Nevada Revised Statutes Title 26. Public Lands § 326.070. Adverse entrant guilty of unlawful entry; proceedings for removal

1. All lands in this state shall be deemed and regarded as public lands until the legal title is known to have passed from the government to private persons.

2. Every person who shall have complied with the provisions of NRS 326.010 to 326.070, inclusive, shall be deemed and held to have the right or title of possession of all the lands embraced within the survey, not to exceed 160 acres; and any person who shall thereafter, without the consent of the person so complying, enter into or upon such lands adversely, shall be deemed and held guilty of an unlawful and fraudulent entry thereon, and may be removed therefrom by proceedings had before any justice of the peace of the township in which the lands are situated. Such proceedings may be commenced and prosecuted under the provisions of NRS 40.220 to 40.420, inclusive, and all the provisions contained in those sections are made applicable to proceedings under NRS 326.010 to 326.070, inclusive.