NRS6.090. Procedures for forming panel; duties of sheriff and jury commissioner.

      1.  To constitute a regular panel of trial jurors for the district court in a county in which the board of county commissioners selects jurors on an annual basis, such number of names as the district judge may direct must be drawn from the jury box. The district judge shall make and file with the county clerk an order that a regular panel of trial jurors be drawn, and the number of jurors to be drawn must be named in the order. The drawing must take place in the office of the county clerk, during regular office hours, in the presence of all persons who may choose to witness it. The panel must be drawn by the district judge and clerk, or, if the district judge so directs, by any one of the county commissioners of the county and the clerk. If the district judge directs that the panel be drawn by one of the county commissioners of the county and the clerk, the district judge shall make and file with the clerk an order designating the name of the county commissioner and fixing the number of names to be drawn as trial jurors and the time at which the persons whose names are so drawn are required to attend in court.

      2.  The drawing, for jurors drawn pursuant to subsection 1, must be conducted as follows:

      (a) The number to be drawn having been previously determined by the district judge, the box containing the names of the jurors must first be thoroughly shaken. It must then be opened and the district judge and clerk, or one of the county commissioners of the county and the clerk, if the district judge has so ordered, shall alternately draw therefrom one ballot until of nonexempt jurors the number determined upon is obtained.

      (b) If the officers drawing the jury deem that the attendance of any juror whose name is drawn cannot be obtained conveniently and inexpensively to the county, by reason of the distance of the juror’s residence from the court or other cause, the juror’s name may be returned to the box and in its place the name of another juror drawn whose attendance the officers may deem can be obtained conveniently and inexpensively to the county.

      (c) A list of the names obtained must be made out and certified by the officers drawing the jury. The list must remain in the clerk’s office subject to inspection by any officer or attorney of the court, and the clerk shall immediately issue a venire.

      3.  Whenever trial jurors are selected by a jury commissioner, the district judge may direct the jury commissioner to summon and assign to that court the number of qualified jurors the jury commissioner determines to be necessary for the formation of the petit jury. The jurors may be selected by computer whenever procedures to assure random selection from computerized lists have been established by the jury commissioner.

      4.  Every person named in the venire must be served by the sheriff personally or by the sheriff or the jury commissioner by mailing a summons to the person, commanding the person to attend as a juror at a time and place designated therein. Mileage is allowed only for personal service. The postage must be paid by the sheriff or the jury commissioner, as the case may be, and allowed him or her as other claims against the county. The sheriff shall make return of the venire at least the day before the day named for their appearance, after which the venire is subject to inspection by any officer or attorney of the court.

      [4:65:1873; A 1879, 33; 1881, 26; 1915, 167; 1919 RL § 4930; NCL § 8477]—(NRS A 1959, 763; 1960, 435; 1965, 27; 1979, 462; 1981, 555)