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Nevada · Through 2025 session (NRS as revised 2026-08-25) · Newer source version available

NRS 50.195: Penalties for disobedience.

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  1. TITLE 4 — WITNESSES AND EVIDENCE
  2. CHAPTER 50 - WITNESSES
  3. ATTENDANCE OF WITNESSES

1. Refusal to be sworn or to answer as a witness may be punished as a contempt by the court. In a civil action, if the person so refusing is a party, the court may strike any pleading on the person’s behalf, and may enter judgment against that person.

2. A witness disobeying a subpoena in a civil action shall also forfeit to the party aggrieved the sum of $100 and all damages which the party may sustain by the failure of the witness to attend, which forfeiture and damages may be recovered in a civil action.

3. A witness disobeying a subpoena issued on the part of a defendant in a criminal action shall also forfeit to the defendant the sum of $100, which may be recovered in a civil action, unless good cause can be shown for the witness’s nonattendance.

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