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NRS 454.311 - Fraudulent possession of dangerous drug or prescription; false or altered prescription; penalty.

NV Rev Stat § 454.311 (2019) (N/A)
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1. A person, other than a peace officer or inspector of the Board in the performance of his or her official duty, who knowingly or intentionally obtains or attempts to obtain possession of a dangerous drug or a prescription for a dangerous drug by misrepresentation, fraud, forgery, deception, subterfuge or alteration is guilty of a category E felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.

2. A person who knowingly has in his or her possession any false, fictitious, forged or altered prescription for a dangerous drug is guilty of a category E felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.

3. A person who knowingly:

(a) Receives any dangerous drug from, or has in his or her possession or under his or her control any dangerous drug obtained by, another person as a result of any forged, false, fictitious or altered prescription; or

(b) Fills a prescription which is not genuine,

is guilty of a category E felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.

(Added to NRS by 1973, 1200; A 1981, 1967; 1985, 153, 888; 1995, 1292)

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