707.910 - Penalty for damaging or interfering with use of telegraph or telephone line. - Nevada Statutes

707.910  Penalty for damaging or interfering with use of telegraph or telephone line.  Any person who:

      1.  By the attachment of a ground wire, or by any other contrivance, willfully destroys the insulation of a telegraph or telephone line, or interrupts the transmission of the electric current through the line;

      2.  Willfully interferes with the use of any telegraph or telephone line, or obstructs or postpones the transmission of any message over the line; or

      3.  Procures or advises any such injury, interference or obstruction,

Ê is guilty of a public offense, as prescribed in NRS 193.155, proportionate to the value of any property damaged, altered, removed or destroyed and in no event less than a misdemeanor.

      [8:86:1864; B § 3504; BH § 929; C § 1059; RL § 4610; NCL § 7652]—(NRS A 1967, 665; 1979, 1495; 1999, 809)

      NRS 707.920  Civil liability for violation of NRS 707.910.  Any person found to be in violation of the provisions of NRS 707.910 is, in addition to the penalties therein prescribed, liable to the person damaged in a civil suit for all damages occasioned thereby.

      [9:86:1864; B § 3505; BH § 930; C § 1060; RL § 4611; NCL § 7653]—(NRS A 1999, 809)