1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, it is a misdemeanor for any person:
(a) To display or cause or permit to be displayed or possess any cancelled, revoked, suspended, fictitious, fraudulently altered or fraudulently obtained driver’s license;
(b) To alter, forge, substitute, counterfeit or use an unvalidated driver’s license;
(c) To lend his or her driver’s license to any other person or knowingly permit the use thereof by another;
(d) To display or represent as one’s own any driver’s license not issued to him or her;
(e) To fail or refuse to surrender to the Department, a peace officer or a court upon lawful demand any driver’s license which has been suspended, revoked or cancelled;
(f) To permit any unlawful use of a driver’s license issued to him or her;
(g) To do any act forbidden, or fail to perform any act required, by NRS 483.010 to 483.630, inclusive; or
(h) To photograph, photostat, duplicate or in any way reproduce any driver’s license or facsimile thereof in such a manner that it could be mistaken for a valid license, or to display or possess any such photograph, photostat, duplicate, reproduction or facsimile unless authorized by this chapter.
2. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, a person who uses a false or fictitious name in any application for a driver’s license or identification card or who knowingly makes a false statement or knowingly conceals a material fact or otherwise commits a fraud in any such application is guilty of a category E felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130. If the false statement, knowing concealment of a material fact or other commission of fraud described in this subsection relates solely to the age of a person, including, without limitation, to establish false proof of age to game, purchase alcoholic beverages or purchase cigarettes or other tobacco products, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor.
[40:190:1941; A 1943, 268; 1943 NCL § 4442.39] — (NRS A 1963, 846; 1965, 1006; 1969, 550; 1973, 165; 1989, 555; 2003, 2466; 2005, 1217; 2013, 1994; 2017, 1282)
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