Unlawful acts; penalty.

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1. It is unlawful for a person to:

(a) Forge a digital signature; or

(b) Provide false information knowingly to the Secretary of State with respect to any provision of this chapter or a regulation adopted pursuant thereto that requires such a person to provide information to the Secretary of State.

2. A person who violates the provisions of subsection 1 is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.

3. As used in this section, "forge a digital signature" means to create a digital signature that:

(a) Is not authorized by the person who holds the private key used to create the digital signature; or

(b) Although verifiable by a public key, the certificate that contains the public key identifies a subscriber who:

(1) Does not exist; or

(2) Does not hold the private key that corresponds to the public key contained in the certificate.

(Added to NRS by 1999, 1955)


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