Title 4

NRS 49.2548 Who may claim privilege. 1. The privilege provided pursuant to NRS 49.2547 may be claimed by: (a) The victim; (b) The guardian or conservator of the victim; (c) The personal representative of a deceased victim; and (d) The victim’s advocate, but only on behalf of the …

NRS 49.2549 Exceptions. There is no privilege pursuant to NRS 49.2547 if: 1. The purpose of the victim in seeking services from a victim’s advocate is to enable or aid any person to commit or plan to commit what the victim knows or reasonably should have known is a crime or fraud…

NRS 49.255 Confessor and confessant. A member of the clergy or priest shall not, without the consent of the person making the confession, be examined as a witness as to any confession made to the member of the clergy or priest in his or her professional character. (Added to NRS b…

NRS 49.260 Behavioral health and wellness practitioner and patient or other participant in services. 1. Any privilege established by this chapter for communications between a patient and the supervisor of a behavioral health and wellness practitioner applies equally to communicat…

NRS 49.265 Committees for review of medical or dental care. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2: (a) The proceedings and records of: (1) Organized committees of hospitals, and organized committees of organizations that provide emergency medical services pursuant to th…

NRS 49.275 News media. No reporter, former reporter or editorial employee of any newspaper, periodical or press association or employee of any radio or television station may be required to disclose any published or unpublished information obtained or prepared by such person in s…

NRS 49.285 Public officer as witness. A public officer shall not be examined as a witness as to communications made to the public officer in official confidence, when the public interests would suffer by the disclosure. (Added to NRS by 1971, 786)

NRS 49.290 Counselor and pupil. 1. As used in this section, “counselor” means a person who is regularly employed by a public or private school in this State as a counselor, psychologist or psychological examiner for the purpose of counseling pupils, and who holds a valid certific…

NRS 49.291 Teacher and pupil. 1. As used in this section, “teacher” means a person who is regularly employed by a public or private school in this State as a teacher or administrator and who holds a valid license issued by the Superintendent of Public Instruction authorizing the …

NRS 49.293 Law enforcement or public safety personnel and counselor. 1. Any law enforcement or public safety personnel who participate in a peer support counseling session and any counselor providing such counseling have a privilege to refuse to disclose, and to prevent any other…

NRS 49.295 Married person: General rule of privilege; exceptions. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 2 and 3 and NRS 49.305: (a) A married person cannot be examined as a witness for or against his or her spouse without his or her consent. (b) No spouse can be examined…

NRS 49.305 Married person: Exception for insanity. When a married person is insane, and has been so declared by a court of competent jurisdiction, the other spouse shall be a competent witness to testify as to any fact which transpired before or during such insanity, but the priv…

NRS 49.315 Political vote. Every person has a privilege to refuse to disclose the tenor of his or her vote at a political election conducted by secret ballot unless the vote was cast illegally. (Added to NRS by 1971, 787)

NRS 49.325 Trade secrets. 1. A person has a privilege, which may be claimed by the person or the person’s agent or employee, to refuse to disclose and to prevent other persons from disclosing a trade secret owned by him or her, if the allowance of the privilege will not tend to c…

NRS 49.335 Privilege to refuse disclosure of identity of informer. The State or a political subdivision thereof has a privilege to refuse to disclose the identity of a person who has furnished to a law enforcement officer information purporting to reveal the commission of a crime…

NRS 49.345 Who may claim. The privilege may be claimed by an appropriate representative of the State, regardless of whether the information was furnished to an officer of the State or a subdivision thereof. The privilege may be claimed by an appropriate representative of a politi…

NRS 49.355 Voluntary disclosure; informer a witness. No privilege exists under NRS 49.335 or 49.345 if the identity of the informer or the informer’s interest in the subject matter of his or her communication has been disclosed by a holder of the privilege or by the informer’s ow…

NRS 49.365 Testimony on guilt or innocence. If the state or a political subdivision elects not to disclose the identity of an informer and the circumstances indicate a reasonable probability that the informer can give testimony necessary to a fair determination of the issue of gu…

NRS 49.375 Legality of obtaining evidence. 1. If information from an informer is relied upon to establish the legality of the means by which evidence was obtained and the judge is not satisfied that the information was received from an informer reasonably believed to be reliable,…

NRS 49.385 Waiver of privilege by voluntary disclosure; exceptions. 1. A person upon whom these rules confer a privilege against disclosure of a confidential matter waives the privilege if the person or the person’s predecessor while holder of the privilege voluntarily discloses …

NRS 49.395 Privileged matter disclosed under compulsion or without opportunity to claim privilege. Evidence of a statement or other disclosure of privileged matter is inadmissible against the holder of the privilege if the disclosure was: 1. Compelled erroneously; or 2. Made with…

NRS 49.405 Comment upon or inference from claim of privilege; instruction. 1. The claim of a privilege, whether in the present proceeding or upon a prior occasion, is not a proper subject of comment by judge or counsel. No inference may be drawn therefrom. 2. In jury cases, proce…