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Nevada Revised Statutes Title 15. Crimes and Punishments § 205.975. Mail theft; penalties; definitions

Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff

1. A person commits the crime of mail theft if the person:

(a) Knowingly, willfully and with the intent to deprive, injure, damage or defraud another:

(1) Takes, destroys, hides or embezzles mail; or

(2) Obtains any mail by fraud or deception;

(b) Buys, receives, conceals or possesses:

(1) Mail and knows or reasonably should know that the mail was unlawfully taken or obtained;

(2) Any key suited to any lock adopted by the United States Postal Service that provides access to any mail receptacle in any neighborhood or apartment panel used for the purpose of centralized mail; or

(3) A counterfeit device or key designed to provide access to a lock described in subparagraph (2); or

(c) Knowingly, willfully and with the intent to steal any mail inside, damages, opens, tears down, takes or destroys any mail receptacle.

2. A person who violates any provision of subsection 1 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. As used in this section:

(a) “Mail” means any letter, postal card, parcel, package, bag or other material, along with its contents, that:

(1) Has postage affixed by the postal customer or postal service;

(2) Has been accepted for delivery by the postal service;

(3) The postal customer leaves for collection by the postal service; or

(4) The postal service delivers to the postal customer.

(b) “Mail receptacle” means a mailbox, post office box, rural box, letter box, lock drawer or any place or area intended or used by postal customers or a postal service for the collection, deposit or delivery of mail.

(c) “Postal service” means the United States Postal Service or a private common mail carrier.

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