§ 8.12.010. Disorderly conduct.  


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  • Every person who commits any of the following acts is guilty of disorderly conduct:

    (1)

    Solicits anyone to engage in or who engages in lewd or dissolute conduct in any public place or in any place open to the public or exposed to public view;

    (2)

    Seeks admission to a house upon frivolous pretexts for no other apparent motive than to see who may be therein, or to gain an insight to the premises;

    (3)

    Keeps a place where lost or stolen property is concealed;

    (4)

    Loiters in or about any toilet open to the public for the purpose of engaging in or soliciting any lewd, or lascivious or other unlawful act;

    (5)

    Who, while entering, prowling or wandering upon the private property of another, at night, peeks in the door or window of any building or structure located thereon, without having the permission of, or lawful business with the owner or occupant thereof. For the purpose of this section, "night" is defined as the period from one hour after sunset to sunrise.

    (Code 1966, § 11.12.070; Ord. No. 2891, § 1, 8-11-80; Ord. No. 3744, § 1, 11-14-88; Ord. No. 4283, § 1, 12-8-92; Ord. No. 4371, § 1, 3-8-94; Ord. No. 4838, § 1, 1-27-98)

    State Law reference— Vagrants, NRS 207.030 et seq.

    Case Law reference— (1) Person having apparent reason and business for going from place to place can not properly be found guilty of a violation of disorderly person ord. Giese v. Chief of Police of Reno, 87 Nev. 522, 489 P. 2d 1163 (1971).

    (2) See Lemel v. Smith, 64 Nev. 545, 187 P. (2d) 169 (1947).