1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a person, or any officer, agent or employee thereof, who willfully violates any provision of NRS 581.415:
(a) For the first offense, shall be given a warning.
(b) For the second offense, is guilty of a misdemeanor and shall be punished by a fine of not less than $1,000 or more than $5,000.
(c) For the third or subsequent offense, is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
2. A person, or any officer, agent or employee thereof, who:
(a) Is convicted pursuant to subsection 1 more than three times in a 2-year period; or
(b) Knowingly uses or has in his or her possession any weighing or measuring device which has been altered to facilitate fraud,
is guilty of a category E felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.
(Added to NRS by 2003, 2318; A 2013, 989; 2021, 1011)