Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 569 - Estrays and Livestock
NRS 569.471 - Replacement of legal fence permitted; conditions; duty and liability.

A developer or a person undertaking an activity described in NRS 569.461, at his or her own expense, may replace a legal fence with a fence certified by the Director of the State Department of Agriculture to be equally impervious to livestock, but if the developer or person undertaking such activity does so, the duty and liability imposed by NRS 569.461 exist and devolve in the same manner.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 1148; A 1993, 1746)

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Nevada Revised Statutes

Chapter 569 - Estrays and Livestock

NRS 569.005 - Definitions.

NRS 569.006 - "Alternative livestock" defined.

NRS 569.0065 - "Department" defined.

NRS 569.007 - "Director" defined.

NRS 569.0075 - "Estray" defined.

NRS 569.008 - "Feral livestock" defined.

NRS 569.0085 - "Livestock" defined.

NRS 569.010 - Estrays and feral livestock deemed property of Department; management, control, placement and disposition of estrays and feral livestock; disposition of money; liability.

NRS 569.020 - Duties of certain officers who impound livestock to notify Department; contents of notice.

NRS 569.031 - Cooperative agreements for management, control, placement or disposition of livestock: Required provisions; annual review by Department; cancellation.

NRS 569.040 - Unlawful to take up or feed estray or feral livestock; enforcement; penalties.

NRS 569.045 - Person gathering estray or feral livestock to publish notice in newspaper; requirements of notice.

NRS 569.050 - Written notice to Department when person takes up estray.

NRS 569.060 - Examination by Department of brand records upon receipt of notice of taking up of estray; notice to owner; payment of charges incurred for care; authority for closer examination of brands.

NRS 569.070 - Publication of notice of estray required if owner cannot be determined; reimbursement of expenses for publication; sale of injured or debilitated estray.

NRS 569.075 - Sale of feral livestock gathered by Department; publication of notice of sale of feral livestock; sale of injured or debilitated feral livestock.

NRS 569.080 - Sale, placement or other disposition of unclaimed estray; sale or placement of unclaimed feral livestock; issuance of brand inspection clearance certificate upon sale; marking, branding or identifying required before sale or placement.

NRS 569.090 - Deposit of balance of proceeds of sale; records; payment to owner.

NRS 569.100 - Person taking up estray or feral livestock entitled to hold animal until relieved of custody; unlawful use or taking of estray or feral livestock; penalties.

NRS 569.110 - Escaped or removed estray or feral livestock may be recovered by person who took it up.

NRS 569.120 - Estrays and feral livestock may be taken up by agents of Department; procedure for disposal.

NRS 569.130 - Penalties.

NRS 569.431 - "Legal fence" defined.

NRS 569.440 - Liability caused by trespassing livestock; liability of landowner for injury to trespassing livestock; trespassing livestock treated as estrays.

NRS 569.450 - Trespass on cultivated land: No award of damages unless land enclosed by legal fence.

NRS 569.461 - Liability of developer of residential, commercial or industrial structure adjoining pasture for damages to legal fence.

NRS 569.471 - Replacement of legal fence permitted; conditions; duty and liability.