533.505 - Unlawful acts; penalties. - Nevada Statutes

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)

      NRS 533.510  Prior rights not affected.  NRS 533.485 to 533.510, inclusive, do not affect the validity of rights to the use of water for watering livestock or other purposes acquired under the previously existing laws of this state or by decree or impair any existing vested or decreed right to the use of water for that purpose.

      [5:201:1925; NCL § 7983]—(NRS A 1993, 1944)