Nevada Code § 281.190

Unlawful withholding or destruction of records; penalties
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1. If an officer whose office is abolished
by law, or who, after the expiration of the term for which the officer is
appointed or elected, or after the officer has resigned, or when legally
removed from office, willfully or unlawfully withholds or detains from the
officers successor, or other person entitled thereto by law, the records,
papers, documents or other writings pertaining or belonging to the officers
office, or mutilates, destroys or takes away any such writing, the person so
offending is guilty of a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130 .
2. The provisions of this section apply to
any person who has possession of the records, documents, papers or other
writings and willfully mutilates, withholds or detains them.

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