Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 501 - Administration and Enforcement
NRS 501.1816 - System of assessing demerit points for wildlife convictions: Reduction of accumulated points; suspension or revocation of licenses, permits or privileges.


1. If a person accumulates 9 or more demerit points, but less than 12, the Department shall notify the person of that fact by certified mail. If, after the Department mails the notice, the person presents proof to the Department that he or she has, after his or her most recent wildlife conviction, successfully completed a course of instruction in the responsibilities of hunters approved by the Department, the Department shall deduct 4 demerit points from the person’s record. A person may attend a course of instruction in the responsibilities of hunters only once in 60 months for the purpose of reducing his or her demerit points.
2. If a person accumulates 12 or more demerit points before completing a course of instruction pursuant to subsection 1, the Department shall suspend or revoke any license, permit or privilege issued to the person pursuant to this title.
3. Not later than 60 days after the Department determines that a person has accumulated 12 demerit points, the Department shall notify the person by certified mail that the person’s privileges will be suspended or revoked. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, the Department shall suspend or revoke those privileges 30 days after it mails the notice.
4. Any person who receives the notice required by subsection 3 may submit to the Department a written request for a hearing before the Commission not later than 30 days after the receipt of the notice. If a written request for a hearing is received by the Department:
(a) The suspension or revocation of the license, permit or privilege is stayed until a determination is made by the Commission after the hearing.
(b) The hearing must be held within 60 days after the request is received.
5. The periods of suspension or revocation imposed pursuant to this section must run concurrently. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, no license, permit or privilege may be suspended or revoked pursuant to this section for more than 3 years. The license, permit or privilege of a person who is convicted pursuant to NRS 501.376 of:
(a) A gross misdemeanor may not be suspended or revoked for more than 5 years;
(b) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (c), a felony may not be suspended or revoked for more than 10 years; or
(c) Two or more felonies, arising from separate events, must be permanently revoked.
6. If the Department suspends or revokes a license, permit or privilege pursuant to this section, the period of suspension or revocation begins 30 days after notification pursuant to subsection 3 or a determination is made by the Commission pursuant to subsection 4. After a person’s license, permit or privilege is suspended or revoked pursuant to this section, all demerit points accumulated by that person must be cancelled.
(Added to NRS by 1995, 897; A 1997, 1026; 1999, 1044; 2003, 1523; 2005, 1308; 2009, 2645)

Structure Nevada Revised Statutes

Nevada Revised Statutes

Chapter 501 - Administration and Enforcement

NRS 501.001 - Definitions.

NRS 501.003 - "Alternative livestock" defined.

NRS 501.005 - "Big game mammal" defined.

NRS 501.010 - "Board" defined.

NRS 501.013 - "Chumming" defined.

NRS 501.015 - "Closed season" defined.

NRS 501.020 - "Commission" defined.

NRS 501.023 - "County" defined.

NRS 501.024 - "Department" defined.

NRS 501.026 - "Director" defined.

NRS 501.030 - "Fishes," "fishing," "fished" and "to fish" defined.

NRS 501.035 - "Fur-bearing mammal" defined.

NRS 501.037 - "Game amphibian" defined.

NRS 501.045 - "Game fish" defined.

NRS 501.046 - "Game mammal" defined.

NRS 501.047 - "Game warden" defined.

NRS 501.050 - "Hunting," "hunted" and "to hunt" defined.

NRS 501.055 - "Migratory game birds" defined.

NRS 501.065 - "Open season" defined.

NRS 501.088 - "Took," "taken," "taking" and "to take" defined.

NRS 501.089 - "Trap" defined.

NRS 501.090 - "Trapping," "trapped" and "to trap" defined.

NRS 501.095 - "Upland game birds" defined.

NRS 501.096 - "Vessel" defined.

NRS 501.097 - "Wildlife" defined.

NRS 501.100 - Legislative declaration regarding wildlife.

NRS 501.102 - Legislative declaration regarding hunting.

NRS 501.105 - Commission to establish policies and adopt regulations.

NRS 501.110 - Classification of wildlife.

NRS 501.115 - Acceptance of federal aid in projects for restoration of wildlife pursuant to the Pittman-Robertson Act.

NRS 501.117 - Acceptance of federal aid in projects for restoration and management of fish pursuant to the Dingell-Johnson Act.

NRS 501.118 - Manner of publication of order or regulation regarding seasons, bag limits or hours.

NRS 501.119 - Collection of data from hunters, trappers and anglers; penalty for failure to comply; immunity from prosecution on basis of information supplied.

NRS 501.121 - Contact information to be posted on guzzler.

NRS 501.167 - Creation; number and appointment of members.

NRS 501.171 - Appointment and qualifications of members; officers.

NRS 501.172 - Removal of member from office.

NRS 501.177 - Meetings; quorum.

NRS 501.179 - Compensation of members.

NRS 501.181 - Duties; regulations.

NRS 501.1812 - System of assessing demerit points for wildlife convictions: Definitions.

NRS 501.1814 - System of assessing demerit points for wildlife convictions: Establishment and administration of system; assessment and deletion of points.

NRS 501.1816 - System of assessing demerit points for wildlife convictions: Reduction of accumulated points; suspension or revocation of licenses, permits or privileges.

NRS 501.1817 - System of assessing demerit points for wildlife convictions: Judicial review of suspension or revocation of license, permit or privilege.

NRS 501.1818 - System of assessing demerit points for wildlife convictions: Regulations.

NRS 501.182 - Cooperative agreements with adjoining states.

NRS 501.243 - Enforcement of chapter 488 of NRS; regulations; cooperative agreements.

NRS 501.260 - Creation; number of members; officers.

NRS 501.265 - Appointment of members; vacancies.

NRS 501.270 - Qualifications of members.

NRS 501.275 - Appointment and terms of members.

NRS 501.285 - Compensation of members.

NRS 501.290 - Meetings.

NRS 501.293 - Removal of member.

NRS 501.297 - Duties: Evaluating local opinion and advising Commission.

NRS 501.303 - Duties: Submission of recommendations; attendance of chair or other members at meetings of Commission.

NRS 501.310 - Fund for advisory board.

NRS 501.320 - Budgets.

NRS 501.325 - Duties of county auditor and county treasurer.

NRS 501.331 - Creation; administration of laws.

NRS 501.333 - Director: Appointment; qualifications; classification.

NRS 501.337 - Director: Duties.

NRS 501.339 - Director: Exercise of powers of Commission in emergency; designation of deputies and game wardens.

NRS 501.341 - Offices.

NRS 501.343 - Collection and dissemination of certain information; publications.

NRS 501.344 - Confidentiality of information obtained by Department.

NRS 501.346 - Fees for advertising in printed materials or on website of Department.

NRS 501.349 - Game wardens.

NRS 501.351 - Cooperative and reciprocal agreements.

NRS 501.352 - Reporting of suspected communicable diseases in wildlife.

NRS 501.3525 - Taking of wildlife by employee of Department.

NRS 501.3535 - Fences constructed by Department: Requirements concerning construction and maintenance.

NRS 501.354 - Receipt, deposit and expenditure of money.

NRS 501.356 - Wildlife Account.

NRS 501.3575 - Wildlife Heritage Account.

NRS 501.3585 - Wildlife Trust Fund.

NRS 501.359 - Wildlife Imprest Account.

NRS 501.361 - Petty Cash Account.

NRS 501.363 - Change Account.

NRS 501.375 - Powers and duties of game wardens, sheriffs and other peace officers.

NRS 501.376 - Unlawful killing or possession of bighorn sheep, mountain goat, elk, deer, moose, pronghorn antelope, mountain lion or black bear; exceptions; criminal penalties.

NRS 501.3765 - Unlawful activities concerning traps, snares or similar devices owned by another person; criminal penalties.

NRS 501.377 - Unlawful to remove, tamper with or alter tag placed on wildlife or equipment seized as evidence.

NRS 501.379 - Unlawful sales of wildlife or importation of game mammals, game birds or game amphibians; exception.

NRS 501.381 - Unlawful sale of game fish.

NRS 501.382 - Unlawful feeding of big game mammal; penalties; exceptions.

NRS 501.383 - Unlawful vandalism of sign or notice erected by Department.

NRS 501.384 - Unlawful possession of certain wildlife from another state or country.

NRS 501.3845 - Unlawful to bring into this State or possess carcasses or any part of carcasses of certain animals susceptible to chronic wasting disease from another state, territory or country; exceptions; destruction or removal.

NRS 501.385 - Unlawful acts; criminal penalties.

NRS 501.3855 - Civil penalties.

NRS 501.3857 - Forfeitures.

NRS 501.386 - Citation of violators.

NRS 501.3865 - Failure to appear by holder of license, tag or permit.

NRS 501.3867 - Failure to appear by person who does not hold license, tag or permit.

NRS 501.387 - Penalties concerning licenses; confiscation and disposal of wildlife.

NRS 501.388 - Revocation of license and of privilege to apply for big game tag on conviction of certain violations.

NRS 501.389 - Sale, donation or retention of equipment seized as evidence.

NRS 501.395 - Rewards.