Nevada
Sec.
§
0.025
Use of “may,” “must,” “shall” and “is entitled”; explanation of flush lines.
1.
Except as otherwise expressly provided in a particular statute or required by the context:
(a)
May confers a right, privilege or power. The term is entitled confers a private right.
(b)
May not or no * * * may abridges or removes a right, privilege or power.
(c)
Must expresses a requirement when:
(1)
The subject is a thing, whether the verb is active or passive.
(2)
The subject is a natural person and:(I) The verb is in the passive voice; or(II) Only a condition precedent and not a duty is imposed.
(d)
Shall imposes a duty to act.
(e)
Shall be deemed or shall be considered creates a legal fiction.
(f)
Shall not imposes a prohibition against acting.
2.
Except as otherwise required by the context, text of a statute that:
(a)
Follows subsections, paragraphs, subparagraphs or sub-subparagraphs that are introduced by a colon;
(b)
Is not designated as a separate subsection, paragraph, subparagraph or sub-subparagraph; and
(c)
Begins flush to the left margin rather than immediately following the material at the end of the final subsection, paragraph, subparagraph or sub-subparagraph,Ê applies to the section as a whole, in the case of subsections, or to the subdivision preceding the colon as a whole rather than solely to the subdivision that the text follows. The symbol Ê in bills and in Nevada Revised Statutes indicates the beginning of such text.