2022 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 178 - General Provisions
NRS 178.4845 - Court order prohibiting contact with victim: Request by victim; court required to consider request; notification regarding consequences of violating order; expiration; renewal of order; transmittal of copy of order to Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History; penalty for violation of order.
1. Before a court makes a determination of bail concerning a person, a victim may request that a court issue an order imposing a condition of release prohibiting contact.
2. A court shall consider a request described in subsection 1.
3. Upon the issuance of an order imposing a condition of release prohibiting contact, the court shall notify the person subject to the order that violating the order may result in:
(a) The person being charged with a misdemeanor;
(b) The modification or addition of any condition of release;
(c) The revocation of bail and remand of the person to custody; or
(d) The imposition of any other penalty prescribed by law.
4. An order imposing a condition of release prohibiting contact, and any modification thereof, expires within such time, not to exceed 120 calendar days, as the court fixes.
5. The court may, before the expiration of an order imposing a condition of release prohibiting contact and upon motion or at the discretion of the court, after notice and a hearing, renew the order for good cause shown.
6. After the court issues an order imposing, modifying, suspending or canceling a condition of release prohibiting contact, the court shall transmit, as soon as practicable and in a manner prescribed by the Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History, a copy of the order to the Central Repository.
7. A person who knowingly violates an order imposing a condition of release prohibiting contact is guilty of a misdemeanor.
8. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require a court to receive a request pursuant to subsection 1 before issuing an order imposing a condition of release prohibiting contact.
9. As used in this section:
(a) "Cancel" includes, without limitation, any act that would effectively terminate a condition of release prohibiting contact, including, without limitation:
(1) The dismissal of the action or proceeding against the person;
(2) A prosecuting attorney declining to prosecute the person;
(3) The conviction of the person; or
(4) The acquittal of the person.
(b) "Condition of release prohibiting contact" means a condition placed on a person who is released pending trial that prohibits the person from contacting or attempting to contact a specific person or from causing or attempting to cause another person to contact that person on the person’s behalf.
(Added to NRS by 2021, 1948)
