Nevada Revised Statutes 361.035 – ‘Real estate’ and ‘real property’ defined
1. ’Real estate’ or ‘real property’ means:
Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 361.035
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- county: includes Carson City. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.033
- Obligation: An order placed, contract awarded, service received, or similar transaction during a given period that will require payments during the same or a future period.
- person: means a natural person, any form of business or social organization and any other nongovernmental legal entity including, but not limited to, a corporation, partnership, association, trust or unincorporated organization. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.039
- Personal property: All property that is not real property.
(a) All houses, buildings, fences, ditches, structures, erections, railroads, toll roads and bridges, or other improvements built or erected upon any land, whether such land is private property or property of this state or of the United States, or of any municipal or other corporation, or of any county, city or town in this state.
(b) Any mobile home, factory-built housing or manufactured home which meets the requirements of NRS 361.244.
(c) The ownership of, or claim to, or possession of, or right of possession to any lands within this state.
(d) The claim by or the possession of any person, firm, corporation, association or company to any land.
2. The property described in subsection 1 must be listed under the head of ‘real estate.’
3. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 361.2445, when an agreement has been entered into, whether in writing or not, or when there is sufficient reason to believe that an agreement has been entered into, for the dismantling, moving or carrying away or wrecking of the property described in subsection 1, the property must be classified as personal property, and not real estate.
4. For the purposes of this chapter, ‘real estate’ or ‘real property’ does not include leasehold or other possessory interests in land owned by the Federal Government on which land the Federal Government is paying taxes to the State of Nevada or is, pursuant to contractual obligation, paying any sum in lieu of taxes to the State of Nevada.