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Nevada · Through 2025 session (NRS as revised 2026-08-25) · Newer source version available

NRS 720.200: Unlawful acts; penalty.

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  1. TITLE 59—ELECTRONIC RECORDS AND TRANSACTIONS
  2. CHAPTER 720 - DIGITAL SIGNATURES

1. It is unlawful for a person to:

(a) Forge a digital signature; or

(b) Provide false information knowingly to the Secretary of State with respect to any provision of this chapter or a regulation adopted pursuant thereto that requires such a person to provide information to the Secretary of State.

2. A person who violates the provisions of subsection 1 is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

3. As used in this section, “forge a digital signature” means to create a digital signature that:

(a) Is not authorized by the person who holds the private key used to create the digital signature; or

(b) Although verifiable by a public key, the certificate that contains the public key identifies a subscriber who:

(1) Does not exist; or

(2) Does not hold the private key that corresponds to the public key contained in the certificate.

Collected 2026-09-03T05:51:47Z. Source file · JSON

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