O'Connor v. Mallory

*437OPINION

By the Court,

Saitta, J.:

In this appeal, we address the narrow question of whether the office of district attorney is a state office for the purpose of determining whether district attorneys are subject to term limits under the “state office” portion of Article 15, Section 3(2) of the Nevada Constitution. Reviewing the Constitution as a whole, our resolution of this inquiry is controlled by Article 4, Section 32 of the Constitution, which plainly declares district attorneys to be “county officers.” Because Article 4, Section 32 identifies district attorneys as county officers, it…