1. Every person who shall willfully print, publish, edit, issue, or knowingly circulate, sell, distribute or display any book, paper, document or written or printed matter, in any form, advocating, encouraging or inciting or having a tendency to encourage or incite the commission of any crime, breach of the peace, or act of violence, or which shall tend to encourage or advocate disrespect for law or for any court or courts of justice, shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
2. Every editor or proprietor of a book, newspaper or serial and every manager of a partnership, corporation or association by which a book, newspaper or serial is issued, is chargeable with the publication of any matter contained in such book, newspaper or serial. But in every prosecution therefor, the defendant may show in his or her defense that the matter complained of was published without the defendant’s knowledge or fault and against the defendant’s wishes by another who had no authority from the defendant to make the publication, and was retracted by the defendant as soon as known with an equal degree of publicity.
[1911 C&P § 352; RL § 6617; NCL § 10300] + [1911 C&P § 353; RL § 6618; NCL § 10301]
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 203 - Crimes Against the Public Peace
NRS 203.010 - Breach of peace.
NRS 203.020 - Assembling to disturb peace or to commit unlawful act.
NRS 203.030 - Provoking commission of breach of peace.
NRS 203.040 - Publishing matter inciting breach of peace or other crime.
NRS 203.060 - Unlawful assembly.
NRS 203.080 - Armed association.
NRS 203.090 - Disturbing meeting.
NRS 203.100 - Offenses in public conveyances.
NRS 203.110 - Forcible entry and detainer.
NRS 203.115 - Criminal anarchy.