Title 15

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

NRS 199.500 Penalty. 1. A person who counsels, hires, commands or otherwise solicits another to commit kidnapping or arson is guilty of a gross misdemeanor if no criminal act is committed as a result of the solicitation. 2. A person who counsels, hires, commands or otherwise soli…

NRS 199.510 Provisions not applicable to privileged communications between lawyer and client. The provisions of NRS 199.520, 199.530 and 199.540 do not apply to a lawyer who is communicating with a client within the scope of the privilege set forth in NRS 49.095. (Added to NRS by…

NRS 199.520 Disclosure of information to subject of investigation. An officer or employee of a court or law enforcement agency who, with the intent to obstruct a criminal investigation, directly or indirectly: 1. Notifies any person who is the subject of the investigation about t…

NRS 199.530 Notification of possible search or seizure. 1. It is unlawful for an officer or employee of a court or law enforcement agency, having knowledge that a person authorized to make a search or seizure has been authorized or is applying for authorization to make a search o…

NRS 199.540 Notification of interception of wire, electronic or oral communication or use of pen register or trap and trace device. 1. It is unlawful for an officer or employee of a court or law enforcement agency, or any employee of a provider of electronic communication service…

NRS 200.010 “Murder” defined. Murder is the unlawful killing of a human being: 1. With malice aforethought, either express or implied; 2. Caused by a controlled substance which was sold, given, traded or otherwise made available to a person in violation of chapter 453 of NRS; or …

NRS 200.020 Malice: Express and implied defined. 1. Express malice is that deliberate intention unlawfully to take away the life of a fellow creature, which is manifested by external circumstances capable of proof. 2. Malice shall be implied when no considerable provocation appea…

NRS 200.030 Degrees of murder; penalties. 1. Murder of the first degree is murder which is: (a) Perpetrated by means of poison, lying in wait or torture, or by any other kind of willful, deliberate and premeditated killing; (b) Committed in the perpetration or attempted perpetrat…

NRS 200.033 Circumstances aggravating first degree murder. The only circumstances by which murder of the first degree may be aggravated are: 1. The murder was committed by a person under sentence of imprisonment. 2. The murder was committed by a person who, at any time before a p…

NRS 200.035 Circumstances mitigating first degree murder. Murder of the first degree may be mitigated by any of the following circumstances, even though the mitigating circumstance is not sufficient to constitute a defense or reduce the degree of the crime: 1. The defendant has n…

NRS 200.040 “Manslaughter” defined. 1. Manslaughter is the unlawful killing of a human being, without malice express or implied, and without any mixture of deliberation. 2. Manslaughter must be voluntary, upon a sudden heat of passion, caused by a provocation apparently sufficien…

NRS 200.050 “Voluntary manslaughter” defined. 1. In cases of voluntary manslaughter, there must be a serious and highly provoking injury inflicted upon the person killing, sufficient to excite an irresistible passion in a reasonable person, or an attempt by the person killed to c…

NRS 200.060 When killing punished as murder. The killing must be the result of that sudden, violent impulse of passion supposed to be irresistible; for, if there should appear to have been an interval between the assault or provocation given and the killing, sufficient for the vo…

NRS 200.070 “Involuntary manslaughter” defined. 1. Except under the circumstances provided in NRS 484B.550 and 484B.653, involuntary manslaughter is the killing of a human being, without any intent to do so, in the commission of an unlawful act, or a lawful act which probably mig…

NRS 200.080 Punishment for voluntary manslaughter. A person convicted of the crime of voluntary manslaughter is guilty of a category B felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 1 year and a maximum term of not more than 1…

NRS 200.090 Punishment for involuntary manslaughter. A person convicted of involuntary manslaughter is guilty of a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130. [1911 C&P § 126 1/2; added 1937, 103; 1931 NCL § 10073.01]—(NRS A 1967, 468; 1995, 1182)

NRS 200.110 Place of trial for homicide. 1. If the injury be inflicted in one county, and the party die within another county, or without the State, the accused shall be tried in the county where the act was done, or the cause of death administered. 2. If the party killing shall …

NRS 200.120 “Justifiable homicide” defined; no duty to retreat under certain circumstances. 1. Justifiable homicide is the killing of a human being in necessary self-defense, or in defense of an occupied habitation, an occupied motor vehicle or a person, against one who manifestl…

NRS 200.130 Bare fear insufficient to justify killing; reasonable fear required; rebuttable presumption under certain circumstances. 1. A bare fear of any of the offenses mentioned in NRS 200.120, to prevent which the homicide is alleged to have been committed, is not sufficient …

NRS 200.140 Justifiable homicide by peace officer. 1. Homicide is justifiable when committed by a peace officer, or person acting under the command and in the aid of the peace officer, in the following cases: (a) In obedience to the judgment of a competent court. (b) When necessa…

NRS 200.150 Justifiable or excusable homicide. All other instances which stand upon the same footing of reason and justice as those enumerated shall be considered justifiable or excusable homicide. [1911 C&P § 132; RL § 6397; NCL § 10079]

NRS 200.160 Additional cases of justifiable homicide. Homicide is also justifiable when committed: 1. In the lawful defense of the slayer, or his or her spouse, parent, child, brother or sister, or of any other person in his or her presence or company, when there is reasonable gr…

NRS 200.170 Burden of proving circumstances of mitigation or justifiable or excusable homicide. The killing of the deceased named in the indictment or information by the defendant being proved, the burden of proving circumstances of mitigation, or that justify or excuse the homic…

NRS 200.180 Excusable homicide by misadventure. 1. Excusable homicide by misadventure occurs when: (a) A person is doing a lawful act, without any intention of killing, yet unfortunately kills another, as where a person is at work with an ax and the head flies off and kills a bys…

NRS 200.190 Justifiable or excusable homicide not punishable. The homicide appearing to be justifiable or excusable, the person indicted shall, upon trial, be fully acquitted and discharged. [1911 C&P § 136; RL § 6401; NCL § 10083]

NRS 200.200 Killing in self-defense. If a person kills another in self-defense, it must appear that: 1. The danger was so urgent and pressing that, in order to save the person’s own life, or to prevent the person from receiving great bodily harm, the killing of the other was abso…

NRS 200.210 Killing of unborn quick child; penalty. A person who willfully kills an unborn quick child, by any injury committed upon the mother of the child, commits manslaughter and shall be punished for a category B felony by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term …

NRS 200.220 Taking drugs to terminate pregnancy; penalty. A woman who takes or uses, or submits to the use of, any drug, medicine or substance, or any instrument or other means, with the intent to terminate her pregnancy after the 24th week of pregnancy, unless the same is perfor…

NRS 200.230 Death resulting from overloading of passenger vessel; penalties. A person navigating a vessel for gain who willfully or negligently receives so many passengers or such a quantity of other lading on board that by means thereof the vessel sinks, is overset or injured, a…

NRS 200.240 Owner of animal that kills human being guilty of manslaughter under certain circumstances; penalty. If the owner or custodian of any vicious or dangerous animal, knowing its propensities, willfully or negligently allows it to go at large, and the animal while at large…