1. If land is required for public use, the person, corporation or partnership or its agents in charge of the use may survey and locate it. The land must be located in the manner most compatible with the greatest public good and the least private injury, and subject to this chapter. The person, corporation or partnership or its agents may, with the consent of the owner or under a court order entered pursuant to subsection 2, enter upon the land and make examinations, surveys and maps thereof, including soil investigations, test borings and the appraisal and valuation of the land and any improvements thereon.
2. If the owner or occupant of the land fails or refuses to permit entry on the land for the purposes set forth in subsection 1, the person, corporation or partnership may petition the district court of the county in which the land is situated for an order permitting entry on the land for those purposes. If the court ascertains, by affidavit or otherwise, that the person, corporation or partnership in good faith desires to enter the land for those purposes, the court shall grant an order permitting that entry, conditioned upon the examination being made at reasonable times and in such a manner as to cause the least inconvenience to the owner or occupant of the land.
3. Entry upon land pursuant to this section does not give rise to any cause of action in favor of the owner or occupant of the land, except for actual damages sustained to the land or any improvements thereon and all injuries resulting from negligence, wantonness or malice.
[1911 CPA § 668; RL § 5610; NCL § 9157]—(NRS A 1977, 235; 1989, 548; 1995, 502)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
NRS 37.0095 - Persons or agencies who may exercise power of eminent domain; exceptions.
NRS 37.0097 - Unit-owners’ association may not exercise power of eminent domain.
NRS 37.010 - Public uses for which eminent domain may be exercised.
NRS 37.020 - Estates in property subject to condemnation.
NRS 37.038 - Conditions precedent to taking property within historic district.
NRS 37.040 - Conditions precedent to entry of judgment of condemnation; findings.
NRS 37.050 - Location of and entry upon land; damages.
NRS 37.070 - Contents of complaint; inclusion of separate parcels in same or separate proceedings.
NRS 37.080 - All parties in interest may appear.
NRS 37.083 - Default of defendant: Entry; effect.
NRS 37.095 - Restrictions concerning appraisal of real property.
NRS 37.110 - Ascertainment and assessment of damages.
NRS 37.111 - Additional compensation for loss of goodwill.
NRS 37.112 - Valuation of property subject to condemnation as result of public work or project.
NRS 37.115 - Distribution of award among joint defendants by separate proceeding.
NRS 37.130 - New proceedings may be instituted when title found defective.
NRS 37.140 - Damages to be paid within 30 days after judgment; bond for railroad fence.
NRS 37.150 - Award deposited in court; execution; when proceedings may be annulled.
NRS 37.160 - Entry of final order of condemnation on deposit of award; recording; when title vests.
NRS 37.175 - Interest paid by plaintiff; posttrial hearing to determine award of interest.
NRS 37.180 - Abandonment of condemnation proceedings; defendant’s damages for plaintiff’s occupancy.
NRS 37.185 - Party not liable for attorney’s fees of other party; exception.
NRS 37.200 - Rules of practice.
NRS 37.210 - Rights of cities and towns not affected.
NRS 37.220 - Crossings to be made and kept in repair.
NRS 37.230 - Condemnation by railroad companies.
NRS 37.270 - Reversion of property upon repayment of original purchase price; conditions.
NRS 37.280 - Distribution of interest earned from investment of money deposited in court.