Nevada Revised Statutes (Last Updated: December 24, 2014) |
TITLE54 PROFESSIONS, OCCUPATIONS AND BUSINESSES |
CHAPTER630. Physicians, Physician Assistants, Medical Assistants, Perfusionists and Practitioners of Respiratory Care |
REGULATION AND DISCIPLINE |
Disciplinary Proceedings |
NRS630.346. Requirements for proof; burden of proof.
- In any disciplinary hearing:
1. The Board, a panel of the members of the Board and a hearing officer are not bound by formal rules of evidence and a witness must not be barred from testifying solely because the witness was or is incompetent.
2. A finding of the Board must be supported by a preponderance of the evidence.
3. Proof of actual injury need not be established.
4. A certified copy of the record of a court or a licensing agency showing a conviction or plea of nolo contendere or the suspension, revocation, limitation, modification, denial or surrender of a license to practice medicine, perfusion or respiratory care is conclusive evidence of its occurrence.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 826; A 1985, 2243; 2001, 770; 2009, 2970; 2011, 2864)