Title 15

NRS 205.220 Grand larceny: Definition. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 205.226 and 205.228, a person commits grand larceny if the person: 1. Intentionally steals, takes and carries away, leads away or drives away: (a) Personal goods or property, with a value of $1,200 or more…

NRS 205.222 Grand larceny: Penalties. 1. Unless a greater penalty is imposed by a specific statute, a person who commits grand larceny in violation of NRS 205.220 shall be punished pursuant to the provisions of this section. 2. If the value of the property involved in the grand l…

NRS 205.226 Grand larceny of firearm; penalty. 1. A person who intentionally steals, takes and carries away a firearm owned by another person commits grand larceny of a firearm. 2. A person who commits grand larceny of a firearm is guilty of a category B felony and shall be punis…

NRS 205.228 Grand larceny of motor vehicle; penalty. 1. A person who intentionally steals, takes and carries away, drives away or otherwise removes a motor vehicle owned by another person commits grand larceny of a motor vehicle. 2. A person who commits grand larceny of a motor v…

NRS 205.230 Duties of peace officer concerning grand larceny of animal. 1. All state, county, city and township peace and law enforcement officers are empowered and directed to pursue, apprehend and arrest whenever or wherever, irrespective of county boundaries within the State, …

NRS 205.240 Petit larceny; penalty. 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 205.220, 205.226, 205.228, 475.105 and 501.3765, a person commits petit larceny if the person: (a) Intentionally steals, takes and carries away, leads away or drives away: (1) Personal goods or property, w…

NRS 205.251 Determination of value of property involved in larceny offense. For the purposes of NRS 205.2175 to 205.2705, inclusive: 1. The value of property involved in a larceny offense shall be deemed to be the highest value attributable to the property by any reasonable stand…

NRS 205.260 Negotiable and other instruments subjects of larceny. Bonds, promissory notes, banknotes, bills of exchange, or other bills, orders, drafts, checks, travelers’ checks, money orders, receipts or certificates, or warrants for or concerning money, goods or property, due,…

NRS 205.265 Commission or part ownership no defense for larceny. It shall be no defense to a prosecution for larceny that the accused was entitled to a commission out of the money or property appropriated as compensation for collecting or receiving the same for or on behalf of th…

NRS 205.267 Penalty for theft of scrap metal or utility property. 1. A person who intentionally steals, takes and carries away scrap metal or utility property with a value of less than $1,200 within a period of 90 days is guilty of a misdemeanor. 2. A person who intentionally ste…

NRS 205.270 Penalty for taking property from person of another under circumstances not amounting to robbery; limitation on granting of probation or suspension of sentence. 1. A person who, under circumstances not amounting to robbery, with the intent to steal or appropriate to hi…

NRS 205.2705 Use of unlawful coin or cheating device in vending machine, telephone or other coin operated device prohibited; penalty. 1. It is unlawful for any person, in using any lawful vending machine, coin box, telephone or other receptacle designed to receive or be operated …

NRS 205.271 “Owner” defined. As used in NRS 205.2715, 205.273 and 205.274, the word “owner” means a person having the lawful use or control or the right to the use and control of a vehicle under a lease or otherwise for a period of 10 or more successive days. (Added to NRS by 196…

NRS 205.2715 Unlawful taking of vehicle: Inference; penalty. 1. Every person who takes and carries away or drives away the vehicle of another without the intent to permanently deprive the owner thereof but without the consent of the owner of such vehicle is guilty of a gross misd…

NRS 205.273 Offense involving stolen vehicle: Definition; penalty; restitution. 1. A person commits an offense involving a stolen vehicle if the person: (a) With the intent to procure or pass title to a motor vehicle which the person knows or has reason to believe has been stolen…

NRS 205.274 Injuring or tampering with vehicle; penalties. 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 487.0385, any person who shall individually or in association with one or more other persons willfully break, injure, tamper with or remove any part or parts of any vehicle for the p…

NRS 205.2741 Throwing substance at bicycle, electric bicycle, electric scooter or motor vehicle; willfully damaging bicycle, electric bicycle or motor vehicle; penalty. 1. It is unlawful for any person: (a) To throw any stone, rock, missile or any substance at any bicycle, electr…

NRS 205.27415 Theft or unlawful possession of used catalytic converters prohibited. 1. A person commits the offense of theft of a catalytic converter if the person willfully takes or attempts to take possession of, carries away or exercises control over a used catalytic converter…

NRS 205.27417 Catalytic converters: Unlawful purchase; exceptions. 1. A person shall not purchase a used catalytic converter for any purpose, including, without limitation, to dismantle, recycle or smelt, unless the person purchases the used catalytic converter from: (a) An autom…

NRS 205.27419 Catalytic converters: Penalties. A person who violates any provision of NRS 205.27415 or 205.27417 is guilty of: 1. If the violation involves one used catalytic converter, a category E felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130. 2. If the violation invo…

NRS 205.2745 Owning or operating premises on which illegally obtained motor vehicle is altered, destroyed, disassembled, reassembled or stored for certain purposes; penalties. 1. A person who owns or operates a building or other premises shall not knowingly allow a motor vehicle …

NRS 205.2747 Unlawful transfer or assignment of right or interest in motor vehicle; penalty. 1. A person, other than a party to the lease contract, retail installment contract or security agreement, for compensation or some other consideration, shall not transfer or assign, or pu…

NRS 205.275 Offense involving stolen property: Definition; penalty; restitution; prima facie evidence; determination of value of property. 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 501.3765, a person commits an offense involving stolen property if the person, for his or her own gain…

NRS 205.290 Restoration of stolen property to owner. All property obtained by larceny, robbery, burglary or embezzlement and found in the possession of the thief or embezzler thereof, or in the possession of any receiver or wrongful possessor of stolen property, shall be restored…

NRS 205.295 Restoration of stolen property: Duties of officers. The officer arresting any person charged as principal or accessory in any robbery or larceny shall use reasonable diligence to secure the property alleged to have been stolen, and after seizure shall be answerable th…

NRS 205.300 Definition; punishment. 1. Any bailee of any money, goods or property, who converts it to his or her own use, with the intent to steal it or to defraud the owner or owners thereof and any agent, manager or clerk of any person, corporation, association or partnership, …

NRS 205.305 Prima facie evidence of embezzlement. If any clerk, apprentice, servant, or any other person whatsoever, whether bound or hired, to whom any money or goods, or chattels, or other property, shall be entrusted, for any purpose whatsoever, by his or her master, employer,…

NRS 205.310 Contractor failing to pay for labor or material. Every person having entered into a contract to supply any labor or materials for the value or price of which any lien might lawfully be filed upon the property of another, who shall receive the full price or considerati…

NRS 205.312 Inference of embezzlement for willful or intentional failure to return leased or rented vehicle to owner; penalty for embezzlement of vehicle; restitution. 1. Whenever any person who has leased or rented a vehicle willfully and intentionally fails to return the vehicl…

NRS 205.320 Threats. A person who, with the intent to extort or gain any money or other property or to compel or induce another to make, subscribe, execute, alter or destroy any valuable security or instrument or writing affecting or intended to affect any cause of action or defe…

NRS 205.322 Extortionate collection of debt. A person who causes a debtor to have a reasonable apprehension that a delay in repaying the debt could result in the use of violence or other criminal means to: 1. Harm physically the debtor or any other person; or 2. Damage any proper…

NRS 205.330 Fraudulent conveyances. Every person who shall be a party to any fraudulent conveyance of any lands, tenements or hereditaments, goods or chattels, or any right or interest issuing out of the same, or to any bond, suit, judgment or execution, contract or conveyance, h…

NRS 205.335 Sale or removal of goods subject to security interest by debtor in possession without consent of secured party. 1. The debtor in possession of goods subject to a security interest shall not sell or dispose of any such property, or remove the same from the county where…

NRS 205.340 Sale or creation of security interest in personal property subject to security interest or lien without informing purchaser or secured party. Every person who shall sell or create a security interest in any personal property which is at the time subject to a security …

NRS 205.345 Destruction or removal of personal property upon which security interest or lease exists. 1. Every person being in possession thereof, who shall remove, conceal or destroy or connive at or consent to the removal, concealment or destruction of any personal property or …

NRS 205.350 Removal or sale of property to defraud creditors. If any debtor shall fraudulently remove his or her property or effects out of this state, or shall fraudulently sell, convey or assign, or conceal his or her property or effects, with intent to defraud, hinder or delay…

NRS 205.355 Fraudulent sale or concealment of personal property after action commenced or judgment rendered. Any person against whom an action is pending, or against whom a judgment has been rendered for the recovery of any personal property or effects, who shall fraudulently con…

NRS 205.360 Knowingly receiving fraudulent conveyance. Every person who shall receive any property or conveyance thereof from another, knowing that the same is transferred or delivered in violation of, or with the intent to violate, any provision of NRS 205.345, 205.350 and 205.3…

NRS 205.365 Fraudulently selling real estate twice. A person, after once selling, bartering or disposing of any tract of land, town lot, or executing any bond or agreement for the sale of any land or town lot, who again, knowingly and fraudulently, sells, barters or disposes of t…

NRS 205.370 Swindling; credit by false representations; defenses not available. 1. A person who, by false representations of his or her own wealth, or mercantile correspondence and connections, obtains a credit thereby and defrauds any person of money, goods, chattels or any valu…

NRS 205.372 Mortgage lending fraud; penalties; civil action. 1. A person who is a participant in a mortgage lending transaction and who: (a) Knowingly makes a false statement or misrepresentation concerning a material fact or knowingly conceals or fails to disclose a material fac…

NRS 205.375 False written statements to obtain property or credit. Any person: 1. Who shall knowingly make or cause to be made, either directly or indirectly, or through any agency whatsoever, any false statement in writing, with intent that it shall be relied upon, respecting th…

NRS 205.377 Multiple transactions involving fraud or deceit in course of enterprise or occupation; penalty; investigation and prosecution by Attorney General. 1. A person shall not, in the course of an enterprise or occupation, knowingly and with the intent to defraud, engage in …

NRS 205.380 Obtaining money, property, rent or labor by false pretenses. 1. A person who knowingly and designedly by any false pretense obtains from any other person any chose in action, money, goods, wares, chattels, effects or other valuable thing, including rent or the labor o…

NRS 205.390 Obtaining signature by false pretense. A person who, with the intent to cheat or defraud another, designedly by color or aid of any false token or writing or other false pretense, representation or presentation obtains the signature of any person to a written instrume…