"Open-space use" means the current employment of land, the preservation of which use would conserve and enhance natural or scenic resources, protect streams and water supplies, maintain natural features which enhance control of floods or preserve sites designated as historic by the Office of Historic Preservation of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. The use of real property and the improvements on that real property as a golf course shall be deemed to be an open-space use of the land. The use of land to lease surface water rights appurtenant to the property to a political subdivision of this State for a municipal use shall be deemed to be an open-space use of the land, if the land was agricultural real property at the time the lease was granted.
(Added to NRS by 1975, 1756; A 1979, 208; 1987, 432; 1993, 1576; 2001, 940; 2005, 2664; 2009, 1229; 2011, 2975)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 361A - Taxes on Agricultural Real Property and Open Space
NRS 361A.020 - "Agricultural real property" defined.
NRS 361A.030 - "Agricultural use" defined.
NRS 361A.031 - "Converted to a higher use" defined.
NRS 361A.0315 - "Golf course" defined.
NRS 361A.032 - "Higher use" defined.
NRS 361A.040 - "Open-space real property" defined.
NRS 361A.050 - "Open-space use" defined.
NRS 361A.060 - "Owner" defined.
NRS 361A.065 - "Parcel" defined.
NRS 361A.090 - Legislative declaration.
NRS 361A.100 - Application by owner.
NRS 361A.110 - Filing, contents and execution of application.
NRS 361A.130 - Determination of value for agricultural use; notification of assessment.
NRS 361A.140 - Classification of agricultural property; valuations for each classification.
NRS 361A.150 - Disqualification of property.
NRS 361A.160 - Appeal of determination.
NRS 361A.180 - Application by owner.
NRS 361A.190 - Filing, contents and execution of application.
NRS 361A.200 - Action on application by governing bodies of county and city: Procedure.
NRS 361A.210 - Orders of approval or denial by board of county commissioners.
NRS 361A.220 - Determination of value for open-space use; notification of assessment.
NRS 361A.225 - Determination of value for open-space use of real property used as golf course.
NRS 361A.230 - Disqualification of property.
NRS 361A.240 - Appeal from determination; equalization of assessment.
NRS 361A.250 - Redetermination of use: Complaint; hearing; order; judicial review.
NRS 361A.271 - Assessor to give owner notice of determination; contents of notice.
NRS 361A.273 - Appeal from determination or valuations.
NRS 361A.277 - Determination of taxable value when property converted to higher use.
NRS 361A.280 - Payment of deferred tax when property converted to higher use.