Nevada Code § 40.160

Action for trespass for cutting or carrying away trees or wood; treble damages
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1. Any person who cuts down or carries off
any wood or underwood, tree or timber, or girdles or otherwise injures any tree
or timber on the land of another person, or on the street or highway in front
of any persons house, city or town lot, or cultivated grounds, or on the
commons or public grounds of any city or town, or on the street or highway in
front thereof, without lawful authority, is liable to the owner of such land,
or to such city or town, for treble the amount of damages which may be assessed
therefor, in a civil action in any court having jurisdiction.
2. Nothing in subsection 1 of this section
authorizes the recovery of more than the just value of the timber taken from
uncultivated woodland for the repair of a public highway or bridge upon the
land, or adjoining it.

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