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NRS 51.065 General rule. 1. Hearsay is inadmissible except as provided in this chapter, title 14 of NRS and the Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure. 2. This section constitutes the hearsay rule. (Added to NRS by 1971, 794)

NRS 51.067 Hearsay within hearsay. Hearsay included within hearsay is not excluded under the hearsay rule if each part of the combined statements conforms to an exception to the hearsay rule provided in this chapter. (Added to NRS by 1971, 798)

NRS 51.069 Credibility of declarant. 1. When a hearsay statement has been admitted in evidence, the credibility of the declarant may be attacked or supported by any evidence which would be admissible for those purposes if the declarant had testified as a witness. 2. Evidence of a…

NRS 51.075 General exception; other exceptions illustrative. 1. A statement is not excluded by the hearsay rule if its nature and the special circumstances under which it was made offer assurances of accuracy not likely to be enhanced by calling the declarant as a witness, even t…

NRS 51.085 Present sense impressions. A statement describing or explaining an event or condition made while the declarant was perceiving the event or condition, or immediately thereafter, is not inadmissible under the hearsay rule. (Added to NRS by 1971, 794)

NRS 51.095 Excited utterances. A statement relating to a startling event or condition made while the declarant was under the stress of excitement caused by the event or condition is not inadmissible under the hearsay rule. (Added to NRS by 1971, 794)

NRS 51.105 Then existing mental, emotional or physical condition. 1. A statement of the declarant’s then existing state of mind, emotion, sensation or physical condition, such as intent, plan, motive, design, mental feeling, pain and bodily health, is not inadmissible under the h…

NRS 51.115 Statements for purposes of medical diagnosis or treatment. Statements made for purposes of medical diagnosis or treatment and describing medical history, or past or present symptoms, pain or sensations, or the inception or general character of the cause or external sou…

NRS 51.125 Recorded recollection. 1. A memorandum or record concerning a matter about which a witness once had knowledge but now has insufficient recollection to enable the witness to testify fully and accurately is not inadmissible under the hearsay rule if it is shown to have b…

NRS 51.135 Record of regularly conducted activity. A memorandum, report, record or compilation of data, in any form, of acts, events, conditions, opinions or diagnoses, made at or near the time by, or from information transmitted by, a person with knowledge, all in the course of …

NRS 51.145 Absence of entry in records of regularly conducted activity. Evidence that a matter is not included in the memoranda, reports, records or data compilations, in any form, of a regularly conducted activity is not inadmissible under the hearsay rule to prove the nonoccurr…

NRS 51.155 Public records and reports. Records, reports, statements or data compilations, in any form, of public officials or agencies are not inadmissible under the hearsay rule if they set forth: 1. The activities of the official or agency; 2. Matters observed pursuant to duty …

NRS 51.165 Required reports. Records or data compilations, in any form, of births, fetal deaths, deaths or marriages are not inadmissible under the hearsay rule if the report thereof was made to a public office pursuant to requirements of law. (Added to NRS by 1971, 795)

NRS 51.175 Absence of public record or entry. To prove: 1. The absence of a record, report, statement or data compilation, in any form; or 2. The nonoccurrence or nonexistence of a matter of which a record, report, statement or data compilation, in any form, was regularly made an…

NRS 51.185 Records of religious organizations. Statements of births, marriages, divorces, deaths, legitimacy, ancestry, relationship by blood or marriage, or other similar facts of personal or family history, contained in a regularly kept record of a religious organization, are n…

NRS 51.195 Marriage, baptismal and similar certificates. Statements of fact contained in a certificate that the maker performed a marriage or other ceremony or administered a sacrament, made by a member of the clergy, public official or other person authorized by the rules or pra…

NRS 51.205 Family records. Statements of fact contained in family Bibles, genealogies, charts, engravings on rings, inscriptions on family portraits, engravings on urns, crypts or tombstones, or the like, are not inadmissible under the hearsay rule. (Added to NRS by 1971, 796)

NRS 51.215 Records of documents affecting interest in property. The record of a document purporting to establish or affect an interest in property, as proof of the content of the original recorded document and its execution and delivery by each person by whom it purports to have …

NRS 51.225 Statement in document affecting interest in property. A statement contained in a document purporting to establish or affect an interest in property is not inadmissible under the hearsay rule if the matter stated was relevant to the purpose of the document, unless deali…

NRS 51.235 Statements in ancient documents. Statements in a document more than 20 years old whose authenticity is established are not inadmissible under the hearsay rule. (Added to NRS by 1971, 796)

NRS 51.245 Market reports; commercial publications. Market quotations, tabulations, lists, directories or other published compilations, generally used and relied upon by the public or by persons in particular occupations, are not inadmissible under the hearsay rule. (Added to NRS…

NRS 51.255 Learned treatises. To the extent called to the attention of an expert witness upon cross-examination or relied upon by the expert witness in direct examination, a statement contained in a published treatise, periodical or pamphlet on a subject of history, medicine or o…

NRS 51.265 Reputation concerning personal or family history. Reputation among members of a person’s family by blood or marriage, or among his or her associates, or in the community, is not inadmissible under the hearsay rule if it concerns his or her birth, marriage, divorce, dea…

NRS 51.275 Reputation concerning boundaries or general history. Reputation in a community, arising before the controversy, as to: 1. Boundaries of or customs affecting lands in the community; and 2. Events of general history important to the community or to the State or nation in…

NRS 51.285 Reputation as to character. Reputation of a person’s character among the person’s associates or in the community is not inadmissible under the hearsay rule. (Added to NRS by 1971, 797)

NRS 51.295 Judgment of previous conviction. 1. Evidence of a final judgment, entered after trial or upon a plea of guilty or guilty but mentally ill, but not upon a plea of nolo contendere, adjudging a person guilty of a crime punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of 1 ye…

NRS 51.305 Judgment as to boundaries or personal, family or general history. A judgment is not inadmissible under the hearsay rule as proof of matters of personal, family or general history, or boundaries, essential to the judgment, if the matters would be provable by evidence of…

NRS 51.315 General exception; other exceptions illustrative. 1. A statement is not excluded by the hearsay rule if: (a) Its nature and the special circumstances under which it was made offer strong assurances of accuracy; and (b) The declarant is unavailable as a witness. 2. The …

NRS 51.325 Former testimony. Testimony given as a witness at another hearing of the same or a different proceeding, or in a deposition taken in compliance with law in the course of another proceeding, is not inadmissible under the hearsay rule if: 1. The declarant is unavailable …

NRS 51.335 Statement under belief of impending death. A statement made by a declarant while believing that his or her death was imminent is not inadmissible under the hearsay rule if the declarant is unavailable as a witness. (Added to NRS by 1971, 797)

NRS 51.345 Statement against interest. 1. A statement which at the time of its making: (a) Was so far contrary to the pecuniary or proprietary interest of the declarant; (b) So far tended to subject the declarant to civil or criminal liability; (c) So far tended to render invalid…

NRS 51.355 Statement of personal or family history. 1. A statement concerning the declarant’s own birth, marriage, divorce, legitimacy, relationship by blood or marriage, ancestry or other similar fact of personal or family history is not inadmissible under the hearsay rule if th…

NRS 51.385 Admissibility; notice of unavailability or inability of child to testify. 1. In addition to any other provision for admissibility made by statute or rule of court, a statement made by a child under the age of 10 years describing any act of sexual conduct performed with…