Title 15

NRS 199.050 Juror, arbitrator or referee promising verdict or decision or receiving communication. Every juror and every person chosen or appointed arbitrator or referee who shall make any promise or agreement to give a verdict, judgment, report, award or decision for or against …

NRS 199.060 Misconduct of officer drawing jury. Every person charged by law with the preparation of any jury list or list of names from which any jury is to be drawn, and every person authorized by law to assist at the drawing of a grand or petit jury to attend a court or to try …

NRS 199.070 Soliciting jury duty. Every person who shall, directly or indirectly, solicit or request any person charged with the duty of preparing any jury list to put his or her name, or the name of any other person, on any such list shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor. [1911…

NRS 199.080 Misconduct of officer in charge of jury. Every person to whose charge a jury shall be committed by a court or magistrate, who shall knowingly, without leave of such court or magistrate, permit them or any one of them to receive any communication from any person, to ma…

NRS 199.090 Testimony of offender. Every person offending against any of the provisions of law relating to bribery or corruption shall be a competent witness against another so offending and shall not be excused from giving testimony tending to criminate himself or herself, but s…

NRS 199.100 Rescuing prisoner. 1. A person who, by force or fraud, rescues from lawful custody, or from an officer or person having him or her in lawful custody, a prisoner held upon a charge, arrest, commitment, conviction or sentence for felony is guilty of a category C felony …

NRS 199.110 Retaking goods from custody of officer. Every person who shall take from the custody of any officer or other person any personal property in his or her charge under any process of law, or who shall willfully injure or destroy such property, shall be guilty of a gross …

NRS 199.120 Definition; penalties. A person, having taken a lawful oath or made affirmation in a judicial proceeding or in any other matter where, by law, an oath or affirmation is required and no other penalty is prescribed, who: 1. Willfully makes an unqualified statement of th…

NRS 199.125 “Oath” and “swear” defined. 1. The term “oath” shall include an affirmation and every other mode authorized by law of attesting the truth of that which is stated. 2. A person who shall state any matter under oath shall be deemed to “swear” thereto. [1911 C&P § 88; RL …

NRS 199.130 False affidavit or complaint to effect arrest or search. 1. A person who makes, executes or signs or causes to be made, executed or signed, any false or fictitious affidavit, complaint, deposition, or other instrument in writing before any officer or person authorized…

NRS 199.140 Use of fictitious name on affidavit or complaint to effect arrest or search. 1. A person who makes, executes or signs, or causes to be made, executed or signed, any affidavit, complaint or other instrument, in writing, before any United States officer or person, or be…

NRS 199.145 Statement made in declaration under penalty of perjury. A person who, in a declaration made under penalty of perjury: 1. Makes a willful and false statement in a matter material to the issue or point in question; or 2. Willfully makes an unqualified statement of that …

NRS 199.150 Attempt to suborn perjury. Every person who, without giving, offering or promising a bribe, shall incite or attempt to procure another to commit perjury, or to offer any false evidence, or to withhold true testimony, though no perjury be committed or false evidence of…

NRS 199.160 Procuring execution of innocent person by perjury or subornation of perjury. A person who, by willful and corrupt perjury or subornation of perjury, procures the conviction and execution of any innocent person is guilty of murder which is a category A felony and, upon…

NRS 199.180 Irregularity in administering oath or incompetency of witness no defense. It shall be no defense to a prosecution for perjury that an oath was administered or taken in an irregular manner or that the defendant was not competent to give the testimony, deposition, certi…

NRS 199.190 Deposition: When deemed to be complete. The making of a deposition, certificate or affidavit shall be deemed to be complete when it is subscribed and sworn to or affirmed by the defendant with intent that it be uttered or published as true. [1911 C&P § 90; RL § 6355; …

NRS 199.200 Statement of what one does not know to be true. Every unqualified statement of that which one does not know to be true is equivalent to a statement of that which the person knows to be false. [1911 C&P § 91; RL § 6356; NCL § 10040] FALSIFYING EVIDENCE

NRS 199.210 Offering false evidence. A person who, upon any trial, hearing, inquiry, investigation or other proceeding authorized by law, offers or procures to be offered in evidence, as genuine, any book, paper, document, record or other instrument in writing, knowing the same t…

NRS 199.220 Destroying evidence. Every person who, with intent to conceal the commission of any felony, or to protect or conceal the identity of any person committing the same, or with intent to delay or hinder the administration of the law or to prevent the production thereof at…

NRS 199.230 Preventing or dissuading person from testifying or producing evidence. A person who, by persuasion, force, threat, intimidation, deception or otherwise, and with the intent to obstruct the course of justice, prevents or attempts to prevent another person from appearin…

NRS 199.240 Bribing or intimidating witness to influence testimony. A person who: 1. Gives, offers or promises directly or indirectly any compensation, gratuity or reward to any witness or person who may be called as a witness in an official proceeding, upon an agreement or under…

NRS 199.242 Limitations on defenses to prosecution for influencing testimony of witness. It is not a defense to a prosecution under NRS 199.230 or 199.240 to show that: 1. An official proceeding was not pending or about to be instituted; or 2. The testimony sought or the record, …

NRS 199.250 Witness accepting bribe. A person who is or may be a witness upon a trial, hearing, investigation or other proceeding before any court, tribunal or person authorized to hear evidence or take testimony, who asks or receives, directly or indirectly, any compensation, gr…

NRS 199.260 Neglect or refusal to receive person into custody. Every officer who, in violation of any legal duty, shall willfully neglect or refuse to receive a person into his or her official custody or into a prison under his or her charge shall, in a case where no other punish…

NRS 199.270 Refusal to make arrest or to aid officer. Every person who, after having been lawfully commanded by any magistrate to arrest another person, shall willfully neglect or refuse so to do, and every person who, after having been lawfully commanded to aid an officer in arr…

NRS 199.280 Resisting public officer. A person who, in any case or under any circumstances not otherwise specially provided for, willfully resists, delays or obstructs a public officer in discharging or attempting to discharge any legal duty of his or her office shall be punished…

NRS 199.290 Compounding crimes. 1. A person who asks or receives, directly or indirectly, any compensation, gratuity or reward, or any promise thereof, upon an agreement or understanding that the person will compound or conceal a crime or violation of a statute, or abstain from t…

NRS 199.300 Intimidating public officer, public employee, juror, referee, arbitrator, appraiser, assessor, judicial personnel of an Indian tribe or similar person. 1. A person shall not, directly or indirectly, address any threat or intimidation to a public officer, public employ…

NRS 199.305 Preventing or dissuading victim, person acting on behalf of victim, or witness from reporting crime, commencing prosecution or causing arrest. 1. A person who, by intimidating or threatening another person, prevents or dissuades a victim of a crime, a person acting on…

NRS 199.310 Malicious prosecution. A person who maliciously and without probable cause therefor, causes or attempts to cause another person to be arrested or proceeded against for any crime of which that person is innocent: 1. If the crime is a felony, is guilty of a category D f…

NRS 199.320 Inducing lawsuit. Every person who shall on his or her behalf bring or instigate, incite or encourage another to bring, any false suit at law or in equity, in any court of this State, with intent thereby to distress or harass a defendant therein, shall be guilty of a …

NRS 199.330 Buying or promising reward by justice or constable. Every justice of the peace or constable who shall, directly or indirectly, buy or be interested in buying anything in action for the purpose of commencing a suit thereon before a justice of the peace, or who shall gi…

NRS 199.335 Failure to appear after admission to bail or release without bail. 1. If a person: (a) Is admitted to bail, whether provided by deposit or surety, or released without bail; (b) Is not recommitted to custody; and (c) Fails to appear at the time and place required by th…

NRS 199.340 Criminal contempt. Every person who shall commit a contempt of court of any one of the following kinds shall be guilty of a misdemeanor: 1. Disorderly, contemptuous or insolent behavior committed during the sitting of the court, in its immediate view and presence, and…

NRS 199.350 Grand juror acting after challenge allowed. Every grand juror who, with knowledge that a challenge interposed against the grand juror by a defendant has been allowed, shall be present at, or take part, or attempt to take part, in the consideration of the charge agains…

NRS 199.360 Fraudulent pretenses relative to birth of infant; false representation of entitlement to interest or share in estate of deceased person. A person who fraudulently or falsely pretends that any infant child was born of a parent whose child is or would be entitled to inh…

NRS 199.370 Substitution of child. A person to whom a child has been confided for nursing, education or any other purpose, who, with the intent to deceive a person, guardian or relative of the child, substitutes or produces to the parent, guardian or relative another child or per…

NRS 199.380 Instituting suit in name of another. Every person who shall institute or prosecute any action or other proceeding in the name of another, without the consent of the other person and contrary to law, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor. [1911 C&P § 107; RL § 6372; N…

NRS 199.410 Combination to resist process. Every person who shall enter into a combination with another to resist the execution of any legal process or other mandate of a court of competent jurisdiction, under circumstances not amounting to a riot, shall be guilty of a gross misd…

NRS 199.430 Impersonation of officer. Every person who shall falsely personate a public officer, civil or military, or a police officer, or a private individual having special authority by law to perform an act affecting the rights or interests of another, or who, without authori…

NRS 199.440 Search warrant maliciously procured. Whoever shall maliciously, and without probable cause, procure a search warrant to be issued and executed shall be deemed guilty of a gross misdemeanor. [1911 C&P § 476; RL § 6741; NCL § 10425]—(NRS A 1967, 467)

NRS 199.450 Peace officer exceeding authority in execution of search warrant. A peace officer who, in executing a search warrant, shall willfully exceed his or her authority, or exercise it with unnecessary severity, shall be deemed guilty of a gross misdemeanor. [1911 C&P § 477;…

NRS 199.460 Extortion of confession; refusing accused communication with attorney or friends. 1. An officer or person having the custody and control of the body or liberty of any person under arrest shall not refuse permission to the arrested person to communicate at reasonable t…

NRS 199.470 Malicious destruction of legal and other notices. Every person who shall willfully and maliciously remove, damage or destroy: 1. A sign or notice erected or posted by any officer under lawful authority, or by the owner or occupant of the premises where posted; or 2. A…

NRS 199.480 Penalties. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, whenever two or more persons conspire to commit murder, robbery, sexual assault, kidnapping in the first or second degree, arson in the first or second degree, involuntary servitude in violation of NRS 200.46…

NRS 199.490 Overt act not necessary. In any such proceeding for violation of NRS 199.480, it shall not be necessary to prove that any overt act was done in pursuance of such unlawful conspiracy or combination. [1911 C&P § 113; RL § 6378; NCL § 10062] SOLICITATION