Nevada Revised Statutes 111.370 – Creation of easement by grant; signing, recording and contents of instrument creating easement
1. An easement for collection of solar energy may be created by a grant from the owner of neighboring land to the owner of land on which equipment for the collection of solar energy has been or is planned to be installed.
Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 111.370
- county: includes Carson City. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.033
- Grantor: The person who establishes a trust and places property into it.
- Lands: shall be construed as coextensive in meaning with lands, tenements and hereditaments, and shall include in its meaning all possessory right to the soil for mining and other purposes. See Nevada Revised Statutes 111.010
- Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.
2. The easement is an interest in real property.
3. The grant must be expressed in a written instrument, signed by the grantor. When acknowledged, the instrument must be recorded by the county recorder in the county where the burdened and benefited lands are situated.
4. The instrument must include a description of:
(a) The burdened and benefited lands.
(b) The location, size and periods of operation of the equipment to be used in collecting the solar energy.
(c) The open area to be preserved for passage of direct solar radiation across the burdened land to the collecting equipment, by dimensions or bearings from the collecting equipment or by a statement that no obstructions which cast a shadow on the equipment during its periods of operation are allowed on the burdened land.