2020 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 202 - Crimes Against Public Health and Safety
NRS 202.285 - Discharging firearm at or into structure, vehicle, aircraft or watercraft; penalties.

Universal Citation:
NV Rev Stat § 202.285 (2020)
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1. A person who willfully and maliciously discharges a firearm at or into any house, room, apartment, tenement, shop, warehouse, store, mill, barn, stable, outhouse or other building, tent, vessel, aircraft, vehicle, vehicle trailer, semitrailer or house trailer, railroad locomotive, car or tender:

(a) If it has been abandoned, is guilty of a misdemeanor unless a greater penalty is provided in NRS 202.287.

(b) If it is occupied, is guilty of a category B felony and shall be punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 1 year and a maximum term of not more than 10 years, or by a fine of not more than $5,000, or by both fine and imprisonment.

2. Whenever a firearm is so discharged at or into any vessel, aircraft, vehicle, vehicle trailer, semitrailer or house trailer, railroad locomotive, car or tender, in motion or at rest, and it cannot with reasonable certainty be ascertained in what county the crime was committed, the offender may be arrested and tried in any county through which the vessel, aircraft, vehicle, vehicle trailer, semitrailer or house trailer, locomotive or railroad car may have run on the trip during which the firearm was discharged at or into it.

(Added to NRS by 1979, 157; A 1989, 1240; 1995, 1206; 2019, 231)

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