Lyon County, NV Ordinances (2026)

In unincorporated Lyon County, Nevada, anyone buying or selling secondhand personal property, metal junk or melted metals must first get a secondhand dealer permit from the Board of…

Operating as a pawnbroker in unincorporated Lyon County, Nevada requires a permit from the Board of County Commissioners plus a $500 surety bond, with a separate autopawn permit and…

In unincorporated Lyon County, Nevada, an adult characterized business cannot open without a Board-issued license, and it must sit at least 3,000 feet from any church, school…

Lyon County bars auto repair, auto body and engine work under a home occupation or home based business permit, except on an emergency roadside basis. Automotive services performed…

Lyon County's right-to-farm ordinance shields agricultural operations in unincorporated Lyon County, Nevada from nuisance claims tied to noise, odor, dust or 24-hour farm activity, so…

In unincorporated Lyon County, Nevada, anyone running an outdoor music or dance festival outside a permanent building needs a county license, applied for at least 60 days ahead with a…

Lyon County, Nevada requires a parade permit before sponsoring, organizing or holding a parade or outdoor assemblage that closes or interferes with a county road, under section 7.05.02…

Holding a special event in a Lyon County park requires a permit from the parks director, who weighs factors from expected attendance and noise to whether alcohol will be served before…

Lyon County Code section 7.07.12, inside the restricted-animal permit chapter, requires every permitted exotic animal in unincorporated Lyon County, Nevada, to carry an injectable…

In unincorporated Lyon County, Nevada, Chapter 7.07 of the county code bans importing, transferring, selling, buying, breeding or possessing any animal on its restricted list…

Lyon County, Nevada does not ban dogs by breed. Instead, section 7.01.05(A) of the county code lets an owner's own knowledge of a bite or attempted bite make an animal legally vicious…

In unincorporated Lyon County, Nevada, any business that grooms animals must first obtain a license from Lyon County before operating, under section 7.01.04(B) of the county code. The…

Lyon County, Nevada makes it unlawful for a dog to stray or run at large on any public street, park or private land other than the owner's, under section 7.01.05(J) of the county code…

Unincorporated Lyon County, Nevada ties livestock and poultry keeping to lot size under County Code section 15.335.03(GGG). On Rural Residential or Suburban Residential parcels of one…

Lyon County requires a veterinary hospital or clinic that isn't fully enclosed in a building to sit behind a six-foot security fence, stay 300 feet from residential property and 1,000…

In unincorporated Lyon County, no one may keep more than three canine animals over six months old at any one residence or premises without a permit from the Lyon County Animal Services…

Lyon County allows developers to request a density bonus above the base zoning density under Lyon County Code § 15.115.02 in exchange for affordable or attainable housing, floodplain…

Unincorporated Lyon County imposes a transient lodging tax of 5 percent plus an additional 1 percent, a combined 6 percent, on gross receipts from hotels, motels, timeshare projects…

Unincorporated Lyon County caps garage sales at no more than five per year for private individuals; anyone holding more must obtain a standard business license from the Lyon County…

Lyon County has no zoning chapter written specifically for data centers. Large campuses such as the 460-acre Silver Springs Technology Park (SSTP) in unincorporated Silver Springs are…

Lyon County requires a Community Development Department building permit before any pool is built in unincorporated Lyon County, Nevada. LCC § 15.239.01 adopts the 2024 International…

Lyon County's zoning code requires outdoor swimming pools at a country club, swim club or tennis club to be enclosed by a fence at least four feet high with a self-closing…

Lyon County bans consuming marijuana inside any motor vehicle on a public highway in unincorporated Lyon County, Nevada, whether the vehicle is moving or parked. The Board of County…

Lyon County Code § 8.05.02.E bars a pedestrian from loitering in a crosswalk to solicit a ride, employment or business, and separately bars standing in the roadway to solicit a ride…

Lyon County Code § 8.05.02.B requires a pedestrian crossing outside a marked or unmarked intersection crosswalk to yield the right of way to every vehicle on the roadway and to cross…

Unincorporated Lyon County does not ban open alcohol containers countywide, but it does ban them inside any county park area the director has posted as nonalcoholic. Carrying an opened…

Unincorporated Lyon County does not ban smoking in its county parks by default. Section 14.04.15 of the County Parks title makes smoking cigarettes, cigars, pipes and similar devices…

In unincorporated Lyon County, skateboarding in a county park is allowed unless the parks director has determined conditions are unsafe and posted an order prohibiting it at that…

Lyon County Code bars parking in intersections, crosswalks, sidewalks, and in front of private driveways throughout unincorporated Lyon County, Nevada, plus fixed buffers around fire…

Where streets are signed and posted, Lyon County Code § 8.04.04.C makes it unlawful to leave a vehicle parked at the curb between 4:00 a.m. and 6:00 a.m. in unincorporated Lyon County…

Lyon County Code § 8.04.07 limits stopping in a marked loading zone to loading or unloading, capping passenger loading at three minutes and material loading at twenty minutes without a…

Lyon County Code § 8.04.09 gives a residential-street parking window, not an outright ban, to any vehicle or vehicle-and-trailer combination over twenty-one feet long: once the…

Lyon County, Nevada declares it unlawful to leave dismantled, abandoned or inoperative motors, machinery, or vehicles on any yard, lot, parcel or premises when they are within view of…

Lyon County Code § 8.06.05 requires every motor vehicle operated in unincorporated Lyon County, Nevada to run a good, properly attached muffler and bars modifying an exhaust system to…

Lyon County, Nevada bars owners from keeping any animal whose loud or frequent habitual barking, yelping, braying or other noise annoys the neighborhood or anyone nearby, under section…

In unincorporated Lyon County parks, running a radio, PA system, CD player or similar device outdoors is unlawful once the sound is plainly audible 100 feet away, no matter what other…

In unincorporated Lyon County, Nevada, bicyclists must ride as near the right-hand side of the roadway as practicable, may not ride two abreast in groups larger than pairs, and cannot…

Anyone wanting to place a structure, pipeline, driveway or other encroachment in a Lyon County road right-of-way, or to cut or excavate it, must first obtain a Lyon County right-of-way…

LCUD customers in Lyon County must repair a broken hose, pipe or fixture, or shut the water off, once notified, and Lyon County Code § 9.03.07.B lets LCUD cut service and bar…

Unincorporated Lyon County requires new reclaimed (recycled) water mains to follow the LCUD reclaimed water design standards before a service provider will approve a connection…

LCUD customers in Lyon County water on odd or even days by address every year from June 1 through October 1 under routine conservation, may not water between 10:00 A.M. and 6:00 P.M…

In unincorporated Lyon County, Nevada, the county's landscape standards at Lyon County Code section 15.402.03 strongly encourage, but do not require, native plant material…

In unincorporated Lyon County, Nevada, no marijuana or medical marijuana establishment may operate without a county license and, where required, a special use permit. The county's land…

In unincorporated Lyon County, Nevada, allowing weeds, debris, junk or scrapped materials to accumulate on any yard, lot, parcel or premises within view of a neighboring residence…

Lyon County, Nevada declares any building or structure that is unfit for habitation, unsafe, unsanitary or a fire menace to be a public nuisance, and it makes the property owner or…

Lyon County's landscape standards at Lyon County Code section 15.402.03(E) set specific rules for street trees planted in the parkway strip between the curb and sidewalk in…

In unincorporated Lyon County, Nevada, Lyon County Code section 15.402.04(E) requires every development that must provide dumpsters for solid waste collection to site them at the rear…

Lyon County, Nevada bars anyone under 18 from public streets and grounds between 10 p.m. and 6 a.m. on Sunday through Thursday, and between midnight and 6 a.m. on weekends, under…

In unincorporated Lyon County, the parks director sets closing hours for county parks and must post them conspicuously at each park. A written exception can extend hours for a special…

Lyon County, Nevada bans selling, offering for sale, discharging or setting off any rocket, squib, firecracker or other fireworks of any description anywhere in the county, under…

In unincorporated Lyon County, no person may kindle or maintain an open fire for weed abatement, agricultural, recreational or ceremonial purposes without first getting a burn permit…

Lyon County exempts small outdoor fires used for heating, cooking or branding from its open-burning permit requirement. Under Lyon County Code section 15.270.06, such fires may burn in…

Lyon County, Nevada requires candidates to remove political signs within 30 days after the election and bars political signs on any county property or right of way, under section…

Lyon County's mass grading permit process, under Lyon County Code section 15.240.04, requires grading plans to identify temporary and permanent erosion and sedimentation control…

Unincorporated Lyon County requires a floodplain development permit from the Floodplain Administrator before any construction, fill, or manufactured home placement begins in a mapped…

Unincorporated Lyon County requires new construction and substantially improved structures in a special flood hazard area to elevate the lowest floor above the base flood elevation…

A Lyon County mass grading permit under §§ 15.240.01 and 15.240.04 covers site grading for non-residential development ahead of a building permit, and any project disturbing one acre…

Filming a motion picture or photo shoot involving a professional cast in a Lyon County park requires written permission from the parks director. The rule sits in the same chapter as…

In unincorporated Lyon County, Nevada, mobile food vendors may never set up on a public sidewalk. County Code section 15.335.03(QQ) bars food trucks, outdoor vendors and carts from…

Operating a food truck or food cart on an ongoing basis in unincorporated Lyon County, Nevada requires a temporary use permit under County Code section 15.335.04(D)(6). Beyond the…

In unincorporated Lyon County, Nevada, mobile food vendors operate under two Lyon County Code standards. Section 15.335.03(QQ) permits food trucks and carts as an ongoing use in zones…

Section 15.239.06 of the Lyon County Code requires a separate permit from the Community Development Department before any building or structure covered by the county's adopted codes is…

Lyon County adopts the 2024 Uniform Plumbing Code, published by IAPMO, under Lyon County Code section 15.239.01, and requires a separate permit from the Community Development…

Lyon County adopted the 2023 National Electrical Code (NFPA 70) under Lyon County Code section 15.239.01 and amended it to require receptacle outlets at every island countertop. Any…

Lyon County's Historical Site Advisory Board, which is the county's Planning Commission acting in that role under Lyon County Code section 3.07.03, must issue a certificate of…

Lyon County requires engineering calculations for any retaining wall over four feet in height as part of a mass grading permit application, under Lyon County Code section 15.240.04…

In Lyon County multi-family residential developments, § 15.348.08(D) limits fences in the front yard, and along any street frontage used to satisfy the building-orientation standard…

Lyon County treats a small in-home daycare serving six or fewer children or adults as a permitted home occupation in any residential district, as long as the caregiver runs it entirely…

Lyon County allows a defined list of home occupations, like bookkeeping, tutoring or a one-chair barbershop, in any residential district as long as the business stays entirely inside…

A Lyon County home based business run from a detached accessory building can host client visits, but nonresident staff is capped at one or two people by floor space, every client and…

In unincorporated Lyon County, Nevada, a “tiny house” is defined by the 2018 International Residential Code as a dwelling of 400 square feet or less excluding lofts with its own…

Unincorporated Lyon County caps every accessory building, including sheds and detached garages, at 30 percent of the lot's total area and layers setbacks by height: structures up to 15…

In unincorporated Lyon County, Nevada, the Rural Residential 20-acre minimum (RR-20) zone allows only one accessory dwelling unit per twenty gross acres under Lyon County Code section…

Lyon County's zoning performance standards require outdoor lighting at specific commercial and institutional uses, including veterinary clinics, kennels, convenience stores, farm…

In unincorporated Lyon County, Nevada, the Board of County Commissioners caps residential building height at 35 feet in the Rural Residential (RR-20 through RR-1), Agriculture and…

In unincorporated Lyon County, Nevada's SR-9000 zone, single-family lots need a 20-foot front setback, a 20-foot side-street setback, a 20-foot rear setback (12 feet to a patio or…

Lyon County Code § 15.342.03 caps duplex building coverage, including accessory buildings, at 45% of the individual lot area, requires at least 8,000 square feet of lot area per…

Unincorporated Lyon County, Nevada zones for casinos through its Tourist Commercial - Suburban (TC-S) district, defined at Lyon County Code section 15.313.06(A) to provide areas for…