Requirements for submitting map of reversion.

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1. The map of reversion submitted pursuant to NRS 278.490 must contain the appropriate certificates required by NRS 278.376 and 278.377 for the original division of the land, any agreement entered into for a required improvement pursuant to NRS 278.380 for the original division of the land, and the certificates required by NRS 278.496 and 278.4965. If the map includes the reversion of any street or easement owned by a city, a county or the State, the provisions of NRS 278.480 must be followed before approval of the map.

2. The final map of reversion must:

(a) Be prepared by a professional land surveyor licensed pursuant to chapter 625 of NRS. The professional land surveyor shall state in his or her certificate that the map has been prepared from information on a recorded map or maps that are being reverted. The professional land surveyor may state in the certificate that he or she assumes no responsibility for the existence of the monuments or for correctness of other information shown on or copied from the document. The professional land surveyor shall include in the certificate information which is sufficient to identify clearly the recorded map or maps being reverted.

(b) Be clearly and legibly drawn in black permanent ink upon good tracing cloth or produced by the use of other materials of a permanent nature generally used for such a purpose in the engineering profession. Affidavits, certificates and acknowledgments must be legibly stamped or printed upon the map with black permanent ink.

3. The size of each sheet of the final map must be 24 by 32 inches. A marginal line must be drawn completely around each sheet, leaving an entirely blank margin of 1 inch at the top, bottom and right edges, and of 2 inches at the left edge along the 24-inch dimension.

4. The scale of the final map must be large enough to show all details clearly, and enough sheets must be used to accomplish this end.

5. The particular number of the sheet and the total number of sheets comprising the final map must be stated on each of the sheets, and its relation to each adjoining sheet must be clearly shown.

6. Each future conveyance of the reverted property must contain a metes and bounds legal description of the property and must include the name and mailing address of the person who prepared the legal description.

(Added to NRS by 1993, 2558; A 1997, 1066, 2438; 2003, 2791)


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