NRS 218D.720 - Correction by Legislative Commission after adjournment of Legislature.

NV Rev Stat § 218D.720 (2019) (N/A)

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1. The Legislative Commission is authorized to correct typographical and clerical errors in the style and manner of printing contained in enrolled bills after the bills are signed by the Governor or otherwise become a law and after the Legislature has adjourned.

2. The Legislative Commission may make the decision to correct typographical and clerical errors only upon a unanimous vote of all members present at the meeting, but no such decision shall be made at any meeting attended by less than seven members.

3. The Legislative Commission may be called into session for this purpose by the Chair at the request of the Governor, or by the Chair in the Chair’s discretion, or by a majority vote of the entire membership of the Legislative Commission.

4. All members of the Senate and the Assembly must be given written notice of all such meetings of the Legislative Commission at least 10 days prior to a meeting. The notice must contain a description of the typographical and clerical errors proposed to be corrected.

(Added to NRS by 1957, 305; A 2011, 3202)

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