Involuntary servitude; penalties.

NRS

200.463

Involuntary servitude; penalties.

1. A person who knowingly subjects, or attempts to subject, another person to forced labor or services by:

(a) Causing or threatening to cause physical harm to any person;

(b) Physically restraining or threatening to physically restrain any person;

(c) Abusing or threatening to abuse the law or legal process;

(d) Knowingly destroying, concealing, removing, confiscating or possessing any actual or purported passport or other immigration document, or any other actual or purported government identification document, of the person;

(e) Extortion;

(f) Causing or threatening to cause financial harm to any person;

(g) Debt bondage;

(h) Peonage; or

(i) Using a scheme, plan or pattern intended to cause the person to believe that the failure to perform an act would result in serious harm or physical restraint against any person,

Ê is guilty of holding a person in involuntary servitude.

2. Unless a greater penalty is provided in

NRS 200.4631 , a person who is found guilty of holding a person in involuntary servitude is guilty of a category B felony and shall be punished:

(a) Where the victim suffers substantial bodily harm while held in involuntary servitude or in attempted escape or escape therefrom, by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 7 years and a maximum term of not more than 20 years, and may be further punished by a fine of not more than $50,000.

(b) Where the victim suffers no substantial bodily harm as a result of being held in involuntary servitude, by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not less than 5 years and a maximum term of not more than 20 years, and may be further punished by a fine of not more than $50,000.

3. As used in this section:

(a) “Debt bondage” has the meaning ascribed to it in 22 U.S.C. § 7102.

(b) “Peonage” means a status or condition of compulsory service based upon real or alleged indebtedness.

(Added to NRS by 2005, 87 ; A 2013, 1853 ; 2023, 208 )