NRS630.346. Requirements for proof; burden of proof.  


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  •   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)