Title 21

NRS 269.165 Jurisdiction of justice of the peace; payment of fees and fines to county treasurer. 1. Any justice of the peace within the town or city has jurisdiction of all violations of ordinances applicable thereto under the provisions of this chapter, and may render final judg…

NRS 269.166 Revision and codification of general ordinances; arrangement, publication and sale of code. 1. In addition to the powers and jurisdiction conferred by other laws, the town board or board of county commissioners shall have the power to provide for the revision and codi…

NRS 269.167 Adoption by ordinance; procedure; effective date. 1. The town code shall be adopted by an ordinance. The only title necessary for such ordinance shall be “An Ordinance enacting a revision and codification of the general ordinances of the town of ................” 2. T…

NRS 269.168 Filing with Librarian of Supreme Court Law Library. Two copies of the town code shall be filed with the Librarian of the Supreme Court Law Library after such code becomes effective. (Added to NRS by 1963, 76; A 1971, 805; 1973, 425)

NRS 269.169 Amendment and extension; procedure. The town code may, by ordinance regularly passed, adopted and published, be amended or extended. All general ordinances passed after the adoption of a town code shall be amendments or extensions thereof. No section of the code shall…

NRS 269.170 Powers of town board or board of county commissioners; application for certain licenses; imposition of license tax; license tax as lien; exchange of information concerning tax or taxpayer with Department of Taxation. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 5, 6…

NRS 269.171 Payment of child support: Statement by applicant for license, permit or certificate; grounds for denial of license, permit or certificate; duty of town board or board of county commissioners. [Effective until the date of the repeal of 42 U.S.C. § 666, the federal law …

NRS 269.172 Suspension of license, certificate or permit for failure to pay child support or comply with certain subpoenas or warrants; reinstatement of license, certificate or permit. [Effective until the date of the repeal of 42 U.S.C. § 666, the federal law requiring each stat…

NRS 269.173 Application for license, certificate or permit must include social security number of applicant. [Effective until the date of the repeal of 42 U.S.C. § 666, the federal law requiring each state to establish procedures for withholding, suspending and restricting the pr…

NRS 269.174 Prohibition against denying application for occupational or professional license, permit or certificate based on immigration or citizenship status of applicant; prohibition against disclosing personal identification number of applicant. 1. A town board or board of cou…

NRS 269.175 Power to license, regulate or suppress certain businesses. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 576.128, the boards of county commissioners may in any unincorporated town in their respective counties license, tax, regulate, prohibit and suppress all tippling houses, dr…

NRS 269.180 Issuance of licenses: Terms and amounts. The boards of county commissioners may in any unincorporated town in their respective counties provide by ordinance for the issuance of all licenses mentioned in this chapter or authorized to be issued, and fix the terms and su…

NRS 269.182 Pawnbrokers: Licensing; additional license required if motor vehicles accepted as collateral; fee. 1. If the town board or board of county commissioners requires a license to engage in business as a pawnbroker in an unincorporated town, it shall also require an additi…

NRS 269.185 Power to regulate vehicular traffic; ordinances; posting informational signs and other devices at school zones and school crossing zones. 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 707.375, in addition to the powers and jurisdiction conferred upon the town boards or board…

NRS 269.190 Board of health: Power to establish and maintain. The boards of county commissioners may establish and maintain a board of health in any unincorporated town in their respective counties. [Part 1:48:1881; A 1889, 43; 1903, 55; 1919, 408; 1943, 65; 1951, 455]—(NRS A 198…

NRS 269.195 Animals running at large. The town board or board of county commissioners may prohibit the keeping of hogs or the running at large of goats, cows or other animals within the limits of any unincorporated town. [Part 1:48:1881; A 1889, 43; 1903, 55; 1919, 408; 1943, 65;…

NRS 269.200 Ordinance prohibiting animals from running at large: Petition; publication; penalty. 1. The town board or board of county commissioners shall, when petitioned by 25 percent of the taxpayers of any town or voting precinct not maintaining a separate and independent loca…

NRS 269.205 Nuisances: Power to prevent, remove and punish. The town board or board of county commissioners may determine what are nuisances in any unincorporated town, and provide for the punishment, prevention and removal of the nuisances. [Part 1:48:1881; A 1889, 43; 1903, 55;…

NRS 269.210 Abatement of nuisance: Procedure; costs. 1. For the purposes of this section, nuisances in any unincorporated town in this state shall be deemed to consist of permitting filth heaps, garbage, unprotected sewage or drainage pipes or boxes, cesspools, obstructions to th…

NRS 269.215 Disorderly conduct: Prevention and punishment. In addition to the powers and jurisdiction conferred by other laws, the town board or board of county commissioners shall have the power to prevent, punish and restrain any disorderly conduct. [Part 1:48:1881; A 1889, 43;…

NRS 269.217 Loitering and prowling ordinances: Enactment and enforcement by town board or board of county commissioners. In addition to the powers and jurisdiction conferred by other laws, the town boards or boards of county commissioners of the counties of this state are empower…

NRS 269.220 Regulation of storage of explosive and combustible materials. In addition to the powers and jurisdiction conferred by other laws, the town board or board of county commissioners may regulate the storage of gunpowder and other explosive or combustible materials. Any or…

NRS 269.222 State control over regulation of firearms, firearm accessories and ammunition; limited regulatory authority of town; conflicting ordinance or regulation void; records of ownership of firearms; civil action by person adversely affected by enforcement of conflicting ord…

NRS 269.225 Dogs: Tax; extermination when tax not paid. The boards of county commissioners may levy and collect an annual tax on all dogs owned or kept within the limits of any unincorporated town in their respective counties, and provide for the extermination of all dogs for whi…

NRS 269.227 Ordinance for control of rabies. In order to control rabies and to protect the public health and welfare, each town board or board of county commissioners shall enact an ordinance providing for a rabies control program and shall include within that ordinance the requi…

NRS 269.230 Duties of certain officers concerning riotous assembly; penalty. 1. When six or more persons, whether armed or not, shall be unlawfully or riotously assembled in any town, the sheriff of the county and the sheriff’s deputies, or the constable of the town, and the just…

NRS 269.233 Duty to designate certain sites for sales initiated on Internet; limitation of action. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, each town board or the board of county commissioners shall designate at least one police station, or part thereof, as a site at whic…

NRS 269.234 Prohibition on sounding of certain sirens, bells or alarms; penalty. 1. An unincorporated town in this State may not sound a siren, bell or alarm if a siren, bell or alarm is currently or was previously sounded on specific days or times in association with an ordinanc…

NRS 269.235 Police officers: Appointment; bond; salaries; duties. 1. The town board or board of county commissioners may appoint from the residents of an unincorporated town one chief of police and as many other peace officers as may be necessary, not exceeding seven. Two-thirds …

NRS 269.240 Tax for support of police department; police department fund; appointment of police officers; applicability of section. 1. The boards of county commissioners of the various counties of this State may levy and collect a tax of not exceeding one-half of 1 percent upon t…

NRS 269.245 Prevention of breach of the peace. Any officer having the direction of the police in a town shall order a force sufficient to keep the peace to attend any public meeting, when the officer is satisfied that a breach of the peace is to be apprehended. [82:108:1866; B § …

NRS 269.247 Crash reports and related materials: Provision upon receipt of reasonable fee; exceptions. A police department or other law enforcement agency of a town shall, within 7 days after receipt of a written request of a person who claims to have sustained damages as a resul…

NRS 269.250 Fire companies or departments: Appointment of officers and employees; salaries; arson investigators designated as peace officers. 1. The town board or board of county commissioners shall in any unincorporated town in their respective counties: (a) Provide for the prev…

NRS 269.255 Tax for benefit of fire department; fire department fund. 1. The boards of county commissioners of the various counties of this state are empowered to levy and collect a tax of not exceeding 1.5 percent upon the assessed value of the property within any unincorporated…

NRS 269.260 Ex officio fire wardens: Appointment; duties. 1. The police officers appointed under the provisions of NRS 269.240 are ex officio fire wardens of the unincorporated towns for which they are acting as police officers. 2. The fire wardens shall: (a) In the daytime, exam…

NRS 269.265 Failure to repair defective fixture: Penalty. Any person, after being notified by a fire warden to repair any defective chimney, flue, furnace, range, oven, stovepipe or fixture therewith connected so as to prevent it from endangering the property of the town from des…

NRS 269.270 Failure to remove dangerous or inflammable material: Penalty; expenses of removal. 1. After receiving written notice from the fire warden ordering the removal of any dangerous or inflammable material from the limits of the town, any owner, occupant or agent in control…

NRS 269.400 “Town” defined. As used in NRS 269.400 to 269.470, inclusive, “town” means an unincorporated town in the State of Nevada having a population of less than 7,500. (Added to NRS by 1963, 1161; A 1967, 1734; 1969, 1581; 1979, 528)

NRS 269.405 Powers of board to make public improvements. The town board or board of county commissioners shall have the power, in addition to other powers conferred upon such boards by this chapter or otherwise: 1. To lay out, extend, change the grade, open and alter the highways…

NRS 269.410 Issuance of general and special obligations. For any such purpose, the town board or the board of county commissioners, at any time or from time to time, in the name and on the behalf of the town, may issue: 1. General obligations, payable from taxes; 2. General oblig…

NRS 269.415 Applicability of Local Government Securities Law. Subject to the provisions of NRS 269.410, for any improvements authorized by NRS 269.405, the town board or the board of county commissioners may, on the behalf and in the name of the town, borrow money, otherwise beco…

NRS 269.420 Fees, rates and charges: Establishment, maintenance and revision of schedules. In order to insure the payment of the general obligation bonds of the town, the payment of which is additionally secured by a pledge of revenues of such improvements, of any such other inco…

NRS 269.425 Town’s debt limit. No town shall ever become indebted for any town improvements under the provisions of NRS 269.400 to 269.470, inclusive, or otherwise, by the issuance of such general obligation bonds and other general obligation securities (other than any notes or w…

NRS 269.470 Authority to issue general obligation bonds and securities independent and complete. The authority to issue general obligation bonds and other general obligation securities conferred by the provisions of NRS 269.400 to 269.470, inclusive, shall be deemed to be indepen…

NRS 269.500 Short title. NRS 269.500 to 269.625, inclusive, may be cited as the Unincorporated Town Government Law. (Added to NRS by 1975, 1345; A 1977, 579; 1995, 2178; 2001, 1688; 2023, 251)

NRS 269.505 Definitions. Whenever used in NRS 269.500 to 269.625, inclusive, unless a different meaning clearly appears from the context, the following words and terms defined in NRS 269.510, 269.515 and 269.520 have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. (Added to NRS …