Assembly Bill No. 10–Committee on Judiciary

 

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AN ACT relating to crimes; repealing the prohibition against a person refusing to relinquish a party line for an emergency call or securing the use of a party line by falsely stating that it is needed for an emergency call; revising the definition of public telephone for the purposes of the statute prohibiting a person from refusing to relinquish a public telephone for an emergency call and from falsely stating that it is needed for an emergency call; repealing the prohibition against a person pasturing livestock in a cemetery; repealing the prohibition against a person shearing sheep within a city or town; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

    Section 1.  NRS 207.161 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    207.161  As used in NRS 207.163:

    1.  “Emergency call” means a situation in which property or

 human life is in jeopardy and the prompt summoning of aid is

 essential.

    2.  [“Party line” means a subscribers’ line telephone circuit,

 consisting of two or more main telephone stations connected

 therewith, each station having a distinctive ring or telephone

 number.

    3.] “Public telephone” means a telephone which is made

 available to the public upon the deposit of a coin [.] , currency or

 other monetary instrument or through the use of a calling card,

 credit card or debit card.

    Sec. 2.  NRS 207.163 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    207.163  1.  [It is unlawful for a person to refuse to relinquish

 a party line immediately when he has been informed that the line is

 needed for an emergency call and in fact the line is needed for an

 emergency call.

    2.] It is unlawful for a person to refuse to relinquish a public

 telephone immediately when he has been informed that it is needed

 for an emergency call and in fact the line is needed for an

 emergency call and there is no other reasonably apparent and

 immediately accessible telephone from which to make the call.

    [3.] 2. It is unlawful for a person to secure the use of a [party

 line or] public telephone by falsely stating that it is needed for an

 emergency call.

    Sec. 3.  NRS 452.001 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    452.001  The provisions of NRS 452.001 to 452.610, inclusive:

    1.  Except NRS 452.002, 452.030[, 452.290] and 452.300, do

not apply to a person maintaining a cemetery but not operating as a

 cemetery authority on July 5, 1971.

    2.  Do not apply to cemeteries containing the remains of pets

 only.

    Sec. 4.  NRS 452.290 and 575.030 are hereby repealed.

 

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