Title 48

NRS 533.225 County clerk to transmit certified copy of decree to State Engineer; effectiveness of decree. Immediately upon the entry of any decree by the court, the county clerk shall transmit a certified copy of the decree to the State Engineer, who shall immediately enter the s…

NRS 533.230 Division of water by State Engineer during time order of determination is pending in district court. From and after the filing of the order of determination, evidence and transcript with the county clerk, and during the time the hearing of the order is pending in the …

NRS 533.235 Operation of order of determination may be stayed by filing bond with court; conditions of bond; duties of State Engineer. 1. At any time after the order of determination, evidence and transcript has been filed with the clerk of the court, the operation of the order o…

NRS 533.240 All claimants to be made parties in any suit brought to determine rights; State Engineer to prepare hydrographic survey of stream system; costs; transfer of suit to State Engineer for determination. 1. In any suit brought in the district court for the determination of…

NRS 533.250 Admissibility of maps, plats, surveys and evidence on file in office of State Engineer; notice by State Engineer of intention to consider evidence and submission of findings to court. 1. Any and all maps, plats, surveys and evidence on file in the Office of the State …

NRS 533.255 Submission of findings made before March 25, 1915. In all cases where the State Engineer has issued findings prior to March 25, 1915, declaring the relative rights of appropriators in and to the waters of any stream system, the same may be submitted to the court under…

NRS 533.260 Regulations of State Engineer requiring blueprints from claimants to be attached to proofs. The State Engineer shall have power to make and enforce such reasonable rules and regulations for the furnishing by claimants of blueprints of particular parcels of land shown …

NRS 533.265 State Engineer to issue certificates upon final determination of relative rights; contents of certificates; exceptions. 1. Upon the final determination of the relative rights in and to the waters of any stream system, the State Engineer shall issue to each person repr…

NRS 533.270 Water commissioners: Appointment; duties and salaries; exemption from state human resources system; district supervisors. 1. The State Engineer shall appoint, subject to confirmation by any court having jurisdiction, one or more water commissioners for any stream syst…

NRS 533.275 Engineer for supervision of distribution: Appointment; salary and expenses; additional work. 1. The State Engineer may appoint an engineer, who is qualified in hydrographic and water distribution experience, to work in a supervisory capacity on water distribution and …

NRS 533.280 Annual budget for stream system or water district: Preparation; contents; limitation on assessment. 1. The State Engineer shall, between the first Monday of October and the first Monday of December of each year, prepare a budget of the amount of money estimated to be …

NRS 533.285 Entry on assessment roll of charges in budget; collection of special assessment. 1. Upon receipt of such budget by the board of county commissioners, the board of county commissioners shall certify the respective charges contained therein to the county assessor. The c…

NRS 533.290 Water District Account: Creation; deposit and use of money; accounting. 1. The assessments and charges provided for in NRS 533.285, when collected, must be deposited with the State Controller in the same manner as other special assessments, for credit to the Water Dis…

NRS 533.295 Limitation on use of Water District Account; “expenses” defined. 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 534.040, money in the Water District Account must be used exclusively for expenses incurred in the administration, operation and maintenance of the particular strea…

NRS 533.300 State to be divided into water districts; appointment of advisory boards by State Engineer; meetings. 1. The State Engineer shall divide the State into water districts, to be so constituted as to insure the best protection for the water users, and the most economical …

NRS 533.305 Division of water among ditches and reservoirs; regulation of distribution among users; notice of regulation by water commissioner; duties of district attorney. 1. The State Engineer shall divide or cause to be divided the waters of the natural streams or other source…

NRS 533.310 Administration of distribution by State Engineer if rights determined in manner other than provided in NRS 533.090 to 533.265, inclusive: Petition to district court; notice; hearing; order; appeal. 1. On any stream in this state on which the water rights have been adj…

NRS 533.315 Payment of certain costs in proceeding under NRS 533.310. The cost of the hydrographic survey of the stream system and the preparation of the reports and maps by the State Engineer necessary to advise the court in proceedings under NRS 533.310 shall be paid by the wat…

NRS 533.320 Payment of cost of administration of final decree and distribution of water; approval of budget; submission to board of county commissioners; provisions applicable. The estimated cost of the administration of the final decree and the distribution of the waters of the …

NRS 533.324 “Water already appropriated” defined. As used in NRS 533.325, 533.345 and 533.425, “water already appropriated” includes water for whose appropriation the State Engineer has issued a permit but which has not been applied to the intended use before an application to ch…

NRS 533.325 Application to State Engineer for permit. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 533.027, 533.028 and 534.065, any person who wishes to appropriate any of the public waters, or to change the place of diversion, manner of use or place of use of water already appropriated,…

NRS 533.330 Application limited to water of one source for one purpose; individual domestic use may be included. No application shall be for the water of more than one source to be used for more than one purpose; but individual domestic use may be included in any application with…

NRS 533.335 Application for permit to appropriate water: Contents. Each application for a permit to appropriate water shall contain the following information: 1. The name and post office address of the applicant and, if the applicant is a corporation, the date and place of incorp…

NRS 533.340 Additional requirements for contents of applications to appropriate water for certain specific uses. In addition to the requirements of NRS 533.335, the application shall contain: 1. If for irrigation purposes, except in case of an application for a permit to store wa…

NRS 533.345 Application for permit to change place of diversion, manner of use or place of use: Contents; approval of temporary change; notice of and protest to temporary change; period of temporary change. 1. Every application for a permit to change the place of diversion, manne…

NRS 533.350 Applications to be accompanied by maps, drawings and other data. All applications for permits shall be accompanied or followed by such maps and drawings and such other data as may be prescribed by the State Engineer, and such accompanying data shall be considered a pa…

NRS 533.353 Application to appropriate water for beneficial use: Participation of county in development and implementation of monitoring, management and mitigation plan. 1. For each new application to appropriate water for a beneficial use filed on or after January 1, 2012, if th…

NRS 533.355 Receipt of application; return for correction or completion; priority of returned application; rejection; recording. 1. Upon receipt of an application, the State Engineer shall make an endorsement thereon of the date of its receipt and shall keep a record of the date.…

NRS 533.357 Priority among applications to appropriate underground water for irrigation purposes from same basin. When two or more applications are made to appropriate underground water for irrigation purposes from what appears to the State Engineer to be the same basin the State…

NRS 533.360 Notice of application: Contents; publication; posting on Internet website; mailing required under certain circumstances. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, NRS 533.345 and subsection 2 of NRS 533.370, when an application is filed in compliance with this …

NRS 533.363 State Engineer to notify county commissioners of application to use water in county other than that in which it is appropriated or currently diverted or used. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, if water for which a permit is requested is to be used in a …

NRS 533.364 Certain interbasin transfers of groundwater; inventory required under certain circumstances; limitations; fee; time for completion of inventory. 1. In addition to the requirements of NRS 533.370, before approving an application for an interbasin transfer of more than …

NRS 533.365 Procedure concerning verified protest filed by interested person against granting of application. 1. Any person interested may, within 30 days after the date of last publication of the notice of application, file with the State Engineer a written protest against the g…

NRS 533.367 Requirement to ensure access of wildlife to water it customarily uses; waiver. Before a person may obtain a right to the use of water from a spring or water which has seeped to the surface of the ground, the person must ensure that wildlife which customarily uses the …

NRS 533.368 Hydrological, environmental or other study: State Engineer to determine need for study; cost of study paid by applicant; regulations. 1. If the State Engineer determines that a hydrological study, an environmental study or any other study is necessary before the State…

NRS 533.369 Special Account for Studies Concerning Water: Deposits; interest and income; limitation on use of money; refund of money to applicant; balance does not revert to State General Fund. 1. All money collected pursuant to subsection 3 of NRS 533.364 or subsection 3 of NRS …

NRS 533.370 Approval or rejection of application by State Engineer: Conditions; exceptions; considerations; procedure. 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section and NRS 533.0241, 533.345, 533.371, 533.372, 533.503 and 534.115, the State Engineer shall approve an application…

NRS 533.3703 Consideration of consumptive use of water right and proposed beneficial use of water. 1. The State Engineer may consider the consumptive use of a water right and the consumptive use of a proposed beneficial use of water in determining whether a proposed change in the…

NRS 533.3705 Limitation on initial quantity of water approved for application; additional studies or evidence may be required; action by State Engineer on other applications in same basin. 1. Upon approval of an application to appropriate water, the State Engineer may limit the i…

NRS 533.371 Rejection of application for permit for specified period. The State Engineer shall reject the application and refuse to issue a permit to appropriate water for a specified period if the State Engineer determines that: 1. The application is incomplete; 2. The prescribe…

NRS 533.372 Approval or rejection of application to use water to generate energy for export. Based upon the public interest and the economic welfare of the State of Nevada, the State Engineer may approve or disapprove any application of water to beneficial use or any application …

NRS 533.375 State Engineer may require additional information before approval or rejection of application. Before either approving or rejecting the application, the State Engineer may require such additional information as will enable the State Engineer to guard the public intere…

NRS 533.380 Time for completion of work and application of water to beneficial use; limitations and extensions; regulations. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 5, in an endorsement of approval upon any application, the State Engineer shall: (a) Set a time before which …

NRS 533.382 Form, acknowledgment and recording of conveyance. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 533.387, every conveyance of an application or permit to appropriate any of the public waters, a certificate of appropriation, an adjudicated or unadjudicated water right or an appli…

NRS 533.383 Effect of recording or failing to record deed of conveyance. 1. The recording of a deed pursuant to NRS 533.382 shall be deemed to impart notice of the contents of the deed to all persons at the time the deed is recorded, and a subsequent purchaser or mortgagee shall …

NRS 533.384 Filings required by person to whom conveyance is made. 1. A person to whom is conveyed an application or permit to appropriate any of the public waters, a certificate of appropriation, an adjudicated or unadjudicated water right or an application or permit to change t…