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NRS 51.185

Records of religious organizations

Applied in 2 court decisions — leading case Flores v. State (2005)

Most recently applied in RIMER (STANLEY) VS. STATE (June 2015)

(Added to NRS by 1971, 796)

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 not inadmissible under the hearsay rule.

Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.