NRS711.265. Destruction of or interference with certain facilities or transmissions of video service provider prohibited; penalty; civil damages.

      1.  Any person who:

      (a) By the attachment of a ground wire, or by any other contrivance, willfully destroys the insulation of a wire, cable, conduit, line or similar facility of a video service provider or interrupts the transmission of the electric current through such a wire, cable, conduit, line or similar facility;

      (b) Willfully interferes with the use of such a wire, cable, conduit, line or similar facility or obstructs or postpones the transmission of any message or signal over such a wire, cable, conduit, line or similar facility; or

      (c) Procures or advises any such injury, interference or obstruction,

Ê is guilty of a public offense, as prescribed in NRS 193.155, proportionate to the value of any property damaged, altered, removed or destroyed and in no event less than a misdemeanor.

      2.  Any person who violates the provisions of subsection 1 is, in addition to the penalty set forth in that subsection, liable to the video service provider injured by such conduct in a civil action for all damages occasioned thereby.

      (Added to NRS by 1999, 809; A 2007, 1373)