For purposes of sections 37-729 to 37-736 : (1) Land includes roads, water, watercourses, private ways, and buildings, structures, and machinery or equipment thereon when attached to the realty; (2) Owner includes tenant, lessee, occupant, or person in control of the premises; (3) Recreational purposes includes, but is not limited to, any one or any combination of the following: Hunting, fishing, swimming, boating, camping, picnicking, hiking, pleasure driving, nature study, waterskiing, winter sports, and visiting, viewing, or enjoying historical, archaeological, scenic, or scientific sites, or otherwise using land for purposes of the user; and (4) Charge means the amount of money asked in return for an invitation to enter or go upon the land.
Neb. Rev. Stat. § 37-729
Terms, defined
Applied in 9 court decisions — leading case Brown v. State (2020)
Most recently applied in MacFarlane v. Sarpy Cty. Sch. Dist. 77-0037 (May 2024)
Laws 1965, c. 193, § 8, p. 590; R.S.1943, (1993), § 37-1008; Laws 1998, LB 922, § 343.
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Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Nebraska Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Nebraska statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.