Learn About The Law
Get help with your legal needs
FindLaw’s Learn About the Law features thousands of informational articles to help you understand your options. And if you’re ready to hire an attorney, find one in your area who can help.
Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
1. A person who knowingly subjects, or attempts to subject, another person to forced labor or services by:
(a) Causing or threatening to cause physical harm to any person;
(b) Physically restraining or threatening to physically restrain any person;
(c) Abusing or threatening to abuse the law or legal process;
(d) Knowingly destroying, concealing, removing, confiscating or possessing any actual or purported passport or other immigration document, or any other actual or purported government identification document, of the person;
(e) Extortion;
(f) Causing or threatening to cause financial harm to any person;
(g) Debt bondage;
(h) Peonage; or
(i) Using a scheme, plan or pattern intended to cause the person to believe that the failure to perform an act would result in serious harm or physical restraint against any person,
is guilty of holding a person in involuntary servitude.
2. Unless a greater penalty is provided in NRS 200.4631, a person who is found guilty of holding a person in involuntary servitude is guilty of a category B felony and shall be punished:
(a) Where the victim suffers substantial bodily harm while held in involuntary servitude or in attempted escape or escape therefrom, by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 7 years and a maximum term of not more than 20 years, and may be further punished by a fine of not more than $50,000.
(b) Where the victim suffers no substantial bodily harm as a result of being held in involuntary servitude, by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 5 years and a maximum term of not more than 20 years, and may be further punished by a fine of not more than $50,000.
3. As used in this section:
(a) “Debt bondage” has the meaning ascribed to it in 22 U.S.C. § 7102.
(b) “Peonage” means a status or condition of compulsory service based upon real or alleged indebtedness.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Nevada Revised Statutes Title 15. Crimes and Punishments § 200.463. Involuntary servitude; penalties - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/nv/title-15-crimes-and-punishments/nv-rev-st-200-463/
FindLaw Codes may not reflect the most recent version of the law in your jurisdiction. Please verify the status of the code you are researching with the state legislature before relying on it for your legal needs.
A free source of state and federal court opinions, state laws, and the United States Code. For more information about the legal concepts addressed by these cases and statutes, visit FindLaw’s Learn About the Law.
Get help with your legal needs
FindLaw’s Learn About the Law features thousands of informational articles to help you understand your options. And if you’re ready to hire an attorney, find one in your area who can help.
Search our directory by legal issue
Enter information in one or both fields (Required)