Nevada Code § 207.180

Threatening or obscene letters or writings
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1. Any person who knowingly sends or
delivers any letter or writing:
(a) Threatening to accuse another of a crime or
misdemeanor, or to expose or publish any of the other persons infirmities or
failings, with intent to extort money, goods, chattels or other valuable thing;
or
(b) Threatening to maim, wound, kill or murder,
or to burn or destroy the house or other property of another person, or to
accuse another of a crime or misdemeanor, or expose or publish any of the other
persons infirmities, though no money, goods, chattels or other valuable thing
be demanded,
is guilty of
a misdemeanor.
2. Any person who:
(a) Writes and sends, or writes and delivers,
either through the mail, express, by private parties or otherwise, any
anonymous letter, or any letter bearing a fictitious name, charging any person
with crime; or
(b) Writes and sends any anonymous letter or
letters bearing a fictitious name, containing vulgar or threatening language,
obscene pictures, or containing reflections upon his or her standing in society
or in the community,
is guilty of
a misdemeanor.

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