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2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.173 - Actual deception unnecessary to create liability.

It is sufficient in bringing any action pursuant to NRS 207.170 to 207.177, inclusive, that any statement referred to in NRS 207.171 has a tendency to deceive or mislead the public because of its false or deceptive or misleading character even though no member of the public is actually deceived or misled by such statement.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 211)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.174 - Civil penalties; action by Attorney General or district attorney.

Any person, firm, corporation or association or any other organization which violates any provision of NRS 207.170 to 207.177, inclusive, is liable for a civil penalty not to exceed $2,500 for each violation, which shall be recovered in a civil action brought in the name of the State of Nevada by the Attorney General or by any district attorney in a court of competent jurisdiction. As used in this section, the term, "each violation" includes, as a single violation, a continuous or repetitive violation arising out of the same act.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 211)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.175 - Criminal penalties.

Any person, firm, or any officer or managing agent of any corporation or association who knowingly and willfully violates the provisions of NRS 207.171 shall be punished:
1. For the first or second offense, for a misdemeanor.
2. For the third offense and all subsequent offenses, for a gross misdemeanor.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 211)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.176 - Injunctions.

The Attorney General or any district attorney may bring an action in any court of competent jurisdiction in the name of the State of Nevada on his or her own complaint or on the complaint of any board, officer, person, corporation or association to enjoin any violation or proposed violation of the provisions of NRS 207.170 to 207.177, inclusive.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 211)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.177 - Penalty for violation of injunction or order.

Any person, firm, or any officer or managing agent of any corporation or association who violates any order or injunction issued pursuant to NRS 207.170 to 207.177, inclusive, is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 211)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.180 - Threatening or obscene letters or writings.

1. Any person who knowingly sends or delivers any letter or writing:
(a) Threatening to accuse another of a crime or misdemeanor, or to expose or publish any of the other person’s infirmities or failings, with intent to extort money, goods, chattels or other valuable thing; or
(b) Threatening to maim, wound, kill or murder, or to burn or destroy the house or other property of another person, or to accuse another of a crime or misdemeanor, or expose or publish any of the other person’s infirmities, though no money, goods, chattels or other valuable thing be demanded,
is guilty of a misdemeanor.
2. Any person who:
(a) Writes and sends, or writes and delivers, either through the mail, express, by private parties or otherwise, any anonymous letter, or any letter bearing a fictitious name, charging any person with crime; or
(b) Writes and sends any anonymous letter or letters bearing a fictitious name, containing vulgar or threatening language, obscene pictures, or containing reflections upon his or her standing in society or in the community,
is guilty of a misdemeanor.
[1911 C&P § 173; RL § 6438; NCL § 10120]—(NRS A 1967, 521; 1991, 1010; 1997, 2504)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.185 - Penalty for commission of certain unlawful acts because of actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression of another person or group of persons; burden of proof; comments as evidence.

1. Unless a greater penalty is provided by law, a person who, because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression of another person or group of persons, willfully violates any provision of NRS 200.471, 200.481, 200.5099, 200.571, 200.575, 203.010, 203.020, 203.030, 203.060, 203.080, 203.090, 203.100, 203.110, 203.119, NRS 205.0832 which is punishable as a misdemeanor, NRS 205.240, 205.2715, 205.274, 205.2741, 206.010, 206.040, 206.125, 206.140, 206.200, 206.310, NRS 206.330 which is punishable as a misdemeanor, NRS 207.180, 207.200, 207.210 or 392.915 is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
2. For the purposes of this section, a person willfully violates any provision of law listed in subsection 1 because of the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression of another person or group of persons if the existence of any such protected characteristic is the primary cause in fact for the commission of the crime, regardless of whether one or more other causes for the commission of the crime exist. For an enhanced penalty to be imposed pursuant to this section, the prosecuting attorney must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the person would not have committed the crime but for the existence of such a protected characteristic.
3. If a person willfully violates any provision of law listed in subsection 1, any comment made by the person about the actual or perceived race, color, religion, national origin, physical or mental disability, sexual orientation or gender identity or expression of another person or group of persons that the court determines is incidental must not be the sole basis for imposing an enhanced penalty pursuant to this section, but may be considered in conjunction with other evidence as to the motivation of the person for committing the crime.
(Added to NRS by 1989, 898; A 1993, 511; 1995, 2706; 2013, 64; 2021, 1531)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.190 - Coercion.

1. It is unlawful for a person, with the intent to compel another to do or abstain from doing an act which the other person has a right to do or abstain from doing, to:
(a) Use violence or inflict injury upon the other person or any of the other person’s family, or upon the other person’s property, or threaten such violence or injury;
(b) Deprive the person of any tool, implement or clothing, or hinder the person in the use thereof; or
(c) Attempt to intimidate the person by threats or force.
2. A person who violates the provisions of subsection 1 shall be punished:
(a) Where physical force or the immediate threat of physical force is used, for a category B felony by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 1 year and a maximum term of not more than 6 years, and may be further punished by a fine of not more than $5,000.
(b) Where no physical force or immediate threat of physical force is used, for a misdemeanor.
[1911 C&P § 475; RL § 6740; NCL § 10424]—(NRS A 1967, 522; 1979, 1455; 1995, 1239)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.193 - Coercion: Hearing to determine whether sexually motivated.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, if a person is convicted of coercion or attempted coercion in violation of paragraph (a) of subsection 2 of NRS 207.190, the court shall, at the request of the prosecuting attorney, conduct a separate hearing to determine whether the offense was sexually motivated. A request for such a hearing may not be submitted to the court unless the prosecuting attorney, not less than 72 hours before the commencement of the trial, files and serves upon the defendant a written notice of the intention to request such a hearing.
2. A hearing requested pursuant to subsection 1 must be conducted before:
(a) The court imposes its sentence; or
(b) A separate penalty hearing is conducted.
3. At the hearing, only evidence concerning the question of whether the offense was sexually motivated may be presented. The prosecuting attorney must prove beyond a reasonable doubt that the offense was sexually motivated.
4. A person may stipulate that his or her offense was sexually motivated before a hearing held pursuant to subsection 1 or as part of an agreement to plead nolo contendere, guilty or guilty but mentally ill.
5. The court shall enter in the record:
(a) Its finding from a hearing held pursuant to subsection 1; or
(b) A stipulation made pursuant to subsection 4.
6. For the purposes of this section, an offense is "sexually motivated" if one of the purposes for which the person committed the offense was his or her sexual gratification.
(Added to NRS by 1997, 1681; A 1997, 2510; 2003, 1484; 2007, 1441)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.200 - Unlawful trespass upon land; warning against trespassing.

1. Unless a greater penalty is provided pursuant to NRS 200.603, any person who, under circumstances not amounting to a burglary:
(a) Goes upon the land or into any building of another with intent to vex or annoy the owner or occupant thereof, or to commit any unlawful act; or
(b) Willfully goes or remains upon any land or in any building after having been warned during the previous 24 months by the owner or occupant thereof not to trespass,
is guilty of a misdemeanor. The meaning of this subsection is not limited by subsections 2 and 4.
2. A sufficient warning against trespassing, within the meaning of this section, is given by any of the following methods:
(a) Painting with fluorescent orange paint:
(1) Not less than 50 square inches of a structure or natural object or the top 12 inches of a post, whether made of wood, metal or other material, at:
(I) Intervals of such a distance as is necessary to ensure that at least one such structure, natural object or post would be within the direct line of sight of a person standing next to another such structure, natural object or post, but at intervals of not more than 1,000 feet; and
(II) Each corner of the land, upon or near the boundary; and
(2) Each side of all gates, cattle guards and openings that are designed to allow human ingress to the area;
(b) Fencing the area;
(c) Posting "no trespassing" signs or other notice of like meaning at:
(1) Intervals of such a distance as is necessary to ensure that at least one such sign would be within the direct line of sight of a person standing next to another such sign, but at intervals of not more than 500 feet; and
(2) Each corner of the land, upon or near the boundary;
(d) Using the area as cultivated land; or
(e) By the owner or occupant of the land or building making an oral or written demand to any guest to vacate the land or building.
3. It is prima facie evidence of trespass for any person to be found on private or public property which is posted or fenced as provided in subsection 2 without lawful business with the owner or occupant of the property.
4. An entryman on land under the laws of the United States is an owner within the meaning of this section.
5. As used in this section:
(a) "Cultivated land" means land that has been cleared of its natural vegetation and is presently planted with a crop.
(b) "Fence" means a barrier sufficient to indicate an intent to restrict the area to human ingress, including, but not limited to, a wall, hedge or chain link or wire mesh fence. The term does not include a barrier made of barbed wire.
(c) "Guest" means any person entertained or to whom hospitality is extended, including, but not limited to, any person who stays overnight. The term does not include a tenant as defined in NRS 118A.170.
[1911 C&P § 500; RL § 6765; NCL § 10447]—(NRS A 1969, 96; 1975, 1169; 1987, 2086; 1989, 997; 2005, 930; 2007, 981; 2009, 141; 2019, 2476; 2023, 2007)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.204 - Jumping or removal from fixed structure by parachute or other airborne means or assisting another person in doing so deemed to be trespass; penalty; exceptions.

1. A person shall not:
(a) Jump or otherwise remove himself or herself, by parachute or by other airborne means, from a fixed structure owned by another person or any fixture or appurtenance attached thereto; or
(b) Knowingly and intentionally deliver or retrieve another person who intends to commit, is committing or has committed an act specified in paragraph (a).
2. A person who violates any provision of subsection 1:
(a) Shall be deemed to be a trespasser for the purposes of NRS 41.515.
(b) Is guilty of a category E felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.
3. This section does not apply to:
(a) An emergency involving public safety or damage to property, loss of life or injury to any person; or
(b) An act committed pursuant to the terms and conditions of a lawfully issued permit.
(Added to NRS by 2015, 1528)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.205 - Posting land without permission of owner or occupant.

1. It is unlawful for any person to post such land within the meaning of subsection 2 of NRS 207.200 unless the person has:
(a) Obtained written authorization from the owner or occupant of the land, or any building thereon, to do so unless the person is the owner or occupant.
(b) Placed the name and address of the owner or occupant on each sign.
2. Any person violating any of the provisions of subsection 1 is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 1116)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.210 - Destruction of signs or notices forbidding trespass.

It shall be a misdemeanor for any person maliciously to tear down, mutilate or destroy any sign, signboard or other notice forbidding trespass within an enclosure.
[Part 1911 C&P § 503; RL § 6768; NCL § 10450]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.220 - Penalty for not closing gates.

1. Any person or persons opening and passing through gates or bars when gates or bars are placed in fences enclosing fields, or in fences partly enclosing lands, and not shutting and fastening the same, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.
2. The provisions of this section shall not apply to gates in towns and cities nor gates necessary in the approach to any building or works where the passing through or into fields or lands is not contemplated.
[1911 C&P § 504; RL § 6769; NCL § 10451]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.225 - Unlawful diversion of irrigation water.

Any person who knowingly diverts or causes to be diverted to his or her own or some other person’s use any irrigation water to which another person has a vested right, without such rightful user’s permission, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 883)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.230 - Acting without lawful authority.

Every person who shall, in any case not otherwise specially provided for, do any act for the doing of which a license or other authority is required by law, without having such license or other authority as required by law, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
[1911 C&P § 543; RL § 6808; NCL § 10489]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.245 - Use of system providing telephone number to be used in emergency when no actual or perceived emergency exists; calling nonemergency telephone line to report emergency when no actual or perceived emergency exists; penalties.

1. It is unlawful for any person knowingly or willfully to make or cause to be made:
(a) Any telephonic access to a system; or
(b) A nonemergency telephone call to report an emergency on any nonemergency telephone line maintained by a governmental entity,
if no actual or perceived emergency exists.
2. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, a person who violates any provision of this section is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
3. A person who violates any provision of this section is guilty of a category E felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130 if:
(a) The person intended to initiate an emergency response by law enforcement, firefighting, emergency medical care or public safety personnel when no actual emergency exists; and
(b) The emergency response initiated by the person results in the death or serious bodily injury of another.
4. A person who is convicted of a category E felony pursuant to subsection 3 is liable for any costs incurred by any governmental entity as a result of his or her conduct.
5. If a defendant who is charged with a violation of this section suffers from a mental illness or is intellectually disabled, the court may, if appropriate, take any action authorized by law for the purpose of having the defendant assigned to a program established pursuant to NRS 176A.250.
6. As used in this section:
(a) "Emergency" means a situation in which immediate intervention is necessary to protect the physical safety of a person or others from an immediate threat of physical injury or to protect against an immediate threat of severe property damage, or any other situation which is likely to cause a governmental entity to provide services related to law enforcement, firefighting, emergency medical care or public safety.
(b) "Governmental entity" means an institution, board, commission, bureau, council, department, division, authority or other unit of government of this State, including, without limitation, an agency of this State or of a political subdivision.
(c) "System" means a system established to provide a telephone number to be used in an emergency.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 17; A 2015, 1013)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.260 - Unlawful contact with child or person with mental illness.

1. A person who, without lawful authority, willfully and maliciously engages in a course of conduct with a child who is under 16 years of age and who is at least 5 years younger than the person which would cause a reasonable child of like age to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated or harassed, and which actually causes the child to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated or harassed, commits the crime of unlawful contact with a child.
2. A person who, without lawful authority, willfully and maliciously engages in a course of conduct with a person with mental illness which would cause a person with mental illness of like mental condition to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated or harassed, and which actually causes the person with mental illness to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated or harassed, commits the crime of unlawful contact with a person with mental illness.
3. The penalties provided in this section do not preclude the victim from seeking any other legal remedy available.
4. Unless a greater penalty is provided by specific statute, a person who commits the crime of unlawful contact with a child or unlawful contact with a person with mental illness is guilty of:
(a) For the first offense, a gross misdemeanor.
(b) For the second and each subsequent offense, a category B felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 1 year and a maximum term of not more than 6 years, and may be further punished by a fine of not more than $5,000.
5. As used in this section:
(a) "Course of conduct" means a pattern of conduct which consists of a series of acts over time that evidences a continuity of purpose directed at a specific person.
(b) "Person with mental illness" means a person who has any mental dysfunction leading to impaired ability to maintain himself or herself and to function effectively in his or her life situation without external support.
(c) "Without lawful authority" includes acts that are initiated or continued without the victim’s consent. The term does not include acts that are otherwise protected or authorized by constitutional or statutory law, regulation or order of a court of competent jurisdiction, including, but not limited to:
(1) Picketing which occurs during a strike, work stoppage or any other labor dispute.
(2) The activities of a reporter, photographer, camera operator or other person while gathering information for communication to the public if that person is employed or engaged by or has contracted with a newspaper, periodical, press association or radio or television station and is acting solely within that professional capacity.
(3) The activities of a person that are carried out in the normal course of his or her lawful employment.
(4) Any activities carried out in the exercise of the constitutionally protected rights of freedom of speech and assembly.
(Added to NRS by 1963, 41; A 1967, 523; 1975, 79; 1979, 1456; 1995, 1240; 2001, 2789; 2003, 1377)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.270 - Loitering about school or public place where children congregate.

Any person who, without legitimate reason to supervise any of such children or other legitimate reason to be at leisure in such place, loiters about any school or public place at or near which children attend or normally congregate is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Added to NRS by 1963, 41; A 1967, 523)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.280 - False reporting of crimes unlawful.

Every person who deliberately reports to any police officer, sheriff, district attorney, deputy sheriff, deputy district attorney or member of the Department of Public Safety that a felony or misdemeanor has been committed, which causes a law enforcement agency to conduct a criminal or internal investigation, knowing such report to be false, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 409; A 1967, 523; 2005, 939)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.285 - Making false or misleading statement to cause activation of Statewide Alert System for the Safe Return of Abducted Children or Statewide Alert System for the Safe Return of Missing Endangered Older Persons.

1. A person who intentionally makes any false or misleading statement, including, without limitation, any statement that conceals facts, omits facts or contains false or misleading information concerning any material fact, to any police officer, sheriff, district attorney, deputy sheriff, deputy district attorney or member of the Department of Public Safety to cause the Statewide Alert System for the Safe Return of Abducted Children created by NRS 432.340 or the Statewide Alert System for the Safe Return of Missing Endangered Older Persons created by NRS 427A.867 to be activated is guilty of a category E felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.
2. The Attorney General or the district attorney of the county in which a person made a false or misleading statement may investigate and prosecute any violation of the provisions of this section.
(Added to NRS by 2007, 428; A 2011, 831)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.290 - Giving or accepting bribe to influence outcome of sporting event.

A person who:
1. Gives, offers or promises to give, or attempts to give or offer, any compensation, gratuity or thing of value, or any promise thereof, to any participant or player or any judge, referee, manager or other official of a sporting event or contest; or
2. Asks or receives or offers to receive directly or indirectly any compensation, gratuity, reward or thing of value or any promise thereof, as a participant or player, or as a judge, referee, manager or other official of a sporting event or contest,
with the intention, understanding or agreement that the player or participant or judge, referee, manager or other official of the sporting event will not use best efforts to win, or will so conduct himself or herself as to limit his or her or his or her team’s margin of victory, or will corruptly judge, referee, manage or otherwise officiate the sporting event or contest with the intention or purpose that the result of the sporting event will be affected thereby, is guilty of a category C felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 553; A 1967, 523; 1995, 1240)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.295 - Commercial bribery.

Any person who, with corrupt intent:
1. Offers, confers or agrees to confer any benefit upon any employee, agent or fiduciary without the consent of the employer or principal of that employee, agent or fiduciary in order to influence adversely that person’s conduct in relation to the commercial affairs of his or her employer or principal; or
2. While an employee, agent or fiduciary, solicits, accepts or agrees to accept any benefit from another person upon an agreement or understanding that the benefit will influence adversely his or her conduct in relation to the commercial affairs of his or her employer or principal,
commits commercial bribery and is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Added to NRS by 1979, 345)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.297 - Discrimination: Definitions.

As used in NRS 207.300 and 207.310:
1. "Disability" means, with respect to a person:
(a) A physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of the person;
(b) A record of such an impairment; or
(c) Being regarded as having such an impairment.
2. "Familial status" means the fact that a person:
(a) Lives with a child under the age of 18 and has:
(1) Lawful custody of the child; or
(2) Written permission to live with the child from the person who has lawful custody of the child;
(b) Is pregnant; or
(c) Has begun a proceeding to adopt or otherwise obtain lawful custody of a child.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 1981; A 1995, 1988; 2011, 870; 2013, 65)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.300 - Discrimination: Transactions involving real property.

It is unlawful for any person to refuse to rent, lease, sell or otherwise convey any real property solely because of race, religious creed, color, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, ancestry, familial status or sex.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 732; A 1973, 195; 1985, 335; 1991, 1981; 2011, 870)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.310 - Discrimination: Loans for dwellings.

1. As used in this section:
(a) "Customer" means a person who applies for a loan or other financial assistance to purchase, construct, improve or repair a dwelling. The term includes a person who does not intend to enter into a transaction for a loan or other financial assistance, but applies for the loan or financial assistance as if the person intended to enter into the transaction.
(b) "Lender" means a bank, savings and loan association, savings bank, insurance company or other person whose business consists in whole or in part of making commercial real estate loans.
2. It is unlawful for any lender to deny a loan, or other financial assistance rendered by the lender, to any customer or to discriminate against any customer in fixing the amount, conditions, duration, rate of interest or other terms of a loan or other financial assistance or to refuse to purchase a loan from another lender because of the race, color, religious creed, national origin, disability, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, ancestry, familial status or sex of:
(a) The customer;
(b) Any person associated with the customer in connection with the loan or other financial assistance or with the purpose of the loan or other financial assistance; or
(c) The present or prospective owners, lessees, tenants or occupants of the dwelling in relation to which the loan or other financial assistance is to be made or given.
3. A person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of:
(a) A misdemeanor for the first and second offenses.
(b) A gross misdemeanor for the third and subsequent offenses.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 732; A 1975, 829; 1989, 10; 1991, 1981; 1995, 1988; 1997, 52; 2011, 870)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.320 - Preparation or sale of academic writings.

Any person who prepares for sale or sells any term paper, thesis, dissertation or similar writing intending such writing to be submitted to an academic institution as the work of any person not the author in fulfillment of a requirement for completion of a course of study, award of a degree or other academic credit is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 1161)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.325 - Unsolicited transmission of advertisement to facsimile machine.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a person shall not make or cause to be made an unsolicited electronic or telephonic transmission to a facsimile machine to solicit a person to purchase real property, goods or services.
2. The provisions of subsection 1 do not apply to an unsolicited electronic or telephonic transmission sent to a person who has a preexisting business relationship with the person who makes or causes the transmission to be made.
3. Any person who violates the provisions of subsection 1 is guilty of a misdemeanor.
4. As used in this section, "facsimile machine" means a device which receives and copies a reproduction or facsimile of a document or photograph which is transmitted electronically or telephonically by telecommunications lines.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 126)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.330 - Sale of identifying card or document.

It is unlawful for any person to sell to another any card or other document purporting to establish the identity of the holder unless the purchaser appears personally before the seller and declares his or her identity in writing under the penalty of perjury. This section does not apply to any governmental agency.
(Added to NRS by 1975, 1461)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.335 - Counterfeiting or forging registry identification card or letter of approval issued for engaging in acts relating to medical use of cannabis; possessing counterfeit or forged registry identification card or letter of approval; penalty.

1. It is unlawful for any person to:
(a) Counterfeit or forge or attempt to counterfeit or forge a registry identification card or letter of approval; or
(b) Have in his or her possession with the intent to use any counterfeit or forged registry identification card or letter of approval.
2. Any person who violates the provisions of subsection 1 is guilty of a category E felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.
3. As used in this section:
(a) "Letter of approval" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 678C.070.
(b) "Registry identification card" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 678C.080.
(Added to NRS by 2013, 3697; A 2015, 3085; 2019, 3847)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.337 - Simulation of summons, complaint, judgment, order or other legal process; rebuttable presumption; penalty.

1. Any person who causes to be prepared or delivered to another person any document that simulates a summons, complaint, judgment, order or other legal process with the intent to:
(a) Induce payment of a claim from another person; or
(b) Induce another person to:
(1) Submit to the putative authority of the document; or
(2) Take any action or refrain from taking any action:
(I) In response to or on the basis of the document; or
(II) To comply with the document,
is guilty of a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.
2. There is a rebuttable presumption that a person intended to violate the provisions of this section if the person files with or presents or delivers to any court in this State any document that simulates a summons, complaint, judgment, order or other legal process.
3. It is not a defense to a prosecution under this section that a document that simulates a summons, complaint, judgment, order or other legal process states that the document is not legal process or purports to have been issued or authorized by a person or entity who does not have the lawful authority to issue or authorize the document.
4. As used in this section, "action" includes, without limitation:
(a) Making a court appearance;
(b) Obtaining legal counsel;
(c) Acting upon a perceived conflict created by a document that simulates a summons, complaint, judgment, order or other legal process; or
(d) Recusal.
(Added to NRS by 2019, 1798)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.340 - Acts concerning federal food stamps; prosecution by district attorney or Attorney General.

1. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires:
(a) "Access device" means any card, plate, account number or other means of access that can be used, alone or in conjunction with another access device, to obtain payments, allotments, benefits, money, goods or other things of value, or that can be used to initiate a transfer of funds pursuant to the Act.
(b) "Act" means the Food Stamp Act of 1977, as amended (7 U.S.C. §§ 2011 et seq.) and regulations adopted thereunder.
(c) "Authorization to purchase" means a document issued by the United States Department of Agriculture or by a state agency which permits the holder to purchase coupons or otherwise receive benefits under the Act.
(d) "Coupon" means a food stamp, coupon, certificate or access device issued by the United States Department of Agriculture as provided in the Act.
2. A person who knowingly uses, transfers, sells, purchases, acquires, alters or possesses coupons and who is not authorized by the Act to do so, or who knowingly presents or causes to be presented coupons which are received, transferred or used in a manner not authorized by the Act, shall be punished:
(a) If the value of the coupons is less than $650, for a misdemeanor, and be sentenced to restore the amount of the value so obtained.
(b) If the value of the coupons is $650 or more, for a category E felony as provided in NRS 193.130. In addition to any other penalty, the court shall order the person to pay restitution.
3. A district attorney or the Attorney General may commence proceedings to enforce the provisions of this section in any court of competent jurisdiction.
4. If a person is convicted of violating any of the provisions of this section, the prosecuting attorney shall report the sentence imposed by the court for that person to the Division of Welfare and Supportive Services of the Department of Health and Human Services within 60 days after the imposition of the sentence.
5. The value of all coupons misappropriated in separate acts of fraud involving coupons must be combined for the purposes of imposing punishment for the offense charged if:
(a) The separate acts were committed within 6 months before the offense;
(b) None of the individual acts is punishable as a felony; and
(c) The cumulative value of all the coupons misappropriated is sufficient to make the offense punishable as a felony.
6. At the time of sentencing, a court may accept as a partial mitigation of the offense satisfactory evidence that a person convicted of violating any of the provisions of this section sold or transferred the coupons for cash to buy necessities which may not be lawfully obtained with coupons.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 608; A 1981, 1028; 1989, 1440; 1995, 1241, 2692; 2011, 172)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.345 - Impersonation of officer or employee of utility.

1. A person shall not:
(a) Impersonate an officer or employee of a utility or, without authority, assume any characteristic, such as a uniform or insigne, or any identification by which an officer or employee of a utility is distinguished, known or identified; and
(b) Use the impersonation or the assumed characteristic or identity to commit or attempt to commit any unlawful act or any act in which the person purports to represent the utility or an officer or employee of the utility.
2. A person who violates any provision of this section is guilty of:
(a) A gross misdemeanor; or
(b) A category C felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130 if the person acted with the intent to:
(1) Commit, cause, aid, further or conceal, or attempt to commit, cause, aid, further or conceal, any unlawful act involving terrorism or sabotage; or
(2) Assist, solicit or conspire with another person to commit, cause, aid, further or conceal any unlawful act involving terrorism or sabotage.
(Added to NRS by 1987, 405; A 2003, 2463)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.350 - Definitions.

As used in NRS 207.350 to 207.520, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 207.360 to 207.390, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
(Added to NRS by 1983, 1495)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.360 - "Crime related to racketeering" defined.

"Crime related to racketeering" means the commission of, attempt to commit or conspiracy to commit any of the following crimes:
1. Murder;
2. Manslaughter, except vehicular manslaughter as described in NRS 484B.657;
3. Mayhem;
4. Battery which is punished as a felony;
5. Kidnapping;
6. Sexual assault;
7. Arson;
8. Robbery;
9. Taking property from another under circumstances not amounting to robbery;
10. Extortion;
11. Statutory sexual seduction;
12. Extortionate collection of debt in violation of NRS 205.322;
13. Forgery, including, without limitation, forgery of a credit card or debit card in violation of NRS 205.740;
14. Obtaining and using personal identifying information of another person in violation of NRS 205.463;
15. Establishing or possessing a financial forgery laboratory in violation of NRS 205.46513;
16. Any violation of NRS 199.280 which is punished as a felony;
17. Burglary;
18. Grand larceny;
19. Bribery or asking for or receiving a bribe in violation of chapter 197 or 199 of NRS which is punished as a felony;
20. Battery with intent to commit a crime in violation of NRS 200.400;
21. Assault with a deadly weapon;
22. Any violation of NRS 453.232, 453.316 to 453.339, inclusive, or NRS 453.375 to 453.401, inclusive;
23. Receiving or transferring a stolen vehicle;
24. Any violation of NRS 202.260, 202.275 or 202.350 which is punished as a felony;
25. Any violation of subsection 2 or 3 of NRS 463.360 or chapter 465 of NRS;
26. Receiving, possessing or withholding stolen goods valued at $650 or more;
27. Embezzlement of money or property valued at $650 or more;
28. Obtaining possession of money or property valued at $650 or more, or obtaining a signature by means of false pretenses;
29. Perjury or subornation of perjury;
30. Offering false evidence;
31. Any violation of NRS 201.300, 201.320, 201.360 or 201.395;
32. Any violation of NRS 90.570, 91.230 or 686A.290, or insurance fraud pursuant to NRS 686A.291;
33. Any violation of NRS 205.506, 205.920 or 205.930;
34. Any violation of NRS 202.445 or 202.446;
35. Any violation of NRS 205.377;
36. Involuntary servitude in violation of any provision of NRS 200.463 or 200.464 or a violation of any provision of NRS 200.465; or
37. Trafficking in persons in violation of any provision of NRS 200.467 or 200.468.
(Added to NRS by 1983, 1495; A 1989, 18, 160; 1991, 124, 161; 1997, 493; 1999, 2642; 2001, 1100; 2003, 2951; 2005, 79; 2009, 144; 2011, 173; 2013, 2434, 3697; 2017, 511; 2019, 2632, 4443; 2023, 2900)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.380 - "Enterprise" defined.

"Enterprise" includes:
1. Any natural person, sole proprietorship, partnership, corporation, business trust or other legal entity; and
2. Any union, association or other group of persons associated in fact although not a legal entity.
The term includes illicit as well as licit enterprises and governmental as well as other entities.
(Added to NRS by 1983, 1496)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.390 - "Racketeering activity" defined.

"Racketeering activity" means engaging in at least two crimes related to racketeering that have the same or similar pattern, intents, results, accomplices, victims or methods of commission, or are otherwise interrelated by distinguishing characteristics and are not isolated incidents, if at least one of the incidents occurred after July 1, 1983, and the last of the incidents occurred within 5 years after a prior commission of a crime related to racketeering.
(Added to NRS by 1983, 1496)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.400 - Unlawful acts; penalties.

1. It is unlawful for a person:
(a) Who has with criminal intent received any proceeds derived, directly or indirectly, from racketeering activity to use or invest, whether directly or indirectly, any part of the proceeds, or the proceeds derived from the investment or use thereof, in the acquisition of:
(1) Any title to or any right, interest or equity in real property; or
(2) Any interest in or the establishment or operation of any enterprise.
(b) Through racketeering activity to acquire or maintain, directly or indirectly, any interest in or control of any enterprise.
(c) Who is employed by or associated with any enterprise to conduct or participate, directly or indirectly, in:
(1) The affairs of the enterprise through racketeering activity; or
(2) Racketeering activity through the affairs of the enterprise.
(d) Intentionally to organize, manage, direct, supervise or finance a criminal syndicate.
(e) Knowingly to incite or induce others to engage in violence or intimidation to promote or further the criminal objectives of the criminal syndicate.
(f) To furnish advice, assistance or direction in the conduct, financing or management of the affairs of the criminal syndicate with the intent to promote or further the criminal objectives of the syndicate.
(g) Intentionally to promote or further the criminal objectives of a criminal syndicate by inducing the commission of an act or the omission of an act by a public officer or employee which violates his or her official duty.
(h) To transport property, to attempt to transport property or to provide property to another person knowing that the other person intends to use the property to further racketeering activity.
(i) Who knows that property represents proceeds of, or is directly or indirectly derived from, any unlawful activity to conduct or attempt to conduct any transaction involving the property:
(1) With the intent to further racketeering activity; or
(2) With the knowledge that the transaction conceals the location, source, ownership or control of the property.
(j) To conspire to violate any of the provisions of this section.
2. A person who violates this section is guilty of a category B felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 5 years and a maximum term of not more than 20 years, and may be further punished by a fine of not more than $25,000.
3. As used in this section, "unlawful activity" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 207.195.
(Added to NRS by 1983, 1496; A 1995, 1241; 2009, 145)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.410 - Alternate fine for unlawful acts.

In lieu of the fine which may be imposed for a violation of NRS 207.400, the convicted person may be sentenced to pay a fine which does not exceed three times:
1. Any gross pecuniary value the convicted person gained; or
2. Any gross loss the convicted person caused, including property damage and personal injury but excluding any pain and suffering,
whichever is greater, as a result of the violation. The convicted person may also be sentenced to pay court costs and the reasonable costs of the investigation and prosecution. If property is ordered forfeited pursuant to NRS 207.450, the value of that property must be subtracted from a fine imposed pursuant to this section.
(Added to NRS by 1983, 1497)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.415 - Account for Prosecution of Racketeering created; use and distribution of money by Attorney General; reimbursement of Account.

1. The Account for the Prosecution of Racketeering is hereby created within the Attorney General’s Special Fund created pursuant to NRS 228.096. Any amount of the balance in the Account in excess of $50,000 must be deposited in the State General Fund.
2. The Attorney General shall use the money in the Account to pay the expenses involved in the investigation of racketeering activity and any civil action or criminal prosecution related thereto. The Attorney General may distribute money in the Account to other law enforcement agencies in this State for similar use. To the extent possible, each agency receiving money from the Account shall reimburse the Account with money it obtains as a result of a forfeiture or settlement which arises from any civil action or criminal prosecution related to racketeering activity. Each such agency shall also deposit in the Account an amount equal to 10 percent of the actual value of any other proceeds or property obtained in the forfeiture or settlement.
(Added to NRS by 1985, 973; A 1989, 1469)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes › NRS 207.420 - Criminal forfeiture: Property subject to forfeiture; substitution for unreachable property.

1. If the indictment or information filed regarding a violation of NRS 207.400 alleges that real or personal property was derived from, realized through, or used or intended for use in the course of the unlawful act and the extent of that property:
(a) The jury; or
(b) If the trial is without a jury, the court,
shall, upon a conviction, determine at a separate hearing the extent of the property to be forfeited. If the indictment or information does not include such an allegation, the property is not subject to criminal forfeiture.
2. The property subject to criminal forfeiture pursuant to subsection 1 includes:
(a) Any title or interest acquired or maintained by the unlawful conduct;
(b) Any proceeds derived from the unlawful conduct;
(c) Any property or contractual right which affords a source of influence over any enterprise established, operated, controlled, participated in or conducted in violation of NRS 207.400;
(d) Any position, office, appointment, tenure or contract of employment:
(1) Which was acquired or maintained in violation of NRS 207.400;
(2) Through which the convicted person conducted or participated in the conduct of such unlawful affairs of an enterprise; or
(3) Which afforded the convicted person a source of influence or control over the affairs of an enterprise which the convicted person exercised in violation of NRS 207.400;
(e) Any compensation, right or benefit derived from a position, office, appointment, tenure or contract of employment that accrued to the convicted person during the period of unlawful conduct; and
(f) Any amount payable or paid under any contract for goods or services which was awarded or performed in violation of NRS 207.400.
3. If property which is ordered to be criminally forfeited pursuant to subsection 1:
(a) Cannot be located;
(b) Has been sold to a purchaser in good faith for value;
(c) Has been placed beyond the jurisdiction of the court;
(d) Has been substantially diminished in value by the conduct of the defendant;
(e) Has been commingled with other property which cannot be divided without difficulty or undue injury to innocent persons; or
(f) Is otherwise unreachable without undue injury to innocent persons,
the court shall order the forfeiture of other property of the defendant up to the value of the property that is unreachable.
(Added to NRS by 1983, 1497)