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2017 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 207 - Miscellaneous Crimes
NRS 207.163 - Refusal to relinquish public telephone for emergency call unlawful; false declaration of emergency to obtain use of public telephone unlawful.
Universal Citation: NV Rev Stat § 207.163 (2017)
1. It is unlawful for a person to refuse to relinquish a public telephone immediately when the person has been informed that it is needed for an emergency call and in fact the line is needed for an emergency call and there is no other reasonably apparent and immediately accessible telephone from which to make the call.
2. It is unlawful for a person to secure the use of a public telephone by falsely stating that it is needed for an emergency call.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 718; A 2003, 326)
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