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NRS 51.195

Marriage, baptismal and similar certificates

Applied in 1 court decision — leading case Flores v. State (2005)

Most recently applied in Flores v. State (October 2005)

(Added to NRS by 1971, 796)

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 practices of a religious organization or by law to perform the act certified, and purporting to have been issued at the time of the act or within a reasonable time thereafter, 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.