1. If a natural person refuses to make written answer, testify or produce evidence pursuant to a written investigative demand on the ground he or she may be incriminated thereby, any district court of the State of Nevada, upon the ex parte application of the Attorney General may order, in the name of the State of Nevada, that the natural person be released from all liability to be prosecuted or punished on account of any testimony or other evidence he or she may be required to produce.
2. Except as provided in subsection 3, such order of immunity shall forever be a bar to prosecution against the witness for any offense shown in whole or in part by such testimony or other evidence.
3. Immunity obtained pursuant to this section shall not:
(a) Exempt any person from prosecution for perjury committed in the giving of such testimony; or
(b) Prevent the Attorney General or a civil litigant from instituting civil proceedings against any person who violates the provisions of this chapter.
(Added to NRS by 1975, 948)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 598A - Unfair Trade Practices
NRS 598A.030 - Legislative declaration.
NRS 598A.040 - Applicability of chapter.
NRS 598A.050 - Construction of chapter.
NRS 598A.060 - Prohibited acts.
NRS 598A.070 - Duties of Attorney General and district attorneys.
NRS 598A.080 - Cooperation with Federal Government and other states.
NRS 598A.090 - Jurisdiction of district courts.
NRS 598A.110 - Investigative demands: Confidentiality.
NRS 598A.120 - Investigative demands: Order requiring compliance; penalty for failure to obey.
NRS 598A.130 - Investigative demands: Immunity from criminal prosecution.
NRS 598A.180 - Suit by Attorney General against domestic corporation or association.
NRS 598A.190 - Suit by Attorney General against foreign corporation or association.
NRS 598A.220 - Limitation of actions.
NRS 598A.240 - Judgments and decrees as prima facie evidence.
NRS 598A.250 - Remedies cumulative.
NRS 598A.280 - Criminal penalty.
NRS 598A.300 - "Affiliation" defined.
NRS 598A.310 - "Control" defined.
NRS 598A.320 - "Group practice" defined.
NRS 598A.330 - "Health care service" defined.
NRS 598A.340 - "Health carrier" defined.
NRS 598A.350 - "Health carrier service" defined.
NRS 598A.360 - "Practitioner" defined.
NRS 598A.370 - "Reportable health care or health carrier transaction" defined.
NRS 598A.380 - "Specialty" defined.
NRS 598A.410 - Authority of Attorney General to issue investigative demand.
NRS 598A.420 - Confidentiality of information received by Attorney General.
NRS 598A.430 - Civil penalty for violation; no private right of action.