Nevada Code § 172.271

Report of grand jury: Preliminary review by court; notification of identified persons; procedure to expunge improper material; filing and distribution
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1. The grand jury shall submit a draft of
the report that it wishes to make to the court which impaneled it.
2. The court shall review its contents
and, if it contains any material which violates paragraph (a) of subsection 2
of NRS 172.267 , require the grand jury
to expunge that material from the draft.
3. The court shall send to any person
identified in the draft in violation of paragraph (b) of subsection 2 of NRS 172.267 the pertinent part of the draft
and notify the person that the person has been identified in the draft of the
report of the grand jury in connection with possible criminal conduct. The
person may, within 5 days after receiving the notice and the portion of the
draft, submit a written request to the court for a hearing in chambers to
consider a motion to expunge that portion of the draft from the final report.
4. The court shall rule on any such motion
to expunge material within 20 days after the completion of the hearing on the
motion.
5. If the court determines that the draft:
(a) Violates in its entirety a provision of NRS 172.267 ; or
(b) After the removal of a portion pursuant to NRS 172.267 , is so incomplete that it is
meaningless,
it shall not
file the report with the clerk of the district court but shall file instead a
written statement describing, generally, its action and the basis for it.
6. The court shall file either the draft,
the draft as corrected or the statement with the clerk of the district court
within 60 days after receiving the draft from the grand jury. Upon filing, the
draft becomes the final report of the grand jury.
7. Within 5 days after the report is
filed, the clerk shall mail a copy of the pertinent portion of the report to
each person or governmental entity mentioned in the report.

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