Nevada · statute · Nev. Rev. Stat. ch. 201 · 85 active provisions
For the purposes of NRS 201.015 to 201.080, inclusive, “minor child” means a person who has not reached the age of majority as provided in NRS 129.010 and has not been declared emancipated pursuant to NRS 129.080 to 129.140, inclusive.
1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a person who knowingly fails to provide for the support of his or her: (a) Spouse or former spouse; (b) Minor child; or (c) Child who upon arriving at the age of majority is unable to provide support for himself or herself because of infirmity, incompetency or other lega…
Proceedings under NRS 201.015 to 201.080, inclusive, may be instituted upon complaint made under oath or affirmation by the spouse or child or children, or by any other person, including the district attorney, against any person guilty of an offense named in NRS 201.020.
1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, in a prosecution for a violation of NRS 201.020, the defendant may claim as an affirmative defense that he or she was unable to provide the child support or spousal support ordered by a court. 2. In addition to the written notice required by NRS 174.234, a defendant who…
1. No other or greater evidence is required to prove the marriage of the spouses, or that the defendant is the parent of the child or children, than is required to prove such facts in a civil action. 2. In no prosecution under NRS 201.015 to 201.080, inclusive, does any existing statute or rule of law prohibiting the d…
NRS 201.015 to 201.080, inclusive, shall be so interpreted and construed as to effectuate their general purpose to make uniform the law of those states which enact them.
1. A person is guilty of paternity fraud if the person: (a) Is ordered by a court to submit, or agrees to submit, to a test for genetic identification to determine the paternity of a child and knowingly assists, aids, abets, solicits or conspires with another person to have someone other than himself submit to the test…
As used in NRS 201.100 and 201.110, unless the context otherwise requires, a “neglected child,” “delinquent child” or “child in need of supervision” means any person less than 18 years of age: 1. Who is found begging, receiving or gathering alms, or who is found in any street, road or public place for the purpose of so…
When the charge against any person under NRS 201.090, 201.100 and 201.110 concerns the neglect of a child or children, or the problems of a child in need of supervision, the offense, for convenience, may be termed “contributory neglect,” and when it concerns the delinquency of a child or children, for convenience it ma…
1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, any person who commits any act or omits the performance of any duty, which act or omission causes or tends to cause or encourage any person under the age of 18 to become a “neglected child,” “child in need of supervision” or “delinquent child,” as defined in NRS 201.090,…
Every person who shall endeavor to conceal the birth of a child by any disposition of its dead body, whether the child died before or after its birth, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
1. Bigamy consists in the having of two spouses at one time, knowing that the former spouse is still alive. 2. If a married person marries any other person while the former spouse is alive, the person so offending is guilty of a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130. 3. It is not necessary…
If a person, being unmarried, knowingly marries the spouse of another, that person is guilty of a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.
Persons being within the degree of consanguinity within which marriages are declared by law to be incestuous and void who intermarry with each other or who commit fornication or adultery with each other shall be punished for a category A felony by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 2 y…
Except as otherwise provided in NRS 200.366 and 201.230, a person of full age who commits anal intercourse, cunnilingus or fellatio in public is guilty of a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.
1. A person who commits any act of open or gross lewdness is guilty: (a) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, for the first offense, of a gross misdemeanor. (b) For any subsequent offense, or if the person has previously been convicted of a sexual offense as defined in NRS 179D.097, of a category D felony a…
1. A person who makes any open and indecent or obscene exposure of his or her person, or of the person of another, is guilty: (a) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, for the first offense, of a gross misdemeanor. (b) For any subsequent offense, or if the person has previously been convicted of a sexual off…
1. A person is guilty of lewdness with a child if he or she: (a) Is 18 years of age or older and willfully and lewdly commits any lewd or lascivious act, other than acts constituting the crime of sexual assault, upon or with the body, or any part or member thereof, of a child under the age of 16 years, with the intent…
1. The Legislature finds and declares that: (a) The medical profession in the United States recommends that children from birth to the age of 1 year should be breast fed, unless under particular circumstances it is medically inadvisable. (b) Despite the recommendation of the medical profession, statistics reveal a decl…
In NRS 201.235 to 201.254, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Community” means the area from which a jury is or would be selected for the court in which the action is tried. 2. “Item” includes any book, leaflet, pamphlet, magazine, booklet, picture, drawing, photograph, film, negative, slide, motion…
The provisions of NRS 201.235 to 201.254, inclusive, do not apply to those universities, schools, museums or libraries which are operated by or are under the direct control of the State, or any political subdivision of the State, or to persons while acting as employees of such organizations.
The provisions of NRS 201.235 to 201.254, inclusive, do not preclude any county, city or town from adopting an ordinance further regulating obscenity if its provisions do not conflict with these statutes.
1. The district attorney or city attorney of any county or city, respectively, in which there is an item or material which the district attorney or city attorney believes to be obscene, may file a complaint in the district court seeking to have the item or material declared obscene and to enjoin the possessor and the o…
In prosecutions under NRS 201.235 to 201.254, inclusive, evidence of circumstances of production, dissemination, sale or publicity of the material or item, which indicates it is being commercially exploited by the defendant for its prurient appeal, is probative of the obscenity of the material or item and can justify t…
1. If a final judgment declaring an item or material obscene is entered against its owner or possessor, the judgment shall contain a provision directing the owner or possessor to surrender to the sheriff of the county in which the action was brought the item or material declared obscene and a direction to the sheriff t…