1. The right-of-way is hereby given and granted to all railroad companies that are now organized, or may be organized under the provisions of this chapter, or under the laws of any other state or territory, or under any act of Congress, to locate, construct and maintain their roads, or any part or parcel thereof, over and through any of the swamp or overflowed lands belonging to this State, or any other public lands which are now or may be the property of the State, at the time of constructing the railroad.
2. Such railroad companies are hereby authorized to survey and mark through the lands of the State, to be held by them for the track of their respective railroads, 200 feet in width, for the whole length the roads may be located over the lands of the State; and the right is hereby further given and granted to the companies to locate, occupy and hold all necessary sites and grounds for watering places, depots or other buildings, for the convenient use of the same, along the line of the road or roads, so far as the places convenient for the same may fall upon the lands belonging to the State, except within the limits of any incorporated city or town, or within 3 miles where the same shall be taken, on paying to the State the value of the same.
3. No one depot, watering place, machine or workshop, or other buildings for the convenient use of such roads, shall cover over 6 acres each, and the sites or places on the lands of this State shall not be nearer to each other than 5 miles along the line of the roads.
4. The right is hereby further given and granted to the companies to take from any of the lands belonging to this State all such materials of earth, wood, stone or other materials whatever, as may be necessary or convenient, from time to time, for the first construction or equipment of the road or roads, or any part thereof.
5. If any road, at any time after its location, shall be discontinued or abandoned by the company or companies, or the location of any part thereof be so changed as not to cover the lands of the State thus previously occupied, then the lands so abandoned or left shall revert to this State.
6. When the location of the route of either of the railroads, or sites or places for depots, watering places, machine or workshops or other buildings for the convenient use of the same, shall be selected, the secretary of the company shall transmit to the Director of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, and to the State Controller, and to the recorder of the county in which the lands so selected are situated, to each of the officers, a correct plot of the location of the railroad, or sites or places, before such selection shall become operative.
7. When any such company shall, for its purposes aforesaid, require any of the lands belonging to any of the counties, cities or towns in this State, the county, city and town officers, respectively, having charge of such lands, may grant and convey such land to such company, for a compensation which shall be agreed upon between them, or may donate and convey the same without any compensation; and if they shall not agree upon the sale and price, the same may be taken by the company as is provided in other cases of taking lands by condemnation.
8. Before any corporation incorporated or organized otherwise than under the laws of this State shall be entitled to any of the rights granted by this chapter, it shall file in the office of the county recorder of each county in which the railroad, or any part, extension or branch thereof shall be situate, a copy of its certificate or articles of incorporation, or of the act or law by which it was created, with the certified list of its officers, in the manner and form required by law.
[9(b):177:1925; added 1945, 196; 1943 NCL § 1608.02]—(NRS A 1957, 653)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 78 - Private Corporations
NRS 78.010 - Definitions; construction.
NRS 78.015 - Applicability of chapter; effect on corporations existing before April 1, 1925.
NRS 78.020 - Limitations on incorporation under chapter; compliance with other laws.
NRS 78.026 - Form required for filing of records.
NRS 78.027 - Corporate records: Microfilming; imaging; return.
NRS 78.028 - Filing of records written in language other than English.
NRS 78.0296 - Ratification or validation of noncompliant corporate acts.
NRS 78.0298 - Records or signatures maintained by corporation.
NRS 78.035 - Articles of incorporation: Required provisions.
NRS 78.037 - Articles of incorporation: Optional provisions.
NRS 78.040 - Name of corporation: Reservation; injunctive relief.
NRS 78.046 - Authorization of forum selection provisions in articles or bylaws.
NRS 78.050 - Commencement of corporate existence.
NRS 78.055 - Acceptable evidence of incorporation.
NRS 78.065 - Adoption and use of corporate seal or stamp.
NRS 78.075 - Railroad companies: Powers.
NRS 78.085 - Railroad companies: Filing and recording of certified maps and profiles.
NRS 78.115 - Board of directors: Number and qualifications.
NRS 78.120 - Board of directors: General powers.
NRS 78.125 - Committees of board of directors: Designation; powers; membership.
NRS 78.135 - Authority of directors and representatives of corporation.
NRS 78.150 - Filing requirements; fees; powers and duties of Secretary of State; regulations.
NRS 78.153 - Additional filing requirements for certain corporations: Criteria; statement; fees.
NRS 78.155 - Certificate of authorization to transact business.
NRS 78.180 - Defaulting corporations: Conditions and procedure for reinstatement.
NRS 78.185 - Defaulting corporations: Reinstatement or revival under old or new name; regulations.
NRS 78.191 - "Distribution" defined.
NRS 78.195 - Issuance of more than one class or series of stock; rights of stockholders.
NRS 78.196 - Required and authorized classes or series of stock; shares called for redemption.
NRS 78.197 - Rights of persons holding obligations of corporation.
NRS 78.200 - Rights or options to purchase stock.
NRS 78.205 - Fractions of shares: Issuance; alternatives to issuance.
NRS 78.215 - Issuance of shares for consideration or as share dividend.
NRS 78.220 - Subscriptions for corporate shares: Payment; default; irrevocability.
NRS 78.240 - Shares of stock are personal property; transfers.
NRS 78.265 - Preemptive rights of stockholders in corporations organized before October 1, 1991.
NRS 78.275 - Assessments on stock: Levy and collection; sale after default in payment.
NRS 78.283 - Treasury shares: Definition; limitations; retirement and disposal.
NRS 78.288 - Distributions to stockholders.
NRS 78.300 - Liability of directors for unlawful distributions.
NRS 78.310 - Stockholders’ and directors’ meetings: Location; authority to call.
NRS 78.325 - Actions at meetings not regularly called: Ratification and approval.
NRS 78.330 - Directors: Election; terms; classification; voting power.
NRS 78.335 - Directors: Removal; filling of vacancies.
NRS 78.340 - Failure to hold election of directors on regular day does not dissolve corporation.
NRS 78.345 - Election of directors by order of court upon failure of regular election.
NRS 78.355 - Stockholders’ proxies.
NRS 78.360 - Cumulative voting.
NRS 78.370 - Notice to stockholders.
NRS 78.375 - Waiver of notice or other communication.
NRS 78.3782 - "Acquiring person" defined.
NRS 78.3783 - "Acquisition" defined.
NRS 78.3784 - "Control shares" defined.
NRS 78.3785 - "Controlling interest" defined.
NRS 78.3786 - "Fair value" defined.
NRS 78.3787 - "Interested stockholder" defined.
NRS 78.3788 - "Issuing corporation" defined.
NRS 78.3789 - Delivery of offeror’s statement by acquiring person; contents of statement.
NRS 78.3791 - Approval of voting rights of acquiring person.
NRS 78.3792 - Redemption of control shares.
NRS 78.3793 - Rights of dissenting stockholders.
NRS 78.380 - Amendment of articles before issuance of voting stock.
NRS 78.385 - Scope of amendments.
NRS 78.390 - Amendment of articles after issuance of stock: Procedure.
NRS 78.403 - Restatement of articles.
NRS 78.412 - "Affiliate" defined.
NRS 78.413 - "Associate" defined.
NRS 78.414 - "Beneficial owner" defined.
NRS 78.416 - "Combination" defined.
NRS 78.417 - "Common shares" defined.
NRS 78.421 - "Date of announcement" defined.
NRS 78.422 - "Date of consummation" defined.
NRS 78.423 - "Interested stockholder" defined.
NRS 78.424 - "Market value" defined.
NRS 78.426 - "Preferred shares" defined.
NRS 78.4265 - "Publicly traded corporation" defined.
NRS 78.427 - "Resident domestic corporation" defined.
NRS 78.428 - "Securities Exchange Act" defined.
NRS 78.431 - "Subsidiary" defined.
NRS 78.432 - "Voting shares" defined.
NRS 78.433 - Applicability: Generally.
NRS 78.434 - Applicability: Election not to be governed by provisions.
NRS 78.436 - Applicability: Combination with inadvertent interested stockholder.
NRS 78.437 - Applicability: Combination with interested stockholder as of certain date.
NRS 78.439 - Authorized combinations: General requirements.
NRS 78.443 - Authorized combinations: Required form and distribution of consideration.
NRS 78.565 - Sale, lease or exchange of assets: Authority; vote of stockholders.
NRS 78.570 - Sale of property and franchise under decree of court.
NRS 78.575 - Procedure for dissolution before payment of capital and beginning of business.
NRS 78.580 - Procedure for dissolution after beginning of business.
NRS 78.590 - Trustees of dissolved corporation: Powers of directors.
NRS 78.597 - Liability of stockholders of dissolved corporation.
NRS 78.600 - Trustees or receivers for dissolved corporations: Appointment; powers.
NRS 78.605 - Jurisdiction of district court.
NRS 78.615 - Abatement of pending actions; substitution of dissolution trustees or receivers.
NRS 78.620 - Dissolution or forfeiture of charter by decree of court; filing.
NRS 78.622 - Reorganization under federal law: Powers of corporation.
NRS 78.635 - Appointment of receiver or trustee of insolvent corporation: Powers.
NRS 78.640 - Property and privileges of insolvent corporation vest in appointed receiver.
NRS 78.655 - Reorganization of corporation by majority of stockholders during receivership.
NRS 78.660 - Powers of district court.
NRS 78.665 - Receiver to take possession of corporate assets upon court order.
NRS 78.670 - Inventory, list of debts and reports by receiver.
NRS 78.675 - Creditors’ proofs of claims; when participation barred; notice.
NRS 78.680 - Creditors’ claims to be in writing under oath; examination of claimants.
NRS 78.685 - Action on creditors’ claims; appeal of disallowed claims.
NRS 78.695 - Substitution of receiver as party; abatement of actions.
NRS 78.700 - Sales of encumbered or deteriorating property.
NRS 78.705 - Compensation, costs and expenses of receiver.
NRS 78.710 - Distribution of money to creditors and stockholders.
NRS 78.715 - Acts of majority of receivers effectual; removal and vacancies.
NRS 78.720 - Employees’ liens for wages when corporation insolvent.
NRS 78.730 - Renewal or revival: Procedure; fee; certificate as evidence.
NRS 78.740 - Renewal or revival: Status of corporation.
NRS 78.745 - Action against stockholder for unpaid subscriptions; limitation of action.
NRS 78.746 - Action against stockholder by judgment creditor; limitations.
NRS 78.747 - Liability of another person for debt or liability of corporation.
NRS 78.750 - Service of process on corporations.
NRS 78.755 - Duties: Collection of fees; employment of new technology to aid in performance.
NRS 78.760 - Filing fees: Articles of incorporation.
NRS 78.767 - Filing fees: Certificates of restated articles of incorporation.