NRS720.200. Unlawful acts; penalty.

      1.  It is unlawful for a person to:

      (a) Forge a digital signature; or

      (b) Provide false information knowingly to the Secretary of State with respect to any provision of this chapter or a regulation adopted pursuant thereto that requires such a person to provide information to the Secretary of State.

      2.  A person who violates the provisions of subsection 1 is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

      3.  As used in this section, “forge a digital signature” means to create a digital signature that:

      (a) Is not authorized by the person who holds the private key used to create the digital signature; or

      (b) Although verifiable by a public key, the certificate that contains the public key identifies a subscriber who:

             (1) Does not exist; or

             (2) Does not hold the private key that corresponds to the public key contained in the certificate.

      (Added to NRS by 1999, 1955)