211.180 - Exchange of labor for confinement: Promise of prisoner to appear; penalty for violation of promise.

211.180  Exchange of labor for confinement: Promise of prisoner to appear; penalty for violation of promise.

      1.  A prisoner who voluntarily exchanges labor for confinement shall give his or her promise to appear for work by signing a notice to appear before the sheriff or chief of police of the municipality at a time and place specified in the notice. The signed notice must be retained by the sheriff or chief of police and a copy given to the prisoner.

      2.  A prisoner who willfully violates his or her promise to appear is guilty of a misdemeanor.

      (Added to NRS by 1991, 306)