NRS625.335. Entry upon land or water to perform duties: Notice; approval.

      1.  A surveyor may enter public or private land, a water course or a body of water to:

      (a) Investigate, recover, establish, re-establish, rehabilitate, perpetuate or use evidence of a boundary location.

      (b) Locate, relocate, use, install, perpetuate or replace a survey monument.

      (c) Perform land or control surveying.

      2.  Before entering private land pursuant to subsection 1, a surveyor must provide written notice to the owner or occupant of the land of the proposed date and approximate time of entry upon the land and a statement of the purpose for entry upon the land. The notice must include the name, number of the license and business affiliation of the surveyor. The surveyor shall obtain the approval of the owner or occupant of the land before entry. An owner shall not unreasonably withhold approval of such entry on the land. The provisions of this subsection are not applicable to an entry made pursuant to NRS 37.050.

      3.  The provisions of this section do not relieve a surveyor from any civil liability for any damage caused by the surveyor’s entry pursuant to subsection 1.

      4.  As used in this section, “surveyor” includes:

      (a) A professional land surveyor or his or her designee.

      (b) A surveyor employed by the Federal Government or an agency of the Federal Government, the State of Nevada, a political subdivision of the State or an agency of the State.

      (Added to NRS by 1991, 1889; A 1997, 1048; 1999, 963)