Title 10

NRS 111A.060 “Easement” defined. “Easement”: 1. Means a nonpossessory property interest that: (a) Provides a right to enter, use or enjoy real property owned by or in the possession of another; and (b) Imposes on the owner or possessor a duty not to interfere with the entry, use …

NRS 111A.070 “Easement holder” defined. “Easement holder” means: 1. In the case of an appurtenant easement, the dominant estate owner; or 2. In the case of an easement in gross, public-utility easement, conservation easement or negative easement, the grantee of the easement or a …

NRS 111A.080 “Easement in gross” defined. “Easement in gross” means an easement not tied to or dependent on ownership or occupancy of real property. (Added to NRS by 2025, 609)

NRS 111A.090 “Lessee of record” defined. “Lessee of record” means a person holding a lessee’s interest under a recorded lease or memorandum of lease. (Added to NRS by 2025, 609)

NRS 111A.100 “Negative easement” defined. “Negative easement” means a nonpossessory property interest whose primary purpose is to impose on a servient estate owner a duty not to engage in a specified use of the estate. (Added to NRS by 2025, 609)

NRS 111A.110 “Person” defined. “Person” means an individual, estate, business or nonprofit entity, public corporation, government or governmental subdivision, agency or instrumentality or other legal entity. (Added to NRS by 2025, 609)

NRS 111A.120 “Public entity” defined. “Public entity” means: 1. The United States or an agency of the United States; 2. This State, a political subdivision of this State, an agency of this State or a municipal corporation of this State; 3. A general improvement district, as defin…

NRS 111A.130 “Public-entity easement” defined. “Public-entity easement” means a nonpossessory property interest in which the easement holder is a public entity. (Added to NRS by 2025, 609)

NRS 111A.140 “Public-utility easement” defined. “Public-utility easement”: 1. Means a nonpossessory property interest in which the easement holder is: (a) A publicly regulated or publicly owned utility under federal law or law of this State or a municipality; or (b) A video servi…

NRS 111A.150 “Real property” defined. “Real property” means an estate or interest in, over or under land, including structures, fixtures and other things that by custom, usage or law pass with a conveyance of land whether or not described or mentioned in the contract of sale or i…

NRS 111A.160 “Record” defined. “Record” means, when used as a noun, information that is inscribed on a tangible medium or that is stored in an electronic or other medium and is retrievable in perceivable form. (Added to NRS by 2025, 610)

NRS 111A.170 “Security instrument” defined. “Security instrument” means a mortgage, deed of trust, security deed, contract for deed, lease or other record that creates or provides for an interest in real property to secure payment or performance of an obligation, whether by acqui…

NRS 111A.180 “Security-interest holder of record” defined. “Security-interest holder of record” means a person holding an interest in real property created by a recorded security instrument. (Added to NRS by 2025, 610)

NRS 111A.190 “Servient estate” defined. “Servient estate” means an estate or interest in real property that is burdened by an easement. (Added to NRS by 2025, 610)

NRS 111A.200 “Title evidence” defined. “Title evidence” means a title insurance policy, preliminary title report or binder, title insurance commitment, abstract of title, attorney’s opinion of title based on examination of public records or an abstract of title or any other means…

NRS 111A.210 “Utility cooperative” defined. “Utility cooperative” means a nonprofit entity whose purpose is to deliver a utility service, such as electricity, oil, natural gas, water, sanitary sewer, storm water or telecommunications, to its customers or members and includes an e…

NRS 111A.220 Applicability. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, this chapter applies to an easement established by express grant or reservation or by prescription, implication, necessity, estoppel or other method. 2. This chapter may not be used to relocate: (a) A pu…

NRS 111A.300 Conditions for relocation of easement. A servient estate owner may relocate an easement under this chapter only if the relocation does not materially: 1. Lessen the utility of the easement; 2. After the relocation, increase the burden on the easement holder in its re…

NRS 111A.310 Commencement of civil action for relocation of easement; service of summons and complaint; contents of complaint; waiver of rights to contest or obtain relief. 1. To obtain an order to relocate an easement under this chapter, a servient estate owner must commence a c…

NRS 111A.320 Approval by court of relocation of easement; conditions; contents of order; servient estate owner to record order and certificate of amendment. 1. The court may not approve relocation of an easement under this chapter unless the servient estate owner: (a) Establishes…

NRS 111A.330 Servient estate owner to pay reasonable expenses of relocation of easement. A servient estate owner is responsible for reasonable expenses of relocation of an easement under this chapter, including the expense of: 1. Constructing improvements on the servient estate o…

NRS 111A.340 Parties to act in good faith to facilitate relocation of easement. After the court, under NRS 111A.320, approves relocation of an easement and the servient estate owner commences the relocation, the servient estate owner, the easement holder and other parties in the …

NRS 111A.350 Servient estate owner to record and mail affidavit after relocation of easement requiring improvement. 1. If an order under NRS 111A.320 requires the construction of an improvement as a condition for relocation of an easement, relocation is substantially complete and…

NRS 111A.360 Effect of relocation of easement. 1. Relocation of an easement under this chapter: (a) Is not a new transfer or a new grant of an interest in the servient estate or the dominant estate; (b) Is not a breach or default of, and does not trigger, a due-on-sale clause or …

NRS 111A.370 Right of servient estate owner to relocate easement may not be waived, excluded or restricted by agreement. The right of a servient estate owner to relocate an easement under this chapter may not be waived, excluded or restricted by agreement even if: 1. The instrume…

NRS 111A.400 Uniformity of application and construction. In applying and construing this uniform act, consideration must be given to the need to promote uniformity of the law with respect to its subject matter among the states that enact it. (Added to NRS by 2025, 614)

NRS 111A.410 Relation to Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act. This chapter modifies, limits or supersedes the Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, 15 U.S.C. §§ 7001 et seq., but does not modify, limit or supersede section 101(c) of that…