Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 564 - Brands and Marks
NRS 564.070 - Recording of brands by Department; procedure; certificate to be transmitted to owner; evidentiary effect of certificate.


1. Upon the awarding of a brand or brands as provided in this chapter, the Department shall immediately proceed to record the brand or brands.
2. The recording must consist of the transcribing upon a suitable and permanent record, which is a public record and prima facie evidence of the facts contained in the record, designed and approved by the Department for that purpose, of:
(a) A facsimile, except as to scale, of the brand or brand and mark or marks awarded.
(b) The location upon the animal concerned of the brand or brand and mark or marks as awarded.
(c) The date of application.
(d) The date of award.
(e) The district within which the brand or brands and mark or marks are used or will be used.
(f) The kind of animals upon which the brand or brands and marks are used or will be used.
3. The Department shall promptly cause to be prepared and sent to the person to whom the award is made a certificate containing the same entries as those set forth upon the permanent record of the Department described in subsection 2 and certified to by the Department or its authorized agent. The certificate has the legal status of similar certificates as set forth in NRS 564.090.
[9:26:1923; NCL § 3798]—(NRS A 1961, 536; 1993, 1736; 1999, 3673)

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.