200.463 - Involuntary servitude; penalties. - Nevada Statutes

200.463  Involuntary servitude; penalties.

      1.  A person who knowingly subjects, or attempts to subject, another person to forced labor or services by:

      (a) Causing or threatening to cause physical harm to any person;

      (b) Physically restraining or threatening to physically restrain any person;

      (c) Abusing or threatening to abuse the law or legal process;

      (d) Knowingly destroying, concealing, removing, confiscating or possessing any actual or purported passport or other immigration document, or any other actual or purported government identification document, of the person;

      (e) Extortion; or

      (f) Causing or threatening to cause financial harm to any person,

Ê is guilty of holding a person in involuntary servitude.

      2.  A person who is found guilty of holding a person in involuntary servitude is guilty of a category B felony and shall be punished:

      (a) Where the victim suffers substantial bodily harm while held in involuntary servitude or in attempted escape or escape therefrom, by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 7 years and a maximum term of not more than 20 years, and may be further punished by a fine of not more than $50,000.

      (b) Where the victim suffers no substantial bodily harm as a result of being held in involuntary servitude, by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 5 years and a maximum term of not more than 20 years, and may be further punished by a fine of not more than $50,000.

      (Added to NRS by 2005, 87)