Title 15

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 …

NRS 198.010 Improperly influencing member of legislative body. Every person who obtains or seeks to obtain money or other thing of value from another person upon a pretense, claim or representation that the person can or will improperly influence in any manner the action of any m…

NRS 199.010 Bribery of judicial officer. A person who gives, offers or promises, directly or indirectly, any compensation, gratuity or reward to a judicial officer, juror, referee, arbitrator, appraiser, assessor or other person authorized by law to hear or determine any question…

NRS 199.020 Judicial officer who asks for or receives bribe. A judicial officer who asks or receives, directly or indirectly, any compensation, gratuity or reward, or any promise thereof, upon an agreement or understanding that his or her vote, opinion, judgment, action, decision…

NRS 199.030 Jurors and others accepting bribes. A juror, referee, arbitrator, appraiser, assessor or other person authorized by law to hear or determine any question, matter, cause, controversy or proceeding, who asks or receives, directly or indirectly, any compensation, gratuit…

NRS 199.040 Influencing juror, arbitrator, referee or prospective juror. Every person who shall influence, or attempt to influence, improperly, in their respective capacities as such, a juror or any person drawn or summoned as a prospective juror in a civil or criminal action or …

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…