NRS 50.015 – General rule of competency.

Every person is competent to be a witness except as otherwise provided in this title. (Added to NRS by 1971, 788)

NRS 50.025 – Lack of personal knowledge.

1. A witness may not testify to a matter unless: (a) Evidence is introduced sufficient to support a finding that the witness has personal knowledge of the matter; or (b) The witness states his or her opinion or inference as an expert. 2. Evidence to prove personal knowledge may, but need not, consist of the […]

NRS 50.035 – Oath or affirmation.

1. Before testifying, every witness shall be required to declare that he or she will testify truthfully, by oath or affirmation administered in a form calculated to awaken his or her conscience and impress his or her mind with the duty to do so. 2. An affirmation is sufficient if the witness is addressed in […]

NRS 50.045 – Interpreters.

Interpreters are subject to the provisions of this chapter relating to qualification as an expert. (Added to NRS by 1971, 788; A 1979, 656)

NRS 50.050 – Interpreters for person with communications disability: Definitions; appointment required in judicial proceedings; compensation; certain persons not required to pay for interpreter.

1. As used in NRS 50.050 to 50.053, inclusive, unless the context requires otherwise: (a) “Interpreter” means a: (1) Registered community interpreter; or (2) Person who is appointed as an interpreter pursuant to subsection 2 of NRS 50.0515. (b) “Person with a communications disability” means a person who, because the person is deaf or has […]

NRS 50.051 – Interpreters for person with communications disability: Appointment required in criminal proceedings.

An interpreter must be appointed at public expense for a person with a communications disability who is a party to or a witness in a criminal proceeding. (Added to NRS by 1979, 656; A 2001, 1775; 2007, 169)

NRS 50.0515 – Interpreters for person with communications disability: Appointment of registered community interpreter required; exceptions.

1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, in any judicial or other proceeding in which the court, magistrate or other person presiding over the proceeding is required to appoint an interpreter for a person with a communications disability, the court, magistrate or other person presiding over the proceeding shall appoint a registered community interpreter […]

NRS 50.052 – Interpreters for person with communications disability: Replacement; persons ineligible for appointment; selection and approval by person with communications disability.

1. If an interpreter appointed for a person with a communications disability is not effectively or accurately communicating with or on behalf of the person with a communications disability, and that fact becomes known to the person who appointed the interpreter, another interpreter must be appointed. 2. Unless otherwise agreed upon by the parties, a […]

NRS 50.053 – Interpreters for person with communications disability: Oath; rights and privileges.

1. Before undertaking his or her duties, the interpreter shall swear or affirm that he or she will make a true interpretation in an understandable manner to the person for whom he or she has been appointed, and that he or she will repeat the statements of the person with a communications disability in the […]

NRS 50.054 – Interpreter for person with limited English proficiency: Eligibility; oath; rights and privileges; replacement; payment of claims.

1. Except as otherwise provided by a regulation of the Court Administrator adopted pursuant to NRS 1.510 and 1.520, a person shall not act as an interpreter in a proceeding if the interpreter is: (a) The spouse of a witness; (b) Otherwise related to a witness; (c) Biased for or against one of the parties; […]

NRS 50.0545 – Interpreter for person with limited English proficiency: Appointment required in criminal proceedings; appointment when certified or registered interpreter not available.

1. An interpreter must be appointed at public expense for a person with limited English proficiency who is a defendant or a witness in a criminal proceeding. 2. If a certified or registered court interpreter is not available, a court shall appoint an interpreter in accordance with the regulations adopted pursuant to paragraph (e) of […]

NRS 50.055 – Competency: Judge as witness.

1. The judge presiding at the trial shall not testify in that trial as a witness. 2. If the judge is called to testify, no objection need be made in order to preserve the point. (Added to NRS by 1971, 788)

NRS 50.065 – Competency: Juror as witness.

1. A member of the jury shall not testify as a witness in the trial of the case in which the member of the jury is sitting as a juror. If the member of the jury is called to testify, the opposing party shall be afforded an opportunity to object out of the presence of […]

NRS 50.067 – Competency: Receipt of certain care or counseling.

1. A person is not incompetent to be a witness solely by reason of the fact that the person or a member of the person’s family has received medical, psychiatric, or psychological care or counseling in connection with the act or event giving rise to the proceeding. 2. Evidence relating to such care or counseling […]

NRS 50.068 – Competency: Defendant who agrees to testify against another defendant pursuant to plea bargain.

1. A defendant is not incompetent to be a witness solely by reason of the fact that the defendant enters into an agreement with the prosecuting attorney in which the defendant agrees to testify against another defendant in exchange for a plea of guilty, guilty but mentally ill or nolo contendere to a lesser charge […]

NRS 50.069 – Provision of contract or settlement agreement prohibiting or restricting testimony void and unenforceable under certain circumstances.

1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 233.190, a provision of a contract or settlement agreement is void and unenforceable if: (a) The provision prohibits or otherwise restricts a party to the contract or settlement agreement from testifying at a judicial or administrative proceeding when the party has been required or requested to testify at […]

NRS 50.070 – Termination or threat of termination of employment because of service as witness prohibited; penalty; remedies.

1. Any person, corporation, partnership, association or other entity who is: (a) An employer; or (b) The employee, agent or officer of an employer, vested with the power to terminate or recommend termination of employment, of a person who is a witness or who has received a summons to appear as a witness in a […]