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- 83rd Session (2025)
Assembly Bill No. 429–Committee on Natural Resources
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AN ACT relating to natural resources; providing, with certain
exceptions, that any person is authorized to perform certain
actions relating to an easement for conservation; and
providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Legislative Counsel’s Digest:
Existing law authorizes , with certain exceptions, an easement for conservation
to be created , conveyed, recorded, assigned, released, modified, terminated or
otherwise altered or affected in the same manner as other easements. (NRS
111.420) This bill instead provides that any pe rson, including a state or local
government or any agency or instrumentality thereof, is authorized to create,
convey, record, assign, release, reserve, modify, terminate or otherwise alter or
affect an easement for conservation in the same manner as other easements.
EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. NRS 111.420 is hereby amended to read as follows:
111.420 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 111.390 to
111.440, inclusive, [an] any person, including, without limitation,
a state or local government or any agency or instrumentality
thereof, may create, convey, record, assign, release, reserve,
modify, terminate or otherwise alter or affect an easement for
conservation [may be creat ed, conveyed, recorded, assigned,
released, modified, terminated or otherwise altered or affected ] in
the same manner as other easements.
2. No right or duty in favor of or against a holder and no right
of enforcement in favor of a third person arises u nder an easement
for conservation before it is accepted by the holder and the
acceptance is recorded.
3. An easement for conservation is unlimited in duration
unless:
(a) The instrument creating it otherwise provides; or
(b) A court orders that the eas ement be terminated or modified,
according to subsection 2 of NRS 111.430.
4. An interest in real property existing at the time the easement
for conservation is created is not impaired by the easement unless
the owner of the interest is a party to the easement or consents to it.
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