Nevada · NRS 200.440
Quote checked October 14, 2026 Text match only; current legal status and enforcement not verified.
“If any person posts another, or in writing, print or orally uses any reproachable or contemptuous language to or concerning another, for not fighting a duel, or for not sending or accepting a challenge, the person is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.”
This section doesn't print a penalty of its own. Other parts of the Nevada Revised Statutes may set one; we haven't looked them up, so we don't state one here.
“[1911 C&P § 160; RL § 6425; NCL § 10107]—(NRS A 1959, 10; 1967, 471)”
The earliest year in this note is 1911. That's the earliest year the note prints. It doesn't establish when this wording was enacted, took effect or first appeared.
Our reading
In Nevada, posting someone or using reproachable or contemptuous language to or about them, in print, in writing or out loud, because they wouldn't fight a duel or send or accept a challenge, is a gross misdemeanor.
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Florida · Fla. Stat. § 823.06
“All buildings erected in this state for theatrical, operatic, or other public entertainments of whatsoever kind shall be so constructed that the shutters to all entrances to said building shall open outwardly”
Kentucky · KRS 437.030
“Any person who, in this state, challenges another to fight with any deadly weapon, in or out of this state, and any person who accepts the challenge, shall be fined five hundred dollars ($500) and imprisoned for not less than six …”
Kentucky · Ky. Const. § 228
“I do further solemnly swear (or affirm) that since the adoption of the present Constitution, I, being a citizen of this State, have not fought a duel with deadly weapons within this State nor out of it, nor have I sent or accepted …”
Louisiana · La. R.S. 14:312
“No person shall dive or jump off of any public bridge, constructed or owned by the state or any of its political subdivisions, where the object and purpose of the act is to gain publicity.”
Massachusetts · Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 270, § 14
“Whoever expectorates or spits upon any public sidewalk, or upon any place used exclusively or principally by pedestrians, or, except in receptacles provided for the purpose, in or upon any part of any city or town hall, any court …”
Nevada · NRS 207.220
“Any person or persons opening and passing through gates or bars when gates or bars are placed in fences enclosing fields, or in fences partly enclosing lands, and not shutting and fastening the same, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor.”
Nevada · NRS 235.085
“The object of human workmanship known as the tule duck decoy is hereby designated as the official state artifact of the State of Nevada.”
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