504.490 - Unlawful acts; penalty.
504.490 Unlawful acts; penalty.
1. Any person, not authorized to do so, who:
(a) Removes or attempts to remove a wild horse from the public lands;
(b) Converts a wild horse to private use;
(c) Harasses a wild horse or, except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, kills a wild horse;
(d) Uses an aircraft or a motor vehicle to hunt any wild horse;
(e) Pollutes or causes the pollution of a watering hole on public land to trap, wound, kill or maim a wild horse;
(f) Makes or causes the remains of a wild horse to be made into any commercial product;
(g) Sells a wild horse which strays onto private property; or
(h) Willfully violates a regulation adopted by the Commission for the Preservation of Wild Horses,
Ê is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
2. A person who willfully and maliciously kills a wild horse is guilty of a category C felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.
(Added to NRS by 1985, 1889; A 1999, 2516)