Nevada Code § 82.476

Receivers or trustees for insolvent corporations: Appointment; powers and duties
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1. The district court, at the time of
ordering the injunction upon petition of the creditors or members, or at any time
afterward, may appoint a receiver or receivers or a trustee or trustees for the
creditors and members of the corporation.
2. Receivers or trustees have the
following powers and duties:
(a) To demand, sue for, collect, receive and take
into possession all the goods and chattels, rights and credits, money and
effects, lands and tenements, books, papers, choses in action, bills, notes and
property, of every description, of the corporation;
(b) To institute suits at law or in equity for
the recovery of any estate, property, damages or demands existing in favor of
the corporation;
(c) In their discretion to compound and settle
with any debtor or creditor of the corporation, or with persons having
possession of its property or in any way responsible at law or in equity to the
corporation at the time of its insolvency or suspension of business, or
afterwards, upon such terms and in such manner as they deem just and beneficial
to the corporation;
(d) In case of mutual dealings between the
corporation and any person to allow just setoffs in favor of that person in all
cases in which setoffs ought to be allowed according to law and equity;
(e) To take possession of the property of the
corporation as provided in NRS 78.665 ;
(f) To take inventory, account for debts and
report to the courts every 3 months as provided in NRS 78.670 ;
(g) To pass upon the claims of creditors as provided
in NRS 78.685 ;
(h) To be substituted in as a party to suits as
provided in NRS 78.695 ; and
(i) To be vested with the property of the
corporation as provided in NRS 78.640 .
3. An act approved or done by a majority
of the receivers or trustees is the act of the receivers or trustees.
4. A debtor who in good faith has paid a
debt to the corporation without notice of its insolvency or suspension of
business is not liable therefor, and the receiver or receivers or trustee or
trustees have power to sell, convey and assign all the estate, rights and
interests, and must hold and dispose of the proceeds thereof under the
directions of the district court.

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