205.540 - Issue of duplicate or additional negotiable document of title not so marked.

205.540  Issue of duplicate or additional negotiable document of title not so marked.  Except as otherwise provided in chapter 104 of NRS, a bailee, or any officer, agent or servant of a bailee, who issues or aids in issuing a duplicate or additional negotiable document of title, knowing that a former negotiable document for the same goods or any part of them is outstanding and uncanceled, shall be punished:

      1.  Where the value of the goods purported to be covered by the document of title is $250 or more, for a category D felony as provided in NRS 193.130. In addition to any other penalty, the court shall order the person to pay restitution.

      2.  Where the value is less than $250, for a misdemeanor.

      (Added to NRS by 1965, 927; A 1967, 510; 1979, 1450; 1989, 1439; 1995, 1230)