Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 520 - Mining Corporations and Partnerships
NRS 520.050 - Venue; service of process; applicability of Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure.


1. All suits instituted under the provisions of NRS 520.010 to 520.070, inclusive, shall be brought in the county within which the mining claim is located.
2. Where the defendant is a nonresident of the county within which suit is brought, but a resident of the State, service of summons may be had personally, as in other cases, or by publication in the same manner as provided by Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure for service of summons by publication where the defendant is a nonresident of the State.
3. All of the provisions of law and Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure regulating proceedings in other civil cases shall, so far as the same are applicable, apply to suits instituted under NRS 520.010 to 520.070, inclusive.
[5:73:1865; B § 95; BH § 251; C § 267; RL § 2480; NCL § 4178]

Structure Nevada Revised Statutes

Nevada Revised Statutes

Chapter 520 - Mining Corporations and Partnerships

NRS 520.010 - Institution of action.

NRS 520.020 - Determination of minority owner’s proportion of money expended or assumed indebtedness.

NRS 520.030 - Notice of intention to institute action; joinder of defendants; judgment and costs.

NRS 520.040 - Specifications of summons.

NRS 520.050 - Venue; service of process; applicability of Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure.

NRS 520.060 - Money expended or assumed indebtedness is lien against minority owner’s share; judgments and executions bind only defendant’s mining interest.

NRS 520.070 - Sales of interests in mining claims under execution on judgment absolute; rights of purchasers.

NRS 520.110 - Right of stockholder to inspect company’s mines; issuance of order for inspection; duty of superintendent.

NRS 520.120 - Registration of stockholder with county clerk or justice of the peace; fee for registration and administering oath.

NRS 520.130 - Applicant to present stock certificates to county clerk or justice of the peace; oath of applicant.

NRS 520.140 - Order for admission to mine.

NRS 520.150 - Penalty for failure to comply with NRS 520.110.

NRS 520.160 - Requisites generally.

NRS 520.170 - Express agreement unnecessary; origin of relationship.

NRS 520.180 - Sharing of profits and losses: Proportion.

NRS 520.190 - Lien of members on property of partnership.

NRS 520.200 - Title to mining ground worked.

NRS 520.210 - Transfer of interests of members: Operation and effect.

NRS 520.220 - Liability of purchaser of interest in mining ground.

NRS 520.230 - Notice of existence of liens.

NRS 520.240 - Authority of member to bind partnership.

NRS 520.250 - Decision of majority is binding.

NRS 520.260 - Formation of partnership under chapter 87, 87A or 88 of NRS.