Title 15

NRS 207.030 Prohibited acts; penalty. 1. It is unlawful to: (a) Offer or agree to engage in or engage in lewd or dissolute conduct in any public place or in any place open to the public or exposed to public view; (b) Offer or agree to engage in, engage in or aid and abet any act …

NRS 207.040 Employment on public works. All persons having the physical ability to work, convicted of violating NRS 207.030 and imprisoned therefor, may be required to perform labor on the public works, buildings, grounds or ways in the county, and the sheriff or other person hav…

NRS 207.050 Credit for work performed. For each day’s work willingly and faithfully performed by a person convicted of violating NRS 207.030, the person must receive credit for 2 days’ time, which must be applied upon and deducted from the term of imprisonment by the sheriff. [19…

NRS 207.070 Sheriff to procure employment. The sheriff shall, during fair and reasonable weather, when the same can be done without extra expense to the county, procure employment for and set at work such persons convicted of violating NRS 207.030 who are serving out their term o…

NRS 207.161 Definitions. As used in NRS 207.163: 1. “Emergency call” means a situation in which property or human life is in jeopardy and the prompt summoning of aid is essential. 2. “Public telephone” means a telephone which is made available to the public upon the deposit of a …

NRS 207.163 Refusal to relinquish public telephone for emergency call unlawful; false declaration of emergency to obtain use of public telephone unlawful. 1. It is unlawful for a person to refuse to relinquish a public telephone immediately when the person has been informed that …

NRS 207.165 Telephone directory must contain warning notice of offense provided in NRS 207.163. 1. It is unlawful for a person, firm or corporation providing telephone service to distribute or cause to be distributed in this State copies of any telephone directory if such directo…

NRS 207.167 Interference with emergency transmission on Citizens’ Radio Service unlawful; presumptions. 1. As used in this section “emergency” means a situation in which a natural person is or is reasonably believed by the person transmitting the communication to be in imminent d…

NRS 207.170 “False, deceptive or misleading advertising” defined. As used in NRS 207.170 to 207.177, inclusive, “false, deceptive or misleading advertising” as applied to a telephone communication includes, but is not limited to, any communication which is so made with the intent…

NRS 207.171 False, deceptive or misleading advertising and other sales practices. It is unlawful for any person, firm, corporation or association or any agent or employee thereof to use, publish, disseminate, display or make or cause directly or indirectly to be used, published, …

NRS 207.172 Exemption of advertising media. NRS 207.170 to 207.177, inclusive, do not apply to: 1. Any radio or television broadcasting station which broadcasts; or 2. Any publisher, printer, distributor or owner of any newspaper or magazine, billboard or other advertising medium…

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 …

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 viol…

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 offen…

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…

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 NR…

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 exto…

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 a…

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 fam…

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 …

NRS 207.195 Use of monetary instrument or other property representing proceeds or derived from unlawful activity; conducting financial transaction concerning monetary instrument or other property derived from unlawful activity; conducting financial transaction with intent to evad…

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 ann…

NRS 207.203 Unlawful trespass upon licensed gaming establishment by person previously convicted of certain offenses relating to prostitution or solicitation for prostitution. 1. Unless a greater penalty is provided pursuant to NRS 200.603, any person who commits a violation of NR…

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 m…

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…

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]

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 misdem…

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 misd…

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 gu…

NRS 207.235 Dog racing as gaming activity. A person who conducts dog racing as a gaming activity in this State is guilty of a misdemeanor. (Added to NRS by 1997, 3130)

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 o…

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 cau…

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 …

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 ca…

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 s…

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…

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…

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; …

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…

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 tra…

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 r…

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 rea…

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 u…

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…

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 w…

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 …