Title 15

NRS 200.508 Abuse, neglect or endangerment of child: Penalties; definitions. 1. A person who willfully causes a child who is less than 18 years of age to suffer unjustifiable physical pain or mental suffering as a result of abuse or neglect or to be placed in a situation where th…

NRS 200.5081 District attorney may refer person suspected of violating NRS 200.508 for treatment or counseling. 1. A district attorney may, if the circumstances indicate that treatment or counseling is needed, refer a person who is suspected of violating a provision of NRS 200.50…

NRS 200.5083 Mutilation of genitalia of female child: Penalties; definitions. 1. A person who willfully: (a) Mutilates, or aids, abets, encourages or participates in the mutilation of the genitalia of a female child; or (b) Removes a female child from this State for the purpose o…

NRS 200.5085 Use of nonmedical remedial treatment. A child is not abused or neglected, nor is the child’s health or welfare harmed or threatened for the sole reason that his or her parent or guardian, in good faith, selects and depends upon nonmedical remedial treatment for such …

NRS 200.5091 Policy of State. It is the policy of this State to provide for the cooperation of law enforcement officials, courts of competent jurisdiction and all appropriate state agencies providing human services in identifying the abuse, neglect, exploitation, isolation and ab…

NRS 200.5092 Definitions. As used in NRS 200.5091 to 200.50995, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Abandonment” means: (a) Desertion of an older person or a vulnerable person in an unsafe manner by a caretaker or other person with a legal duty of care; or (b) W…

NRS 200.50925 “Reasonable cause to believe” and “as soon as reasonably practicable” defined. For the purposes of NRS 200.5091 to 200.50995, inclusive, a person: 1. Has “reasonable cause to believe” if, in light of all the surrounding facts and circumstances which are known or whi…

NRS 200.5093 Report of abuse, neglect, exploitation, isolation or abandonment of older person or vulnerable person; voluntary and mandatory reports; investigation; penalty. 1. Any person who is described in subsection 4 and who, in a professional or occupational capacity, knows o…

NRS 200.5094 Reports: Manner of making; contents. 1. A person may make a report pursuant to NRS 200.5093 by telephone or, in light of all the surrounding facts and circumstances which are known or which reasonably should be known to the person at the time, by any other means of o…

NRS 200.5095 Reports and records confidential; permissible or required disclosure; penalty. [Effective until the date on which the Nevada Certification Board, or its successor organization, ceases certifying peer recovery support specialists, certified prevention specialists or p…

NRS 200.50955 Law enforcement agency: Required to act promptly in obtaining certain warrants. A law enforcement agency shall promptly seek to obtain a warrant for the arrest of any person the agency has probable cause to believe is criminally responsible for the abuse, neglect, e…

NRS 200.50957 Person named on account held in joint tenancy may be prosecuted for exploitation. 1. The mere fact that an account of an older person or a vulnerable person is held in joint tenancy pursuant to NRS 100.085 does not, in and of itself, convey to all persons named on t…

NRS 200.5096 Immunity from civil or criminal liability for reporting, investigating or submitting information; exception. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, immunity from civil or criminal liability extends to every person who, pursuant to NRS 200.5091 to 200.50995,…

NRS 200.5097 Admissibility of evidence. In any proceeding resulting from a report made or action taken pursuant to NRS 200.5091 to 200.50995, inclusive, or in any other proceeding, the report or its contents or any other fact related thereto or to the condition of the older perso…

NRS 200.5098 Duties of Aging and Disability Services Division of Department of Human Services regarding older persons or vulnerable persons; organization and operation of teams for provision of assistance. 1. The Aging and Disability Services Division of the Department of Human S…

NRS 200.50981 Sheriff to designate point of contact for Aging and Disability Services Division of Department of Human Services. 1. The sheriff of each county shall designate one employee as a point of contact for the Aging and Disability Services Division of the Department of Hum…

NRS 200.50982 Disclosure of information concerning reports and investigations to other agencies or legal representative of older person or vulnerable person; disclosure of information concerning suspect in investigation of abuse, neglect, exploitation, isolation or abandonment of…

NRS 200.50984 Inspection of records pertaining to older person or vulnerable person on whose behalf investigation is conducted. 1. Notwithstanding any other statute to the contrary, the local office of the Aging and Disability Services Division of the Department of Human Services…

NRS 200.50986 Petition for removal of guardian of older person or vulnerable person. The local office of the Aging and Disability Services Division of the Department of Human Services or the county’s office for protective services may petition a court in accordance with NRS 159.1…

NRS 200.5099 Penalties. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 6, any person who abuses an older person or a vulnerable person is guilty: (a) For the first offense, of either of the following, as determined by the court: (1) A category C felony and shall be punished as pro…

NRS 200.50995 Penalties for conspiracy. 1. A person who conspires with another to commit abuse, exploitation or isolation of an older person or a vulnerable person as prohibited by NRS 200.5099 shall be punished: (a) For the first offense, for a gross misdemeanor by imprisonment …

NRS 200.510 Definition; penalties; truth may be given in evidence; jury to determine law and fact. 1. A libel is a malicious defamation, expressed by printing, writing, signs, pictures or the like, tending to blacken the memory of the dead, or to impeach the honesty, integrity, v…

NRS 200.520 Publication defined. Any method by which matter charged as libelous may be communicated to another shall be deemed a publication thereof. [1911 C&P § 164; RL § 6429; NCL § 10111]

NRS 200.530 Liability of editor or publisher. Every editor or proprietor of a book, newspaper or serial, and every manager of a copartnership or corporation by which any book, newspaper or serial is issued, is chargeable with the publication of any matter contained in any such bo…

NRS 200.540 Criminal proceedings: Venue. Every person publishing a libel in this state may be proceeded against in any county where such libelous matter was published or circulated, but a person shall not be proceeded against for the publication of the same libel against the same…

NRS 200.550 Furnishing libelous information: Penalty. Every person who shall willfully state, deliver or transmit by any means whatever to any manager, editor, publisher, reporter or other employee of a publisher of any newspaper, magazine, publication, periodical or serial any s…

NRS 200.560 Threatening to publish libel: Penalty. Every person who shall threaten another with the publication of a libel concerning the latter, or his or her spouse, parent, child or other family member, and every person who offers to prevent the publication of a libel upon ano…

NRS 200.571 Harassment: Definition; penalties. 1. A person is guilty of harassment if: (a) Without lawful authority, the person knowingly threatens: (1) To cause bodily injury in the future to the person threatened or to any other person; (2) To cause physical damage to the prope…

NRS 200.575 Stalking: Definitions; penalties; entry of finding in judgment of conviction or admonishment of rights. 1. A person who, without lawful authority, willfully or maliciously engages in a course of conduct directed towards a victim that would cause a reasonable person un…

NRS 200.581 Where offense committed. Harassment, stalking or aggravated stalking shall be deemed to have been committed where the conduct occurred or where the person who was affected by the conduct was located at the time that the conduct occurred. (Added to NRS by 1989, 897; A …

NRS 200.591 Court may impose temporary or extended order to restrict conduct of alleged perpetrator, defendant or convicted person; penalty for violation of order; dissemination of order; notice provided in order. 1. In addition to any other remedy provided by law, a person who r…

NRS 200.592 Petitioner for order: Deferment of costs and fees; free information concerning order; no fee for serving order. 1. The payment of all costs and official fees must be deferred for any person who petitions a court for a temporary or extended order pursuant to NRS 200.59…

NRS 200.594 Duration of orders; dissolution or modification of orders. 1. A temporary order issued pursuant to NRS 200.591 expires within such time, not to exceed 45 days, as the court fixes. If a petition for an extended order is filed within the period of a temporary order, the…

NRS 200.597 Order to be transmitted to law enforcement agencies; enforcement. 1. Each court that issues an order pursuant to NRS 200.591 shall transmit, as soon as practicable, a copy of the order to all law enforcement agencies within its jurisdiction. The copy must include a no…

NRS 200.599 Duty to transmit information concerning temporary or extended order to Central Repository. Any time a court issues a temporary or extended order for protection against stalking, aggravated stalking or harassment and any time a person serves such an order, or receives …

NRS 200.601 Victim to be given certain information and documents concerning case; clerk to keep record of order or condition restricting conduct of defendant. 1. The prosecuting attorney in any trial brought against a person on a charge of harassment, stalking or aggravated stalk…

NRS 200.603 Peering, peeping or spying through window, door or other opening of dwelling of another; penalties. 1. A person shall not knowingly enter upon the property or premises of another or upon the property or premises owned by him or her and leased or rented to another with…

NRS 200.604 Capturing image of private area of another person; distributing, disclosing, displaying, transmitting or publishing image of private area of another person; penalties; exceptions; confidentiality of image. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, a person shal…

NRS 200.605 Penalties; definition. 1. A person who engages in hazing is guilty of: (a) A misdemeanor, if no substantial bodily harm results. (b) A gross misdemeanor, if substantial bodily harm results. 2. Consent of a victim of hazing is not a valid defense to a prosecution condu…

NRS 200.610 Definitions. As used in NRS 200.610 to 200.690, inclusive: 1. “Person” includes public officials and law enforcement officers of the State and of a county or municipality or other political subdivision of the State. 2. “Wire communication” means the transmission of wr…

NRS 200.620 Interception and attempted interception of wire communication prohibited; exceptions. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 5 and NRS 179.410 to 179.515, inclusive, 209.419 and 704.195, it is unlawful for any person to intercept or attempt to intercept any wir…

NRS 200.630 Disclosure of existence, content or substance of wire or radio communication prohibited; exceptions. 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 179.410 to 179.515, inclusive, and 704.195, a person shall not disclose the existence, content, substance, purport, effect or me…

NRS 200.640 Unauthorized connection with facilities prohibited. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 179.410 to 179.515, inclusive, and 200.620, a person shall not make any connection, either physically or by induction, with the wire or radio communication facilities of any person…

NRS 200.650 Unauthorized, surreptitious intrusion of privacy by listening device prohibited. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 179.410 to 179.515, inclusive, and 704.195, a person shall not intrude upon the privacy of other persons by surreptitiously listening to, monitoring or…

NRS 200.690 Penalties. 1. A person who willfully and knowingly violates NRS 200.620 to 200.650, inclusive: (a) Shall be punished for a category D felony as provided in NRS 193.130. (b) Is liable to a person whose wire or oral communication is intercepted without his or her consen…

NRS 200.700 Definitions. As used in NRS 200.700 to 200.760, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Computer-generated child sexual abuse material” means: (a) Any visual depiction of: (1) An actual child that has been created, adapted or modified to depict the child…