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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 extort money, goods, chattels or other valuable thing; or (b) Threatening to maim, wound, kill or murder, […]

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 as evidence.

1. Unless a greater penalty is provided by law, a person who, because of the 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, willfully violates any provision of NRS 200.471, 200.481, 200.5099, 200.571, 200.575, 203.010, 203.020, 203.030, […]

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 family, or upon the […]

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 prosecuting attorney, conduct a separate hearing to determine whether the offense was sexually motivated. A request for such […]

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 evade certain federal or state laws.

1. If a monetary instrument or other property represents the proceeds of or is directly or indirectly derived from any unlawful activity, it is unlawful for a person, having knowledge of that fact: (a) To conduct or attempt to conduct a financial transaction involving the monetary instrument or other property: (1) With the intent to […]

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 annoy the owner or occupant thereof, or to commit any unlawful act; or (b) Willfully goes or remains […]

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 NRS 207.200 by trespassing on the premises of a licensed gaming establishment and who has previously been convicted of three violations of NRS 201.353 or 201.354 within the immediately preceding 5 years is guilty of a misdemeanor […]

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 means, from a fixed structure owned by another person or any fixture or appurtenance attached thereto; or (b) Knowingly and intentionally deliver or retrieve another person who intends to commit, is committing or has committed an […]

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 thereon, to do so unless the person is the owner or occupant. (b) Placed the name […]

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 misdemeanor. 2. The provisions of this section shall not apply to gates in towns […]

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 misdemeanor. (Added to NRS by 1977, 883)

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 guilty of a misdemeanor. [1911 C&P § 543; RL § 6808; NCL § […]

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 or willfully to make or cause to be made: (a) Any telephonic access to a system; or (b) A nonemergency telephone call to report an emergency on any nonemergency telephone line maintained by a governmental entity, if no actual or perceived emergency exists. 2. Except as otherwise […]

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 cause a reasonable child of like age to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated or harassed, and which […]

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 causes a law enforcement agency to conduct a criminal or internal investigation, knowing such report to be false, is guilty of […]

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 statement, including, without limitation, any statement that conceals facts, omits facts or contains false or misleading information concerning any material fact, to any police officer, sheriff, district attorney, deputy sheriff, deputy district attorney or member of the Department of Public Safety to cause the Statewide […]