Nevada Code § 11.165

Easement by prescription when owner opens land for use by public for pedestrian access and improves land for that specific purpose
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1. If an owner of land opens his or her
land for use by the public for pedestrian access and has improved such land for
that specific purpose, no such use by any person or the public, no matter for
how long of a period, of any land shall ever ripen into an easement by
prescription, if the owner of the land posts at each entrance to the land or at
intervals of not more than 200 feet along the boundary of such land a sign
reading substantially as follows:
Right to pass by permission,
and subject to control, of owner: NRS 11.165 .
2. Regardless of whether an owner of land
has recorded a notice pursuant to NRS
111.3655 or has posted signs on such land pursuant to subsection 1, if an
owner of land opens his or her land for use by the public for pedestrian access
and has improved such land for that specific purpose, no such use of such land
by any person or the public on or after October 1, 2017, shall ever ripen to
confer upon the public or any governmental entity a vested right to continue to
make such use permanently, in the absence of an express written grant of
easement or other conveyance of such land for such use, or irrevocable offer of
dedication of such property for such use, made by the owner, which has been accepted
by the governmental entity to which the offer of dedication was made.
3. The governing body of any city or
county pursuant to the powers granted in NRS
278.010 to 278.630 , inclusive, may
by ordinance establish provisions governing the size, placement and composition
of a sign posted by an owner of land pursuant to subsection 1.
4. As used in this section, governmental
entity has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS
363C.040 .

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