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)