Nevada Code § 412.549

Stalking
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1. Any person subject to this Code:
(a) Who wrongfully engages in a course of conduct
directed at a specific person that would cause a reasonable person to fear
death or bodily harm, including, without limitation, sexual assault, to himself
or herself or a member of his or her immediate family;
(b) Who has knowledge or should have knowledge
that the specific person will be placed in reasonable fear of death or bodily
harm, including, without limitation, sexual assault, to himself or herself or a
member of his or her immediate family; and
(c) Whose acts induce reasonable fear in the
specific person of death or bodily harm, including sexual assault, to himself
or herself or a member of his or her immediate family,
is guilty of
stalking and shall be punished as a court-martial may direct.
2. As used in this section:
(a) Course of conduct means a repeated:
(1) Maintenance of visual or physical
proximity to a specific person; or
(2) Conveyance of verbal threats, written
threats or threats implied by conduct or a combination of such threats,
directed at or toward a specific person.
(b) Immediate family, in the case of a specific
person, means a spouse, parent, child or sibling of that person or any other
family member, relative or intimate partner of the person who regularly resides
in the household of the person or who regularly engages in contact with the
person.
(c) Repeated, with respect to conduct, means
two or more occasions of such conduct.

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