"Magistrate" defined.

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"Magistrate" means an officer having power to issue a warrant for the arrest of a person charged with a public offense and includes:

1. Justices of the Supreme Court;

2. Judges of the Court of Appeals;

3. Judges of the district courts;

4. Justices of the peace;

5. Municipal judges; and

6. Others upon whom are conferred by law the powers of a justice of the peace in criminal cases.

(Added to NRS by 1967, 1398; A 1983, 901; 2013, 1752)


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