Nevada Code § 282.340

Civil liability on bond of officer or employee: Action for recovery of loss; lien; judgment; execution
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1. If any public officer or employee
defaults, misappropriates or otherwise is responsible for loss of funds committed
to the officers or employees care, the officer or employee is civilly liable
for the amount thereof in an action to be prosecuted by:
(a) The district attorney in cases of county and
township officers and employees.
(b) The city attorney in cases of city officers
and employees.
(c) The Attorney General in cases of state
officers and irrigation district officers and employees.
2. The State, county, city or irrigation
district, as the case may be, has a lien on all real or personal property, not exempt
from execution, of any such officer or employee against whom such an action is
brought for default, misappropriation, or other violation of the conditions of
the officers or employees surety bond given under the provisions of chapter
193, Statutes of Nevada 1937, as amended, and such lien becomes effective upon
the execution of such surety bonds by state, county, township, city and
irrigation district officers and employees, and takes precedence over any other
unrecorded lien or encumbrance.
3. Upon judgment being entered in favor of
the State, county, incorporated city or irrigation district, all property
owned, either legally or equitably, by the State, county, township, city or
irrigation district officer or employee violating any condition of such bond,
not exempt from execution, or so much thereof as may be necessary to cover the
amount of the judgment entered, may be sold, as in cases of execution, and the
proceeds applied to payment of the judgment rendered to cover the shortage. If
there is an insufficiency of such property, or the judgment or any part of it
remains unsatisfied, then a deficiency judgment may be entered by the court.

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