§ 293.437 — Designation of locations for polling places; payment of expenses for renting privately owned locations; legal rights and remedies of property owners or lessors not affected by presence of polling places at such locations

Nevada § 293.437

• Jurisdiction: Nevada
• Title 24: ELECTIONS

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1. The county or city clerk may designate any building, public or otherwise, or any portion of a building, as the site for any polling place or any number of polling places for any of the precincts or districts in the county or city.
2. If, in the opinion of the county or city clerk, the convenience and comfort of the voters and election officers will be best served by putting two or more polling places in any such building, or if, in the opinion of the county or city clerk, the expense to the county or city for polling places can be diminished by putting two or more polling places in any such building, the county or city clerk may so provide.
3. In precincts where there are no public buildings or other appropriate locations owned by the State, county, township, city, town or precinct, privately owned locations may be rented at a rate not to exceed $35 for each election if only one precinct is involved and at a rate not to exceed $50 for each election if more than one precinct is involved.
4. The legal rights and remedies which inure to the owner or lessor of private property are not impaired or otherwise affected by the leasing of the property for use as a polling place pursuant to subsection 3, except to the extent necessary to conduct voting at that location.

Legislative History

(Added to NRS by 1960, 266 ; A 1961, 293 ; 1975, 941 ; 1981, 908 ; 1987, 352 ; 2019, 3389 , 4085 )