Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 564 - Brands and Marks
NRS 564.040 - Application for recording of brand or mark.


1. Any owner of animals in this State desiring to adopt and use thereupon any brand, or brand and mark, or marks, as provided for in this chapter shall, before doing so, forward to the Department an application, on a form approved and provided by the Department for that purpose, for the recording of the brand, or brand and mark or marks, and receive a certificate of recordation as provided in this chapter.
2. The application must:
(a) Include a drawing, exact except as to size, of the brand, together with any earmarks or other marks desired or intended to be used therewith, and the location upon the animal or animals concerned where the brand and earmarks or other marks are desired or intended to be used;
(b) Include a statement of the kinds of animals upon which the brand or brand and mark or marks are used or will be used;
(c) Include a statement of the approximate boundaries of that part of the State within which it is intended to use the brand, brand and mark or marks;
(d) Include the full name and address of the applicant; and
(e) Be accompanied by a fee of $200 for the recording of the brand, or brand and mark, or marks. The fee must not be prorated for any unused portion of the period for which the brand, or brand and mark, or marks are recorded.
3. For the purpose of this chapter, the post office address included in the application must be considered the legal address of the applicant until the Department receives from the applicant, in writing, a notice of the change of the address, the latest address of record with the Department remaining the legal address.
[6:26:1923; A 1945, 225; 1943 NCL § 3795]—(NRS A 1961, 14, 534; 1993, 1734; 1999, 3672; 2021, 1832)

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.