2011 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 199 - Crimes Against Public Justice
NRS 199.270 - Refusal to make arrest or to aid officer.


NV Rev Stat § 199.270 (2011) What's This?

Every person who, after having been lawfully commanded by any magistrate to arrest another person, shall willfully neglect or refuse so to do, and every person who, after having been lawfully commanded to aid an officer in arresting any person, or in retaking any person who has escaped from lawful custody, or in executing any lawful process, shall willfully neglect or refuse to aid such officer shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

[1911 C&P 96; RL 6361; NCL 10045]

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