Classification of crimes
Applied in 10 court decisions — leading case McCoy v. Commissioner of Public Safety (2011)
Most recently applied in SER (GEORGIO) v. STATE (November 2025)
[1911 C&P § 1; RL § 6266; NCL § 9950]—(NRS A 1981, 651)
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
1. A crime is an act or omission forbidden by law and punishable upon conviction by death, imprisonment, fine or other penal discipline.
2. Every crime which may be punished by death or by imprisonment in the state prison is a felony.
3. Every crime punishable by a fine of not more than $1,000, or by imprisonment in a county jail for not more than 6 months, is a misdemeanor.
4. Every other crime is a gross misdemeanor.
Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.