Nevada · statute · Nev. Rev. Stat. ch. 574 · 82 active provisions
Any three or more citizens of the State of Nevada who incorporate as a body corporate under the general laws for corporations in this state set forth in chapter 78 of NRS for the purpose of preventing cruelty to animals may, except as otherwise provided in NRS 574.040, avail themselves of the privileges and benefits of…
1. Such societies may make and adopt bylaws: (a) Governing the admission of associates and members. (b) Providing for meetings and assistant and district or local officers. (c) Providing for means and systems for the effectual attainments of the objects contemplated by this chapter, for the regulation and management of…
Such societies shall: 1. Elect officers and fill vacancies according to the provisions of their bylaws. 2. Make such reports of elections as are required of all corporations by law.
1. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection and NRS 574.350, a member, agent or local or district officer of a society so incorporating, if authorized in writing by the trustees of the society, approved by the district judge of the county, and sworn in the same manner as peace officers are sworn, may make arrest…
As used in NRS 574.050 to 574.200, inclusive: 1. “Animal” does not include the human race, but includes every other living creature. 2. “First responder” means a person who has successfully completed the national standard course for first responders. 3. “Police animal” means an animal which is owned or used by a state…
1. Any person who knows or has reasonable cause to believe that an animal has been subjected to an act of cruelty in violation of NRS 574.100 may report the act of cruelty to any: (a) Peace officer; (b) Officer of a society for the prevention of cruelty to animals who is authorized to make arrests pursuant to NRS 574.0…
Except as otherwise provided in NRS 574.201 to 574.204, inclusive: 1. Any peace officer or animal control officer shall, upon discovering any animal which is being treated cruelly, take possession of the animal and: (a) Provide the animal with shelter and care; or (b) Destroy the animal in a humane manner if: (1) The o…
1. A person shall not knowingly keep or use, or in any manner be connected with, or be interested in the management of, or receive money for the admission of any person to, a house, apartment, pit or place kept or used for baiting or fighting any bird or animal, or be an owner or occupant of a house, apartment, pit or…
1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person shall not begin, cause, instigate, promote, carry on or do any act as an assistant, umpire or principal, or in any way aid in or engage in the furtherance of any fight between animals in an exhibition or for amusement or gain which is premeditated by a person ow…
1. Any peace officer or animal control officer authorized by law to make arrests may lawfully take possession of any animals, or implements, or other property used or employed, or about to be used or employed, in the violation of any provision of law relating to fights among animals. 2. The officer shall state to the p…
1. The officer, after taking possession of such animals, or implements or other property, pursuant to NRS 574.080, shall apply to the magistrate, before whom the complaint is made against the offender violating such provision of law, for the order mentioned in subsection 2, and shall make and file an affidavit with suc…
1. A person shall not: (a) Torture or unjustifiably maim, mutilate or kill: (1) An animal kept for companionship or pleasure, whether belonging to the person or to another; or (2) Any cat or dog; (b) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (a), overdrive, overload, torture, cruelly beat or unjustifiably injure, maim,…
1. A person shall not willfully and maliciously: (a) Taunt, torment, tease, beat, strike or administer a desensitizing drug, chemical or substance to a police animal; (b) Interfere with a police animal or a handler thereof in the performance of duties assigned to the police animal or handler; or (c) Torture, mutilate,…
1. A person shall not: (a) Willfully, unjustifiably and maliciously tamper or interfere with; (b) Willfully and unjustifiably abuse or injure, or willfully and unjustifiably set on foot, instigate, engage in or in any way further an act of abusing or injuring; or (c) Willfully and unjustifiably kill or willfully and un…
Repealed. (See chapter 424, Statutes of Nevada 2025, at page 2728.)
1. A person who has impounded or confined any animal shall not refuse or neglect to supply to the animal during its confinement a sufficient supply of good and wholesome air, food, shelter and water. 2. A person who violates subsection 1: (a) For the first offense within the immediately preceding 7 years, is guilty of…
A person who willfully sells or offers to sell, uses, exposes, or causes or permits to be sold, offered for sale, used or exposed, any horse or other animal having the disease known as glanders or farcy, or other contagious or infectious disease dangerous to the life or health of human beings or animals, or which is di…
It shall be unlawful for any person to sell any horse which, by reason of disease, could not be worked in this state without violating the law against cruelty to animals.
1. A person who unjustifiably administers any poisonous or noxious drug or substance to a horse, mule or domestic cattle, or unjustifiably exposes any such drug or substance with the intent that it be taken by a horse, mule or domestic cattle, whether the horse, mule or domestic cattle are the property of the person or…
A person who willfully throws, drops or places, or causes to be thrown, dropped or placed, upon any road, highway, street or public place, any glass, nails, pieces of metal, or other substance which might wound, disable or injure any animal is guilty of a misdemeanor.
A person who keeps a cow or any animal for the production of milk in a crowded or unhealthy place, or in a diseased condition, or feeds such cow or animal upon any food that produces impure or unwholesome milk, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
A person driving any vehicle upon any plank road, turnpike or public highway, who unjustifiably runs the horses drawing the same, or causes or permits them to run, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
A person who carries or causes to be carried in or upon any vessel or vehicle or otherwise any animal in a cruel or inhuman manner, or so as to produce torture, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
In addition to any other penalty or remedy imposed pursuant to NRS 574.050 to 574.200, inclusive: 1. A court may, pursuant to NRS 176A.416, order a defendant convicted of a violation of a provision of NRS 574.050 to 574.200, inclusive, as a condition of probation, to: (a) Submit to a psychiatric evaluation; (b) Partici…
1. The provisions of NRS 574.050 to 574.510, inclusive, do not: (a) Interfere with any of the fish and game laws contained in title 45 of NRS or any laws for the destruction of certain birds. (b) Interfere with the right to destroy any venomous reptiles or animals, or any animal known as dangerous to life, limb or prop…