Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 564 - Brands and Marks
NRS 564.020 - Owner may adopt brand or mark; recording; unlawful earmark.


1. Every owner of animals in this State may design and adopt a brand or brands, or brand and mark, or brands and marks, with which to brand or brand and mark his or her animals.
2. It shall be unlawful for any owner of such animals to brand or brand and mark, or cause to be branded or branded and marked, his or her animals with a brand or brand and mark not at the time of legal record as provided in this chapter.
3. It shall be unlawful for any owner of such animals to use an earmark which involves the removal of more than one-half of the ear, measuring from the extreme tip of the ear to the head, or which brings the ear to a point by removing both edges of the ear.
[1:26:1923; NCL § 3790]—(NRS A 1959, 175; 1961, 534)

Structure Nevada Revised Statutes

Nevada Revised Statutes

Chapter 564 - Brands and Marks

NRS 564.010 - Definitions.

NRS 564.020 - Owner may adopt brand or mark; recording; unlawful earmark.

NRS 564.025 - Branding or marking of all animals grazing on open range required; application for temporary use of brand recorded or registered in another state; exception.

NRS 564.030 - Powers and duties of Director.

NRS 564.040 - Application for recording of brand or mark.

NRS 564.050 - One brand to be awarded or recorded for each owner; brands for separate and distinct livestock units; identical or similar brands; applicability; recording of unlawful earmarks prohibited.

NRS 564.055 - Recording of cattle brands.

NRS 564.060 - Award of brand upon receipt of application; contents of recording certificate; precedence of applications; refusal or inability of Department to award or record brand.

NRS 564.070 - Recording of brands by Department; procedure; certificate to be transmitted to owner; evidentiary effect of certificate.

NRS 564.075 - Amendment of record of brands and marks; application; form.

NRS 564.080 - Fees.

NRS 564.090 - Evidentiary effect of certificates of recordation.

NRS 564.100 - Legal status of certificates of rerecordation issued pursuant to 1923 law.

NRS 564.110 - Brands and marks subject to transfer; recording of instruments transferring ownership; notice to Department of existence of security agreement, assignment or lien.

NRS 564.115 - Transfer of brands and marks upon death of owner.

NRS 564.120 - Rerecording of brands and marks: Application; fee; notice; abandonment; certificates; limitation on recording new brands.

NRS 564.130 - Brand books and supplements: Issuance by Department; costs.

NRS 564.140 - Unlawful to use brand on position on animal or in area other than those authorized; application for change of position, new position or change in area; unlawful to deface or remove recorded brand.

NRS 564.150 - Penalties.