Title 46

NRS 514.060 Agreements with United States Geological Survey. 1. The Director of the Bureau of Mines and Geology, for and on behalf of the State of Nevada, with the approval of the Governor, is authorized to enter into agreements with the United States Geological Survey for cooper…

NRS 514.070 Reports: Distribution and sale. 1. The Board of Regents shall cause to be prepared before September 1 of each even-numbered year a report covering the biennium ending June 30 of such year, showing the progress and condition of the Bureau of Mines and Geology, together…

NRS 514.080 Unlawful acts. It shall be unlawful for the Director or any attache of the Bureau of Mines and Geology: 1. To receive a commission or to act as agent or broker of or for any purchaser, owner, or his, her or their agents, of a mining property. 2. To act in any other th…

NRS 514A.010 Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 514A.020 and 514A.030 have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. (Added to NRS by 2011, 2691)

NRS 514A.020 “Chair” defined. “Chair” means the Chair of the Commission. (Added to NRS by 2011, 2691)

NRS 514A.030 “Commission” defined. “Commission” means the Mining Oversight and Accountability Commission created by NRS 514A.040. (Added to NRS by 2011, 2691)

NRS 514A.040 Creation; membership; terms; vacancies. 1. There is hereby created the Mining Oversight and Accountability Commission consisting of seven members appointed as follows: (a) Two members appointed by the Governor; (b) Two members appointed by the Governor from a list of…

NRS 514A.050 Officers; meetings; quorum; compensation; assignment of staff by Department of Taxation. 1. The Commission shall elect one of its members as Chair and another as Vice Chair, who shall serve for a term of 1 year or until their successors are elected and qualified. 2. …

NRS 514A.060 Duties. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the Commission shall provide oversight of compliance with Nevada law relating to the activities of each state agency, board, bureau, commission, department or division with respect to the taxation, operation, safety…

NRS 514A.070 Submission of certain reports and other information to Commission. In addition to any other information requested by the Commission pursuant to NRS 514A.080: 1. The Administrator of the Division of Industrial Relations of the Department of Business and Industry shall…

NRS 514A.080 Administration of oaths; deposition of witnesses; issuance and enforcement of subpoenas. 1. In conducting the investigations and hearings of the Commission: (a) The Chair or any member designated by the Chair may administer oaths. (b) The Chair may cause the depositi…

NRS 514A.090 Compensation of witnesses. 1. Each witness who appears before the Commission by its order, except a state officer or employee, is entitled to receive for such attendance the fees and mileage provided for witnesses in civil cases in the courts of record of this State.…

NRS 514A.100 Requests by Commission for special audits and investigations. 1. The Commission may submit a request to the Legislative Commission that the Legislative Auditor be directed to undertake, or to contract with a qualified accounting firm to undertake, a special audit or …

NRS 514A.110 Review of certain regulations required before becoming effective; reports of findings and recommendations; exception. 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a permanent regulation adopted by the: (a) Nevada Tax Commission, pursuant to NRS 360.090, concernin…

NRS 517.003 “Division” defined. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, “Division” means the Division of Minerals of the Commission on Mineral Resources. (Added to NRS by 1999, 3628) LOCATION OF MINING CLAIMS, MILL SITES AND TUNNEL RIGHTS Lode Claims

NRS 517.010 Person entitled to locate; requirements for location. Any person who is a citizen of the United States, or who has legally declared his or her intention to become a citizen of the United States, who discovers a vein or lode may locate a lode mining claim thereon by: 1…

NRS 517.030 Monumenting of claim; required removal of plastic monuments. 1. Within 60 days after posting the notice of location, the locator of a lode mining claim shall distinctly define the boundaries of the claim by placing a valid legal monument at each corner of the claim. A…

NRS 517.040 Map: Specifications; filing; distribution; use of filing fee. 1. Within 90 days after posting the notice of location, the locator of a lode mining claim shall prepare two copies of a map of the claim on a scale of not less than 500 feet to the inch, which sets forth t…

NRS 517.050 Certificate of location: Recording; contents; effect of insufficiency. 1. When the locator files his or her map pursuant to NRS 517.040, the locator shall present to the county recorder for recording, together with the usual recording fees, duplicate certificates of l…

NRS 517.080 Relocation of abandoned lode claim. 1. The relocation of an abandoned lode claim must be made by preparing two copies of a map of the claim as provided by NRS 517.040, and erecting new boundaries or adopting the old boundaries by renewing the monuments if they have be…

NRS 517.090 Requirements for location. 1. The location of a placer claim shall be made in the following manner: (a) By posting thereon, upon a monument meeting the requirements of NRS 517.030, erected at any point along the north boundary, a notice of location containing: (1) The…

NRS 517.100 Map: Specifications; filing; use of filing fee. Within 90 days after posting the notice of location of a placer claim, the locator shall: 1. Prepare two copies of a map of the claim which must be of a scale of not less than 500 feet to the inch. If the United States s…

NRS 517.110 Certificate of location: Recording; contents; effect of insufficiency. 1. When the locator files his or her maps pursuant to NRS 517.100, the locator shall present to the county recorder for recording, together with the usual recording fees, duplicate certificates of …

NRS 517.115 Evidence of abandonment; acquisition after abandonment. 1. Whenever the tailings of any mining claim or the waste of any mine has been deposited upon the unappropriated public domain and remains unworked for a period of 10 successive years, it is prima facie evidence …

NRS 517.120 Location of nonmineral land as mill site. The proprietor of a mine or mining claim or the owner of a mill or reduction works, may locate 5 acres of nonmineral land as a mill site. [15:89:1897; C § 222; RL § 2436; NCL § 4134]—(NRS A 1985, 1499)

NRS 517.130 Requirements for location. The locator of a mill site shall locate his or her claim by: 1. Posting a notice of location thereon, which must contain: (a) The name of the locator and the locator’s mailing address; (b) The name of the mine or mining claim of which the lo…

NRS 517.140 Certificate of location: Recording; contents; effect of insufficiency. 1. Within 90 days after the date of his or her location, the locator of a claim or location of a mill site shall record his or her location with the county recorder of the county in which the locat…

NRS 517.150 Requirements for location. The locator of a tunnel right or location shall locate his or her tunnel right or location by posting a notice of location at the face or point of commencement of the tunnel, which notice must contain: 1. The name of the locator and the loca…

NRS 517.160 Definition of boundaries; erection of monuments. 1. Within 60 days after the posting of the notice of location, the locator of a tunnel right or location shall define the boundaries of the tunnel by monuments placed at intervals of not more than 300 feet from the face…

NRS 517.170 Recording of certificate of location; filing of map; effect of insufficiency. 1. Within 90 days from the date of the location, the locator of a tunnel right or location shall record his or her location with the county recorder of the county in which the location is si…

NRS 517.180 Location of blind or unknown lode or vein in tunnel. All blind lodes, or veins or lodes not previously known to exist, discovered in a tunnel run for the development of a vein or lode, or for the discovery of mines, and within 3,000 feet from the face of such tunnel, …

NRS 517.185 Fee for each document filed; disposition. 1. In addition to any recording fee, each filing pursuant to NRS 517.050, 517.080, 517.110, 517.140, 517.170, 517.200 and 517.230 must be submitted with a filing fee in an amount established pursuant to subsection 2. The count…

NRS 517.190 Notice of location: Filing; evidentiary effect. A locator of a mining claim or a claim for a mill site or tunnel right may file with the county recorder a notice of location which is prima facie evidence in all courts of justice of the first location of that claim. [P…

NRS 517.195 Separate notices and certificates of location; effect of combining locations in notice or certificate. 1. A locator shall: (a) Post a separate notice of location; and (b) Record a separate certificate of location, Ê for each location of a lode or placer claim or of a …

NRS 517.200 Validation of defective certificate of location or change of boundaries: Filing of amended certificate of location; effect of amendment; correction of common error. 1. If at any time the locator of any mining claim located before, on or after March 16, 1897, or the lo…

NRS 517.210 Survey of location; evidentiary effect of survey and surveyor’s certificate. Where a locator, or a locator’s assigns, has the boundaries and corners of his or her claim established by a United States Mineral Surveyor, or a licensed surveyor of this state, and his or h…

NRS 517.213 Inclusion of patented mines and mining claims on county map; conformity of discrepancy between county map and record of survey showing location of mine or claim; duty of county recorder to provide map to county assessor. 1. The county recorder shall include all patent…

NRS 517.215 Comparison of record of survey to county map of mining claims; notice of proposal to change county map; change to county map if no hearing requested; hearing upon request. 1. When a record of survey filed with the county recorder by a professional land surveyor shows …

NRS 517.230 Affidavit of work performed or improvements made; affidavit of owner or claimant; evidentiary effect of affidavits. 1. On or before November 1 of the year for which labor is performed or improvements are made as required by law for a mining claim annually, the person …

NRS 517.280 Certificates of location need not be sworn to; no required form. Certificates of location need not be sworn to, and are not required to be in any specified form nor to state facts in any specific order, but must truly state the required facts. [24:89:1897; added 1899,…

NRS 517.290 Applicability of NRS 517.010 to 517.280, inclusive. The provisions of NRS 517.010 to 517.280, inclusive, shall be construed as equally applicable to all classes of locations, except where the requirement as to any one class is manifestly inapplicable to any other clas…

NRS 517.300 Unlawful acts; penalties. 1. A person who willfully antedates or puts any false date or date other than the one on which the location is made upon any notice of location of any mining claim in this state is guilty of a category D felony and shall be punished as provid…

NRS 517.350 Written instruments recorded in office of county recorder before February 20, 1873, deemed to impart notice to subsequent purchasers and encumbrancers. All instruments of writing relating to mining claims copied into books of mining records or other records in the off…

NRS 517.360 Records of mining claims, mill sites or tunnel rights made by mining district recorder or county recorder before March 16, 1897, declared valid; evidentiary effect of record. 1. All records of lode or placer mining claims, mill sites or tunnel rights made by any minin…

NRS 517.370 Conveyances of mining claims: Formalities; construction and proof of conveyances before December 12, 1862. 1. After December 12, 1862, conveyances of mining claims shall require the same formalities and shall be subject to the same rules of construction as the transfe…

NRS 517.380 Validity of previous conveyances of mining claims or locations by minors more than 18 years of age. In all cases in this state since July 1, 1867, where minors over the age of 18 years have sold interests acquired by them in mining claims or locations within this stat…