NRS647.145. Criminal receipt of junk or scrap metal.

      1.  Any person, including, but not limited to, any junk dealer, scrap metal processor or secondhand dealer, or any agent, employee or representative of a junk dealer, scrap metal processor or secondhand dealer, who buys or receives any junk or scrap metal which he or she knows or should reasonably know is ordinarily used by and belongs to a cable, broadband, telecommunications, telephone, telegraph, gas, water, electric or transportation company or county, city or other political subdivision of this State engaged in furnishing utility service, and who fails to use ordinary care in determining whether the person selling or delivering such junk or scrap metal has a legal right to do so, is guilty of criminally receiving such property.

      2.  A person convicted of criminally receiving junk or scrap metal is guilty of a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.

      (Added to NRS by 1971, 930; A 1991, 788; 1995, 1314; 2009, 1241)