Nevada’s official statutes do not use the phrase “hardship stay.” What people usually mean by that search is the 10-day stay of execution in NRS 70.010(2): a justice court “may stay the execution of any judgment, including any judgment in a case of forcible or unlawful detainer, for a period not exceeding 10 days.” NRS 40.254 requires an other-cause summary-eviction notice to tell the tenant about that request. Justice Court Rule of Civil Procedure 110 says how and when the motion is made. Official self-help pages — the Civil Law Self-Help Center and Nevada Legal Services — describe the same 10-day stay in plain language.

This page describes that statutory mechanism. It is not a form, a filing instruction, or advice about any specific case.

What does NRS 70.010(2) actually authorize?

NRS 70.010 is the justice-court execution statute. Subsection 1 says execution on a justice-court judgment may issue within six years. Subsection 2 then gives the court, or any justice of that court, authority to stay execution of any judgment — and it expressly includes forcible or unlawful detainer — for a period not exceeding 10 days. The statute does not name categories of hardship, does not require a particular form of proof, and does not promise that a stay will be granted. It authorizes a short pause on enforcement, on terms the court applies.

NRS 40.254(1)(c) builds that pause into the other-cause notice. The notice must advise the tenant of the right to contest by affidavit on the fifth judicial day, or to request that the court stay execution of a removal or nonadmittance order “for a period not exceeding 10 days pursuant to subsection 2 of NRS 70.010, stating the reasons why such a stay is warranted.”

What does JCRCP 110 say about timing?

JCRCP 110, as amended effective October 29, 2024, is titled “Motion to Stay Enforcement of a Summary Eviction Order.” The official text provides:

  • A tenant may file a motion to stay a summary eviction order pursuant to NRS 70.010 at any time after a notice for eviction is served. The motion must be included within the tenant’s affidavit in response to the notice.
  • If the motion is filed before the court issues a summary eviction order, the court must consider it and, if granted, reflect in the order the time and date to which the order is stayed.
  • If the motion is filed after the court has already issued a summary eviction order, or after the sheriff or constable has already executed the order, it is untimely and may be summarily denied.

That 2024 timing rule is the current official court-rule text. Older self-help narratives that describe filing a stay only after the order is posted should be read against Rule 110 as it now stands. The official rule page is JCRCP 110.

How is this different from other delays in the eviction statutes?

Several other provisions pause or extend possession. They are not the 10-day stay:

  • Age or disability extension on a no-cause periodic notice. NRS 40.251(2) lets a tenant who is 60 or older, or who has a physical or mental disability, request an additional 30 days of possession on certain periodic tenancies (not week-to-week, and not the 5-day basic-obligation notice). The notice must advise of that right (NRS 40.251(5)); if the landlord rejects the request, the tenant may petition the court (NRS 40.251(6)).
  • Government-shutdown extension. NRS 40.251(3)–(4) and the parallel carve-outs in NRS 40.253(12) address federal, tribal, or state workers and their household members during a shutdown.
  • Stay pending appeal. NRS 40.385 is a different mechanism: an appeal filed within 10 judicial days, with a stay of execution generally obtained by filing a $250 bond. A tenant who remains in possession during that appeal must pay the contract rent as it becomes due.

The Civil Law Self-Help Center’s page on responding to a court order for eviction describes the 10-day stay request and separately describes appeals and motions to set aside. Nevada Legal Services publishes statewide housing materials. Those official-help pages explain court practice; NRS 70.010(2) and JCRCP 110 are the controlling texts for the stay itself.

Where this page stops

The statutes authorize a short stay of execution. They do not prescribe what facts a court will treat as sufficient “reasons why such a stay is warranted,” and they do not instruct any particular person to file anything. Questions about a pending notice or order belong with the court named in the papers and, for advice about a specific situation, a licensed Nevada attorney. The summary-eviction laws page and the step-by-step process explainer place the stay in the larger NRS 40 sequence.