612.280 - Protection against self-incrimination.

612.280  Protection against self-incrimination.

      1.  No person may be excused from attending and testifying or from producing books, papers, correspondence, memoranda and other records before the Administrator, the Board of Review, an Appeal Tribunal, or any duly authorized representative of any of them, or in obedience to the subpoena of any of them in any cause or proceeding before the Administrator, the Board of Review, or an Appeal Tribunal, on the ground that the testimony or evidence, documentary or otherwise, required of the person may tend to incriminate the person or subject the person to a penalty or forfeiture.

      2.  No person may be prosecuted or subjected to any penalty or forfeiture, for or on account of any transaction, matter or thing concerning which the person is compelled, after having claimed his or her privilege against self-incrimination, to testify or produce evidence, documentary or otherwise, except that any person so testifying is not exempt from prosecution and punishment for perjury committed in so testifying.

      [Part 4:59:1941; A 1945, 119; 1955, 518]—(NRS A 1993, 1814)