State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > Nevada > Title-4 > Chapter-55 > 55-02055.020 Official written reports admissible in evidence. An official written report or record, or duly certified copy thereof, that a person is missing, missing in action, interned in a neutral country, or beleaguered, besieged, or captured by an enemy, or is dead, or is alive, made by any officer or employee of the United States authorized to make same by the Act referred to in NRS 55.010 or by any other law of the United States, shall be received in any court, office or other place in this State as evidence that such person is missing, missing in action, interned in a neutral country, or beleaguered, besieged, or captured by an enemy, or is dead, or is alive, as the case may be.
[2:131:1945; 1943 NCL § 9933.01]
NRS 55.030 Signed findings, reports, records and certified copies as prima facie evidence. For the purposes of NRS 55.010 and 55.020 any finding, report or record, or duly certified copy thereof, purporting to have been signed by such an officer or employee of the United States as is described in those sections, shall prima facie be deemed to have been signed and issued by such an officer or employee pursuant to law, and the person signing same shall prima facie be deemed to have acted within the scope of his or her authority. If a copy purports to have been certified by a person authorized by law to certify the same, such certified copy shall be prima facie evidence of his or her authority so to certify.
[3:131:1945; 1943 NCL § 9933.02]
