USA Statutes : nevada
Title : Title 16 - CORRECTIONAL INSTITUTIONS; AID TO VICTIMS OF CRIME
Chapter : CHAPTER 208 - GENERAL PROVISIONS
 As used in this title, unless the
context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 208.025
to 208.095 , inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them
in those sections.

      [Part 1911 C&P § 29; RL § 6294; NCL § 9978]—(NRS A 1973, 355; 1983,
815; 1985, 510)
 “Boat” includes ships, steamers and
other structures adapted to navigation or movement from place to place by
water.

      [Part 1911 C&P § 29; RL § 6294; NCL § 9978]—(NRS A 1973, 355; 1983,
815; 1985, 510)
 “Bond” includes an undertaking.

      [Part 1911 C&P § 29; RL § 6294; NCL § 9978]—(NRS A 1973, 355; 1983,
815; 1985, 510)
 “Judge” includes every judicial
officer authorized, alone or with others, to hold or preside over a court
of record.

      [Part 1911 C&P § 29; RL § 6294; NCL § 9978]—(NRS A 1973, 355; 1983,
815; 1985, 510)
 “Knowingly” imports a knowledge
that facts exist which constitute the act or omission of a crime, and
does not require knowledge of its unlawfulness. Knowledge of any
particular fact may be inferred from the knowledge of such other facts as
should put an ordinarily prudent person upon inquiry.

      [Part 1911 C&P § 29; RL § 6294; NCL § 9978]—(NRS A 1973, 355; 1983,
815; 1985, 510; 1997, 1602)
 “Officer” and
“public officer” include all officers, members and employees of:

      1.  The State of Nevada;

      2.  Any political subdivision of this state;

      3.  Any other special district, public corporation or quasi-public
corporation of this state; and

      4.  Any agency, board or commission established by this state or
any of its political subdivisions,

Ê and all persons exercising or assuming to exercise any of the powers or
functions of a public officer.

      [Part 1911 C&P § 29; RL § 6294; NCL § 9978]—(NRS A 1973, 355; 1983,
815; 1985, 510)
 “Prison” means any place designated
by law for the keeping of persons held in custody under process of law,
or under lawful arrest.

      [Part 1911 C&P § 29; RL § 6294; NCL § 9978]—(NRS A 1973, 355; 1983,
815; 1985, 510)
 “Prisoner” includes any person
held in custody under process of law, or under lawful arrest.

      [Part 1911 C&P § 29; RL § 6294; NCL § 9978]—(NRS A 1973, 355; 1983,
815; 1985, 510)
 “Writing” includes printing.

      [Part 1911 C&P § 29; RL § 6294; NCL § 9978]—(NRS A 1973, 355; 1983,
815; 1985, 510)
 Every provision
of this title shall be construed according to the fair import of its
terms.

      [1911 C&P § 30; RL § 6295; NCL § 9979]

 The provisions of this title, insofar as they are substantially the same
as existing statutes, shall be construed as continuations thereof and not
as new enactments.

      [1911 C&P § 36; RL § 6301; NCL § 9985]
 Nothing
contained in any provision of this title shall apply to an offense
committed or act done at any time before the day when this title shall
take effect. Such an offense shall be punished according to, and such act
shall be governed by, the provisions of law existing when it is done or
committed, in the same manner as if this title had not been passed.

      [1911 C&P § 31; RL § 6296; NCL § 9980]
 Nothing in this
title shall be deemed to affect any civil right or remedy existing at the
time when it shall take effect by virtue of the common law or of the
provision of any statute.

      [1911 C&P § 32; RL § 6297; NCL § 9981]
 The omission to specify or
affirm in this title any liability to any damages, penalty, forfeiture or
other remedy imposed by law, and allowed to be recovered or enforced in
any civil action or proceeding, for any act or omission declared
punishable in this title shall not affect any right to recover or enforce
the same.

      [1911 C&P § 37; RL § 6302; NCL § 9986]
 This title does not affect any power conferred by
law upon any court-martial, or other military authority, or officer, to
impose or inflict punishment upon offenders; nor any power conferred by
law upon any public body, tribunal or officer, to impose or inflict
punishment for a contempt.

      [1911 C&P § 34; RL § 6299; NCL § 9983]
 A prisoner may
execute any instrument by signing his name immediately following a
declaration “under penalty of perjury” with the same legal effect as if
he had acknowledged it or sworn to its truth before a person authorized
to administer oaths. As used in this section, “prisoner” means a person
confined in any jail or prison, or any facility for the detention of
juvenile offenders, in this state.

      (Added to NRS by 1985, 1643)