2005 Nevada Revised Statutes - Chapter 323 — Exchange of State Lands

CHAPTER 323 - EXCHANGE OF STATE LANDS

NRS 323.010 TaylorGrazing Act defined.

NRS 323.020 Authorityof State Land Registrar concerning exchange of state lands for lands of UnitedStates.

NRS 323.030 Basisof exchange; reservation of mineral rights and easements.

NRS 323.040 Agreementconcerning exchange not to surrender jurisdiction of State.

NRS 323.050 Saleof land received in exchange.

NRS 323.100 Authorityof State Land Registrar to exchange land of equal value or land whose value isequalized by payment of money.

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NRS 323.010 TaylorGrazing Act defined. As used in this chapter,Taylor Grazing Act means that certain Act of Congress approved June 28, 1934,and being chapter 865, 48 Stat. 1269, together with all acts amendatory thereofand supplementary thereto.

[Part 1:94:1937; 1931 NCL 5588.01]

NRS 323.020 Authorityof State Land Registrar concerning exchange of state lands for lands of UnitedStates.

1. The State Land Registrar is authorized to negotiatewith the Secretary of the Interior of the United States concerning the exchangeof state lands for lands belonging to the United States within or without theboundaries of stock grazing districts created within this state by the TaylorGrazing Act.

2. The State Land Registrar may, with the approval ofthe State Board of Examiners and the Interim Finance Committee:

(a) Exchange and cause to be exchanged, pursuant to thenegotiations, lands belonging to the State and then and there subject to saleby the State for lands belonging to the United States and subject to exchangefor state lands pursuant to section 8 of the Taylor Grazing Act;

(b) Deliver to the United States proper conveyances oftitle to the state lands so exchanged; and

(c) Require of the proper officer or department of theUnited States Government similar conveyances of title to the State of the landsreceived from the United States in the exchange.

[Part 1:94:1937; 1931 NCL 5588.01](NRS A 1975,107; 1989, 512)

NRS 323.030 Basisof exchange; reservation of mineral rights and easements.

1. The state lands exchanged for lands of the UnitedStates under the provisions of this chapter shall be exchanged either upon anequal value basis or upon an equal acreage basis, but upon no other basis.

2. The mineral rights in the state lands exchanged onan equal acreage basis shall be reserved to the State. If such lands areexchanged upon an equal value basis, the mineral rights of the State, if suchlands contain minerals, shall be considered in arriving at the valuation forexchange purposes.

3. The State Land Registrar shall make suchreservations of easements, rights of use, and rights of ingress and egress withrespect to any state land offered for exchange as will protect the citizens andinhabitants of this state and other states in their rights on and concerningpublic lands as is provided by law and also as contained in section 8 of theTaylor Grazing Act.

[2:94:1937; 1931 NCL 5588.02](NRS A 1975, 107)

NRS 323.040 Agreementconcerning exchange not to surrender jurisdiction of State. The State Land Registrar is empowered to exchange andcause to be exchanged state lands for lands of the United States pursuant tosection 8 of the Taylor Grazing Act and the rules and regulations of theSecretary of the Interior relating thereto, but the State Land Registrar shallenter into no agreement concerning the exchange of lands that will surrender orcause to be surrendered any jurisdiction of this state over the lands andpeople and property thereon situate that the State possesses over the publicdomain belonging to the United States within this state.

[Part 3:94:1937; 1931 NCL 5588.03](NRS A 1975,107)

NRS 323.050 Saleof land received in exchange. All landsreceived from the United States in exchange for state lands may be sold withthe approval of the State Board of Examiners and the Interim Finance Committee.

[Part 3:94:1937; 1931 NCL 5588.03](NRS A 1975, 62;1989, 512)

NRS 323.100 Authorityof State Land Registrar to exchange land of equal value or land whose value isequalized by payment of money.

1. The State Land Registrar may, with the approval ofthe State Board of Examiners and the Interim Finance Committee, exchange statelands or interests in land for any other lands or interests of land. TheDivision of State Lands of the State Department of Conservation and NaturalResources shall determine the values of the lands or interests in land whichare to be exchanged. The values must be equal or, if the values are not equal,the values may be equalized by the payment of money, if the payment is not morethan 25 percent of the total value of the lands or interests in land.

2. Upon effecting an exchange, the State LandRegistrar shall deliver to the transferee proper conveyances of title to thestate lands exchanged and shall require proper conveyances of title to theState of the lands received pursuant to the exchange.

(Added to NRS by 1981, 383; A 1989, 512; 1997, 972)