Nevada Code § 179.465

Disclosure or use of intercepted communications
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1. Any investigative or law enforcement
officer who, by any means authorized by NRS
179.410 to 179.515 , inclusive, or 704.195 or 18 U.S.C. 2510 to 2522,
inclusive, has obtained knowledge of the contents of any wire, electronic or
oral communication, or evidence derived therefrom, may disclose the contents to
another investigative or law enforcement officer or use the contents to the
extent that the disclosure or use is appropriate to the proper performance of
the official duties of the officer making or receiving the disclosure.
2. Any person who has received, by any
means authorized by NRS 179.410 to 179.515 , inclusive, or 704.195 or 18 U.S.C. 2510 to 2522,
inclusive, or by a statute of another state, any information concerning a wire,
electronic or oral communication, or evidence derived therefrom intercepted in
accordance with the provisions of NRS
179.410 to 179.515 , inclusive, may
disclose the contents of that communication or the derivative evidence while
giving testimony under oath or affirmation in any criminal proceeding in any
court or before any grand jury in this state, or in any court of the United
States or of any state, or in any federal or state grand jury proceeding.
3. An otherwise privileged wire,
electronic or oral communication intercepted in accordance with, or in
violation of, the provisions of NRS 179.410 to 179.515 , inclusive, or 18 U.S.C. 
2510 to 2522, inclusive, does not lose its privileged character.
4. When an investigative or law
enforcement officer engaged in intercepting wire, electronic or oral
communications as authorized by NRS 179.410 to 179.515 , inclusive, intercepts wire,
electronic or oral communications relating to offenses other than those
specified in the order provided for in NRS
179.460 , the contents of the communications and the evidence derived therefrom
may be disclosed or used as provided in subsection 1. The direct evidence
derived from the communications is inadmissible in a criminal proceeding, but
any other evidence obtained as a result of knowledge obtained from the
communications may be disclosed or used as provided in subsection 2 when
authorized or approved by a justice of the Supreme Court or district judge who
finds upon application made as soon as practicable that the contents of the
communications were intercepted in accordance with the provisions of NRS 179.410 to 179.515 , inclusive, or 18 U.S.C. 2510 to
2522, inclusive.

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