Nevada

NRS 539.010 Short title.

NRS 539.013 Definitions.

NRS 539.015 Publication of notice.

NRS 539.017 Construction.

NRS 539.020 Petition for organization of district.

NRS 539.023 Inclusion of state lands in district; Governor may sign petition.

NRS 539.025 Contents of petition.

NRS 539.027 Undertaking.

NRS 539.030 Petition filed in office of county clerk; publication of notice of time of meeting; newspaper in which publication to be made; contents of notice.

NRS 539.033 Presentation of petition to county commissioners; hearing.

NRS 539.035 Adjournment of hearing.

NRS 539.037 Determination as to land to be formed into district.

NRS 539.040 Informalities in petition to be disregarded; reason for refusal or dismissal of petition; mandamus.

NRS 539.043 Order granting or denying petition; order granting petition to establish boundaries and designate name.

NRS 539.045 Order calling election; qualifications of candidate for director.

NRS 539.047 Notice of election: Contents; publication.

NRS 539.050 Election precincts.

NRS 539.053 Conduct of election; absent voters’ ballots.

NRS 539.055 Canvass of votes; order declaring territory formed as district under designated name; recording of order and plat.

NRS 539.057 Conclusiveness of record of county commissioners concerning proceedings.

NRS 539.060 Name of district; change of name of certain districts.

NRS 539.063 Officers of district.

NRS 539.065 Directors: Terms of office; qualifications.

NRS 539.067 Directors: Oaths; bonds.

NRS 539.070 Directors: Vacancies in office.

NRS 539.071 Expansion of number of directors authorized if federal reclamation project operated and project authorized for additional purposes; procedure.

NRS 539.073 Organization of board; election and appointment of officers.

NRS 539.075 Secretary and treasurer: Appointment; bond.

NRS 539.077 Assistant secretary: Appointment; duties.

NRS 539.080 Compensation and expenses of directors and other officers.

NRS 539.081 Interest in certain contracts prohibited; penalties.

NRS 539.083 Office of board.

NRS 539.085 Regular meetings: Time and place; notice of change of time; judicial day.

NRS 539.087 Special meetings: Calling by president or board; notice; business to be transacted.

NRS 539.090 Legal meeting: Attendance of all members.

NRS 539.093 Meetings public.

NRS 539.095 Quorum; affirmative vote of majority required for certain questions.

NRS 539.097 Records open to inspection.

NRS 539.103 Director not to be employed by district as engineer, watermaster or manager.

NRS 539.105 Establishment of precincts and polling places.

NRS 539.107 Procedure for change of boundaries.

NRS 539.110 Procedure for changing number of directors and divisions; election required.

NRS 539.113 Procedure for election of directors.

NRS 539.115 When regular elections of irrigation districts to be held.

NRS 539.117 When election need not be held; declaration of election of candidates.

NRS 539.120 Declarations of candidacy; filing fees.

NRS 539.123 Eligibility to vote; number of votes elector may cast; certain persons and entities entitled to vote and exercise rights of electors; filing of designations or written consents.

NRS 539.125 Notice of election: Contents; publication.

NRS 539.127 Registration of electors required; reregistration.

NRS 539.130 Secretary is ex officio district registrar; appointment of field registrars; duties.

NRS 539.133 Close of registration: Time.

NRS 539.135 Oath of individual registrant.

NRS 539.137 Oath of registrants on behalf of entity that is not natural person.

NRS 539.140 Persons who may administer registration oath.

NRS 539.143 Designation of registered voters in rosters and lists of registered electors.

NRS 539.145 Appointment of inspectors and clerks; designation of time and place of election.

NRS 539.147 Compensation of registrars and election officers.

NRS 539.150 Election officers: Oath; vacancies.

NRS 539.153 Applicability of general election laws.

NRS 539.155 Returns delivered to secretary; canvass by board of directors; declaration of result.

NRS 539.157 Declaration of candidates receiving highest number of votes; certificates of election.

NRS 539.160 Directors subject to recall from office.

NRS 539.163 Petition for recall: Contents; required signatures; filing.

NRS 539.165 Petition for recall: Use of copies; verification.

NRS 539.167 Petition for recall: Director must hold office 6 months.

NRS 539.170 Special election: Call; when held.

NRS 539.173 Vacancy filled if director resigns; continuance in office if director does not resign.

NRS 539.175 Removal of signature from recall petition: Procedure.

NRS 539.177 Nominating petitions for successors; filing.

NRS 539.180 Recall ballots: Reasons for recall and answer thereto; form of proposal; names of nominees.

NRS 539.183 Result of recall election: Successor elected or vacancy in office created.

NRS 539.185 Subsequent recall proceedings barred during director’s term unless previous election expenses paid by petitioners.

NRS 539.187 Applicability of general election laws to recall elections.

NRS 539.188 Special election may be held upon unanimous vote of board of directors.

NRS 539.189 Notice of election for election for issuance of bonds or other securities: Contents.

NRS 539.190 General powers of board of directors.

NRS 539.193 Agents and employees: Employment and appointment; duties; compensation.

NRS 539.195 Entry upon land to make surveys and locate works.

NRS 539.197 Contracts.

NRS 539.200 Contracts of indemnity and guaranty.

NRS 539.201 Purchase of liability insurance.

NRS 539.203 Board of directors authorized to sue and to be sued.

NRS 539.205 Annual report to State Engineer; recommendations of State Engineer.

NRS 539.207 Acquisition of property.

NRS 539.210 Use of proceeds of bonds for acquisition.

NRS 539.213 Lease of lands for community pasture.

NRS 539.215 Investigations and representations requisite to acquiring control over governmental lands.

NRS 539.217 Conveyance or donation of lands acquired by district.

NRS 539.220 Construction of works across watercourse, road, railway, conduit or other property; restoration of crossed property.

NRS 539.223 Rights-of-way over state lands granted; duties of State Engineer and Director of State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.

NRS 539.225 Eminent domain; rules of practice.

NRS 539.227 Vested rights used in connection with mining or generation of power not to be affected or taken.

NRS 539.230 Appropriation and distribution; use by irrigation district declared public use; place of use of water.

NRS 539.233 Regulations for distribution and use of water; regulating and measuring devices; distribution of regulations.

NRS 539.234 Petition for State Engineer to prescribe or clarify rules and regulations relating to distribution and use of water within district.

NRS 539.235 Distribution of water by division or district for appropriate charge.

NRS 539.237 Authority to generate, transmit, sell and acquire electric power.

NRS 539.240 Election required for approval of certain contracts; notice; ballots; limitation; judicial determination of validity.

NRS 539.243 Election required for approval of lease of power plant or transmission system owned or controlled by district.

NRS 539.245 Authority of board of directors to provide for drainage.

NRS 539.255 Award of contract in case of emergency or necessity without advertising for bids.

NRS 539.260 Direction and satisfaction of district engineer; approval by board.

NRS 539.263 Contract not to be let unless sufficient money in treasury or payable in district’s bonds.

NRS 539.265 When bids may be dispensed with; use of construction fund.

NRS 539.267 Performance of acts necessary to carry out enlarged powers.

NRS 539.270 General powers.

NRS 539.273 Purposes of cooperation and contract.

NRS 539.275 Provisions includable in contract.

NRS 539.277 Bonds: Transfer to or deposit with United States; payment of interest and principal; rate of interest; call for repayment.

NRS 539.280 Payment in installments; rate of interest; assessment and levy; lien.

NRS 539.283 Distribution and apportionment of water; refusal of service to delinquent land; assessment to maintain existing works.

NRS 539.285 Rent or lease of water.

NRS 539.287 Dissolution of district or change of boundaries: Consent of Secretary of Interior; excluded areas free from liens and charges.

NRS 539.290 Collection of money or action as fiscal agent of United States: Acceptance of appointment; duties, liabilities and powers of district.

NRS 539.293 Additional bonds of district officers: When required; inspection of district books by federal agents.

NRS 539.295 Conveyance of property to United States.

NRS 539.297 Authorization of proposal to enter into contract.

NRS 539.300 Notice of election: Contents.

NRS 539.303 Ballots: Form.

NRS 539.305 Validation proceedings.

NRS 539.307 Directors relieved of certain duties; adoption of surveys and plans made by United States.

NRS 539.310 Payments from revenue derived from annual assessments upon real property; property liable to assessment and levy.

NRS 539.313 Annual levy or imposition of tolls or charges to meet payments.

NRS 539.315 Apportionment of assessment in accordance with benefits; ascertainment of benefits.

NRS 539.317 Assessment of federal public land.

NRS 539.320 Obligation of district in case of default of land.

NRS 539.323 Money paid to district treasury and held in United States Contract Fund; disposition of surplus.

NRS 539.325 Contracts for release of mortgages or liens; assumption by district of indebtedness due United States; apportionment of benefits; collection and payment of taxes and assessments.

NRS 539.327 Exclusion of district division outside scope of contract.

NRS 539.330 Contracts of district divisions with United States.

NRS 539.333 General power; purposes.

NRS 539.335 Authority to enter into agreements with districts in adjoining states.

NRS 539.337 Written contracts or resolutions.

NRS 539.340 Recordation of contracts and resolutions.

NRS 539.343 Provisions as to ownership of property.

NRS 539.345 Trial of disputes and enforcement of rights.

NRS 539.347 Meeting in adjoining state valid.

NRS 539.350 Diversion of water.

NRS 539.353 Holding of property in this state or in adjoining state.

NRS 539.355 Foreign irrigation district authorized to acquire land by purchase or condemnation; conditions.

NRS 539.357 Use of land declared public use.

NRS 539.360 Provisions applicable if reciprocal rights granted.

NRS 539.363 Power of division to construct improvements.

NRS 539.365 Petition to district directors: Contents; appointment of local board.

NRS 539.367 Local board: Composition; terms of office; vacancies.

NRS 539.370 Compensation of local directors.

NRS 539.373 Powers of local board concerning improvements.

NRS 539.375 Board of directors of district may incur debts and issue warrants; limitations; assessments.

NRS 539.377 Plans and estimates of local undertakings: Preparation; statement of source of money; statement of purposes.

NRS 539.380 Filing of plans and estimates or statement with district secretary; request for election.

NRS 539.383 Notice of election: Contents; publication.

NRS 539.385 Conduct of election.

NRS 539.387 Terms of local directors terminate and local board dissolved if proposal fails.

NRS 539.390 Authorization for improvements at election; levy and collection of assessments.

NRS 539.393 Certificates of indebtedness and notes: Signatures of officers of district; treated as bonds of district.

NRS 539.395 Apportionment of benefits; method of levy and collection of assessments.

NRS 539.397 Validation proceedings.

NRS 539.400 Full payment of local undertakings; termination of terms of local directors; disposition of remaining money.

NRS 539.403 Local improvements affecting two or more divisions: Applicability of NRS 539.363 to 539.403, inclusive.

NRS 539.405 Petition for creation of local board.

NRS 539.407 Powers of local board.

NRS 539.410 Election required for approval to enter contract and levy assessment.

NRS 539.413 Applicability of laws relating to contracts between districts and United States.

NRS 539.415 Validation proceedings.

NRS 539.417 Assumption of operation and maintenance of existing works only; power of local board to levy assessments and impose tolls and charges.

NRS 539.420 Construction, replacement or extension of works: Power of local board to levy assessments and impose tolls and charges.

NRS 539.423 Purposes for which land may be formed into improvement district.

NRS 539.425 Proposal of formation: Recommendation of district engineer; petition of landowners; designation of area by directors.

NRS 539.427 Plans and estimates of cost of improvement; provision for payment of costs.

NRS 539.430 Submission of proposed improvement, estimated cost and methods of financing to Department of Taxation.

NRS 539.433 Election required after approval by Department of Taxation.

NRS 539.435 Form of question to be submitted to voters.

NRS 539.437 Conduct of election.

NRS 539.440 Apportionment of benefits.

NRS 539.443 Confirmation proceedings in district court: Procedure; notice.

NRS 539.445 Authorization to carry out improvement.

NRS 539.447 Sale of securities; deposit of proceeds in improvement district fund.

NRS 539.450 Securities: Execution by district officers; lien upon issuance of bonds.

NRS 539.453 Levy and collection of annual assessments for payment of interest and redemption of securities.

NRS 539.455 Payment of assessments before issuance of securities.

NRS 539.457 Powers of directors and officers of district.

NRS 539.460 Applicability of chapter to improvement districts.

NRS 539.463 Issuance; conditions.

NRS 539.465 Election required to authorize issuance; conduct of election; maturity of and interest on bonds.

NRS 539.467 Confirmation of proceedings by district court.

NRS 539.470 Apportionment of benefits; levy of annual assessments for interest and redemption of bonds.

NRS 539.473 Certification of bonds by State Controller.

NRS 539.475 Sale and exchange of bonds.

NRS 539.477 Debt or liability in excess of express provisions void; incurrence forbidden.

NRS 539.480 Limitation on indebtedness; issuance of warrants or negotiable notes; levy and collection of assessments; limitation on and calculation of assessments; annual adjustment.

NRS 539.483 Monthly financial reports of district treasurer; verification and filing.

NRS 539.485 Monthly posting and publication of claims allowed by board of directors.

NRS 539.487 Annual publication of district financial statement.

NRS 539.490 County treasurer to deliver all money collected to treasurer of district.

NRS 539.493 Funds created.

NRS 539.495 Construction fund: Source.

NRS 539.497 Construction fund: Authorized disbursements.

NRS 539.500 Construction fund: Transfers to general fund.

NRS 539.503 Bond fund: Source.

NRS 539.505 Bond fund: Investment and transfer of surplus money.

NRS 539.507 General fund: Division into general fund and operation and maintenance fund.

NRS 539.510 General fund: Source.

NRS 539.513 General fund: Board may fix rates of tolls or charges; collection in advance; enforcement of debt; liens.

NRS 539.515 General fund: Expenditures for development, operation and maintenance of recreational grounds; limitations.

NRS 539.517 General fund: Expenditure for exploiting district resources; limitation; tax.

NRS 539.520 Duties of district treasurer; liability on official bond.

NRS 539.523 Directors may make temporary transfers.

NRS 539.525 Regulation of disbursements from funds; approval of vouchers.

NRS 539.527 Interest coupons: Payment by district treasurer.

NRS 539.530 Deposit of money in bank or credit union in state.

NRS 539.533 Deposit of district money in accordance with general laws.

NRS 539.537 Security of deposits: Surety bonds; securities in lieu of surety bond.

NRS 539.540 Resolution of directors: General plan of proposed operations.

NRS 539.543 Surveys and examinations; direction and certification by irrigation engineer.

NRS 539.545 Estimate of amount of money necessary to be raised; election required.

NRS 539.547 Notice of election: Posting; publication; contents.

NRS 539.550 Ballots: Form.

NRS 539.553 Conduct of election; number of votes elector may cast; certain persons and entities entitled to vote; filing of designations or written consents; informalities not to invalidate election.

NRS 539.557 Additional bond issues: Election required.

NRS 539.560 Determination of benefits: Apportionment; procedure.

NRS 539.563 Meeting to review apportionment of benefits: Notice; hearing.

NRS 539.565 Confirmation proceedings in district court: Petition; contents; notice of hearing on petition; pleadings.

NRS 539.567 Confirmation proceedings: Confirmation of apportionment; corrections by court; final judgment; costs.

NRS 539.570 Sale of bonds authorized; public or private sale; terms.

NRS 539.573 Bonds not to be sold for less than 90 percent of par value and accrued interest.

NRS 539.575 Use of unsold bonds in payment of construction; approval of Department of Taxation.

NRS 539.577 Cancellation of authorized bond issue; levy of assessments in lieu of bonds; limitations.

NRS 539.580 Payment of bonds and interest from revenue derived from annual assessments.

NRS 539.583 Payment of interest from bond fund.

NRS 539.585 Payment before issuance of bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness.

NRS 539.587 Insufficient money to complete improvement: Levy of assessment; issuance of additional bonds.

NRS 539.590 Prior liens.

NRS 539.593 Power of directors to levy assessments to spread redemption of bonds.

NRS 539.595 Directors may execute agreement with bond purchasers guaranteeing tax levy for bond redemption; approval of Department of Taxation; recording of agreement.

NRS 539.597 County auditor to spread minimum sinking fund tax on assessment books.

NRS 539.600 Agreement binding on subsequent boards of directors; directors may increase tax.

NRS 539.603 Proceedings if county officers fail to perform duties pertaining to sinking fund tax.

NRS 539.605 Faith and credit of State pledged.

NRS 539.607 Issuance of notes authorized to meet obligations of district after levy of tax; levy and collection of special tax.

NRS 539.610 Redemption of bonds before maturity: Procedure.

NRS 539.613 Issuance authorized without election; purposes; exchange or sale; lien.

NRS 539.614 Source of payment and security; applicability of provisions of chapter; conclusiveness of board’s determination of compliance with chapter.

NRS 539.615 Series and issue of bonds.

NRS 539.617 Consecutive numbering; negotiability and payment; multiples of $100.

NRS 539.620 Directors may fix and determine time for issuance and maturity; limit on maturity.

NRS 539.623 Form of bonds.

NRS 539.624 Issuance separately or in combination.

NRS 539.625 Date of bonds.

NRS 539.627 Denominations.

NRS 539.630 Interest.

NRS 539.633 Places of payment.

NRS 539.635 Record to be kept by secretary and treasurer.

NRS 539.636 Power of board of directors.

NRS 539.638 Liens.

NRS 539.639 Trustees and receivers.

NRS 539.640 Resolution of district concerning availability of bonds for legal investments; copy filed with Department of Taxation.

NRS 539.643 Investigation of affairs of district; report of Department of Taxation.

NRS 539.645 Provisions of NRS 539.643 directory only.

NRS 539.647 Certification of bonds by State Controller.

NRS 539.650 Expenditures from construction fund after certification of bonds prohibited without consent of Department of Taxation.

NRS 539.653 Progressive construction: Certification of bonds as needed; prior approval of Department of Taxation if all bonds certified.

NRS 539.655 Form of certificate of State Controller; facsimile signature authorized.

NRS 539.657 District to pay expenses of investigation and report.

NRS 539.660 Bonds as legal investments and security.

NRS 539.663 Bonds of irrigation districts of other states as legal investments; limitations.

NRS 539.665 Faith of State of Nevada pledged.

NRS 539.667 Secretary is district assessor; preparation of assessment book annually; contents of assessment book.

NRS 539.670 Levy of assessments and tax by board; computation and entry in assessment book.

NRS 539.673 Assessment by district board of land escaping assessment.

NRS 539.675 Use of preceding assessments for succeeding years; deemed regular levy.

NRS 539.677 Levy of assessments by county commissioners or Department of Taxation; duties of district attorney and Attorney General.

NRS 539.680 Correction of assessments; notice of time of meeting to correct assessments; retention of assessment book in district office for inspection; changes in assessments.

NRS 539.683 Collection of assessments: Procedure; duties of county and district officers.

NRS 539.685 Addition of unpaid tolls and charges to assessment levies.

NRS 539.687 Assessment as lien against property; bond lien as preferred lien.

NRS 539.690 Special assessments: Procedure for levy; election; authority to levy assessments for number of years for specific purposes.

NRS 539.693 Sale of land in district because of delinquency in payment of tax; land sold subject to accrued and accruing liens for charges, tolls, assessments and taxes.

NRS 539.695 Procedure for summary foreclosure of lien for accrued charges, tolls or assessments; notice of sale; sale for delinquency in taxes.

NRS 539.697 Distribution and sale of water acquired at sale for delinquent tax or summary foreclosure.

NRS 539.700 Exclusion of land from benefits if land sold for delinquent taxes or assessments: Consent of bondholders and others.

NRS 539.703 Water and water rights become part of general supply when land excluded from further participation in benefits.

NRS 539.705 Land excluded from participation in benefits: Transfer of storage rights and benefits apportioned to other land.

NRS 539.708 Petition for annexation: Contents; inclusion of lands within municipal corporation.

NRS 539.712 Notice of filing of petition for annexation: Posting; contents; advancement of costs by petitioners.

NRS 539.714 Hearing on annexation petition.

NRS 539.716 Conditions precedent to annexation; apportionment and assessment of benefits.

NRS 539.718 Order of annexation: Contents; survey.

NRS 539.722 Resolution approving annexation notwithstanding electors’ objections: Adoption; contents.

NRS 539.724 Election on question of annexation: Notice; procedure; form of ballots.

NRS 539.726 Order of annexation following election: Contents; recording.

NRS 539.728 Apportionment of benefits following annexation: Compliance with statutes.

NRS 539.732 Lands in one district not to be included in another district.

NRS 539.734 Inclusion within district of state lands and state lands held under contract to purchase.

NRS 539.736 Exclusion of land: Grounds; limitations.

NRS 539.738 Notice of proposed exclusion: Publication; contents.

NRS 539.742 Resolution excluding land; objections.

NRS 539.744 Order or denial of exclusion; publication of order.

NRS 539.746 Recording of order excluding land or changing boundaries with plat.

NRS 539.748 Petition to district court by aggrieved persons.

NRS 539.750 Petition for dissolution of district: Filing with clerk of district court; order of district judge.

NRS 539.753 Contents of petition.

NRS 539.755 Determination of sufficiency of percentages required on petition: What governs clerk of district court.

NRS 539.757 Ballots: Form.

NRS 539.760 Conduct of election; canvass of votes.

NRS 539.763 Certification of election results to district court; examination of returns by court; order of dissolution; filing of financial statement.

NRS 539.765 Court governed by NRS 539.287 where contract with United States exists.

NRS 539.767 Order of dissolution not to be entered until bonded indebtedness liquidated or consent of bondholders filed.

NRS 539.770 Payment of other indebtedness to be provided for; duties of county officers in closing affairs of district.

NRS 539.773 Liquidation of indebtedness; levy of assessments; collection of taxes; sale of district property by county commissioners; disposition of proceeds.

NRS 539.775 Contract with United States or bonded indebtedness not bar to dissolution if provision made for payment.

NRS 539.777 Entry of order dissolving district; further indebtedness prohibited.

NRS 539.780 Unlawful interference with officer, agent or employee of district; criminal and civil penalties.

NRS 539.783 Liability of water user negligently or wrongfully impairing system of works; notice to repair.

NRS 539.6133 Voluntary surrender or limitation on maturity; limitation on principal, interest and maturity.

NRS 539.6135 Use of proceeds; payment of incidental costs.

NRS 539.6137 Escrow or trust for payment of refunded or refunding bonds.

NRS 539.6353 Rights and remedies cumulative.

NRS 539.6355 Failure of holder of bonds to proceed does not relieve district of liability.

NRS 539.6361 Reserve fund from bond proceeds: Creation, accumulation and maintenance; augmentations.

NRS 539.6362 Payment of deficiency from general fund, reserve fund or other available revenue; levy of ad valorem tax.

NRS 539.6363 Duties of board of directors in making levy.

NRS 539.6364 Considerations in certifying annual levies; additional levies in event of insufficient revenue.

NRS 539.6365 Payment of taxes to district; lien.

NRS 539.6366 Sale of property for nonpayment of taxes.

NRS 539.6371 Issuance authorized to finance revenue-producing project.

NRS 539.6375 Covenants and other provisions.

NRS 539.6385 Rights and powers of holders of bonds.