Title 48

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…

NRS 533.386 Duties of State Engineer concerning conveyances; administrative action required upon entry of final judgment of court. 1. The State Engineer shall confirm that the report of conveyance required by paragraph (a) of subsection 1 of NRS 533.384 includes all material requ…

NRS 533.387 Inapplicability of certain provisions to conveyance of shares of stock in ditch company. The provisions of NRS 533.382 to 533.386, inclusive, do not apply to the conveyance of shares of stock in a ditch company which owns: 1. An application or permit to appropriate an…

NRS 533.390 Statement of work actually constructed; verification; penalty for failure to file proof of completion of work. 1. Any person holding a permit from the State Engineer shall, on or before the date set for the completion of the work, file in detail a description of the w…

NRS 533.395 State Engineer may require proof of good faith and reasonable diligence; cancellation of permit; review of cancellation; considerations when reviewing extension of time. 1. If, at any time in the judgment of the State Engineer, the holder of any permit to appropriate …

NRS 533.400 Verified statement to be filed with State Engineer by holder of permit within time set in endorsement on permit: Contents of statement; proof of beneficial use. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, on or before the date set in the endorsement of a permit f…

NRS 533.405 State Engineer may require map; contents. 1. The State Engineer may, in his or her discretion, request that the statement required by NRS 533.400 be accompanied by a map on a scale of not less than 1,000 feet to the inch, which shall show with substantial accuracy the…

NRS 533.410 Cancellation of permit for failure to file proof of application of water to beneficial use and accompanying map; notice to holder of permit; extensions of time. If any holder of a permit from the State Engineer fails, before the date set for filing in the permit or th…

NRS 533.415 State Engineer may refuse to file maps not conforming to statutory provisions or regulations. The State Engineer may, in his or her discretion, refuse to accept for filing any map not conforming with the provisions of NRS 533.405 and such rules and regulations as the …

NRS 533.420 Surveyor or engineer may be barred from practice before State Engineer for swearing falsely. Should it be found upon inspection of the premises by the State Engineer that the surveyor or engineer had sworn falsely to the map and survey, the surveyor or engineer may, i…

NRS 533.425 Issuance and contents of certificate of appropriation; notice of provisions governing forfeiture and abandonment of rights to underground water. 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 533.503, as soon as practicable after satisfactory proof has been made to the State …

NRS 533.430 Permits and certificates of appropriation subject to existing rights. 1. Every permit to appropriate water, and every certificate of appropriation granted under any permit by the State Engineer upon any stream or stream system which shall have been adjudicated under t…

NRS 533.435 Fees of State Engineer; disposition. 1. The State Engineer shall collect the following fees: For examining and filing an application for a permit to appropriate water $360.00 This fee includes the cost of publication, which is $50. For reviewing a corrected applicatio…

NRS 533.436 Application; approval; duration. 1. A person may apply for a temporary permit to appropriate water to establish vegetative cover that is resistant to fire in an area that has been burned by a wildfire or to prevent or reduce the impact of a wildfire in an area. 2. In …

NRS 533.437 “Environmental permit” defined. As used in NRS 533.437 to 533.4377, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, “environmental permit” means a temporary permit to appropriate water to avoid the pollution or contamination of a water source. (Added to NRS by 1991,…

NRS 533.4373 Application for environmental permit: Contents; fee. In addition to the information required by NRS 533.335, an applicant for an environmental permit shall submit to the State Engineer: 1. A copy of a letter or order issued by the Division of Environmental Protection…

NRS 533.4375 Approval of application by State Engineer: Conditions. The State Engineer may approve an application for an environmental permit if: 1. The application is accompanied by the prescribed fees and a copy of a letter or order issued by the Division of Environmental Prote…

NRS 533.4377 Limitation on period for which permit may be issued; change of use for which permit is issued prohibited. The State Engineer shall not: 1. Issue an environmental permit for a period which is longer than the period set forth in the letter or order issued by the Divisi…

NRS 533.438 Imposition of fee on certain transfers of water by county of origin; review by State Engineer; limitation on use of money collected from fee. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, if an appropriation of groundwater pursuant to a permit to appropriate ground…

NRS 533.4385 Plan to mitigate adverse economic effects caused by transfer of water; contents of plan; modification of plan by State Engineer. 1. If a county of origin has not imposed a fee on the transfer of water pursuant to NRS 533.438, an applicant and the governing body of th…

NRS 533.440 Permits: Primary and secondary; application; issuance of certificates. 1. All applications for reservoir permits shall be subject to the provisions of NRS 533.324 to 533.435, inclusive, except those sections wherein proof of beneficial use is required to be filed. The…

NRS 533.445 Use of bed of stream or other watercourse to carry water to consumers; duties and expenses of State Engineer. 1. Whenever the owner, manager or lessee of a reservoir constructed under the provisions of this chapter shall desire to use the bed of a stream or other wate…

NRS 533.450 Orders and decisions of State Engineer subject to judicial review; procedure; motions for stay; appeals; appearance by Attorney General. 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 533.353, any person feeling aggrieved by any order or decision of the State Engineer, acting…

NRS 533.455 Appeals by State Engineer to appellate court. 1. Whenever a decree determining and adjudicating the relative rights of the claimants to the use of water of a stream or stream system has been entered in the district court pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, and…

NRS 533.460 Unauthorized use or willful waste of water; prima facie evidence. The unauthorized use of water to which another person is entitled, or the willful waste of water to the detriment of another, shall be a misdemeanor, and the possession or use of such water without lega…

NRS 533.463 Unlawful diversion and waste of water during irrigating season; penalty. 1. It is an unlawful use and waste of water for any person during the irrigating season: (a) To divert and conduct the water, or portion thereof, of any river, creek, or stream into any slough, d…