1. Whenever a patented mine or mining claim has been, for a year or more, the property of a county through operation of the revenue laws of this state and no prospecting permit granted under the provisions of NRS 517.410 or 517.430 is in force with respect to the mine or claim, any citizen of the United States may file with the board of county commissioners of the county an affidavit and petition to have the mine or claim advertised for sale to the highest bidder.
2. The affidavit and petition must state:
(a) That the petitioner is a citizen of the United States.
(b) That for the past year or more there has belonged to the county, as shown by the official records thereof, a patented mine or mining claim, sufficiently identifying it, which has become the property of the county through operation of the revenue laws of this state.
(c) That no prospecting permit granted under the provisions of NRS 517.410 or 517.430 is in force with respect to the mine or claim.
(d) The amount of the tax, penalties and costs, if any, for which the mine or claim became the property of the county.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 77; A 1989, 51)
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.