2010 Nevada Code
TITLE 17 STATE LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT
Chapter 218E Legislative Investigations and Hearings; Legislative Commission and Other Committees
NRS 218E.085 Privilege regarding defamatory matter; unlawful for person to misrepresent facts when testifying or communicating to Legislator.
NRS 218E.085 Privilege regarding defamatory matter; unlawful for person to misrepresent facts when testifying or communicating to Legislator.
1. A witness is absolutely privileged to publish defamatory matter as part of a legislative proceeding in which the witness is testifying or in communications to a Legislator preliminary to the proceeding, if the matter has some relation to the proceeding.
2. It is unlawful to misrepresent any fact knowingly when testifying or otherwise communicating to a Legislator.
(Added to NRS by 1993, 2849)-(Substituted in revision for NRS 218.5345)
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