Nevada § 519.080 - Records of assayers and purchasers: Contents
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§ 519.080. Records of assayers and purchasers: Contents
Every assayer, person, partnership, association or corporation engaged in the business,
or who or which may hereafter be engaged, directly, indirectly or occasionally in
the business, or who or which, being engaged in other business, shall at any time
assay, mill, sample, reduce, ship, transport, buy, purchase, trade in, barter, concentrate,
smelt, refine or sell metalliferous-bearing ores, free gold, gold dust, gold amalgam,
gold nuggets, gold specimens, gold bullion, free silver, silver nuggets, silver bullion,
lead or lead bullion, copper or copper bullion, shall keep and preserve a book of
records thereof, in which shall be entered at the times they shall occur the following
entries, with the dates thereof: 1. The name of the assayer, person, persons, partnership, association or corporation
on whose behalf such ore, free gold, gold dust, gold amalgam, gold nuggets, gold specimens,
gold bullion, free silver, silver nuggets, silver bullion, lead, lead bullion, copper
or copper bullion is delivered, or purchased, or sampled, or transported, or sold,
or reduced, or smelted, or milled, as the case may be. 2. The weight or quantity thereof, and a short description of each and every lot or
consignment thereof. 3. The name or names of the teamster or teamsters, packer or packers, or other person
or persons actually delivering or transferring the same, and each and every portion
of the same, and the name or names of the owner or owners of the team, pack train,
railway or express company, automobile or other conveyance used or employed in and
for such delivery. 4. The name and location of the mine, mining claim, mining location, or other premises
from which the same has been or purports to have been extracted, mined or procured,
and if the products or property consists of concentrates, amalgam, bullion concentrates,
free gold or free silver, there shall also be recorded the name and location of the
mill, concentrator, refinery or smelter which milled or purported to have milled,
reduced, concentrated, smelted or refined the same, and for whom such milling, reducing,
refining, concentration or smelting was done. 5. The date of the receipt thereof, and whether received by purchase, barter, trade
or gift, or for treatment, concentration, reduction, sampling, refining, assay, transportation,
sale, exchange or otherwise. 6. Whenever the assayer, person, partnership, association or corporation receiving
any property hereinabove specifically designated shall become the owner thereof by
purchase, barter, trade or exchange, there shall also be recorded in the book a statement
showing the amount and terms of such purchase, barter, trade or exchange. 7. Whenever the assayer, person, partnership, association, or corporation receiving
any property herein specifically designated shall as agent, factor, broker or in any
other capacity sell, barter, trade or exchange the same for and in behalf of the owner
or reputed owner thereof, there shall also be recorded in the book the date, names
of the persons, the amount and character of the property sold or disposed of, and
the amount of such transaction. 8. The interest, if any, of the delivering person, partnership, association or corporation
in the property or any part thereof hereinabove specifically designated, whether as
owner, lessee, pledgee, superintendent, foreman or workman in the mine, mining claim,
mining location, premises, mill, concentrator, sampler, refiner or smelting works
from which the same was or purports to have been mined or treated.
Source: official Nevada text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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Section 519.080 ("Records of assayers and purchasers: Contents") is part of the Nevada Revised Statutes, the codified statutory law of Nevada. It sets out the legal rule or procedure described in the text above. Statutes are amended regularly, so always verify against the official source.
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