Nevada Code § 205.975

Mail theft; penalties; definitions
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1. A person commits the crime of mail
theft if the person:
(a) Knowingly, willfully and with the intent to deprive,
injure, damage or defraud another:
(1) Takes, destroys, hides or embezzles
mail; or
(2) Obtains any mail by fraud or
deception;
(b) Buys, receives, conceals or possesses:
(1) Mail and knows or reasonably should
know that the mail was unlawfully taken or obtained;
(2) Any key suited to any lock adopted by
the United States Postal Service that provides access to any mail receptacle in
any neighborhood or apartment panel used for the purpose of centralized mail;
or
(3) A counterfeit device or key designed
to provide access to a lock described in subparagraph (2); or
(c) Knowingly, willfully and with the intent to
steal any mail inside, damages, opens, tears down, takes or destroys any mail
receptacle.
2. A person who violates any provision of
subsection 1 is guilty of a category D felony and shall be punished as provided
in NRS 193.130 . In addition to any other
penalty, the court shall order the person to pay restitution.
3. As used in this section:
(a) Mail means any letter, postal card, parcel,
package, bag or other material, along with its contents, that:
(1) Has postage affixed by the postal
customer or postal service;
(2) Has been accepted for delivery by the
postal service;
(3) The postal customer leaves for
collection by the postal service; or
(4) The postal service delivers to the
postal customer.
(b) Mail receptacle means a mailbox, post
office box, rural box, letter box, lock drawer or any place or area intended or
used by postal customers or a postal service for the collection, deposit or
delivery of mail.
(c) Postal service means the United States
Postal Service or a private common mail carrier.

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