NAVIGABLE WATERS (NEVADA)

In Nevada bodies of water are navigable if they are used, or are susceptible of being used, in their ordinary condition as highways for commerce, over which trade and travel are or may be conducted in the customary modes of trade and travel on water. In Nevada, this test of navigability (State of Nevada v. Julius Bunkowski, et al., 1972) held that the Carson River was navigable, and therefore the State of Nevada owned its bed, as logs were floated down the river from about 1860 to 1895 (the commerce requirement).