1. In cases of emergency where the services of the Attorney General’s Office are required in remote counties of the State, the Attorney General may, when it appears for the best interests of the State to do so, appoint a resident attorney at law of such county as special deputy.
2. In any case where:
(a) The Attorney General represents the State of Nevada or any officer, board, commission, appointee or department of the State;
(b) There are 100 or more litigants involved in the case or litigation;
(c) The trial or hearings in such litigation have been completed and the case or litigation has been decided by the court but the written findings of fact, conclusions of law, and judgment and decree have not been prepared or settled, determined, entered, signed and filed by the court before the beginning of the term of office of the Attorney General who is in office at the time such written findings and conclusions and the judgment and decree are to be prepared or settled, determined, entered, signed and filed by the court; and
(d) The evidence in the case is voluminous,
the incumbent Attorney General is authorized and directed, in the interest of promptness and efficiency in the final determination of such litigation, to appoint a special deputy attorney general.
3. The special deputy attorney general appointed in the manner provided in subsection 2 shall:
(a) Prepare and supervise the preparation of such findings of fact, conclusions of law and judgment and decree to be prepared for and on behalf of the State of Nevada or such officer, board, commission, appointee or department thereof;
(b) Present the same to the court or to the former district judge thereof authorized and empowered to hear and determine the same, within the time now or hereafter provided by law therefor; and
(c) Represent the State and such officer, board, commission, appointee or department thereof in any and all hearings incident to any and all such findings of fact, conclusions of law, and judgment and decree, and in any and all objections and exceptions thereto presented to the court or to the former district judge thereof authorized and empowered to hear and determine the same in any such case for settlement, determination, signing and filing in such case and in any and all motions for new trials and also in any and all matters incident thereto, all within the time now or hereafter provided by law therefor.
[Part 2:235:1931; 1931 NCL § 7313.02]
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