USA Statutes : nevada
Title : Title 15 - CRIMES AND PUNISHMENTS
Chapter : CHAPTER 204 - CRIMES AGAINST THE REVENUE AND PROPERTY OF THIS STATE
Every public officer or other person who has in his possession, control
or custody any public money belonging to this state, or to any county,
town, city, district or municipal corporation within this state, or to
whom any such public money is entrusted for safekeeping, or for
transmission to any treasurer, other officer or person entitled to
receive it, who uses any of the public money for his own private
purposes, or for any purpose other than one authorized by law, shall, if
the amount so unlawfully used is less than $250, be punished for a
misdemeanor.
[1911 C&P § 391; RL § 6656; NCL § 10343]—(NRS A 1959, 24; 1967,
491; 1989, 1431)
A public officer or other person who has in his possession, control or
custody any public money belonging to this state, or to any county, town,
city, district or municipal corporation within this state, or to whom any
such public money is entrusted for safekeeping or for transmission to any
treasurer or other officer, or other person entitled to receive it, who
uses any of the public money for his own private purposes, or for any
purpose other than one authorized by law, if the amount unlawfully used
is $250 or more, is guilty of a category D felony and shall be punished
as provided in NRS 193.130 . In addition
to any other penalty, the court shall order the person to pay restitution.
[1911 C&P § 392; A 1951, 29]—(NRS A 1967, 492; 1979, 1438; 1989,
1431; 1995, 1212)
1. It is unlawful for any public officer, and any other person
receiving money on behalf of, or for or on account of, this State or of
any department of the State Government or of any bureau or fund created
by law in which the State is directly or indirectly interested, or for or
on account of any county, city, town, municipal corporation or any school
or district:
(a) Knowingly to keep any false account, or make any false entry or
erasure in any account, of or relating to any money so received by him;
(b) Fraudulently to alter, falsify, conceal, destroy or obliterate
any such account; or
(c) Willfully to omit or refuse to pay over to the State, its
officer or agent authorized by law to receive the money, or to the
county, city, town or the school, municipal corporation, or district or
to the proper officer or authority empowered to demand and receive it,
any money received by him as such an officer when it is a duty imposed
upon him by law to pay over and account for the money.
2. A person who violates any of the provisions of subsection 1
shall be punished:
(a) Where the amount involved is $250 or more, for a category D
felony as provided in NRS 193.130 .
(b) Where the amount involved is less than $250, for a misdemeanor.
[1911 C&P § 393; RL § 6658; NCL § 10345]—(NRS A 1967, 492; 1969,
105; 1979, 1438; 1989, 1431; 1995, 1212)
If any
clerk, justice of the peace, sheriff, constable or other officer, who may
receive any fine or forfeiture, shall refuse or neglect to pay over the
same according to law, and within 30 days after the receipt thereof, he
shall, in addition to being imprisoned and punished as provided by law,
be liable upon his official bond for the amount thereof, with 50 percent
damages and interest, to be recovered in like manner as for failing to
pay over money received on execution.
[1911 C&P § 394; RL § 6659; NCL § 10346]
A state, county, city
or town treasurer who willfully misappropriates any money, funds or
securities received by or deposited with him as treasurer, or who is
guilty of any other malfeasance or willful neglect of duty in his office,
shall be punished:
1. Where the amount misappropriated is $250 or more, for a
category D felony as provided in NRS 193.130 . In addition to any other penalty, the court
shall order the person to pay restitution.
2. Where the amount misappropriated is less than $250, for a
misdemeanor.
[1911 C&P § 395; RL § 6660; NCL § 10347]—(NRS A 1967, 492; 1979,
1439; 1989, 1432; 1995, 1213)
No money shall be paid out
of the State Treasury in payment of the salary or compensation of the
clerk or secretary of any commission connected with the State Government,
or for any clerical work done, performed, or rendered to such commission
except in pursuance of a direct and explicit appropriation by law to pay
for such service; and the State Controller is hereby prohibited from
drawing his warrant in payment of such salary or compensation unless
authorized by a law making an explicit appropriation for that purpose.
[1911 C&P § 396; RL § 6661; NCL § 10348]
060 . Any state officer employing or paying any
person or persons out of any state money for any such service or labor,
as set forth in NRS 204.060 , is guilty
of a misdemeanor.
[1911 C&P § 397; RL § 6662; NCL § 10349]—(NRS A 1967, 493)
1. It shall be unlawful for any individual, individuals or groups
of individuals, whether an employee or employees of the State of Nevada
or not, to use any automobile, truck or other means of mechanical
conveyance, property of the State of Nevada, for their own private use.
2. The executive officer of any state office, agency, department,
commission or institution to which such automobile, truck or other means
of mechanical conveyance is assigned, and the operator of such equipment,
shall be jointly and severally responsible to the State for the
unauthorized use of such equipment while so assigned, used or operated.
3. A violation of any provision of this section by any person
other than an officer or employee of the State of Nevada is a misdemeanor.
4. A violation of any provision of this section by an officer or
employee of the State of Nevada shall constitute malfeasance in office.
[1:103:1951] + [2:103:1951]—(NRS A 1961, 346)
