200.550 - Furnishing libelous information: Penalty. - Nevada Statutes

200.550  Furnishing libelous information: Penalty.  Every person who shall willfully state, deliver or transmit by any means whatever to any manager, editor, publisher, reporter or other employee of a publisher of any newspaper, magazine, publication, periodical or serial any statement concerning any person or corporation which, if published therein, would be a libel shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.

      [1911 C&P § 167; RL § 6432; NCL § 10114]

      NRS 200.560  Threatening to publish libel: Penalty.  Every person who shall threaten another with the publication of a libel concerning the latter, or his or her spouse, parent, child or other family member, and every person who offers to prevent the publication of a libel upon another person upon condition of the payment of, or with intent to extort, money or other valuable consideration from any person, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

      [1911 C&P § 168; RL § 6433; NCL § 10115]