NRS 205.130
Issuance of check or draft without sufficient money or credit: Penalties.

1.

Except as otherwise provided in this subsection and subsections 2 and 3, a person who willfully, with an intent to defraud, draws or passes a check or draft to obtain:

(a)

Money;

(b)

Delivery of other valuable property;

(c)

Services;

(d)

The use of property; or

(e)

Credit extended by any licensed gaming establishment,
Ê drawn upon any real or fictitious person, bank, firm, partnership, corporation or depositary, when the person has insufficient money, property or credit with the drawee of the instrument to pay it in full upon its presentation, is guilty of a misdemeanor. If that instrument, or a series of instruments passed in the State during a period of 90 days, is in the amount of $650 or more, the person is guilty of a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130. In addition to any other penalty, the court shall order the person to pay restitution.

2.

A person who was previously convicted three times of a misdemeanor under the provisions of this section, or of an offense of a similar nature, in this State or any other state, or in a federal jurisdiction, who violates this section is guilty of a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130. In addition to any other penalty, the court shall order the person to pay restitution.

3.

A person who willfully issues any check or draft for the payment of wages in excess of $650, when the person knows he or she has insufficient money or credit with the drawee of the instrument to pay the instrument in full upon presentation is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

4.

For the purposes of this section, “credit” means an arrangement or understanding with a person, firm, corporation, bank or depositary for the payment of a check or other instrument.

Source: Section 205.130 — Issuance of check or draft without sufficient money or credit: Penalties., https://www.­leg.­state.­nv.­us/NRS/NRS-205.­html#NRS205Sec130 (accessed May 26, 2025).

205.085
Definitions. 205.090
Forgery of conveyances, negotiable instruments, stock certificates, wills and other instruments 205.095
Other acts constituting forgery. 205.100
Making, uttering or possessing with intent to utter fictitious bill, note or check. 205.105
Forgery of instrument purporting to have been issued by corporation or state. 205.110
Uttering forged instruments: Forgery. 205.115
True writing signed by wrongdoer’s name or name of person not in existence. 205.120
False certificate to certain instruments punishable as forgery. 205.125
Misconduct in signing, filing or altering petition 205.130
Issuance of check or draft without sufficient money or credit: Penalties. 205.132
Issuance of check or draft without sufficient money or credit: Presumptions of intent to defraud and knowledge of insufficiency 205.134
Issuance of check or draft without sufficient money or credit: Posting notices. 205.160
Possessing or receiving forged instruments or bills. 205.165
General reputation may be used to prove incorporation in trial for forgery of bill or note of incorporated company or bank. 205.170
Expert may prove forgery or counterfeit. 205.175
Counterfeiting seals 205.180
Counterfeiting gold dust, bars or other articles 205.185
Possessing or receiving counterfeit gold dust, silver, bullion or bars. 205.195
Counterfeiting stamps and labels. 205.200
Goods containing forged stamps. 205.205
Counterfeiting trademark or design. 205.210
Selling, displaying or advertising goods with false trademark. 205.215
Fraudulent registration of trademark. 205.216
Unlawful operation of audiovisual recording function in motion picture theater. 205.217
Unlawful reproduction or sale of sound recordings.

May 26, 2025

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