Title 171 · NRS Chapter 171

Breaking open door or window: Upon detention after making arrest.

Citation: NRS 171.142

Section: 171.171.142

NRS

171.142

Breaking open door or window: Upon detention after making arrest.

Any person who has entered a house, structure or other place of concealment to make an arrest may break open a door or window if that is necessary to liberate himself or herself. An officer may do the same to liberate a person who, acting in the officer’s aid, entered to make an arrest and is detained inside.

(Added to NRS by 1967, 1402 ; A 1983, 244 )