NRS
295.056 Requirements for submission of signatures to county clerk.
1. Before a petition for initiative or
referendum is filed with the Secretary of State, the petitioners must submit to
each county clerk for verification pursuant to NRS 293.1276 to 293.1279, inclusive, the document or
documents which were circulated for signature within the clerk’s county. The
clerks shall give the person submitting a document or documents a receipt
stating the number of documents and pages and the person’s statement of the
number of signatures contained therein.
2. If a petition for initiative proposes a
statute or an amendment to a statute, the document or documents must be
submitted not later than the 15th day following the general election.
3. If a petition for initiative proposes
an amendment to the Constitution, the document or documents must be submitted
not later than the 15th day following the primary election.
4. If the petition is for referendum, the
document or documents must be submitted not later than the 15th day following
the primary election.
5. All documents which are submitted to a
county clerk for verification must be submitted at the same time. If documents
concerning the same petition are submitted for verification to more than one
county clerk, the documents must be submitted to each county clerk on the same
day. At the time that the petition is submitted to a county clerk for
verification, the petitioners may designate a contact person who is authorized
by the petitioners to address questions or issues relating to the petition.
(Added to NRS by 1983,
923; A 1985,
551, 1113;
1991,
2226; 1993,
2669; 1999,
3560; 2007,
326, 1186;
2011,
1789; 2017,
3370; 2019,
4124)
Notes of Decisions
We The People Nevada ex rel. Angle v. Miller, 192 P.3d 1166 (Nev. 2008).
· cites it 37× “NRS 295.056 required We the People to submit in proper form the requisite number of valid signatures to the county clerk’s office in each county where signatures were collected by May 20, 2008.”
People Ex Rel. Angle v. Miller, 192 P.3d 1166 (Nev. 2008).
· cites it 37× “NRS 295.056 required We the People to submit in proper form the requisite number of valid signatures to the county clerk's office in each county where signatures were collected by May 20, 2008.”
Univ. & Cmty. Coll. Sys. v. Nevadans for Sound Gov't, 100 P.3d 179 (Nev. 2004).
“§§ 2(2), (4) (essentially providing that an initiative proposing a constitutional amendment and signed by registered voters equaling ten percent or more of the voters who voted at the preceding general election in seventy-five percent of the counties and the entire state must be…”
Pest Comm. v. Miller, 648 F. Supp. 2d 1202 (D. Nev. 2009).
· cites it 2× “The Legislature also amended NRS 295.056(3). The statute previously required that all initiative petitions for constitutional amendments be submitted for signature verification to the Secretary of State by the third Tuesday in June of an even-numbered year.”
Fair Maps Nevada v. Cegavske (D. Nev. 2020).
· cites it 22× “” NRS § 295.056(1), (5). The petition may 16 consist of more than one document.”
— Nev. Rev. Stat. § 295.056(1) — 2 cases
— Nev. Rev. Stat. § 295.056(3) — 5 cases
We The People Nevada ex rel. Angle v. Miller, 192 P.3d 1166 (Nev. 2008).
“NRS 295.056 required We the People to submit in proper form the requisite number of valid signatures to the county clerk’s office in each county where signatures were collected by May 20, 2008.”
People Ex Rel. Angle v. Miller, 192 P.3d 1166 (Nev. 2008).
“NRS 295.056 required We the People to submit in proper form the requisite number of valid signatures to the county clerk's office in each county where signatures were collected by May 20, 2008.”
Univ. & Cmty. Coll. Sys. v. Nevadans for Sound Gov't, 100 P.3d 179 (Nev. 2004).
“§§ 2(2), (4) (essentially providing that an initiative proposing a constitutional amendment and signed by registered voters equaling ten percent or more of the voters who voted at the preceding general election in seventy-five percent of the counties and the entire state must be…”
Pest Comm. v. Miller, 648 F. Supp. 2d 1202 (D. Nev. 2009).
“The Legislature also amended NRS 295.056(3). The statute previously required that all initiative petitions for constitutional amendments be submitted for signature verification to the Secretary of State by the third Tuesday in June of an even-numbered year.”
— Nev. Rev. Stat. § 295.056(5) — 2 cases
We The People Nevada ex rel. Angle v. Miller, 192 P.3d 1166 (Nev. 2008).
“NRS 295.056 required We the People to submit in proper form the requisite number of valid signatures to the county clerk’s office in each county where signatures were collected by May 20, 2008.”
People Ex Rel. Angle v. Miller, 192 P.3d 1166 (Nev. 2008).
“NRS 295.056 required We the People to submit in proper form the requisite number of valid signatures to the county clerk's office in each county where signatures were collected by May 20, 2008.”
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