Title 48

NRS 539.728 Apportionment of benefits following annexation: Compliance with statutes. If the lands are annexed to the district as provided in this chapter, and the board of directors apportions benefits to such annexed lands as provided in this chapter, the provisions of NRS 539.…

NRS 539.732 Lands in one district not to be included in another district. No lands while they remain within a district shall be included in any other district. (Added to NRS by 1967, 1616)

NRS 539.734 Inclusion within district of state lands and state lands held under contract to purchase. 1. Whenever state lands held under contract to purchase are included within the boundaries of any irrigation district, such lands shall be subject to all the provisions of this c…

NRS 539.736 Exclusion of land: Grounds; limitations. The board of directors of any district now or hereafter formed under the provisions of this chapter, either upon its own initiative or upon the application in writing of any holder of title or of evidence of title to land in th…

NRS 539.738 Notice of proposed exclusion: Publication; contents. Within 10 days after the receipt of any such application, or after the passage by the board of a resolution proposing the withdrawal of such lands, the directors of the district shall give notice of such proposed ch…

NRS 539.742 Resolution excluding land; objections. 1. All persons failing to file written objections within 50 days from the date of the filing of the petition for exclusion shall be conclusively deemed to have consented to such exclusion. 2. If 25 percent of the holders of bonds…

NRS 539.744 Order or denial of exclusion; publication of order. 1. Not less than 50 days after the filing with the board of an application in writing by a qualified elector of the district or after the board has of its own initiative and by resolution declared its intention of ex…

NRS 539.746 Recording of order excluding land or changing boundaries with plat. If lands are excluded, or the boundary lines changed pursuant to NRS 539.736 to 539.748, inclusive, a copy of the order certified by the secretary of the district, with a plat of the land excluded or …

NRS 539.748 Petition to district court by aggrieved persons. Any holder of title or of evidence of title to land in the district, or holder of any bond or contract or certificate of indebtedness constituting a lien against the land sought to be excluded, who is aggrieved by the o…

NRS 539.750 Petition for dissolution of district: Filing with clerk of district court; order of district judge. Upon the filing of a petition with the clerk of the district court of the county where the district was organized, setting forth that an irrigation district should be f…

NRS 539.753 Contents of petition. The petition shall recite only: 1. That such district was organized. 2. The date of organization and that it now exists. 3. That the petitioners desire that an election be called to determine the question of dissolution by a vote of the electors.…

NRS 539.755 Determination of sufficiency of percentages required on petition: What governs clerk of district court. In determining the sufficiency of the percentages required on the petition, the clerk of the district court with whom such petition is filed shall be governed by th…

NRS 539.757 Ballots: Form. At such election the ballot shall contain the words “Dissolution of the District—Yes”; and “Dissolution of the District—No.” [Part 47:64:1919; A 1933, 261; 1931 NCL § 8063]

NRS 539.760 Conduct of election; canvass of votes. 1. The provisions of this chapter relating to general elections for directors shall govern in respect to such dissolution election ordered by the court. 2. The canvass of the vote at such election shall be conducted in the manner…

NRS 539.763 Certification of election results to district court; examination of returns by court; order of dissolution; filing of financial statement. 1. The secretary of the district shall at the time and in the manner provided in this chapter for certifying election returns cer…

NRS 539.765 Court governed by NRS 539.287 where contract with United States exists. If the district has in force and effect a contract with the United States under the provisions of this chapter, the court shall be governed by NRS 539.287. [Part 47:64:1919; A 1933, 261; 1931 NCL …

NRS 539.767 Order of dissolution not to be entered until bonded indebtedness liquidated or consent of bondholders filed. If the district has an outstanding bonded indebtedness or has issued bonds of the district under the provisions of this chapter, which are unpaid, the district…

NRS 539.770 Payment of other indebtedness to be provided for; duties of county officers in closing affairs of district. 1. In case there is other or current indebtedness of the district outstanding not represented by a contract with the United States pursuant to the terms of this…

NRS 539.773 Liquidation of indebtedness; levy of assessments; collection of taxes; sale of district property by county commissioners; disposition of proceeds. 1. The proper county officers shall proceed to levy and assess upon the lands embraced within such district proper assess…

NRS 539.775 Contract with United States or bonded indebtedness not bar to dissolution if provision made for payment. The outstanding indebtedness, except in cases mentioned in NRS 539.765 and 539.767 where there is an outstanding lawful bond issue, or where the district has enter…

NRS 539.777 Entry of order dissolving district; further indebtedness prohibited. Upon the entry of the order of the court dissolving the district, the same shall be deemed dissolved and no further indebtedness of any kind shall be contracted by the board of directors of the distr…

NRS 539.780 Unlawful interference with officer, agent or employee of district; criminal and civil penalties. 1. Any person who wrongfully and maliciously interferes with any officer, agent or employee of the district in the proper discharge of his or her duties, is guilty of a pu…

NRS 539.783 Liability of water user negligently or wrongfully impairing system of works; notice to repair. Any water user, or his or her agent or lessee, of an irrigation district who shall negligently or wrongfully impair the usefulness of any reservoir, canal, ditch, lateral, d…