 1949, 1; 1951, 281]—(NRS A 1957, 234; 1969, 1523; 1973, 1460; 1975, 1394)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 218.520)