Nevada Code § 575.020

Allowing vicious animal to escape or run at large; penalty; vicious animal may be killed; liability of person having care or custody of animal which chases, worries, injures or kills livestock of another
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1. Every person having the care or custody
of any animal known to possess any vicious or dangerous tendencies, who allows
it to escape or run at large in any place or manner liable to endanger the
safety of any person, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
2. Any person may lawfully and without
liability for damages kill such an animal when reasonably necessary to protect
his or her own safety or the public safety, or if the animal chases, worries,
injures or kills the persons livestock on the land of any person other than
that of the owner of the animal.
3. Every person having the care or custody
of an animal which chases, worries, injures or kills the livestock of another
on land other than his or her own is liable to the owner of the livestock for
damage to it.
4. As used in this section, livestock
means all animals of the bovine, caprine, equine, ovine and porcine species,
and all domesticated fowl and rabbits.

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