Nevada Code § 405.040

Permit for erection or use of outdoor advertisement; fee; exceptions
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1. It shall be unlawful for any person,
firm, association or corporation, personally or by agent, to erect, place or
maintain any billboard, sign or any form of notice or advertising outside the
city limits of any city or town:
(a) On the public domain;
(b) On land owned or leased by such advertiser or
agent but not used as the site for manufacturing the goods or articles
advertised; or
(c) On the lands of another except where, by
painting, an area of the barns or other outbuildings thereon may be preserved
(for the purposes of this paragraph area is defined as the entire wall or
roof aspect on which an advertisement may be painted),
without
first having secured from the county building official, if one has been
appointed pursuant to NRS 278.570 , or if
not, from the county clerk of the county in which the sign may be located a
permit to erect, or continue the use of, such sign, billboard or other form of
notice or advertisement.
2. No permit for the erection of such
sign, billboard or other form of advertisement shall be issued unless and until
the applicant shall have paid a fee in the sum of $5. On the tender of the fee
the county building official or county clerk shall issue the permit.
3. No fee shall be required for any
billboard, sign or advertisement erected or placed by any farm bureau, chamber
of commerce or lawful authority to advertise exclusively any city, town or
geographic area, or public event.
4. This section shall not apply to the
owner or occupant of any land outside the limits of any city, who may place or
erect on the land or on the outbuildings thereon any sign or notice or
advertisement intended to benefit the land or improvements thereon and
advertise the business conducted in the buildings on the land.

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