Nevada Code § 205.377

Multiple transactions involving fraud or deceit in course of enterprise or occupation; penalty; investigation and prosecution by Attorney General
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1. A person shall not, in the course of an
enterprise or occupation, knowingly and with the intent to defraud, engage in
an act, practice or course of business or employ a device, scheme or artifice
which operates or would operate as a fraud or deceit upon a person by means of
a false representation or omission of a material fact that:
(a) The person knows to be false or omitted;
(b) The person intends another to rely on; and
(c) Results in a loss to any person who relied on
the false representation or omission,
in at least
two transactions that have the same or similar pattern, intents, results,
accomplices, victims or methods of commission, or are otherwise interrelated by
distinguishing characteristics and are not isolated incidents within 4 years
and in which the aggregate loss or intended loss is more than $1,200.
2. Each act which violates subsection 1
constitutes a separate offense.
3. A person who violates subsection 1 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 20 years, and may be further punished by a fine of not more than
$10,000.
4. In addition to any other penalty, the
court shall order a person who violates subsection 1 to pay restitution.
5. A violation of this section constitutes
a deceptive trade practice for the purposes of NRS 598.0903 to 598.0999 , inclusive.
6. The Attorney General may investigate
and prosecute a violation of this section and any other statute violated in the
course of committing a violation of this section.
7. As used in this section, enterprise
has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS
207.380 .

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