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NRS 248.230: Penalty for failure to prevent duel.
Where this section sits in the code
- TITLE 20 — COUNTIES AND TOWNSHIPS: FORMATION, GOVERNMENT AND OFFICERS
- CHAPTER 248 - SHERIFFS
- DUTIES; POWERS; PROHIBITED ACTS; PROCESS; LIABILITIES
If any sheriff shall have knowledge of an intention on the part of any two persons to fight with a deadly weapon or weapons, and the sheriff shall not use and exert his or her official authority to arrest the parties and prevent the deed, the sheriff shall be fined in a sum not exceeding $1,000.
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