Nevada Orders for Protection Against Stalking, Aggravated Stalking or Harassment: One Threat Can Be Enough
Reviewed by DocDraft Legal Team · Nevada · Last updated October 22, 2026
Nevada's order for protection against stalking, aggravated stalking or harassment borrows the criminal code's definition of harassment, and that definition is built on a threat rather than a pattern: one knowing threat can be enough (Nev. Rev. Stat. 200.571(1), 200.591(1)). It is a court order directing someone to stay away from your home, school or job and to stop contacting, intimidating or threatening you. Nevada puts it in the crimes chapter, not the protection orders chapter, and it asks about what the other person did, not who they are to you. The harassment branch needs a threat of future bodily injury, damage to your property, confinement, or an act meant to substantially harm your physical or mental health, plus a reasonable fear it will be carried out. Unwelcome behaviour with no threat in it falls outside that branch, and the stalking branch instead needs two or more acts (Nev. Rev. Stat. 200.575(11)(b)). If the person is a spouse, ex-spouse, relative, dating partner or co-parent, this is probably the wrong order and you want the order for protection against domestic violence instead (Nev. Rev. Stat. 33.018). The employer-only workplace order in the same books is not your route. A temporary order lasts up to 45 days and an extended order up to two years (Nev. Rev. Stat. 200.594). This page is document preparation information, not legal advice, and no order can guarantee your safety. Attorney review is available through DocDraft.
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Who is harassing you?
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Do I need a pattern of behaviour to get a harassment protection order in Nevada?
Not for the harassment branch. Nevada's definition of harassment turns on one knowing threat of future bodily injury, property damage, confinement or substantial harm to health or safety, plus reasonable fear it will be carried out (Nev. Rev. Stat. 200.571(1)). The stalking branch is different and needs two or more acts.
How long does a Nevada order for protection against harassment last?
A temporary order runs up to 45 days, and stays in force past that if an extended-order petition was filed in time, until the hearing. An extended order can run up to two years, but a judge must enter a written finding of fact to justify anything beyond one year (Nev. Rev. Stat. 200.594).
Can a Nevada protection order against harassment be renewed?
Nevada's statutes on these orders (Nev. Rev. Stat. 200.591 to 200.601) set out dissolution and modification on changed circumstances, and they contain no renewal provision. This page states no renewal rule. Ask the court clerk or an attorney what to do as an extended order approaches its end date.
What does it cost to file for a harassment protection order in Nevada?
Court costs and official fees must be deferred for anyone petitioning under Nev. Rev. Stat. 200.591. After a hearing, and no later than final disposition, the court assesses them against the adverse party, though it may reduce or waive them. A person obtaining the order is not charged to have it served in Nevada.
Nevada civil harassment order rules at a glance
Nevada's order for protection against stalking, aggravated stalking or harassment is a victim's remedy found in the criminal code, at Nev. Rev. Stat. 200.591, rather than among the protection orders in chapter 33. It directs the person you name to stay away from your home, school or workplace and to stop contacting, intimidating or threatening you. Its distinctive feature is where the harassment branch gets its test: a single knowing threat, with no course of conduct and no violence required. Be careful with one trap. Nev. Rev. Stat. 33.200 to 33.360 is titled harassment in the workplace, but only an employer or the employer's agent can apply for it, so it is not a route for you. Nevada also numbers none of its mandatory-use forms, so the application is identified by its title and revision date.
A Henderson homeowner and the one remark over a shared fence line
A Henderson homeowner argues with his neighbour over a fence line, and one afternoon the neighbour tells him, in front of a witness, that he will set fire to the homeowner's truck if the fence is not moved. Nothing else happens, no second incident and no violence. Because the harassment branch rests on one knowing threat to damage property and a reasonable fear it will be carried out, the Application for Protection can rest on that single remark under Nev. Rev. Stat. 200.571(1). He asks the justice court for a temporary order without notice, files for an extended order within the 45 days, and no fees are due up front. Whether the judge issues the order is the court's decision.
Relevant Laws
Nev. Rev. Stat. 200.591 (order for protection against stalking, aggravated stalking or harassment)
Lets a person who reasonably believes the crime of stalking, aggravated stalking or harassment is being committed against them by another person petition any court of competent jurisdiction for a temporary or extended order. The order may direct stay-away, no-contact and other restrictions. Temporary orders may issue with or without notice, an extended order needs service and a hearing, and violation is a gross misdemeanor for a temporary order and a category C felony for an extended one. Last amended 2017.
Nev. Rev. Stat. 200.571 (harassment: definition)
Defines harassment as, without lawful authority, knowingly threatening bodily injury in the future, physical damage to property, physical confinement or restraint, or an act intended to substantially harm physical or mental health or safety, and by words or conduct placing the person threatened in reasonable fear the threat will be carried out. No course of conduct is required.
Nev. Rev. Stat. 200.575 (stalking: definition)
Defines stalking as willfully or maliciously engaging in a course of conduct that would cause a reasonable person to feel terrorized, frightened, intimidated, harassed or fearful for immediate safety and that actually causes the victim to feel that way. Subsection 11 defines course of conduct as two or more acts over a period of time evidencing a continuity of purpose, and carves out lawful labor picketing, journalism, employment and protected speech.
Nev. Rev. Stat. 200.592 (costs and fees; service)
Requires that the payment of all costs and official fees be deferred for a person petitioning under NRS 200.591, with the court assessing them against the adverse party after any hearing and no later than final disposition unless it reduces or waives them. A person who obtains an order must not be charged any fee to have it served in Nevada.
Nev. Rev. Stat. 200.594 (duration; dissolution and modification)
Sets a temporary order at not more than 45 days, continuing until the extended hearing if a petition is filed in time, and an extended order at not more than 2 years. The court must enter a finding of fact for an extended order effective for more than 1 year. Provides for dissolution or modification on changed circumstances and contains no renewal provision.
Nev. Rev. Stat. 33.017 to 33.100 and 33.018 (domestic violence orders and the acts and relationships covered)
The domestic violence track that this page routes toward. Section 33.018 lists the acts, and the relationships to which they apply: a spouse or former spouse, a person related by blood or marriage, a dating partner, a person with whom the respondent has a child in common, and certain minor children and guardians.
Nev. Rev. Stat. 33.250 (workplace harassment: employer's application only)
Cited here only to steer readers away from it. Standing belongs to an employer or its authorised agent, who must post security and who may face an award of costs and fees, with a temporary order capped at 15 days and an extended order at 1 year. It is not the order a person harassed can file for themselves.
Regional Variances
Nevada civil harassment order rules at a glance
Instrument name
Order for protection against stalking, aggravated stalking or harassment, temporary then extended, under Nev. Rev. Stat. 200.591 with 200.592, 200.594 and 200.597. It sits in the crimes chapter. The workplace harassment order under Nev. Rev. Stat. 33.200 to 33.360 is a separate, employer-only remedy and not this one.
Who it covers, and the relationship test
No relationship is required. The statute asks whether a person reasonably believes stalking, aggravated stalking or harassment is being committed against them by another person (Nev. Rev. Stat. 200.591(1)). The domestic violence list in Nev. Rev. Stat. 33.018 covers spouses, relatives, dating partners and co-parents, and that track is the probable fit for them.
The standard
Two branches. Harassment needs one knowing threat of future bodily injury, property damage, confinement or substantial harm to health or safety, plus reasonable fear it will be carried out, with no course of conduct required (Nev. Rev. Stat. 200.571(1)). Stalking needs a course of conduct of two or more acts that actually causes fear (Nev. Rev. Stat. 200.575).
Temporary order
May be granted with or without notice to the adverse party. It expires within the time the court fixes, not more than 45 days, and continues until the extended hearing if an extended petition is filed within that period (Nev. Rev. Stat. 200.591(3), 200.594(1)). The adverse party may move to dissolve or modify it on 2 days' notice.
Duration
An extended order expires within the time the court fixes, not more than 2 years. A temporary order may be converted into an extended order on notice and a hearing. A written finding of fact is required for any extended order effective for more than 1 year (Nev. Rev. Stat. 200.594(3), (4)).
Renewal
Nevada's statutes on these orders provide for dissolution and modification on changed circumstances and contain no renewal provision. This page states no renewal rule, and a reader approaching the end of an extended order should ask the court clerk or an attorney.
Court and form
Any court of competent jurisdiction, in practice a justice court or district court. The form is the Application for Protection, Mandatory Use, revised 10-26-20. Nevada publishes no form number for it, and the same application serves the sexual assault order under Nev. Rev. Stat. 200.378.
Filing fee
Payment of costs and official fees is deferred for a petitioner. After any hearing and not later than final disposition the court assesses them against the adverse party, unless it reduces or waives them as justice may require (Nev. Rev. Stat. 200.592(1)).
Service
A person who obtains an order under Nev. Rev. Stat. 200.591 must not be charged any fee to have it served in Nevada (Nev. Rev. Stat. 200.592(3)). An extended order requires service of the petition and notice of hearing.
Violation
Violating a temporary order is a gross misdemeanor. Violating an extended order is a category C felony (Nev. Rev. Stat. 200.591(5)). The workplace order, by contrast, carries only a misdemeanor, which is one more reason it is a different remedy.
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