NRS 111A.310 Commencement of civil action for relocation of easement; service of summons and complaint; contents of complaint; waiver of rights to contest or obtain relief.

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1. To obtain an order to relocate an easement under this chapter, a servient estate owner must commence a civil action.

2. A servient estate owner that commences a civil action under subsection 1:

(a)Shall serve a summons and complaint on:

(1)The easement holder whose easement is the subject of the relocation;

(2)A security-interest holder of record of an interest in the servient estate or dominant estate;

(3)A lessee of record of an interest in the dominant estate; and

(4)Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (b), any other owner of a recorded real-property interest if the relocation would encroach on an area of the servient estate or dominant estate burdened by the interest; and

(b)Is not required to serve a summons and complaint on the owner of a recorded real-property interest in oil, gas or minerals unless the interest includes an easement to facilitate oil, gas or mineral development.

3. A complaint under this section must state:

(a)The intent of the servient estate owner to seek the relocation;

(b)The nature, extent and anticipated dates of commencement and completion of the proposed relocation;

(c)The current and proposed locations of the easement and any improvements to be included in the relocated easement;

(d)The reason the easement is eligible for relocation under NRS 111A.220 ;

(e)The reason the proposed relocation satisfies the conditions for relocation under NRS 111A.300 ; and

(f)That the servient estate owner has made a reasonable attempt to notify the holders of any public-utility easement, public-entity easement, conservation easement or negative easement on the servient estate or dominant estate of the proposed relocation.

4. At any time before the court renders a final order in an action under subsection 1, a person served under subparagraph (2),

(3)or

(4)of paragraph

(a)of subsection 2 may file a document, in recordable form, that waives its rights to contest or obtain relief in connection with the relocation or subordinates its interests to the relocation. On filing of the document, the court may order that the person is not required to answer or participate further in the action.