USA Statutes : nevada
Title : Title 04 - WITNESSES AND EVIDENCE
Chapter : CHAPTER 55 - FINDINGS OF PRESUMED DEATH
 A
written finding of presumed death, made by the Secretary of the Army, the
Secretary of the Navy, or other officer or employee of the United States
authorized to make such finding, pursuant to the Federal Missing Persons
Act (56 Stat. 143, 1092, and P.L. 408, ch. 371, second session
Seventy-eighth Congress; 50 U.S.C. App. Supp. 1001-17), as now or
hereinafter amended, or a duly certified copy of such finding, shall be
received in any court, office or other place in this State as evidence of
the death of the person therein found to be dead, and of the date,
circumstances and place of his disappearance as far as the same may be
disclosed by such finding.

      [1:131:1945; 1943 NCL § 9933]
 An
official written report or record, or duly certified copy thereof, that a
person is missing, missing in action, interned in a neutral country, or
beleaguered, besieged, or captured by an enemy, or is dead, or is alive,
made by any officer or employee of the United States authorized to make
same by the Act referred to in NRS 55.010 or by any other law of the United States,
shall be received in any court, office or other place in this State as
evidence that such person is missing, missing in action, interned in a
neutral country, or beleaguered, besieged, or captured by an enemy, or is
dead, or is alive, as the case may be.

      [2:131:1945; 1943 NCL § 9933.01]
 For the purposes of NRS 55.010 and 55.020
any finding, report or record, or duly certified copy thereof, purporting
to have been signed by such an officer or employee of the United States
as is described in those sections, shall prima facie be deemed to have
been signed and issued by such an officer or employee pursuant to law,
and the person signing same shall prima facie be deemed to have acted
within the scope of his authority. If a copy purports to have been
certified by a person authorized by law to certify the same, such
certified copy shall be prima facie evidence of his authority so to
certify.

      [3:131:1945; 1943 NCL § 9933.02]