Nevada Revised Statutes Section 707.910 - Energy - Public Utilities

Penalty for damaging or interfering with use of telegraph or telephone line. Any person who:

1. By the attachment of a ground wire, or by any other contrivance, willfully destroys the insulation of a telegraph or telephone line, or interrupts the transmission of the electric current through the line;

2. Willfully interferes with the use of any telegraph or telephone line, or obstructs or postpones the transmission of any message over the line; or

3. Procures or advises any such injury, interference or obstruction,

Ê is guilty of a public offense, as prescribed in NRS 193.155, proportionate to the value of any property damaged, altered, removed or destroyed and in no event less than a misdemeanor.

Last modified: February 26, 2006