Nevada Code § 197.100

Influencing public officer
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1. Every person who shall ask or receive
any compensation, gratuity or reward, or any promise thereof:
(a) Upon the representation that the person can,
directly or indirectly, or in consideration that the person shall, or shall
attempt to, directly or indirectly, influence any public officer, whether
executive, administrative, judicial or legislative, to refuse, neglect, or
defer the performance of any official duty;
(b) The right to retain or receive which shall be
conditioned that such person shall, directly or indirectly, successfully
influence by any means whatever any executive, administrative or legislative
officer, in respect to any act, decision, vote, opinion or other proceeding, as
such officer; or
(c) Upon the representation that the person can,
directly or indirectly, or in consideration that the person shall, or shall
attempt to, directly or indirectly, influence any public officer, whether
executive, administrative, judicial or legislative, in respect to any act,
decision, vote, opinion or other proceeding, as such officer, unless it be
clearly understood and agreed in good faith between the parties thereto, on
both sides, that no means or influence shall be employed except explanation and
argument upon the merits,
shall be
guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
2. In any prosecution under paragraph (c)
of subsection 1, evidence of the means actually employed to influence such
officer shall be admitted as proof of the means originally contemplated by the
defendant.

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