1. A person shall not knowingly keep or use, or in any manner be connected with, or be interested in the management of, or receive money for the admission of any person to, a house, apartment, pit or place kept or used for baiting or fighting any bird or animal, or be an owner or occupant of a house, apartment, pit or place who willfully procures or permits the same to be used or occupied for such baiting or fighting.
2. A person who violates any provision of subsection 1 is guilty of:
(a) For a first offense, a category E felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.
(b) For a second or subsequent offense, a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.
3. Upon complaint under oath or affirmation to any magistrate authorized to issue warrants in criminal cases that the complainant has just and reasonable cause to suspect that any provision of law relating to or in any way affecting animals is being or is about to be violated in any particular building or place, the magistrate shall immediately issue and deliver a warrant to any person authorized by law to make arrests for such offenses, authorizing the person to enter and search the building or place, to arrest any person there present found violating any such law and to bring the person before the nearest magistrate of competent jurisdiction to be dealt with according to law.
[2:178:1919; 1919 RL p. 3393; NCL § 10570] — (NRS A 1981, 772; 2001, 2887; 2013, 2112)
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