NRS 201.210

Open or gross lewdness; penalty

Applied in 14 court decisions — leading case Lader v. Warden, Northern Nevada Correctional Center (2005)

Most recently applied in SHUE (JOSHUA) VS. STATE (December 2017)

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1. A person who commits any act of open or gross lewdness is guilty:

(a) Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, for the first offense, of a gross misdemeanor.

(b) For any subsequent offense, or if the person has previously been convicted of a sexual offense as defined in NRS 179D.097, of a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.

(c) For an offense committed by a person 18 years of age or older in the presence of a child under the age of 18 years or a vulnerable person as defined in paragraph (a) of subsection 8 of NRS 200.5092, of a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.

2. For the purposes of this section, the breast feeding of a child by the mother of the child does not constitute an act of open or gross lewdness.

Official source: Nevada Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nevada statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.