Nevada Revised Statutes 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.
Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 612.280
- Appeal: A request made after a trial, asking another court (usually the court of appeals) to decide whether the trial was conducted properly. To make such a request is "to appeal" or "to take an appeal." One who appeals is called the appellant.
- Evidence: Information presented in testimony or in documents that is used to persuade the fact finder (judge or jury) to decide the case for one side or the other.
- person: means a natural person, any form of business or social organization and any other nongovernmental legal entity including, but not limited to, a corporation, partnership, association, trust or unincorporated organization. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.039
- Subpoena: A command to a witness to appear and give testimony.
- Testify: Answer questions in court.
- Testimony: Evidence presented orally by witnesses during trials or before grand juries.
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.