1. No person or agent of any person shall be granted a new prospecting permit upon the same claims, or any of them, under the provisions of NRS 517.390 to 517.430, inclusive:
(a) If such claims, or any of them, at the time of any subsequent application, have been the property of the county for a year or more.
(b) Until 30 days shall have elapsed between the date of the termination of the former prospecting permit and the date of application for a subsequent permit.
2. If at the time of the expiration of a prospecting period actual development work, by drilling or otherwise, is being carried on, then the board of county commissioners shall, upon application, grant an additional 6 months’ prospecting period to the same applicant or applicants.
[Part 1:44:1933; A 1935, 25; 1945, 351; 1943 NCL § 4309]—(NRS A 1971, 76)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 517 - Mining Claims, Mill Sites and Tunnel Rights
NRS 517.003 - "Division" defined.
NRS 517.010 - Person entitled to locate; requirements for location.
NRS 517.030 - Monumenting of claim; required removal of plastic monuments.
NRS 517.040 - Map: Specifications; filing; distribution; use of filing fee.
NRS 517.050 - Certificate of location: Recording; contents; effect of insufficiency.
NRS 517.080 - Relocation of abandoned lode claim.
NRS 517.090 - Requirements for location.
NRS 517.100 - Map: Specifications; filing; use of filing fee.
NRS 517.110 - Certificate of location: Recording; contents; effect of insufficiency.
NRS 517.115 - Evidence of abandonment; acquisition after abandonment.
NRS 517.120 - Location of nonmineral land as mill site.
NRS 517.130 - Requirements for location.
NRS 517.140 - Certificate of location: Recording; contents; effect of insufficiency.
NRS 517.150 - Requirements for location.
NRS 517.160 - Definition of boundaries; erection of monuments.
NRS 517.170 - Recording of certificate of location; filing of map; effect of insufficiency.
NRS 517.180 - Location of blind or unknown lode or vein in tunnel.
NRS 517.185 - Fee for each document filed; disposition.
NRS 517.190 - Notice of location: Filing; evidentiary effect.
NRS 517.210 - Survey of location; evidentiary effect of survey and surveyor’s certificate.
NRS 517.280 - Certificates of location need not be sworn to; no required form.
NRS 517.290 - Applicability of NRS 517.010 to 517.280, inclusive.
NRS 517.300 - Unlawful acts; penalties.
NRS 517.390 - Affidavit and petition to explore and develop mine or claim.
NRS 517.400 - Determination of amount of taxes, penalties and costs.
NRS 517.410 - Permission to explore and develop claim; limitations.
NRS 517.430 - Renewal of prospecting permits: Limitations and extensions.
NRS 517.450 - Sale of mine or claim not subject to prospecting permit: Affidavit and petition.