218A.905 - Conduct constituting unlawful interference with legislative process.

218A.905  Conduct constituting unlawful interference with legislative process.  Every person who, without legal authority, willfully does any of the following acts, alone or in concert with another, interferes with the legislative process:

      1.  Prevents or attempts to prevent the Legislature from conducting meetings.

      2.  Disturbs, disrupts or interferes with, or attempts to disturb, disrupt or interfere with, a meeting of the Legislature, any of its committees or any committee or commission created by the Legislature to perform legislative functions at the direction of the Legislature.

      3.  Withholds, defaces, alters or destroys any official document or record of the Legislature, which conduct interferes with the functioning of the Legislature.

      4.  Withholds, defaces, alters or destroys any property owned or used by the Legislature.

      5.  Remains in the legislative chamber, Legislative Building in Carson City, or any part thereof, or any room in which the Legislature is conducting its business, after being advised that the law or rule of the Legislature requires persons to leave after being asked to do so, and being asked to leave.

      6.  Prevents or attempts to prevent any member of the Legislature, or officer or employee thereof, from performing that person’s official duties.

      7.  Coerces or attempts to coerce any member of the Legislature, or officer or employee thereof, to perform any act under color of office, by any unlawful means, threats of violence, fraud or intimidation.

      8.  Possesses any firearm, explosive, dangerous device or deadly weapon in the Legislative Building or any other place where the Legislature is conducting its business.

      (Added to NRS by 1973, 217; A 1975, 1385)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 218.542)