1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, association or corporation, personally or by agent, to erect, place or maintain any billboard, sign or any form of notice or advertising outside the city limits of any city or town:

(a) On the public domain;

(b) On land owned or leased by such advertiser or agent but not used as the site for manufacturing the goods or articles advertised; or

(c) On the lands of another except where, by painting, an area of the barns or other outbuildings thereon may be preserved (for the purposes of this paragraph “area” is defined as the entire wall or roof aspect on which an advertisement may be painted),

without first having secured from the county building official, if one has been appointed pursuant to NRS 278.570, or if not, from the county clerk of the county in which the sign may be located a permit to erect, or continue the use of, such sign, billboard or other form of notice or advertisement.

2. No permit for the erection of such sign, billboard or other form of advertisement shall be issued unless and until the applicant shall have paid a fee in the sum of $5. On the tender of the fee the county building official or county clerk shall issue the permit.

3. No fee shall be required for any billboard, sign or advertisement erected or placed by any farm bureau, chamber of commerce or lawful authority to advertise exclusively any city, town or geographic area, or public event.

4. This section shall not apply to the owner or occupant of any land outside the limits of any city, who may place or erect on the land or on the outbuildings thereon any sign or notice or advertisement intended to benefit the land or improvements thereon and advertise the business conducted in the buildings on the land.

[3:90:1925; NCL § 262] — (NRS A 1971, 316; 2001, 1250)