2013 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 278 - Planning and Zoning
NRS 278.372 - Final map: Requirements and contents.


NV Rev Stat § 278.372 (2013) What's This?

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

2. 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.

3. The scale of the final map must be large enough to show all details clearly. The final map must have a sufficient number of sheets to accomplish this end.

4. Each sheet of the final map must indicate its particular number, the total number of sheets in the final map and its relation to each adjoining sheet.

5. The final map must show all surveyed and mathematical information and data necessary to locate all monuments and to locate and retrace all interior and exterior boundary lines appearing thereon, including the bearings and distances of straight lines, central angle, radii and arc length for all curves and such information as may be necessary to determine the location of the centers of curves.

6. Each lot must be numbered or lettered.

7. Each street must be named, and each block may be numbered or lettered.

8. The exterior boundary of the land included within the subdivision must be indicated by graphic border.

9. The final map must show:

(a) The definite location of the subdivision, particularly its relation to surrounding surveys.

(b) The area of each lot and the total area of the land in the subdivision in the following manner:

(1) In acres, calculated to the nearest one-hundredth of an acre, if the area is 2 acres or more; or

(2) In square feet if the area is less than 2 acres.

(c) Any roads or easements of access which the owner intends to offer for dedication.

(d) Except as otherwise provided in NRS 278.329, an easement for public utilities that provide gas, electric and telecommunications services and for any video service providers that are authorized pursuant to chapter 711 of NRS to operate a video service network in that area.

(e) Except as otherwise provided in NRS 278.329, an easement for public utilities that provide water and sewer services.

10. The final map for a condominium must also indicate, for the purpose of assessing taxes, whether any garage units, parking spaces or storage units may be conveyed separately from the units within the condominium or are parceled separately from those units. As used in this subsection, condominium has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 116.027.

11. The final map must also satisfy any additional survey and map requirements, including the delineation of Nevada state plane coordinates established pursuant to chapter 327 of NRS, for any corner of the subdivision or any other point prescribed by the local ordinance.

[Part 26:110:1941; 1931 NCL 5063.25] (NRS A 1960, 137; 1973, 1830; 1977, 1502; 1985, 896; 1991, 827; 1993, 1197, 2566; 2003, 2345; 2005, 2669; 2007, 1379)

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