Nevada Revised Statutes Title 19. Miscellaneous Matters Related to Government and Public Affairs § 239.150. Restoration of liens, mortgages and judgments if records lost or destroyed; procedure; limitations

1. Whenever the record and entry of any judgment, or the record of any mechanic's lien, mortgage or other encumbrance or lien upon property is lost or destroyed by fire or otherwise, and the original documents or instruments or certified copies thereof cannot be found, the judgment creditor or his or her assignee and the person holding or entitled to the mechanic's lien, mortgage or other encumbrance or lien on property may, as to such judgments, begin a proceeding in the court wherein the same was rendered, and as to mortgages, mechanic's liens or other encumbrances or liens, begin a proceeding in any court having jurisdiction over such property, to have established the fact of the existence, prior to the loss or destruction, of the record of the judgment, mortgage, mechanic's lien or other encumbrance or lien, and the substance and effect thereof.

2. The decree in any such case shall be recorded in the records of the same office in which the original judgment, mortgage, mechanic's lien or other encumbrance or lien was recorded or entered.

3. No judgment, mortgage, deed of trust, mechanic's lien or other encumbrance upon property, the record whereof has been lost or destroyed as described in subsection 1: