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ARTICLE. 7. - Impeachment and

Nev. Const.

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2. Officers
subject to impeachment.
 3. Removal of
justices of Supreme Court, judges of court of appeals and judges of district
courts. [Effective through November 27, 2028, and after that date unless the
provisions of Assembly Joint Resolution No. 8 (2025) are agreed to and passed
by the 2027 Legislature and approved and ratified by the voters at the 2028
General Election.]
 3. Removal of
justices of Supreme Court, judges of court of appeals, judges of business court
and judges of district courts. [Effective November 28, 2028, if the provisions
of Assembly Joint Resolution No. 8 (2025) are agreed to and passed by the 2027
Legislature and approved and ratified by the voters at the 2028 General
Election.]
 4. Removal of
other civil officers.
Section. 1.  Impeachment: Trial; conviction.  The Assembly
shall have the sole power of impeaching. The concurrence of a majority of all
the members elected, shall be necessary to an impeachment. All impeachments
shall be tried by the Senate, and when sitting for that purpose, the Senators
shall be upon Oath or Affirmation, to do justice according to Law and Evidence.
The Chief Justice of the Supreme court, shall preside over the Senate while
sitting to try the Governor or Lieutenant Governor upon impeachment. No person
shall be convicted without the concurrence of two thirds of the Senators
elected.
Sec: 2.  Officers subject to impeachment.  The
Governor and other state and judicial officers, except justices of the peace
shall be liable to impeachment for misdemeanor or malfeasance in office; but
judgment in such case shall not extend further than removal from office and
disqualification to hold any office of honor, profit, or trust under this
State. The party whether convicted or acquitted, shall, nevertheless, be liable
to indictment, trial, judgment and punishment according to law.
 Sec. 3.  Removal of justices of Supreme Court, judges of court of appeals
and judges of district courts. [Effective through November 27, 2028, and after
that date unless the provisions of Assembly Joint Resolution No. 8 (2025) are
agreed to and passed by the 2027 Legislature and approved and ratified by the
voters at the 2028 General Election.]  For any reasonable
cause to be entered on the journals of each House, which may or may not be
sufficient grounds for impeachment, the justices of the Supreme Court, the
judges of the court of appeals and the judges of the district courts must be
removed from office on the vote of two thirds of the members elected to each
branch of the Legislature. The justice or judge complained of must be served
with a copy of the complaint against him, and have an opportunity of being
heard in person or by counsel in his defense. No member of either branch of the
Legislature is eligible to fill the vacancy occasioned by such removal. 
 [Amended in 2014. Proposed and passed by the
2011 Legislature; agreed to and passed by the 2013 Legislature; and approved
and ratified by the people at the 2014 General Election. See: Statutes of
Nevada 2011,
p. 3835; Statutes of Nevada 2013,
p. 3968.]
 Sec. 3.  Removal
of justices of Supreme Court, judges of court of appeals, judges of business
court and judges of district courts. [Effective November 28, 2028, if the
provisions of Assembly Joint Resolution No. 8 (2025) are agreed to and passed
by the 2027 Legislature and approved and ratified by the voters at the 2028
General Election.]  For any reasonable cause to be entered
on the journals of each House, which may or may not be sufficient grounds for
impeachment, the justices of the Supreme Court, the judges of the court of
appeals, the judges of the business court, if the Legislature establishes such
a court pursuant to Section 3B of Article 6 of this Constitution, and the
judges of the district courts must be removed from office on the vote of two
thirds of the members elected to each branch of the Legislature. The justice or
judge complained of must be served with a copy of the complaint against him,
and have an opportunity of being heard in person or by counsel in his defense.
No member of either branch of the Legislature is eligible to fill the vacancy
occasioned by such removal. 
 (Proposed amendment passed by the 2025
Legislature; effective November 28, 2028, if agreed to and passed by the 2027
Legislature and approved and ratified by the voters at the 2028 General
Election. See: Statutes of Nevada 2025,
p. 3917.)
Sec: 4.  Removal of other civil officers.  Provision
shall be made by law for the removal from Office of any Civil Officer other
than those in this Article previously specified, for Malfeasance, or
Nonfeasance in the Performance of his duties.
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