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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
Except as otherwise provided in NRS 205.226 and 205.228, a person commits grand larceny if the person:
1. Intentionally steals, takes and carries away, leads away or drives away:
(a) Personal goods or property, with a value of $1,200 or more, owned by another person;
(b) Bedding, furniture or other property, with a value of $1,200 or more, which the person, as a lodger, is to use in or with his or her lodging and which is owned by another person; or
(c) Real property, with a value of $1,200 or more, that the person has converted into personal property by severing it from real property owned by another person.
2. Uses a card or other device for automatically withdrawing or transferring money in a financial institution to obtain intentionally money to which the person knows he or she is not entitled.
3. Intentionally steals, takes and carries away, leads away, drives away or entices away:
(a) One or more head of livestock owned by another person; or
(b) One or more domesticated animals or domesticated birds, with an aggregate value of $1,200 or more, owned by another person.
4. With the intent to defraud, steal, appropriate or prevent identification:
(a) Marks or brands, causes to be marked or branded, alters or defaces a mark or brand, or causes to be altered or defaced a mark or brand upon one or more head of livestock owned by another person;
(b) Sells or purchases the hide or carcass of one or more head of livestock owned by another person that has had a mark or brand cut out or obliterated;
(c) Kills one or more head of livestock owned by another person but running at large, whether or not the livestock is marked or branded; or
(d) Kills one or more domesticated animals or domesticated birds, with an aggregate value of $1,200 or more, owned by another person but running at large, whether or not the animals or birds are marked or branded.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Nevada Revised Statutes Title 15. Crimes and Punishments § 205.220. Grand larceny: Definition - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/nv/title-15-crimes-and-punishments/nv-rev-st-205-220/
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