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NRS 321.610 Applications for lease or purchase by State and political subdivisions submitted to State Land Registrar: Duties of State Land Registrar. 1. All applications to the Bureau of Land Management by the State filed on behalf of a state agency except: (a) The Department of …

NRS 321.640 Legislative findings and declaration. The Legislature hereby finds and declares that: 1. It is in the public interest to place the primary authority for the planning process with the local governments, which are closest to the people; 2. Unregulated growth and develop…

NRS 321.655 Definitions. As used in NRS 321.640 to 321.770, inclusive: 1. “Administrator” means the executive head of the Division. 2. “Area of critical environmental concern” means any area in this State where there is or could develop irreversible degradation of more than local…

NRS 321.700 Creation. In addition to any other functions assigned to it by law, the Division is hereby designated as the State Land Use Planning Agency for the purpose of carrying out the provisions of NRS 321.640 to 321.770, inclusive, and fulfilling any land use planning requir…

NRS 321.710 Administration; technical assistance; personnel. 1. The Administrator shall administer the activities of the State Land Use Planning Agency. The Administrator has authority and responsibility for the development and distribution of information useful to land use plann…

NRS 321.720 Duties of Administrator concerning local governments. 1. The Administrator shall develop and make available to cities and counties information useful to land use planning, including: (a) Preparation and continuing revision of a statewide inventory of the land and natu…

NRS 321.7353 Notice of federal acquisition of private land to be provided to affected cities and counties; submission of written comment. 1. Upon receipt of a notice of realty action from the United States concerning the purchase by the Federal Government of private land or the e…

NRS 321.7355 Authority to prepare plan or statement of policy concerning lands under federal management. 1. The State Land Use Planning Agency may prepare, in cooperation with appropriate federal and state agencies and local governments throughout the State, plans or statements o…

NRS 321.740 Creation; appointment, number, nominations, terms and expenses of members. 1. The Land Use Planning Advisory Council is hereby created. The Advisory Council consists of: (a) Eighteen voting members appointed by the Governor, as follows: (1) One member from each county…

NRS 321.750 Duties. The Land Use Planning Advisory Council shall: 1. Advise the Administrator on the development and distribution to cities and counties of information useful to land use planning. 2. Advise the State Land Use Planning Agency regarding the development of plans and…

NRS 321.755 Executive Council. 1. The Executive Council of the Land Use Planning Advisory Council is hereby created to resolve inconsistencies between the land use plans of local government entities. 2. The Executive Council consists of the Administrator and four persons selected…

NRS 321.761 Technical assistance; submission of matter to Executive Council. 1. If an inconsistency in land use plans develops between two or more adjacent or overlapping local government entities which cannot be resolved between them, one or more of them may request the State La…

NRS 321.763 Duties of State Agency; adoption, enforcement and expiration of plans and regulations. 1. When an inconsistency in land use plans is submitted for decision, the Executive Council may direct the staff of the State Land Use Planning Agency to conduct studies, assemble i…

NRS 321.770 Duties of Administrator and Land Use Planning Advisory Council. 1. The State Land Use Planning Agency shall provide assistance in land use planning for areas of critical environmental concern: (a) When the Governor directs that the Agency review and assist in land use…

NRS 322.003 Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 322.0032 to 322.0066, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. (Added to NRS by 1993, 1456; A 1995, 2510)

NRS 322.0032 “Agricultural use” defined. “Agricultural use” means any use required for farming or ranching. (Added to NRS by 1993, 1456)

NRS 322.0034 “Boat-fueling facility” defined. “Boat-fueling facility” means a pump or similar device used for transferring fuel to vessels on a navigable body of water. (Added to NRS by 1993, 1456)

NRS 322.0036 “Boat hoist” defined. “Boat hoist” means a hoist, other than a hoist inside a boat house, for raising vessels from, or lowering vessels into, a navigable body of water. (Added to NRS by 1993, 1456; A 1995, 2511)

NRS 322.0037 “Boat house” defined. “Boat house” means a covered or enclosed structure, in or on a navigable body of water, designed specifically to store, enclose, shelter or protect a vessel away from the elements. (Added to NRS by 1995, 2510)

NRS 322.0038 “Boat ramp” defined. “Boat ramp” means a ramp for launching vessels into, or retrieving vessels from, a navigable body of water. (Added to NRS by 1993, 1456)

NRS 322.004 “Boat slip” defined. “Boat slip” means a space, other than a space inside a boat house, designed for the mooring or storage of vessels on a navigable body of water. (Added to NRS by 1993, 1456; A 1995, 2511)

NRS 322.0042 “Commercial use” defined. “Commercial use” means any use conducted primarily for profit, except a use conducted by a governmental or quasi-governmental entity. (Added to NRS by 1993, 1456; A 1997, 972)

NRS 322.0043 “Deck” defined. “Deck” means a fixed or floating platform or other structure, other than a boat house or pier, which is attached to the shore or bed of, and extends into or over, a navigable body of water. (Added to NRS by 1995, 2510)

NRS 322.0044 “Dredging” defined. “Dredging” means the removing or rearranging of any material below the high water elevation of a navigable body of water. (Added to NRS by 1993, 1456)

NRS 322.0046 “Filling” defined. “Filling” means the deposit of any material below the high water elevation of a navigable body of water. (Added to NRS by 1993, 1456)

NRS 322.005 “Geothermal resource” defined. “Geothermal resource” means the natural heat of the earth and the energy associated with that natural heat, pressure and all dissolved or entrained minerals that may be obtained from the medium used to transfer that heat, but excluding h…

NRS 322.0052 “Littoral or riparian residential parcel” defined. “Littoral or riparian residential parcel” means a parcel of land which: 1. Adjoins the bed of a navigable body of water; and 2. Is restricted to single-family residential use. (Added to NRS by 1993, 1456)

NRS 322.0054 “Mooring buoy” defined. “Mooring buoy” means a float: 1. Which is anchored to the bed of a navigable body of water; and 2. To which a vessel is fastened through the use of cables, lines, ropes or anchors for the purpose of maintaining the vessel in a stationary posit…

NRS 322.0056 “Multiple residential use” defined. “Multiple residential use” means the use of a facility, structure or other object, except a commercial use, exclusively by the owners of two or more littoral or riparian residential parcels and their families and guests. (Added to …

NRS 322.0058 “Pier” defined. “Pier” means a fixed or floating platform or other structure, other than a boat house or deck, which: 1. Extends into or over a navigable body of water; 2. Is attached to pillars, piles, rocks or metal or is anchored to the bottom of the body of water…

NRS 322.006 “Recreational dredging” defined. “Recreational dredging” means dredging conducted primarily for personal pleasure using a portable vacuum or suction dredge which has an intake that does not exceed 4 inches in diameter. (Added to NRS by 1993, 1456)

NRS 322.0062 “Single residential use” defined. “Single residential use” means the use of a facility, structure or other object, except a commercial use, exclusively by the owner of a littoral or riparian residential parcel and his or her family and guests. (Added to NRS by 1993, …

NRS 322.0066 “Vessel” defined. “Vessel” means any boat or other watercraft used as a means of transportation on water. (Added to NRS by 1993, 1457)

NRS 322.007 Approval of certain leases required. Any lease of state land, except a lease for residential purposes, a lease for farming or grazing or a lease authorized pursuant to NRS 321.008 or 322.061, whose term extends or is renewable beyond 1 year must be approved by the Sta…

NRS 322.010 Authorization. Except as provided in NRS 334.070, 407.0653 and 504.147, the Administrator of the Division of State Lands of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, as ex officio State Land Registrar, may lease any land except contract land now or h…

NRS 322.020 Sizes of leased areas; conformity to governmental subdivisions. Such leases shall be in blocks of not less than 40 acres nor more than 1,280 acres each, and shall conform to governmental subdivisions. [2:183:1921; NCL § 5549]

NRS 322.030 Rentals and royalties. 1. Such leases shall be based upon a fixed rental of not less than $1 per acre annually for each acre contained therein, and shall further provide for a royalty of not less than: (a) Fifteen percent of the gross value of all oil, gas or other hy…

NRS 322.040 Form of lease; preparation by Attorney General. Such leases shall be executed upon a form to be prepared by the Attorney General, which form shall contain all of the covenants and agreements usual and necessary to leases for the extraction of coal, oil and gas, or the…

NRS 322.050 Leases of or easements over state lands authorized; concurrence of contracting parties and state agencies required. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 334.070, 407.0653 and 504.147, the Administrator of the Division of State Lands of the State Department of Conservat…

NRS 322.060 Certain leases or easements over state lands: Size of area; terms and consideration; form and preparation. Subject to the provisions of NRS 321.335, leases or easements authorized pursuant to the provisions of NRS 322.050, and not made for the purpose of extracting oi…

NRS 322.061 Lease of land at reduced rate to persons who intend to locate or expand business in this State; requirements; approval of lease; determination of rent; waiver of requirements. 1. The Administrator of the Division of State Lands of the State Department of Conservation …

NRS 322.063 Lease of state land to certain state officers or employees for reduced charge; approval of lease; determination of rent; waiver of fee; separate accounting and use of money collected from leases; nonreversion. 1. The Administrator of the Division of State Lands of the…

NRS 322.065 Lease of state land to certain nonprofit organizations or educational institutions for reduced charge; approval of lease; determination of rent; waiver of fee; exclusions. 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, land may be leased pursuant to NRS 322.060 to: …

NRS 322.067 Waiver of fee for grant of easement to local government for public road. 1. Upon the request of the governing body of a local government, the Administrator of the Division of State Lands of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, as ex officio Stat…

NRS 322.070 Leases of land for private development. The State Land Registrar may lease for private development any land except contract land owned by the State of Nevada to produce public revenue. Such a lease may be for a term not to exceed 99 years. (Added to NRS by 1983, 1260)

NRS 322.075 Fees for leases of land for grazing livestock: Conditions; determination of minimum fee. Repealed. (See chapter 397, Statutes of Nevada 2025, at page 2629.) OTHER LAWFUL USES