1. Any person who causes to be prepared or delivered to another person any document that simulates a summons, complaint, judgment, order or other legal process with the intent to:
(a) Induce payment of a claim from another person; or
(b) Induce another person to:
(1) Submit to the putative authority of the document; or
(2) Take any action or refrain from taking any action:
(I) In response to or on the basis of the document; or
(II) To comply with the document,
is guilty of a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.
2. There is a rebuttable presumption that a person intended to violate the provisions of this section if the person files with or presents or delivers to any court in this State any document that simulates a summons, complaint, judgment, order or other legal process.
3. It is not a defense to a prosecution under this section that a document that simulates a summons, complaint, judgment, order or other legal process states that the document is not legal process or purports to have been issued or authorized by a person or entity who does not have the lawful authority to issue or authorize the document.
4. As used in this section, "action" includes, without limitation:
(a) Making a court appearance;
(b) Obtaining legal counsel;
(c) Acting upon a perceived conflict created by a document that simulates a summons, complaint, judgment, order or other legal process; or
(d) Recusal.
(Added to NRS by 2019, 1798)