Title 48

NRS 541.060 Filing of bond. At the time of filing the petition, or at any time after the filing and before the hearing on the petition, a bond, not exceeding in amount the sum of $1,000, in such form and with such surety or sureties as is approved by the court, must be filed for …

NRS 541.070 Time and place for hearing; jurisdiction of district court; judge not to be disqualified. 1. Immediately after the filing of the petition, the court wherein the petition is filed shall by order fix a place and time, not less than 60 days nor more than 90 days after th…

NRS 541.080 Protesting petition; requisite signers; filing and objections; decree establishing district; place of business; dismissal of petition or proceedings; finality and conclusiveness of order; appeal; collateral attack. 1. At any time after the filing of a petition for the…

NRS 541.090 Findings and decree to be filed with Secretary of State, county recorders and county clerks. Within 30 days after the district has been declared a corporation by the court, the clerk of the court shall transmit to the Secretary of State and to the county clerk and rec…

NRS 541.100 Board of directors: Appointment; qualifications; terms; filling of vacancies; meetings and reports. 1. Within 60 days after the entry of the decree incorporating the district, the Governor shall appoint a board of directors therefor in accordance with the petition. If…

NRS 541.110 Directors: Oath; officers; seal; record of proceedings of board; copy of minutes or audio recordings; compensation. 1. Each director before entering upon his or her official duties shall take and subscribe to an oath, before a person authorized to administer oaths, th…

NRS 541.120 Quorum of board. A majority of the directors shall constitute a quorum, and a concurrence of a majority of those in attendance, in any matter, within their duties, shall be sufficient for its determination, except as otherwise provided in this chapter. [12:380:1955]

NRS 541.130 Duties of secretary; board may employ chief engineer, attorney and other employees. 1. The secretary shall: (a) Be custodian of the records of the district and of its corporate seal. (b) Assist the board in such particulars as it may direct in the performance of its d…

NRS 541.140 Powers of board. The board shall have power on behalf of the district: 1. To have perpetual succession. 2. To take by appropriation, grant, purchase, bequest, devise or lease, and to hold and enjoy water, waterworks, water rights and sources of water supply and any an…

NRS 541.145 Powers of board concerning irrigation, flood control, drainage, safety and health projects. The board shall have the following powers concerning the management, control, operation and use of any irrigation, flood control, drainage, safety or health project: 1. To make…

NRS 541.150 Subdistricts: Organization; proceedings; board’s consent to furnish water; decree of organization; powers and duties of board of directors. 1. Subdistricts may be organized upon the petition of the owners of real property within, or partly within and partly without, t…

NRS 541.160 Board may levy and collect taxes and special assessments; classification of methods. In addition to the other means of providing revenue for such districts as provided in this chapter, the board may levy and collect taxes and special assessments for maintaining and op…

NRS 541.170 Board to fix rate of levy under class A; maximum rate; certification to county commissioners. To levy and collect taxes under class A as herein provided, the board shall in each year determine the amount of money necessary to be raised by taxation, taking into conside…

NRS 541.180 Board may sell or lease water to municipalities upon petition; levy and collection of special assessments under class B. 1. To levy and collect special assessments under class B as herein provided, the board shall make an allotment of water to each petitioning municip…

NRS 541.190 Board may sell or lease water to irrigation districts; levy and collection of special assessments under class C. 1. To levy and collect special assessments upon lands under class C as herein provided, the board shall make an allotment of water to each of the petitioni…

NRS 541.200 Board may sell or lease water to persons and private corporations on petition; levy and collection of taxes under class D. 1. To levy and collect special assessments upon lands under class D as herein provided, the board shall make an allotment of water to petitioning…

NRS 541.205 Board may undertake irrigation, flood control, drainage, safety and health projects; levy and collection of special assessments under class E. 1. To levy and collect special assessments upon lands under class E as herein provided, the board shall examine the land in t…

NRS 541.207 Board or subcontracting agency not required to furnish water for artificially created lake or stream if restricted or prohibited by ordinances; exceptions. In any county whose population is 700,000 or more: 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, nothing in t…

NRS 541.210 Board may levy additional assessments to pay deficiencies. The board, in making the annual assessments and levies as herein provided, shall take into account the maturing indebtedness for the ensuing year as provided in its contracts and deficiencies and defaults of p…

NRS 541.220 Board to hear objections to assessments; procedure; appeal to district court. 1. Prior to March 1 of each year in which assessments are made, the board shall appoint a time and place or places where it will meet within the district for the purposes of hearing objectio…

NRS 541.230 Officials charged with duty to collect taxes; taxes levied create equal lien. The officer or body having authority to levy taxes within each county, city and county, or town shall levy the taxes and special assessments as provided in this chapter, and all county, or c…

NRS 541.240 Sale of real property for unpaid taxes and assessments. If the taxes and assessments levied are not paid as provided in NRS 541.230, then the real property, if not redeemed within the time allowed by law, must be sold and conveyed for the payment of taxes, assessments…

NRS 541.250 Property exempt from assessments. All property of whatever kind and nature owned by the State and by towns, cities, school districts, drainage districts, irrigation districts, water districts, or any other governmental agency or agencies within the district, shall be …

NRS 541.260 Board may dispose of water under contracts. The board may sell, lease or otherwise dispose of the use of water to persons, public or private corporations, mutual ditch companies and water users’ associations as shall be provided by term contracts, or by contracts for …

NRS 541.270 Liens to secure payment of annual installments. To meet the annual installments as provided in contracts for the use of water: 1. A water users’ association may bind itself to levy an annual assessment on the use of water and to secure the same by liens on land and wa…

NRS 541.280 Board may create sinking fund. Whenever a contract of indebtedness has been created by the district, it shall be lawful for the board to make the annual levy of taxes and special assessments in such amount as will create a surplus of funds to meet the annual installme…

NRS 541.290 Powers of board in distribution of water. The board shall have the following powers concerning the management, control, delivery, use and distribution of water by the district: 1. To make and enforce all reasonable regulations for the management, control and delivery …

NRS 541.300 Contracts relating to electrical energy. The board is authorized to enter into contracts for the operation and maintenance of works for the generation and supplying of electrical energy and for the disposition of power generated thereat. The board may also enter into …

NRS 541.310 Change of boundaries: Petition for inclusion of other lands; procedure. 1. The boundaries of any district organized under the provisions of this chapter may be changed in the manner herein prescribed, but the change of boundaries of the district shall not: (a) Impair …

NRS 541.320 Petition for exclusion of lands in district; procedure; court order. 1. The owner or owners in fee of any lands constituting a portion of the district may file with the board a petition praying that such lands be excluded and taken from the district. 2. Petitions shal…

NRS 541.330 Board may enter into contracts relative to payments to be made to United States. To pay for construction, operation, and maintenance of works and expenses preliminary and incidental thereto, the board is authorized to enter into a contract or contracts with the United…

NRS 541.340 Acquisition of works: Procedure for creation of indebtedness; elections. 1. Whenever the board of a district incorporated under this chapter, by resolution adopted by a majority of the board, determines that the interests of the district and the public interest or nec…

NRS 541.350 Publication of resolution for creation of indebtedness. The resolution provided for in NRS 541.340 must be published once a week for 2 consecutive weeks, the last publication of which must be at least 10 days before the election, in a newspaper of general circulation …

NRS 541.360 Conduct of election; canvass of returns. The respective election boards shall conduct the election in their respective precincts in the manner prescribed by law for the holding of general elections, and shall make their returns to the secretary of the district. At any…

NRS 541.370 Majority vote required to authorize indebtedness; resubmission of proposition. 1. If it appears from the returns that a majority of the qualified electors of the district who voted on any proposition submitted pursuant to NRS 541.340 voted in favor of the proposition,…

NRS 541.380 Board may petition court for judicial determination of orders, acts, power, taxes and contracts. 1. The board may, in its discretion, at any time file a petition in the court, praying a judicial examination and determination of the validity of the proceedings for the …

NRS 541.390 Notice; jurisdiction of district court not lost for failure to give notice. In every case where a notice is provided for in this chapter, if the court finds for any reason that due notice was not given, the court shall not thereby lose jurisdiction and the proceeding …

NRS 541.400 Cases to be heard by court at earliest practicable moment. 1. All cases in which there may arise a question of the validity of the organization of a water conservancy district or a question of the validity of any proceeding under this chapter shall be advanced as a ma…

NRS 541.410 Liberal construction of chapter. This chapter, being necessary to secure and preserve the public health, safety, convenience and welfare, and for the security of public and private property, shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes of this chapter. [41:380:…

NRS 541.420 Conflicting laws declared nonoperative. All laws or parts of laws conflicting in any way with any of the provisions of this chapter in regard to the improvements or improvement districts, or regulating or limiting the power of taxation or assessments, or otherwise int…

NRS 543.010 “Director” defined. As used in NRS 543.010 to 543.150, inclusive, “Director” means the Director of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources. (Added to NRS by 1960, 56)

NRS 543.020 Declaration of policy. It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State of Nevada to cooperate with the United States and its departments and agencies, and with the counties, cities and public districts of the State, in preventing loss of life and property, disrupt…

NRS 543.030 Director of State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to give assurances and perform acts required in connection with projects as directed by Legislature. The Director is hereby authorized to give all assurances and perform any other acts required by the …

NRS 543.040 Flood Control Account: Creation; money in Account does not lapse. The Flood Control Account is hereby created in the State General Fund. Money in the Flood Control Account does not lapse at the end of any fiscal year. (Added to NRS by 1959, 165; A 1979, 116; 1991, 178…

NRS 543.050 Flood Control Account: Authorized expenditures; reimbursements. The Director shall use the money in the Flood Control Account to pay all necessary costs in order to carry out the assurances and to perform the acts provided for in NRS 543.030. Reimbursements to the Acc…

NRS 543.060 Reimbursements in proportion to benefit received; time of payments; budgets. 1. The Director shall determine which counties, cities and public districts benefit by the project, and whether the State is benefited by the project, and to what extent there is benefit to t…