NRS 630.346: Board, panel or hearing officer not bound by formal rules of evidence; 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, except that evidence must be taken and considered in the hearing pursuant to NRS 233B.123, 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, genetic counseling, perfusion or respiratory care is conclusive evidence of its occurrence.