Title 46

NRS 519A.270 Notice of noncompliance; method of service; contents; hearing. If the Division has reason to believe that any provision of NRS 519A.010 to 519A.280, inclusive, a plan for reclamation, any condition placed on a plan for reclamation or any regulation adopted by the Com…

NRS 519A.273 Violations: Provisions concerning stabilization of process fluids; order of temporary suspension; contents; method of service; hearing. 1. If the Division has reasonable cause to believe, based on evidence satisfactory to the Division, that a holder of a permit is vi…

NRS 519A.277 Lien on real and personal property of a holder of a permit; notice; amount; priority; release of lien; action to foreclose lien. 1. The Division may lien all real and personal property, tangible and intangible, associated with a facility of a holder of a permit under…

NRS 519A.280 Penalties; disposition of money; injunctions and other remedies. 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 445C.010 to 445C.120, inclusive, a person who violates any provision of NRS 519A.010 to 519A.280, inclusive, or any regulation adopted by the Commission pursuant t…

NRS 519A.290 Development and administration of program by Division of Minerals; requirements for program; regulations; action to recover costs incurred by program. 1. The Division of Minerals of the Commission on Mineral Resources shall develop and administer a program providing …

NRS 520.010 Institution of action. When three or more persons, owning or claiming as joint tenants, tenants in common or coparceners a majority of the number of feet, shares or interests in any mining claim in this State, shall have formed, or shall hereafter form themselves into…

NRS 520.020 Determination of minority owner’s proportion of money expended or assumed indebtedness. The proportion of money expended or indebtedness assumed by such corporation or association, and for the payment of which such joint tenant, tenant in common or coparcener is made …

NRS 520.030 Notice of intention to institute action; joinder of defendants; judgment and costs. 1. In all cases the defendant, prior to the institution of suit under the provisions of NRS 520.010 to 520.070, inclusive, shall be entitled to 3 weeks’ notice of the intention of such…

NRS 520.040 Specifications of summons. The summons shall specify: 1. The amount of money actually expended or indebtedness assumed by such corporation or association in the actual and necessary working and development of the mining claim. 2. The amount due from each joint tenant,…

NRS 520.050 Venue; service of process; applicability of Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure. 1. All suits instituted under the provisions of NRS 520.010 to 520.070, inclusive, shall be brought in the county within which the mining claim is located. 2. Where the defendant is a nonresi…

NRS 520.060 Money expended or assumed indebtedness is lien against minority owner’s share; judgments and executions bind only defendant’s mining interest. 1. The amount of money expended or indebtedness assumed by such corporation or association as the proportion due from such jo…

NRS 520.070 Sales of interests in mining claims under execution on judgment absolute; rights of purchasers. All sales of any interest in a mining claim under an execution issued on a judgment obtained in any suit instituted under the provisions of NRS 520.010 to 520.070, inclusiv…

NRS 520.110 Right of stockholder to inspect company’s mines; issuance of order for inspection; duty of superintendent. 1. Any person who is the bona fide owner of stock shares representing the value of one-fifth of 1 percent of the original capital stock of any company incorporat…

NRS 520.120 Registration of stockholder with county clerk or justice of the peace; fee for registration and administering oath. 1. Each county clerk, or justice of the peace in each of the townships, shall keep in his or her office a suitable book for registration, in which he or…

NRS 520.130 Applicant to present stock certificates to county clerk or justice of the peace; oath of applicant. 1. Upon making application as provided in NRS 520.120 for the privilege of entering and examining any of the mining properties mentioned in NRS 520.110, the applicant m…

NRS 520.140 Order for admission to mine. Immediately upon complying with the provisions of NRS 520.130, the county clerk or justice of the peace shall furnish the applicant with a written order for admission to the mine and mining properties which the applicant may desire to exam…

NRS 520.150 Penalty for failure to comply with NRS 520.110. Any mining superintendent, mining foreman or mining secretary of any incorporated mining company in this state, acting under and for such mining company, who shall fail or refuse to comply with any of the conditions ment…

NRS 520.160 Requisites generally. A mining partnership exists when two or more persons who own or acquire a mining claim for the purpose of working it and extracting the mineral therefrom actually engage in working the claim. [1:155:1933; 1931 NCL § 5030]

NRS 520.170 Express agreement unnecessary; origin of relationship. An express agreement to become partners or to share the profits and losses of mining is not necessary to the formation or existence of a mining partnership. The relation arises from the ownership of shares or inte…

NRS 520.180 Sharing of profits and losses: Proportion. A member of a mining partnership shares in the profits and losses thereof in the proportion which the interest or share the member owns in the mine bears to the whole partnership capital or whole number of shares. [3:155:1933…

NRS 520.190 Lien of members on property of partnership. Each member of a mining partnership has a lien on the partnership property for the debts due the creditors thereof, and for money advanced by the member for its use. [4:155:1933; 1931 NCL § 5030.03]

NRS 520.200 Title to mining ground worked. The mining ground owned and worked by partners in mining, whether purchased with partnership funds or not, is partnership property. [5:155:1933; 1931 NCL § 5030.04]

NRS 520.210 Transfer of interests of members: Operation and effect. One of the partners in a mining partnership may convey his or her interest in the mine and business without dissolving the partnership. The purchaser, from the date of the purchase, becomes a member of the partne…

NRS 520.220 Liability of purchaser of interest in mining ground. A purchaser of an interest in the mining ground of a mining partnership takes it subject to the liens existing in favor of the partners for debts due all creditors thereof, or advances made for the benefit of the pa…

NRS 520.230 Notice of existence of liens. A purchaser of the interest of a partner in a mine, when the partnership is engaged in working it, takes with notice of all liens resulting from the relation of the partners to each other and to the creditors of the partnership. [8:155:19…

NRS 520.240 Authority of member to bind partnership. No member of a mining partnership or other agent or manager thereof can, by a contract in writing, bind the partnership, except by express authority derived from the members thereof. [9:155:1933; 1931 NCL § 5030.08]

NRS 520.250 Decision of majority is binding. The decision of the members owning a majority of the shares or interest in a mining partnership binds it in the conduct of its business. [10:155:1933; 1931 NCL § 5030.09]

NRS 520.260 Formation of partnership under chapter 87, 87A or 88 of NRS. Nothing contained in NRS 520.160 to 520.250, inclusive, prevents persons described in NRS 520.160 from forming a partnership under chapter 87, 87A or 88 of NRS. [11:155:1933; 1931 NCL § 5030.10]—(NRS A 1985,…

NRS 522.010 Waste of oil and gas prohibited. The waste of oil and gas is prohibited in the State of Nevada. [1:202:1953]

NRS 522.020 Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 522.021 to 522.0395, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. [2:202:1953; A 1955, 55]—(NRS A 1977, 1149; 1983, 2078; 1991, 386, 962…

NRS 522.021 “Correlative rights” defined. “Correlative rights” means the opportunity afforded, so far as it is practicable to do so, to the owner of each property in a pool to produce without waste the owner’s just and equitable share of the oil or gas, or both, in the pool and f…

NRS 522.023 “Division” defined. “Division” means the Division of Minerals of the Commission on Mineral Resources. (Added to NRS by 1983, 2070; A 1993, 1689; 1999, 3632)

NRS 522.024 “Division order” defined. “Division order” means a written instrument executed for the purpose of: 1. Directing the distribution of the proceeds from the sale of the production from an oil or gas well among the owners of the interests in that production; 2. Setting fo…

NRS 522.025 “Field” defined. “Field” means the general area which is underlain or appears to be underlain by at least one pool and includes the underground reservoir or reservoirs containing oil or gas. (Added to NRS by 1983, 2070)

NRS 522.027 “Gas” defined. “Gas” includes all natural gas and all hydrocarbons produced at the wellhead except oil. (Added to NRS by 1983, 2070)

NRS 522.0275 “Hydraulic fracturing” and “hydraulically fractured” defined. “Hydraulic fracturing” or “hydraulically fractured” means the process of pumping a fluid into or under the surface of the ground to create fractures in the rock to facilitate the production or recovery of …

NRS 522.028 “Lessee” defined. “Lessee” means the person entitled under an oil and gas lease to drill and operate wells. (Added to NRS by 1991, 385)

NRS 522.0285 “Lessor” defined. “Lessor” means the mineral owner who has executed a lease and who is entitled to the payment of a royalty on production. (Added to NRS by 1991, 960)

NRS 522.029 “Oil” defined. “Oil” includes: 1. The crude petroleum oil and other hydrocarbons regardless of gravity which are produced at the wellhead in liquid form; and 2. The liquid hydrocarbon known as distillate or condensate recovered or extracted from gas, other than gas pr…

NRS 522.0295 “Operator” defined. “Operator” means a person engaged in the business of drilling wells capable of producing oil or gas. (Added to NRS by 1991, 385)

NRS 522.0301 “Other nonworking interest” defined. “Other nonworking interest” means any interest in an oil and gas lease or well which is not a royalty, overriding royalty or working interest. (Added to NRS by 1991, 960)

NRS 522.0305 “Overriding royalty” defined. “Overriding royalty” means a share of production taken from the lessee’s interest under an oil and gas lease. (Added to NRS by 1991, 960)

NRS 522.031 “Owner” defined. “Owner” means the person who has the right to drill into and produce from a pool and to appropriate the oil and gas he or she produces therefrom for himself or herself and others. (Added to NRS by 1983, 2071)

NRS 522.033 “Person” defined. “Person” includes any department, agency or instrumentality of the State or any governmental subdivision thereof. (Added to NRS by 1983, 2071)

NRS 522.035 “Pool” defined. “Pool” means an underground reservoir containing, or appearing to contain, a common accumulation of oil or gas. Each zone of a general structure which is completely separated from any other zone in the structure is included in the term “pool.” (Added t…

NRS 522.037 “Producer” defined. “Producer” means the owner of a well or wells capable of producing oil or gas, or both. (Added to NRS by 1983, 2071)