705.480 - Tampering with railroad property; penalty. - Nevada Statutes

705.480  Tampering with railroad property; penalty.

      1.  It is unlawful for any person without authority to:

      (a) Willfully uncouple or detach any locomotive, tender or any car of any railroad train, either when standing or in motion on any track of any railroad.

      (b) Take off the brake of any railroad car, tender or train.

      (c) Put in motion any locomotive, tender, car or train.

      2.  It is unlawful for any person to:

      (a) Throw any stone, rock, missile, or any substance at any railroad train, car, locomotive or tender, or any part of any train.

      (b) Wrongfully injure, deface or damage the same or any part thereof.

      3.  Any person violating any provision of this section is guilty of a public offense, as prescribed in NRS 193.155, proportionate to the value of the property damaged, and in no event less than a misdemeanor.

      [Part 1911 C&P § 484; A 1941, 276; 1931 NCL § 10431]—(NRS A 1967, 662; 1979, 158)