Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 455 - Excavations and High-Voltage Lines
NRS 455.092 - "Excavation" defined.

"Excavation" means the movement or removal of earth, rock or other material in or on the ground by use of mechanical equipment or by the placement and discharge of explosives. The term includes augering, backfilling, boring, digging, ditching, drilling, grading, plowing-in, ripping, scraping, trenching and tunneling.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 1142; A 2009, 1168)

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