NRS 504.490: Unlawful acts; penalty.
Where this section sits in the code
- TITLE 45 — WILDLIFE
- CHAPTER 504 - MANAGEMENT AND PROPAGATION
- PRESERVATION OF WILD HORSES
1. Any person, not authorized to do so, who:
(a) Removes or attempts to remove a wild horse from the public lands;
(b) Converts a wild horse to private use;
(c) Harasses a wild horse or, except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, kills a wild horse;
(d) Uses an aircraft or a motor vehicle to hunt any wild horse;
(e) Pollutes or causes the pollution of a watering hole on public land to trap, wound, kill or maim a wild horse;
(f) Makes or causes the remains of a wild horse to be made into any commercial product; or
(g) Sells a wild horse which strays onto private property,
Ê is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
2. A person who willfully and maliciously kills a wild horse is guilty of a category C felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.
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