Nevada Code § 3.280

Clerk to keep register of civil actions
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1. The clerk shall keep among the records
of the court a register of actions. The clerk shall enter therein the title of
the action, if in district court, and the clerk may enter therein the title of
the action in any other court, with brief notes under it, from time to time, of
all papers filed and proceedings had therein.
2. For an alternate method of maintaining
the register-of-actions record provided in subsection 1, the clerk of the
district court may maintain an effective register of actions by means of
photographing, microphotographing or mechanically or electronically storing the
whole of all papers and records, necessary to the keeping of a register of
actions, so long as the following control criteria of public recordkeeping is
extant:
(a) The completeness and chronological sequence
of registry are not disturbed;
(b) All such reproductions are placed in
convenient and accessible files;
(c) Provisions are made for preserving, examining
and using such files; and
(d) The initial register of actions in book or
loose-leaf-book form is maintained for the purpose of assuring the commencement
of actions serially, entering plaintiff, defendant, intervener or applicant, or
the parties in ex rel., in the title together with attorneys of record in each
case, and entering thereafter under each case only such documents by notation
as have filing fees required to be paid or notation of waiver of the fees.
This
subsection shall not be construed to be inconsistent with the laws, rules or
district judges orders pertaining to control and custody of district court
records.

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