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NRS 598.0918

“Deceptive trade practice” defined

(Added to NRS by 2001, 659; A 2003, 2875; 2021, 1345)

A person engages in a “deceptive trade practice” if, during a solicitation by telephone or text message or during a sales presentation, he or she:

1. Uses threatening, intimidating, profane or obscene language;

2. Repeatedly or continuously conducts the solicitation or presentation in a manner that is considered by a reasonable person to be annoying, abusive or harassing;

3. Solicits a person by telephone at his or her residence between 8 p.m. and 9 a.m.;

4. Blocks or otherwise intentionally circumvents any service used to identify the caller when placing an unsolicited telephone call;

5. Places an unsolicited telephone call that does not allow a service to identify the caller by the telephone number or name of the business, unless such identification is not technically feasible; or

6. Defrauds a person of any valuable thing, wrongfully obtains from a person any valuable thing or otherwise causes harm to a person by knowingly causing, directly or indirectly, any service used in connection with a voice service or text messaging service to identify the caller or sender of the text message to display inaccurate or misleading information.

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