Nevada § 207.180 - Threatening or obscene letters or writings

§ 207.180. Threatening or obscene letters or writings

1. Any person who knowingly sends or delivers any letter or writing: (a) Threatening to accuse another of a crime or misdemeanor, or to expose or publish

any of the other person’s infirmities or failings, with intent to extort money, goods,

chattels or other valuable thing; or (b) Threatening to maim, wound, kill or murder, or to burn or destroy the house or

other property of another person, or to accuse another of a crime or misdemeanor,

or expose or publish any of the other person’s infirmities, though no money, goods,

chattels or other valuable thing be demanded, is guilty of a misdemeanor. 2. Any person who: (a) Writes and sends, or writes and delivers, either through the mail, express, by

private parties or otherwise, any anonymous letter, or any letter bearing a fictitious

name, charging any person with crime; or (b) Writes and sends any anonymous letter or letters bearing a fictitious name, containing

vulgar or threatening language, obscene pictures, or containing reflections upon his

or her standing in society or in the community, is guilty of a misdemeanor.