NRS199.120. Definition; penalties.

  A person, having taken a lawful oath or made affirmation in a judicial proceeding or in any other matter where, by law, an oath or affirmation is required and no other penalty is prescribed, who:

      1.  Willfully makes an unqualified statement of that which the person does not know to be true;

      2.  Swears or affirms willfully and falsely in a matter material to the issue or point in question;

      3.  Suborns any other person to make such an unqualified statement or to swear or affirm in such a manner;

      4.  Executes an affidavit pursuant to NRS 15.010 which contains a false statement, or suborns any other person to do so; or

      5.  Executes an affidavit or other instrument which contains a false statement before a person authorized to administer oaths or suborns any other person to do so,

Ê is guilty of perjury or subornation of perjury, as the case may be, which is a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.

      [1911 C&P § 85; A 1949, 111; 1943 NCL § 10034]—(NRS A 1967, 464; 1977, 640; 1979, 1420; 1985, 129, 788; 1987, 654; 1995, 1174)