1. For the administration of the estates of deceased persons:

(a) Public administrators are entitled to be paid as other administrators or executors are paid, subject to the provisions of NRS 245.043.

(b) Persons employed or contracted with pursuant to NRS 253.125 are entitled to be paid as other administrators or executors are paid.

2. The district attorneys of Humboldt, Lander, Lincoln, Storey and White Pine Counties as ex officio public administrators and the Clerk of Carson City serving as Public Administrator of Carson City may retain all fees provided by law received by them as public administrators.

3. The public administrator or a person employed or contracted with pursuant to NRS 253.125 is entitled to compensation from the estate or from beneficiaries for the reasonable value of his or her services performed in preserving the property of an estate of a deceased person before the appointment of an administrator. Compensation must be set by the board of county commissioners.

4. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a public administrator who does not receive a salary pursuant to NRS 245.043:

(a) Is entitled to receive annual compensation, for the costs and expenses incident to a public administrator, as set by the board of county commissioners and paid out of the county fund; and

(b) May retain all fees provided by law received by him or her as public administrator.

5. In a county where the office of public administrator has been abolished pursuant to NRS 253.125, any compensation or fees described in subsections 1 and 3 or otherwise provided by law for the administration of an estate of a deceased person to which the person employed or contracted with pursuant to NRS 253.125 is entitled must be paid into the county general fund.

[Part 3:88:1883; BH § 2223; C § 2374; RL § 1617; NCL § 2094] — (NRS A 1967, 1057; 1969, 1466; 1973, 8; 1979, 994; 1987, 56, 115, 117; 1989, 1041; 2009, 2271; 2011, 154; 2017, 810; 2019, 1541)