NRS 405.204 – Legislative findings and declaration; action by Attorney General authorized; duty to develop, maintain and assist in implementation of legal protocol.
1. The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: (a) Formalizing and finalizing title to accessory roads and public roads is necessary for the State and its counties to protect proper authority over, continued access to and multiple uses on federally administered lands; and (b) The public interest of the State of Nevada is served by […]
NRS 405.205 – Erection and maintenance of power lines by rural electric cooperative.
A rural electric cooperative which has been formed pursuant to NRS 81.410 to 81.540, inclusive, may erect or bury, and thereafter maintain or operate, power lines, and may permit the maintenance and operation of telephone lines in connection therewith, along public highways, roads, streets and alleys within the area which it holds a certificate of […]
NRS 405.210 – Damage to public or private road, bridge or guidepost unlawful; penalty.
Every person who shall willfully and maliciously remove, damage or destroy: 1. A highway or a private way laid out by authority of law, or a bridge upon such public or private road, or willfully or maliciously cause to be placed thereon any substance or thing dangerous to any person or animal traveling thereon or […]
NRS 405.230 – Penalty for obstruction or damage to highway; abatement of nuisance; removal of certain obstacles or encroachments.
1. Any person who, in any manner, obstructs any road, street or alley, or in any manner damages it or prevents travel thereon, or who obstructs, dams or diverts any stream or water so as to throw it, or cause the flowage thereof, upon, across or along the pathway of any road, highway, street or […]
NRS 405.240 – Repair of damage to highway from driving livestock.
Any person or corporation driving sheep, goats, swine, horses or cattle along or across any public road or highway, or along or across any street or alley in any unincorporated town, in this state for any purpose whatever, who by so doing damages or impairs the public road or highway or street or alley, as […]
NRS 405.250 – Construction and maintenance of sidewalks; penalty for riding or driving on sidewalk.
1. Subject to the authority conferred by law on city authorities, the boards of county commissioners or road supervisors, any owner or occupant of land may construct and maintain a sidewalk in the highway along the line of the owner’s or occupant’s land. 2. Sidewalks already constructed and laid out with reasonable limits as to […]
NRS 405.270 – Standards of safety for electronic gates that provide access for vehicular traffic.
A gate that: 1. Operates by electrical power; 2. Provides access for vehicular traffic; and 3. Is installed on or after March 1, 2000, must comply with the requirements of the Underwriters Laboratories Inc. Standard for Safety 325, as published on September 18, 1998, and effective on March 1, 2000. (Added to NRS by 1999, […]
NRS 405.280 – Erection and maintenance of gates across public roads in certain counties.
1. In a county whose population is 100,000 or more, the board of county commissioners of the county may, by ordinance or by written agreement with a person, authorize a person to erect and maintain a gate across a public road. Any such ordinance or agreement must contain provisions: (a) That require such a gate […]
NRS 405.170 – Penalty for failure to construct bridge or culvert.
1. All persons, corporations or associations conducting water across any public road or highway, or across any street or alley in any unincorporated town in this state, for domestic, mining, agricultural or manufacturing purposes shall construct, at their own expense, good and substantial culverts or bridges over such crossing, and shall in no case allow […]
NRS 405.180 – Penalty for willfully or negligently allowing water to flow on highway; failure to act upon notice prima facie evidence of negligence.
1. If any person or persons being the owner or owners, superintendent or managing agent of any water ditch, flume or artificial watercourse within this state, or other person or corporation, shall willfully, maliciously, negligently or carelessly allow or let the water from the ditch, flume or artificial watercourse run or flow into or upon […]