Assembly Bill No. 10–Committee on Judiciary

 

(On Behalf of Legislative Committee to
Study Categories of Misdemeanors
(ACR 2 of the 17th Special Session))

 

Prefiled January 27, 2003

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Referred to Committee on Judiciary

 

SUMMARY—Repeals various crimes and revises definition of public telephone for purpose of statute prohibiting persons from refusing to relinquish public telephone for emergency call and from falsely stating that public telephone is needed for emergency call. (BDR 15‑190)

 

FISCAL NOTE:  Effect on Local Government: No.

                           Effect on the State: No.

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

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:

 

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

1-2  207.161  As used in NRS 207.163:

2-1  1.  “Emergency call” means a situation in which property or

2-2  human life is in jeopardy and the prompt summoning of aid is

2-3  essential.

2-4  2.  [“Party line” means a subscribers’ line telephone circuit,

2-5  consisting of two or more main telephone stations connected

2-6  therewith, each station having a distinctive ring or telephone

2-7  number.

2-8  3.] “Public telephone” means a telephone which is made

2-9  available to the public upon the deposit of a coin [.] , currency or

2-10  other monetary instrument or through the use of a calling card,

2-11  credit card or debit card.

2-12      Sec. 2.  NRS 207.163 is hereby amended to read as follows:

2-13      207.163  1.  [It is unlawful for a person to refuse to relinquish

2-14  a party line immediately when he has been informed that the line is

2-15  needed for an emergency call and in fact the line is needed for an

2-16  emergency call.

2-17      2.] It is unlawful for a person to refuse to relinquish a public

2-18  telephone immediately when he has been informed that it is needed

2-19  for an emergency call and in fact the line is needed for an

2-20  emergency call and there is no other reasonably apparent and

2-21  immediately accessible telephone from which to make the call.

2-22      [3.] 2. It is unlawful for a person to secure the use of a [party

2-23  line or] public telephone by falsely stating that it is needed for an

2-24  emergency call.

2-25      Sec. 3.  NRS 452.001 is hereby amended to read as follows:

2-26      452.001  The provisions of NRS 452.001 to 452.610, inclusive:

2-27      1.  Except NRS 452.002, 452.030[, 452.290] and 452.300, do

2-28  not apply to a person maintaining a cemetery but not operating as a

2-29  cemetery authority on July 5, 1971.

2-30      2.  Do not apply to cemeteries containing the remains of pets

2-31  only.

2-32      Sec. 4.  NRS 452.290 and 575.030 are hereby repealed.

 

2-33  TEXT OF REPEALED SECTIONS

 

2-34      452.290  Pasturing livestock in cemetery unlawful; penalty.

2-35   Any person who shall pasture or cause to be pastured any livestock

2-36   of any description within an enclosed private or public cemetery is

2-37   guilty of a misdemeanor.

2-38      575.030  Shearing sheep within city or town.

2-39      1.  It shall be unlawful for any sheep to be penned, housed or

2-40   fed for the purpose of being sheared, or to be sheared, within the

3-1  ordinary limits of any city or town of this state during any period of

3-2  the year. This shall not apply to any place not within one-half mile

3-3   of a residence.

3-4  2.  Any person, corporation or agent, being the owner of or

3-5   having control or charge of any sheep, who shall willfully violate

3-6   any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a

3-7   misdemeanor.

 

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