49.025 - Required reports privileged by statute. - Nevada Statutes

49.025  Required reports privileged by statute.

      1.  A person making a return or report required by law to be made has a privilege to refuse to disclose and to prevent any other person from disclosing the return or report, if the law requiring it to be made so provides.

      2.  A public officer or agency to whom a return or report is required by law to be made has a privilege to refuse to disclose the return or report if the law requiring it to be made so provides.

      3.  No privilege exists under this section in actions involving false statements or fraud in the return or report or when the report is contained in health care records furnished in accordance with the provisions of NRS 629.061.

      (Added to NRS by 1971, 782; A 1977, 1314)

      NRS 49.027  Prevention of disclosure of privileged matter by interpreter.  A person who has a privilege against the disclosure of a matter may prevent the disclosure of that matter by an interpreter to whom the matter was disclosed merely to facilitate a privileged communication of the matter.

      (Added to NRS by 1995, 803)