503.035 - Meat or game processor: Disposal for distribution by Department of game for which processing or storage charges are not paid; immunity; civil remedies. - Nevada Statutes

503.035  Meat or game processor: Disposal for distribution by Department of game for which processing or storage charges are not paid; immunity; civil remedies.

      1.  “Meat or game processor” as used in this section means any person, firm or corporation that receives any game for the purpose of processing or storage or for the purposes of processing and storage.

      2.  Any meat or game processor who receives any game for the purpose of processing or storage may, within 90 days after the receipt thereof, if such game remains in the possession of such meat or game processor, dispose of such game to the Department if the owner of such game has not paid such meat or game processor for the processing or storage thereof.

      3.  The Department shall distribute such game to public charities on a fair and equitable basis.

      4.  No action may be commenced against such meat or game processor by the owner of such game after such game has been delivered to the Department under the provisions of this section.

      5.  Nothing in this section deprives a meat or game processor of any remedy at law available to a creditor against a debtor for the recovery of any money or other legal consideration owing from the owner of the game to the meat or game processor for such processing or storage.

      (Added to NRS by 1959, 365; A 1969, 1356; 1993, 1671; 2003, 1545)