NRS
533.505 Unlawful acts; penalties.
1. Any person who, without the right so to
do, shall, on two or more separate days during any season, water more than 50
head of livestock at the watering place at which another shall have a
subsisting right to water more than 50 head of livestock, or within 3 miles of
such place, with intent to graze the livestock so watered on the portion of the
public range readily accessible to livestock watering at the watering place of
such other person, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
2. Each day’s watering in violation of
this section shall be deemed a separate offense.
3. Whenever, in any prosecution for such
offense, it shall appear that the watering by the accused was not done at the
watering place of another, but was done within 3 miles thereof, it shall be a
sufficient defense for the accused to prove that he or she had no knowledge of
the existence of such other watering place.
[4:201:1925; NCL § 7982]—(NRS A 1967,
609)
Notes of Decisions
Hage v. United States, 51 Fed. Cl. 570 (Fed. Cl. 2002).
“Nev. Rev. Stat. § 533.505 (1) (2001). This law was passed in 1925, well after the Toiyabe National Forest was created in 1907, and stated that a rancher was guilty of a misdemeanor if he allowed his stock to water at a site of another or within three miles of that site for two…”
Fallini v. Hodel, 725 F. Supp. 1113 (D. Nev. 1989).
· cites it 2× “See also, Nev.Rev.Stat. § 533.505 (Nevada law considering the illegal watering of 50 head of livestock to be a punishable offense).”
Ansolabehere v. Laborde, 310 P.2d 842 (Nev. 1957).
“” NRS 533.505 reads in part as follows: “Any person who, without the right so to do, shall, on two or more separate days during any season, water more than 50 head of livestock at the watering place at which another shall have a subsisting right to water more than 50 head of…”
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