Title 15

NRS 197.050 Rebate or division of salary unlawful. 1. It is unlawful for any state, county or municipal officer to offer or agree to appoint, or for any person whatever to offer to procure, or to offer to aid in procuring, the appointment of any deputy officer or attache of the s…

NRS 197.060 Unlawful to agree to divide salary. 1. It is unlawful for any deputy officer or attache of the state, county or municipal government of this state to rebate, refund, pay or divide, to or with his or her principal or to or with any person whatever, any part or portion …

NRS 197.070 Payment of bona fide debt by deputy or attache. Nothing in NRS 197.050 and 197.060 shall be construed to relieve any deputy officer or attache from the payment of a bona fide debt, contracted for value received, for which a civil action would lie in a court of law, or…

NRS 197.080 Offering reward for appointment. Every person who shall give, offer or promise, directly or indirectly, any compensation, gratuity or reward, in consideration that the person or another person shall be appointed to a public office or to a clerkship, deputation or othe…

NRS 197.090 Interfering with public officer. Except under circumstances where a greater penalty is provided in NRS 200.481, any person who, by means of any threat, force or violence, attempts to deter or prevent any executive or administrative officer from performing any duty imp…

NRS 197.100 Influencing public officer. 1. Every person who shall ask or receive any compensation, gratuity or reward, or any promise thereof: (a) Upon the representation that the person can, directly or indirectly, or in consideration that the person shall, or shall attempt to, …

NRS 197.110 Misconduct of public officer. Every public officer who: 1. Asks or receives, directly or indirectly, any compensation, gratuity or reward, or promise thereof, for omitting or deferring the performance of any official duty or for any official service which has not been…

NRS 197.120 False impersonation of public officer; intrusion into and refusal to surrender public office. Every person who shall falsely personate or represent any public officer, or who shall willfully intrude into a public office to which the person has not been duly elected or…

NRS 197.130 False report by public officer. Every public officer who shall knowingly make any false or misleading statement in any official report or statement, under circumstances not otherwise prohibited by law, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor. [1911 C&P § 84; RL § 6349;…

NRS 197.140 Public officer making false certificate. Every public officer who, being authorized by law to make or give a certificate or other writing, shall knowingly make and deliver as true such a certificate or writing containing any statement which the public officer knows to…

NRS 197.150 Falsely auditing or paying claim. A public officer, or person holding or discharging the duties of any public office or place of trust under the State or in any county, town or city, a part of whose duty it is to audit, allow or pay, or take part in auditing, allowing…

NRS 197.160 Fraudulently presenting claim to public officer. Every person who, with the intent to defraud, shall knowingly present for audit, allowance or payment to any officer or board of the State or of any county, city, town, school or other district authorized to audit, allo…

NRS 197.170 Extortion by public officer or employee. A public officer or employee who: 1. Asks, receives or agrees to receive a fee or other compensation for official service or employment either: (a) In excess of the fee or compensation allowed by statute therefor; or (b) Where …

NRS 197.180 Wrongful exercise of official power. Any person who willfully takes upon himself or herself to exercise or officiate in any office or place of another, without being lawfully authorized thereto, is guilty of a gross misdemeanor. [1911 C&P § 539; RL § 6804; NCL § 10485…

NRS 197.190 Obstructing public officer. Every person who, after due notice, shall refuse or neglect to make or furnish any statement, report or information lawfully required of the person by any public officer, or who, in such statement, report or information shall make any willf…

NRS 197.200 Oppression under color of office. 1. An officer, or a person pretending to be an officer, who unlawfully and maliciously, under pretense or color of official authority: (a) Arrests or detains a person against the person’s will; (b) Seizes or levies upon another’s prop…

NRS 197.210 Fraudulent appropriation of property. An officer who fraudulently appropriates to his or her own use or to the use of another person, or secretes with the intent to appropriate to such a use, any money, evidence of debt or other property entrusted to the officer by vi…

NRS 197.220 Other violations by officers. Every public officer or other person who shall willfully disobey any provision of law regulating his or her official conduct in cases for which no other punishment is provided shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. [1911 C&P § 563; RL § 6828; …

NRS 197.230 Conviction of public officer forfeits trust. The conviction of a public officer of any felony or malfeasance in office shall entail, in addition to such other penalty as may be imposed, the forfeiture of his or her office, and shall disqualify the public officer from …