Title 15

NRS 205.025 Fourth degree. 1. A person who willfully and maliciously attempts to set fire to or attempts to burn or to aid, counsel or procure the burning of any of the buildings or property mentioned in NRS 205.010, 205.015 and 205.020, or who commits any act preliminary thereto…

NRS 205.030 Burning or aiding and abetting burning of property with intent to defraud insurer; penalty. A person who willfully and with the intent to injure or defraud the insurer sets fire to or burns or attempts to set fire to or burn, or who causes to be burned or who aids, co…

NRS 205.034 Additional penalties. The court may, in addition to imposing the penalties set forth in NRS 205.010, 205.015, 205.020, 205.025 or 205.030, order the person to pay: 1. Court costs; 2. The costs of providing police and fire services related to the crime; or 3. The costs…

NRS 205.045 Contiguous fires. Whenever any building or structure which may be the subject of arson in either the first or second degree shall be so situated as to be manifestly endangered by any fire and shall subsequently be set on fire thereby, any person participating in setti…

NRS 205.050 Ownership of building. To constitute arson it shall not be necessary that another person than the defendant should have had ownership in the building or structure set on fire. [1911 C&P § 365; RL § 6630; NCL § 10315]

NRS 205.055 Preparation is attempt to commit arson. Any willful preparation made by any person with a view to setting fire to any building or structure shall be deemed to be an attempt to commit the crime of arson, and shall be punished as such. [1911 C&P § 366; RL § 6631; NCL § …

NRS 205.060 Residential burglary, burglary of a business, burglary of a motor vehicle and burglary of a structure: Definitions; penalties; venue. 1. A person who, by day or night, unlawfully enters or unlawfully remains in any: (a) Dwelling with the intent to commit grand or peti…

NRS 205.065 Inference of burglarious intent. Every person who unlawfully breaks and enters or unlawfully enters any house, room, apartment, tenement, shop, warehouse, store, mill, barn, stable, outhouse or other building, tent, vessel, vehicle, vehicle trailer, semitrailer or hou…

NRS 205.067 Invasion of the home: Definition; penalties; venue. 1. A person who, by day or night, forcibly enters a dwelling without permission of the owner, resident or lawful occupant, whether or not a person is present at the time of the entry, is guilty of invasion of the hom…

NRS 205.070 Commission of another crime while committing burglary or invasion of the home. Every person who, in the commission of a burglary or invasion of the home, commits any other crime, may be prosecuted for each crime separately. [1911 C&P § 371; RL § 6636; NCL § 10321]—(NR…

NRS 205.075 Burglary with explosives; penalty. 1. A person who, with the intent to commit a crime, breaks and enters, either by day or by night, any building whether inhabited or not, and opens or attempts to open any vault, safe or other secure place by use of nitroglycerine, dy…

NRS 205.080 Possession of instrument with burglarious intent; making, alteration or repair of instrument for committing offense; penalty. 1. Every person who makes or mends or causes to be made or mended, or has in his or her possession in the day or nighttime, any engine, machin…

NRS 205.081 “Dwelling” defined. As used in NRS 205.081 to 205.082, inclusive, “dwelling” means a structure or part thereof that is designed or intended for occupancy as a residence or sleeping place. (Added to NRS by 2015, 3136)

NRS 205.0813 Housebreaking; penalty. 1. A person who forcibly enters an uninhabited or vacant dwelling, knows or has reason to believe that such entry is without permission of the owner of the dwelling or an authorized representative of the owner and has the intent to take up res…

NRS 205.0817 Unlawful occupancy; penalty. 1. A person who takes up residence in an uninhabited or vacant dwelling and knows or has reason to believe that such residency is without permission of the owner of the dwelling or an authorized representative of the owner is guilty of un…

NRS 205.082 Unlawful reentry; penalty. 1. A person is guilty of unlawful reentry if: (a) An owner of real property has recovered possession of the property from the person pursuant to NRS 40.412 or 40.414; and (b) Without the authority of the court or permission of the owner, the…

NRS 205.0821 Definitions. As used in NRS 205.0821 to 205.0835, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 205.0822 to 205.0831, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. (Added to NRS by 1989, 1203; A 1999, 2706; 20…

NRS 205.0822 “Check” defined. “Check” means any check, draft or other negotiable instrument of any kind. (Added to NRS by 1989, 1203)

NRS 205.0823 “Control” defined. “Control” means to act so as to prevent a person from using his or her own property except on the actor’s terms. (Added to NRS by 1989, 1204)

NRS 205.0824 “Deprive” defined. “Deprive” means to withhold a property interest of another person permanently or for so long a time that a substantial portion of its value, usefulness or enjoyment is lost, or to withhold it with the intent to restore it only upon the payment of a…

NRS 205.0825 “Draw” defined. “Draw” means making, drawing, uttering, preparing, writing or delivering a check. (Added to NRS by 1989, 1204)

NRS 205.08255 “Intangible property” defined. “Intangible property” means property that lacks a physical existence yet possesses value, including, without limitation, customer lists, trade secrets, copyrighted material or other confidential information. (Added to NRS by 1999, 2703…

NRS 205.0826 “Issue” defined. “Issue” means to deliver or cause to be delivered a check to a person who by that delivery acquires a right against the drawer of the check. A person who draws a check with intent that it be so delivered shall be deemed to have issued it if the deliv…

NRS 205.0827 “Obtain” defined. “Obtain” means to bring about or receive the transfer of any interest in property, or to secure performance of a service. (Added to NRS by 1989, 1204)

NRS 205.0828 “Property of another person” defined. “Property of another person” means real, personal or intangible property in which any person other than the defendant has an interest which the defendant is not privileged to infringe, including, without limitation, property in w…

NRS 205.0829 “Services” defined. “Services” includes labor, professional services, transportation, cable television or other video service, telephone, gas or electricity services, accommodations in hotels, restaurants, leased premises or elsewhere, admissions to exhibitions and t…

NRS 205.083 “Transfer” defined. “Transfer” means to change the possession or control of property. (Added to NRS by 1989, 1204)

NRS 205.0831 “Value” defined. “Value” means the fair market value of the property or services at the time of the theft. The value of a written instrument which does not have a readily ascertainable market value is the greater of the face amount of the instrument less the portion …

NRS 205.0832 Actions which constitute theft. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a person commits theft if, without lawful authority, the person knowingly: (a) Controls any property of another person with the intent to deprive that person of the property. (b) Convert…

NRS 205.0833 Theft constitutes single offense embracing certain separate offenses; specification of charge in indictment or information. 1. Conduct denominated theft in NRS 205.0821 to 205.0835, inclusive, constitutes a single offense embracing the separate offenses commonly know…

NRS 205.0834 Determination of amount involved in particular theft. The amount involved in a theft shall be deemed to be the highest value, by any reasonable standard, of the property or services which are obtained. Amounts involved in thefts committed pursuant to a scheme or cont…

NRS 205.08345 Organized retail theft; penalties; determination of amount involved in thefts committed by organized retail theft; venue; investigation and prosecution by Attorney General. 1. A person who knowingly participates directly or indirectly in or engages in conduct with t…

NRS 205.0835 Penalties. 1. Unless a greater penalty is imposed by a specific statute and unless the provisions of NRS 205.08345 apply under the circumstances, a person who commits theft in violation of any provision of NRS 205.0821 to 205.0835, inclusive, shall be punished pursua…

NRS 205.085 Definitions. 1. Within the provisions of this chapter relating to forgery or other offense, a “written instrument,” or a “writing,” or a “paper,” shall include an instrument partly written and partly printed or wholly printed with a written signature thereto, or any s…

NRS 205.090 Forgery of conveyances, negotiable instruments, stock certificates, wills and other instruments; utterance of forged instrument. A person who falsely makes, alters, forges or counterfeits any record, or other authentic matter of a public nature, or any charter, letter…

NRS 205.095 Other acts constituting forgery. Every person who, with intent to injure or defraud, shall: 1. Make any false entry in any public record or account; 2. Fail to make a true entry of any material matter in any public record or account; or 3. Forge any letter or written …

NRS 205.100 Making, uttering or possessing with intent to utter fictitious bill, note or check. 1. Every person who makes, passes, utters or publishes, with an intention to defraud any person or persons, body politic or corporate, either in this state or elsewhere, or with the li…

NRS 205.105 Forgery of instrument purporting to have been issued by corporation or state. The false making or forging of an instrument or writing purporting to have been issued by or in behalf of a corporation or association, state or government and bearing the pretended signatur…

NRS 205.110 Uttering forged instruments: Forgery. Every person who, knowing the same to be forged or altered, and with intent to defraud, shall utter, offer, dispose of or put off as true, or have in his or her possession with intent so to utter, offer, dispose of or put off any …

NRS 205.115 True writing signed by wrongdoer’s name or name of person not in existence. Whenever the false making or uttering of any instrument or writing is forgery, every person who, with intent to defraud, shall offer, dispose of or put off such an instrument or writing subscr…

NRS 205.120 False certificate to certain instruments punishable as forgery. A person who is authorized to take a proof or acknowledgment of an instrument which by law may be recorded, who willfully certifies falsely that the execution of the instrument was acknowledged by any par…

NRS 205.125 Misconduct in signing, filing or altering petition; penalties. 1. A person shall not willfully sign the name of another person, whether living or deceased, or of a fictitious person to any petition. A person who violates the provisions of this subsection is guilty of …

NRS 205.130 Issuance of check or draft without sufficient money or credit: Penalties. 1. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection and subsections 2 and 3, a person who willfully, with an intent to defraud, draws or passes a check or draft to obtain: (a) Money; (b) Delivery…

NRS 205.132 Issuance of check or draft without sufficient money or credit: Presumptions of intent to defraud and knowledge of insufficiency; malice in causing prosecution. 1. In a criminal action for issuing a check or draft against insufficient or no funds with intent to defraud…

NRS 205.134 Issuance of check or draft without sufficient money or credit: Posting notices. 1. A notice in boldface type which is clearly legible and is in substantially the following form must be posted in a conspicuous place in every principal and branch office of every bank an…

NRS 205.160 Possessing or receiving forged instruments or bills. A person who has in his or her possession, or receives from any other person, any forged promissory note, traveler’s check or money order, or bank bill, or bill for the payment of money or property, with the intenti…