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2025 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 455 - Excavations and High-Voltage Lines
NRS 455.092 - "Excavation" defined.
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NV Rev Stat § 455.092 (2025)
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1. "Excavation" means the movement or removal of earth, rock or other material in or on the ground by:
(a) Use of mechanical equipment;
(b) Use of non-mechanical equipment by:
(1) A contractor; or
(2) Any person, other than a contractor, if at any point the movement or removal of such material occurs more than 12 inches below the surface of the original groundline; or
(c) The placement and discharge of explosives.
2. The term includes augering, backfilling, boring, digging, ditching, drilling, grading, plowing-in, ripping, scraping, trenching and tunneling.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 1142; A 2009, 1168; 2023, 212)
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