Involuntary servitude; penalties.

NRS 200.463 Involuntary servitude; penalties. 1. A person who knowingly subjects, or attempts to subject, another person to forced labor or services by: (a) Causing or threatening to cause physical harm to any person; (b) Physically restraining or threatening to physically restrain any person; (c) Abusing or threatening to abuse the law or legal process; (d) Knowingly destroying, concealing, removing, confiscating or possessing any actual or purported passport or other immigration document, or any other actual or purported government identification document, of the person; (e) Extortion; (f) Causing or threatening to cause financial harm to any person; (g) Debt bondage; (h) Peonage; or (i) Using a scheme, plan or pattern intended to cause the person to believe that the failure to perform an act would result in serious harm or physical restraint against any person, Ê is guilty of holding a person in involuntary servitude. 2. Unless a greater penalty is provided in NRS 200.4631, a person who is found guilty of holding a person in involuntary servitude is guilty of a category B felony and shall be punished: (a) Where the victim suffers substantial bodily harm while held in involuntary servitude or in attempted escape or escape therefrom, by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 7 years and a maximum term of not more than 20 years, and may be further punished by a fine of not more than $50,000. (b) Where the victim suffers no substantial bodily harm as a result of being held in involuntary servitude, 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 $50,000. 3. As used in this section: (a) “Debt bondage” has the meaning ascribed to it in 22 U.S.C. § 7102. (b) “Peonage” means a status or condition of compulsory service based upon real or alleged indebtedness. (Added to NRS by 2005, 87; A 2013, 1853; 2023, 208)