A civil action may be brought in the name of the State:
1. Against a person who usurps, intrudes into, or unlawfully holds or exercises, a public office, civil or military, except the office of Assemblyman, Assemblywoman or State Senator, or a franchise, within this state, or an officer in a corporation created by the authority of this state.
2. Against a public officer, civil or military, except the office of Assemblyman, Assemblywoman or State Senator, who does or suffers an act which, by the provisions of law, works a forfeiture of the office.
3. Against an association of persons who act as a corporation within this state without being legally incorporated.
[1911 CPA § 714; RL § 5656; NCL § 9203] — (NRS A 1971, 660)