205.290 - Restoration of stolen property to owner. - Nevada Statutes

205.290  Restoration of stolen property to owner.  All property obtained by larceny, robbery, burglary or embezzlement and found in the possession of the thief or embezzler thereof, or in the possession of any receiver or wrongful possessor of stolen property, shall be restored to the owner.

      [1911 C&P § 385; A 1935, 370; 1931 NCL § 10337]—(NRS A 1971, 926)

      NRS 205.295  Restoration of stolen property: Duties of officers.  The officer arresting any person charged as principal or accessory in any robbery or larceny shall use reasonable diligence to secure the property alleged to have been stolen, and after seizure shall be answerable therefor while it remains in the officer’s hands, and shall annex a schedule thereof to the return of the warrant. Whenever the district attorney shall require such property for use as evidence upon the examination or trial, such officer, upon the demand of the district attorney, shall deliver it to the district attorney and take a receipt therefor, after which such district attorney shall be answerable for the same.

      [1911 C&P § 386; RL § 6651; NCL § 10338]