Nevada Code § 203.115

Criminal anarchy
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1. Criminal anarchy is the doctrine that
organized government should be overthrown by force or violence, or by
assassination of the executive head or of any of the executive officials of
government, or by any unlawful means.
2. It is unlawful:
(a) For any person, by word of mouth or writing,
to advocate, advise or teach the duty, necessity or propriety of overthrowing
or overturning organized government by force or violence, or by assassination
of the executive head or of any of the executive officials of government, or by
any unlawful means;
(b) For any person to print, publish, edit, issue
or knowingly to circulate, sell, distribute or publicly to display any book,
paper, document, or written or printed matter in any form, containing or
advocating, advising or teaching the doctrine that organized government should
be overthrown by force, violence or any unlawful means;
(c) For any person openly, willfully and
deliberately to justify by word of mouth or writing the assassination or
unlawful killing or assaulting of any executive or other officer of the United
States or of any state or of any civilized nation having an organized
government because of his or her official character, or any other crime, with
the intent to teach, spread or advocate the propriety of the doctrines of
criminal anarchy;
(d) For any person to organize or help to
organize or become a member of or voluntarily to assemble with any society,
group or assembly of persons formed to teach or advocate such a doctrine;
(e) For two or more persons to assemble for the
purpose of advocating or teaching the doctrines of criminal anarchy as defined
in subsection 1; or
(f) For any owner, agent, superintendent,
janitor, caretaker or occupant of any place, building or room willfully and
knowingly to permit therein any assemblage of persons prohibited by paragraph
(e), or, after notification that the premises are so used, to permit such use
to be continued.
3. A person who violates the provisions of
subsection 2 is guilty of a category B felony and shall be punished by
imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 1 year and
a maximum term of not more than 6 years, and may be further punished by a fine
of not more than $10,000.

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