1. Any person who brings into or leaves within, or aids another person in bringing into or leaving within any county, an indigent person who is a nonresident or whose county of residence is another county, knowingly and for the purpose of imposing the indigent person as a public charge on the county to which the person is brought or left is guilty of a misdemeanor.
2. Any person who brings into or leaves within any county, an indigent person who is a nonresident or whose county of residence is another county, knowing him or her to be an indigent person, shall forfeit and pay the sum of $100 for each offense, to be sued for and recovered by and to the use of the county in a civil action before any court of competent jurisdiction.
[11:51:1861; B § 3759; BH § 1991; C § 2164; RL § 2925; NCL § 5147] + [3:11:1905; RL § 2928; NCL § 5150] — (NRS A 1967, 576; 1989, 1859)