Nevada § 405.191 - “Public road” defined; county roads and highways may be established on rights-of-way over certain public lands

§ 405.191. “Public road” defined; county roads and highways may be established on rights-of-way over certain public lands

As used in NRS 405.193 and 405.195 , “ public road ” includes: 1. A United States highway, a state highway or a main, general or minor county road

and any other way laid out or maintained by any governmental agency. 2. Any way which exists upon a right-of-way granted by Congress over public lands

of the United States not reserved for public uses in chapter 262, section 8, 14 Statutes

253 (former 43 U.S.C. § 932, commonly referred to as R.S. 2477), and accepted by general

public use and enjoyment before, on or after July 1, 1979. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, each board of county commissioners

may locate and determine the width of such rights-of-way and locate, open for public

use and establish thereon county roads or highways, but public use alone has been

and is sufficient to evidence an acceptance of the grant of a public user right-of-way

pursuant to former 43 U.S.C. § 932. In a county in which a board of county highway commissioners has exclusive control

of all matters relating to the construction, repairing and maintaining of public highways,

roads and bridges within the county pursuant to NRS 403.090 , the board of county highway commissioners may locate and determine the width of

those rights-of-way and open those rights-of-way for public use for the purpose of

designating county roads pursuant to NRS 403.170 or taking any other action concerning those rights-of-way pursuant to chapter 403 of NRS . 3. Any way which is shown upon any plat, subdivision, addition, parcel map or record

of survey of any county, city, town or portion thereof duly recorded or filed in the

office of the county recorder, and which is not specifically therein designated as

a private road or a nonpublic road, and any way which is described in a duly recorded

conveyance as a public road or is reserved thereby for public road purposes or which

is described by words of similar import.