USA Statutes : nevada
Title : Title 26 - PUBLIC LANDS
Chapter : CHAPTER 323 - EXCHANGE OF STATE LANDS
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 thereof and supplementary thereto.
[Part 1:94:1937; 1931 NCL § 5588.01]
1. The State Land Registrar is authorized to negotiate with the
Secretary of the Interior of the United States concerning the exchange of
state lands for lands belonging to the United States within or without
the boundaries of stock grazing districts created within this state by
the Taylor Grazing Act.
2. The State Land Registrar may, with the approval of the State
Board of Examiners and the Interim Finance Committee:
(a) Exchange and cause to be exchanged, pursuant to the
negotiations, lands belonging to the State and then and there subject to
sale by the State for lands belonging to the United States and subject to
exchange for state lands pursuant to section 8 of the Taylor Grazing Act;
(b) Deliver to the United States proper conveyances of title to the
state lands so exchanged; and
(c) Require of the proper officer or department of the United
States Government similar conveyances of title to the State of the lands
received from the United States in the exchange.
[Part 1:94:1937; 1931 NCL § 5588.01]—(NRS A 1975, 107; 1989, 512)
1. The state lands exchanged for lands of the United States under
the provisions of this chapter shall be exchanged either upon an equal
value basis or upon an equal acreage basis, but upon no other basis.
2. The mineral rights in the state lands exchanged on an equal
acreage basis shall be reserved to the State. If such lands are exchanged
upon an equal value basis, the mineral rights of the State, if such lands
contain minerals, shall be considered in arriving at the valuation for
exchange purposes.
3. The State Land Registrar shall make such reservations of
easements, rights of use, and rights of ingress and egress with respect
to any state land offered for exchange as will protect the citizens and
inhabitants of this state and other states in their rights on and
concerning public lands as is provided by law and also as contained in
section 8 of the Taylor Grazing Act.
[2:94:1937; 1931 NCL § 5588.02]—(NRS A 1975, 107)
The State Land Registrar is empowered to exchange
and cause to be exchanged state lands for lands of the United States
pursuant to section 8 of the Taylor Grazing Act and the rules and
regulations of the Secretary of the Interior relating thereto, but the
State Land Registrar shall enter into no agreement concerning the
exchange of lands that will surrender or cause to be surrendered any
jurisdiction of this state over the lands and people and property thereon
situate that the State possesses over the public domain belonging to the
United States within this state.
[Part 3:94:1937; 1931 NCL § 5588.03]—(NRS A 1975, 107)
All lands received
from the United States in exchange for state lands may be sold with the
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)
1. The State Land Registrar may, with the approval of the State
Board of Examiners and the Interim Finance Committee, exchange state
lands or interests in land for any other lands or interests of land. The
Division of State Lands of the State Department of Conservation and
Natural Resources shall determine the values of the lands or interests in
land which are 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 more than 25 percent of the total value of
the lands or interests in land.
2. Upon effecting an exchange, the State Land Registrar shall
deliver to the transferee proper conveyances of title to the state lands
exchanged and shall require proper conveyances of title to the State of
the lands received pursuant to the exchange.
(Added to NRS by 1981, 383; A 1989, 512; 1997, 972)
