Statutes > Nevada Statutes > TITLE 17 - STATE LEGISLATIVE DEPARTMENT > Chapter 218E - Legislative Investigations and Hearings; Legislative Commission and Other Committees > GENERAL PROVISIONS > Rules; Witnesses; Privileges; Unlawful Acts > 218E.085 - Privilege regarding defamatory matter; unlawful for person to misrepresent facts when testifying or communicating to Legislator.

218E.085 - Privilege regarding defamatory matter; unlawful for person to misrepresent facts when testifying or communicating to Legislator.

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)