403.430 - Procedure for opening, changing or vacating public road. - Nevada Statutes

403.430  Procedure for opening, changing or vacating public road.

      1.  If 24 freeholders of any county shall petition the board of county commissioners for the location, opening to public use, reestablishment, change or vacation of any road or highway to connect with any highway heretofore established, or any street or alley in any unincorporated town in such county, setting forth in the petition the beginning, course and termination of such road, highway, street or alley proposed to be located, opened to public use, reestablished, changed or vacated, together with the names of the owners or occupants of the land through which the same may pass, the county clerk shall lay such petition before the board of county commissioners at its next session thereafter.

      2.  Within 20 days thereafter, the board of county commissioners may proceed to locate, open to public use, reestablish, change or vacate such road, highway, street or alley.

      3.  The width of all public highways laid out or opened under the provisions of this section shall be regulated and established by the board of county commissioners.

      [Part 5:111:1866; A 1887, 56; 1895, 75; 1917, 55; 1951, 119; 1953, 161]—(NRS A 1963, 74, 1170)