Nev. Rev. Stat. § 200.463 (2026)
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)