"Public lands" means all lands within the exterior boundaries of the State of Nevada except lands:
1. To which title is held by any private person or entity;
2. To which title is held by the State of Nevada, any of its local governments or the Nevada System of Higher Education;
3. Which are located within congressionally authorized national parks, monuments, national forests or wildlife refuges, or which are lands acquired by purchase consented to by the Legislature;
4. Which are controlled by the United States Department of Defense, Department of Energy or Bureau of Reclamation; or
5. Which are held in trust for Indian purposes or are Indian reservations.
(Added to NRS by 1981, 924; A 1993, 400)