Nevada Code § 41.515

Limitations on liability; exceptions; trespasser defined
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1. Except as otherwise provided in this
section, an owner of any estate or interest in any premises, or a lessee or an
occupant of any premises, owes no duty of care to a trespasser and is not
liable to a trespasser for physical harm caused by the failure to exercise
reasonable care to put the premises in a condition that is reasonably safe for
the entry or use by a trespasser or to carry on activities on the premises so
as not to endanger a trespasser.
2. An owner, lessee or occupant of
premises may be subject to liability for harm to a trespasser if:
(a) The owner, lessee or occupant willfully or
wantonly causes harm to the trespasser;
(b) The owner, lessee or occupant fails to
exercise reasonable care to prevent harm to the trespasser after discovering
the trespassers presence in a place of danger on the premises; or
(c) The trespasser is a child who is injured by
an artificial condition on the premises and:
(1) The place where the condition exists
is one on which the owner, lessee or occupant knows or has reason to know that
a child is likely to trespass;
(2) The condition is one that the owner,
lessee or occupant knows or has reason to know and that the owner, lessee or
occupant realizes or should realize involves an unreasonable risk of death or
serious bodily harm to a trespassing child;
(3) The trespassing child, because of his
or her youth, does not discover the condition or realize the risk involved in
the condition or coming within the area made dangerous by it;
(4) The utility to the owner, lessee or
occupant of maintaining the condition and the burden of eliminating the danger
are slight as compared with the risk to the trespassing child; and
(5) The owner, lessee or occupant fails to
exercise reasonable care to eliminate the danger or to otherwise protect the
trespassing child from harm.
3. This section does not affect any immunity
from or defenses to civil liability established by specific statute or
available at common law to which an owner, lessee or occupant may be entitled.
4. As used in this section, trespasser
means any person who enters or remains upon any premises owned, leased or
occupied by another person without the express or implied consent of the owner,
lessee or occupant of the premises.

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