Nevada Code § 200.463

Involuntary servitude; penalties
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1. A person who knowingly subjects, or
attempts to subject, another person to forced labor or services by:
(a) Causing or threatening to cause physical harm
to any person;
(b) Physically restraining or threatening to
physically restrain any person;
(c) Abusing or threatening to abuse the law or
legal process;
(d) Knowingly destroying, concealing, removing,
confiscating or possessing any actual or purported passport or other
immigration document, or any other actual or purported government
identification document, of the person;
(e) Extortion;
(f) Causing or threatening to cause financial
harm to any person;
(g) Debt bondage;
(h) Peonage; or
(i) Using a scheme, plan or pattern intended to
cause the person to believe that the failure to perform an act would result in
serious harm or physical restraint against any person,
is guilty of
holding a person in involuntary servitude.
2. Unless a greater penalty is provided in NRS 200.4631 , a person who is found
guilty of holding a person in involuntary servitude is guilty of a category B
felony and shall be punished:
(a) Where the victim suffers substantial bodily
harm while held in involuntary servitude or in attempted escape or escape
therefrom, by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less
than 7 years and a maximum term of not more than 20 years, and may be further
punished by a fine of not more than $50,000.
(b) Where the victim suffers no substantial
bodily harm as a result of being held in involuntary servitude, by imprisonment
in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 5 years and a maximum
term of not more than 20 years, and may be further punished by a fine of not
more than $50,000.
3. As used in this section:
(a) Debt bondage has the meaning ascribed to it
in 22 U.S.C. 7102.
(b) Peonage means a status or condition of
compulsory service based upon real or alleged indebtedness.

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