ports. Records, reports, statements or data compilations, in any form, of public officials or agencies are not inadmissible under the hearsay rule if they set forth: 1. The activities of the official or agency; 2. Matters observed pursuant to duty imposed by law; or 3. In civil cases and against the State in criminal cases, factual findings resulting from an investigation made pursuant to authority granted by law, unless the sources of information or the method or circumstances of the investigation indicate lack of trustworthiness. (Added to NRS by 1971, 795) NRS 51.165 Required reports. Records or data compilations, in any form, of births, fetal deaths, deaths or marriages are not inadmissible under the hearsay rule if the report thereof was made to a public office pursuant to requirements of law. (Added to NRS by 1971, 795) NRS 51.175 Absence of public record or entry. To prove: 1. The absence of a record, report, statement or data compilation, in any form; or 2. The nonoccurrence or nonexistence of a matter of which a record, report, statement or data compilation, in any form, was regularly made and preserved by a public officer, agency or official, evidence in the form of a certificate of the custodian or other person authorized to make the certification, or testimony, that diligent search failed to disclose the record, report, statement, data compilation or entry is not inadmissible under the hearsay rule. (Added to NRS by 1971, 795) NRS 51.185 Records of religious organizations. Statements of births, marriages, divorces, deaths, legitimacy, ancestry, relationship by blood or marriage, or other similar facts of personal or family history, contained in a regularly kept record of a religious organization, are not inadmissible under the hearsay rule. (Added to NRS by 1971, 796) NRS 51.195 Marriage, baptismal and similar certificates. Statements of fact contained in a certificate that the maker performed a marriage or other ceremony or administered a sacrament, made by a clergyman, public official or other person authorized by the rules or practices of a religious organization or by law to perform the act certified, and purporting to have been issued at the time of the act or within a reasonable time thereafter, are not inadmissible under the hearsay rule. (Added to NRS by 1971, 796) NRS 51.205 Family records. Statements of fact contained in family Bibles, genealogies, charts, engravings on rings, inscriptions on family portraits, engravings on urns, crypts or tombstones, or the like, are not inadmissible under the hearsay rule. (Added to NRS by 1971, 796) NRS 51.215 Records of documents affecting interest in property. The record of a document purporting to establish or affect an interest in property, as proof of the content of the original recorded document and its execution and delivery by each person by whom it purports to have been executed, is not inadmissible under the hearsay rule if the record is a record of a public office and an applicable statute authorized the recording of documents of that kind in that office. (Added to NRS by 1971, 796) NRS 51.225 Statement in document affecting interest in property. A statement contained in a document purporting to establish or affect an interest in property is not inadmissible under the hearsay rule if the matter stated was relevant to the purpose of the document, unless dealings with the property since the document was made have been inconsistent with the truth of the statement or the purport of the document. (Added to NRS by 1971, 796) NRS 51.235 Statements in ancient documents. Statements in a document more than 20 years old whose authenticity is established are not inadmissible under the hearsay rule. (Added to NRS by 1971, 796) NRS 51.245 Market reports; commercial publications. Market quotations, tabulations, lists, directories or other published compilations, generally used and relied upon by the public or by persons in particular occupations, are not inadmissible under the hearsay rule. (Added to NRS by 1971, 796) NRS 51.255 Learned treatises. To the extent called to the attention of an expert witness upon cross-examination or relied upon by him in direct examination, a statement contained in a published treatise, periodical or pamphlet on a subject of history, medicine or other science or art, is not inadmissible under the hearsay rule if such book is established as a reliable authority by the testimony or admission of the witness or by other expert testimony or by judicial notice. (Added to NRS by 1971, 796) NRS 51.265 Reputation concerning personal or family history. Reputation among members of a person’s family by blood or marriage, or among his associates, or in the community, is not inadmissible under the hearsay rule if it concerns his birth, marriage, divorce, death, legitimacy, relationship by blood or marriage, ancestry or other similar fact of his personal or family history. (Added to NRS by 1971, 796) NRS 51.275 Reputation concerning boundaries or general history. Reputation in a community, arising before the controversy, as to: 1. Boundaries of or customs affecting lands in the community; and 2. Events of general history important to the community or to the State or nation in which the community is located, are not inadmissible under the hearsay rule. (Added to NRS by 1971, 797) NRS 51.285 Reputation as to character. Reputation of a person’s character among his associates or in the community is not inadmissible under the hearsay rule. (Added to NRS by 1971, 797) NRS 51.295 Judgment of previous conviction. 1. Evidence of a final judgment, entered after trial or upon a plea of guilty, but not upon a plea of nolo contendere, adjudging a person guilty of a crime punishable by death or imprisonment in excess of 1 year, is not inadmissible under the hearsay rule to prove any fact essential to sustain the judgment. 2. This section does not make admissible, when offered by the State in a criminal prosecution for purposes other than impeachment, a judgment against a person other than the accused. 3. The pendency of an appeal may be shown but does not affect admissibility. (Added to NRS by 1971, 797; A 1995, 2466; 2003, 1480) NRS 51.305 Judgment as to boundaries or personal, family or general history. A judgment is not inadmissible under the hearsay rule as proof of matters of personal, family or general history, or boundaries, essential to the judgment, if the matters would be provable by evidence of reputation. (Added to NRS by 1971, 797) Declarant Unavailable NRS 51.315 General exception; other exceptions illustrative. 1. A statement is not excluded by the hearsay rule if: (a) Its nature and the special circumstances under which it was made offer strong assurances of accuracy; and (b) The declarant is unavailable as a witness. 2. The provisions of NRS 51.325 to 51.355, inclusive, are illustrative and not restrictive of the exception provided by this section. (Added to NRS by 1971, 797) NRS 51.325 Former testimony. Testimony given as a witness at another hearing of the same or a different proceeding, or in a deposition taken in compliance with law in the course of another proceeding, is not inadmissible under the hearsay rule if: 1. The declarant is unavailable as a witness; and 2. If the proceeding was different, the party against whom the former testimony is offered was a party or is in privity with one of the former parties and the issues are substantially the same. (Added to NRS by 1971, 797) NRS 51.335 Statement under belief of impending death. A statement made by a declarant while believing that his death was imminent is not inadmissible under th

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