Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 405 - Control and Preservation of Public Highways
NRS 405.040 - Permit for erection or use of outdoor advertisement; fee; exceptions.


1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation, personally or by agent, to erect, place or maintain any billboard, sign or any form of notice or advertising outside the city limits of any city or town:
(a) On the public domain;
(b) On land owned or leased by such advertiser or agent but not used as the site for manufacturing the goods or articles advertised; or
(c) On the lands of another except where, by painting, an area of the barns or other outbuildings thereon may be preserved (for the purposes of this paragraph "area" is defined as the entire wall or roof aspect on which an advertisement may be painted),
without first having secured from the county building official, if one has been appointed pursuant to NRS 278.570, or if not, from the county clerk of the county in which the sign may be located a permit to erect, or continue the use of, such sign, billboard or other form of notice or advertisement.
2. No permit for the erection of such sign, billboard or other form of advertisement shall be issued unless and until the applicant shall have paid a fee in the sum of $5. On the tender of the fee the county building official or county clerk shall issue the permit.
3. No fee shall be required for any billboard, sign or advertisement erected or placed by any farm bureau, chamber of commerce or lawful authority to advertise exclusively any city, town or geographic area, or public event.
4. This section shall not apply to the owner or occupant of any land outside the limits of any city, who may place or erect on the land or on the outbuildings thereon any sign or notice or advertisement intended to benefit the land or improvements thereon and advertise the business conducted in the buildings on the land.
[3:90:1925; NCL § 262]—(NRS A 1971, 316; 2001, 1250)

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Nevada Revised Statutes

Chapter 405 - Control and Preservation of Public Highways

NRS 405.010 - Limiting maximum load upon or closing road damaged by heavy loads; procedure; penalties.

NRS 405.020 - Billboard, sign or other outdoor advertising as public nuisance.

NRS 405.030 - Unlawful placement of certain outdoor advertisements; exceptions; restriction on use of revenue from certain lawfully placed advertisements.

NRS 405.040 - Permit for erection or use of outdoor advertisement; fee; exceptions.

NRS 405.050 - No permit to be granted if natural beauty of scenery destroyed or view of highway obstructed; removal of sign as traffic hazard.

NRS 405.060 - Assignment of number for permit.

NRS 405.070 - Duration of permit; destruction of advertisement if permit not renewed.

NRS 405.080 - Apportionment of fees to road funds of county.

NRS 405.090 - Report of violation.

NRS 405.100 - Penalty.

NRS 405.110 - Unlawful advertising on or near highway or on bridge; exceptions; removal; penalty; liability; restriction on use of revenue from certain lawfully placed advertisements.

NRS 405.120 - Installation of bridge or culvert if water conducted across highway; construction and repair performed according to specifications of county commissioners.

NRS 405.130 - Notice of violation by chair of county commissioners; repair by county if violator fails or refuses to repair.

NRS 405.140 - Recovery of expenses from violator by civil action.

NRS 405.150 - District attorney to commence action for recovery of expenses.

NRS 405.160 - Disposition of money collected by civil action.

NRS 405.170 - Penalty for failure to construct bridge or culvert.

NRS 405.180 - Penalty for willfully or negligently allowing water to flow on highway; failure to act upon notice prima facie evidence of negligence.

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

NRS 405.193 - Public agency not required to maintain or accept road made public by prescriptive use; immunity of county from liability arising from use of certain public roads.

NRS 405.195 - Petition to open, reopen, close, relocate or abandon road; hearings and orders by board of county commissioners regarding petition; legal actions authorized.

NRS 405.201 - Definitions.

NRS 405.202 - Accessory roads: Use and maintenance; fee prohibited; immunity of state and local governments from liability arising from use.

NRS 405.203 - Accessory roads: Closure or restriction of use.

NRS 405.204 - Legislative findings and declaration; action by Attorney General authorized; duty to develop, maintain and assist in implementation of legal protocol.

NRS 405.205 - Erection and maintenance of power lines by rural electric cooperative.

NRS 405.210 - Damage to public or private road, bridge or guidepost unlawful; penalty.

NRS 405.230 - Penalty for obstruction or damage to highway; abatement of nuisance; removal of certain obstacles or encroachments.

NRS 405.240 - Repair of damage to highway from driving livestock.

NRS 405.250 - Construction and maintenance of sidewalks; penalty for riding or driving on sidewalk.

NRS 405.270 - Standards of safety for electronic gates that provide access for vehicular traffic.

NRS 405.280 - Erection and maintenance of gates across public roads in certain counties.