2010 Nevada Code
TITLE 4 WITNESSES AND EVIDENCE
Chapter 47 General Provisions; Judicial Notice; Presumptions
NRS 47.140 Matters of law.
NRS 47.140 Matters of law. The laws subject to judicial notice are:
1. The Constitution and statutes of the United States, and the contents of the Federal Register.
2. The Constitution of this State and Nevada Revised Statutes.
3. Any other statute of this State if brought to the attention of the court by its title and the day of its passage.
4. A county, city or town code which has been filed as required by NRS 244.118, 268.014, 269.168 or the city charter and any city ordinance which has been filed or recorded as required by the applicable law.
5. The Nevada Administrative Code.
6. A regulation not included in the Nevada Administrative Code if adopted in accordance with law and brought to the attention of the court.
7. The population category and organization of a city incorporated pursuant to general law.
8. The constitution, statutes or other written law of any other state or territory of the United States, or of any foreign jurisdiction, as contained in a book or pamphlet published by its authority or proved to be commonly recognized in its courts.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 777; A 1973, 6; 1977, 1388; 1985, 231, 366; 2001, 632)
This section brings together the Nevada statutes on judicial notice of laws, ordinances and regulations, and supplies obvious omissions. For example, 44 U.S.C. 1507 requires judicial notice of the contents of the Federal Register and former NRS 15.020 required judicial notice of private statutes, but no statute appears to require judicial notice of the respective constitutions or public statutes.
In subsection 4, NRS 266.115 and the Reno city charter accord judicial notice to every "rule, resolution or other regulation of the city council" as well as to ordinances, whereas the Las Vegas city charter limits judicial notice to ordinances and requires recording by the city clerk of ordinances not codified. This narrower provision seems wiser, especially since the law of evidence does not prevent the proof of resolutions and the like by other means.
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