1. Each person summoned to attend as a grand juror or a trial juror in the district court or justice court is entitled to a fee of $40 for each day after the second day of jury selection that the person is in attendance in response to the venire or summons, including Sundays and holidays.
2. Each grand juror and trial juror in the district court or justice court actually sworn and serving is entitled to a fee of $40 a day as compensation for each day of service.
3. In addition to the fees specified in subsections 1 and 2, a board of county commissioners may provide that, for each day of such attendance or service, each person is entitled to be paid the per diem allowance and travel expenses provided for state officers and employees generally.
4. Each person summoned to attend as a grand juror or a trial juror in the district court or justice court and each grand juror and trial juror in the district court or justice court is entitled to receive 36.5 cents a mile for each mile necessarily and actually traveled if the home of the person summoned or serving as a juror is 30 miles or more from the place of trial.
5. If the home of a person summoned or serving as such a juror is 65 miles or more from the place of trial and the selection, inquiry or trial lasts more than 1 day, the person is entitled to receive an allowance for lodging at the rate established for state employees, in addition to his or her daily compensation for attendance or service, for each day on which the person does not return to his or her home.
6. In civil cases, any fee, per diem allowance, travel expense or other compensation due each juror engaged in the trial of the cause must be paid each day in advance to the clerk of the court, or the justice of the peace, by the party who has demanded the jury. If the party paying this money is the prevailing party, the money is recoverable as costs from the losing party. If the jury from any cause is discharged in a civil action without finding a verdict and the party who demands the jury subsequently obtains judgment, the money so paid is recoverable as costs from the losing party.
7. The money paid by the clerk of the court to jurors for their services in a civil action or proceeding, which the clerk of the court has received from the party demanding the jury, must be deducted from the total amount due them for attendance as such jurors, and any balance is a charge against the county.
[Part 2:96:1919; A 1933, 68; 1933, 152; 1937, 210; 1949, 10; 1951, 107; 1953, 134] — (NRS A 1965, 311; 1967, 277; 1975, 911; 1977, 926; 1979, 330; 1981, 326; 1993, 919; 2001, 752; 2003, 1348; 2007, 210, 596; 2015, 2555)