NRS 548.4053 Annual fee on parcels in district: Submission of question to voters upon receipt of petition; notice of election; contents of ballot; approval by voters.

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1. A board of county commissioners shall submit to the voters a question of whether to impose a fee described in NRS 548.4052 upon receipt of a petition requesting the election and prescribing the amount of the proposed fee. The petition must be signed by a majority of the supervisors of the conservation district or not less than 10 percent of the registered voters of the conservation district. The board of county commissioners shall direct the county clerk of the county or the county clerk’s designee to conduct an election on the question.

2. If a conservation district includes land lying in more than one county, the petition described in subsection 1 must be submitted to the board of county commissioners of each such county and each respective board of county commissioners shall submit the question to the registered voters of the conservation district who live in the county. Each respective board of county commissioners shall direct the county clerk of the county or the county clerk’s designee to conduct an election on the question.

The county clerks of the respective counties shall confer and delegate to the county clerk, or the county clerk’s designee, of the county having the greatest number of qualified electors of the conservation district the duty of carrying out the provisions of this section and shall reimburse that county on a pro rata basis for their respective counties’ shares of the expenses of conducting the election.

3. Notice of an election or elections on the question of whether to impose a fee described in NRS 548.4052 must be:

(a)Published at least once each week for 4 weeks before the date of the election in a newspaper of general circulation in the county or counties in which the election or elections are to be held; and

(b)Posted continuously on the Internet website of the county or counties beginning not less than 30 days before the date of the election.

4. At the election, the ballot must contain the words “Shall a fee of not more than $_____ per parcel be approved for the conservation district?” or words equivalent thereto.

5. If a majority of the registered voters of the conservation district voting on the question approve the imposition of the fee, the fee must be imposed beginning on July 1 of the year next following the election or elections.