NRS 205.270(1) instructs, in part, that a person¹ “tak(es) property from another under circumstances not amounting to robbery” when he/she

“Takes property² from the person of another…with the intent to steal or appropriate (it) to his or her own use…without the other person’s consent.”

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1. Although generally the term “person” does not include “a government, governmental agency or political subdivision of a government,” this prohibition is subject to exception where “otherwise expressly provided in a particular statute, or required by the context” (see NRS 0.039). Therefore, since Nevada has expressly waived its sovereign immunity for civil actions (see NRS 41.031), citizens are free to sue a government entity for financial damages where an agency’s fraudulent or unlawful practices have caused them direct financial haprrm. Additionally, where a government worker or public official is entrusted with public taxpayer funds (as a bailee), and he/she diverts them in any manner “for any…purpose…other…than that for which they were deposited or entrusted” [see NRS 205.300(1)], he/she can be held civilly and criminally liable. Criminally under NRS 195.020 which instructs

   “Every person concerned in the commission of a felony, gross misdemeanor or misdemeanor, whether the person directly commits the act constituting the offense, or aids or abets in its commission, and whether present or absent; and every person who, directly or indirectly, counsels, encourages, hires, commands, induces or otherwise procures another to commit a felony, gross misdemeanor or misdemeanor is a principal, and shall be proceeded against and punished as such. The fact that the person aided, abetted, counseled, encouraged, hired, commanded, induced or procured, could not or did not entertain a criminal intent shall not be a defense to any person aiding, abetting, counseling, encouraging, hiring, commanding, inducing or procuring him or her;”

   Or, 195.030(1) which instructs

   “Every person who is not the spouse or domestic partner of the offender and who, after the commission of a felony, destroys or conceals, or aids in the destruction or concealment of, material evidence, or harbors or conceals such offender with intent that the offender may avoid or escape from arrest, trial, conviction or punishment, having knowledge that such offender has committed a felony or is liable to arrest, is an accessory to the felony;”

   Or 195.030(2) which instructs

   “Every person who is not the spouse, domestic partner, brother or sister, parent or grandparent, child or grandchild of the offender, who, after the commission of a gross misdemeanor, harbors, conceals or aids such offender with intent that the offender may avoid or escape from arrest, trial, conviction or punishment, having knowledge that such offender has committed a gross misdemeanor or is liable to arrest, is an accessory to the gross misdemeanor.”

2. NRS 10.045 defines “personal property as “includ(ing) money, goods, chattels, things in action and evidences of debt.”