'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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