NRS 504.490 - Unlawful acts; penalty.

NV Rev Stat § 504.490 (2019) (N/A)
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1. Any person, not authorized to do so, who:

(a) Removes or attempts to remove a wild horse from the public lands;

(b) Converts a wild horse to private use;

(c) Harasses a wild horse or, except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, kills a wild horse;

(d) Uses an aircraft or a motor vehicle to hunt any wild horse;

(e) Pollutes or causes the pollution of a watering hole on public land to trap, wound, kill or maim a wild horse;

(f) Makes or causes the remains of a wild horse to be made into any commercial product; or

(g) Sells a wild horse which strays onto private property,

is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

2. A person who willfully and maliciously kills a wild horse is guilty of a category C felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.

(Added to NRS by 1985, 1889; A 1999, 2516; 2011, 2480)