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NV Rev Stat § 539.297 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.297 - Authorization of proposal to enter into contract.

Any proposal to enter into a contract with the United States for the repayment of money for construction, the cost of a water supply, the operation and maintenance of existing works, or the acquisition of property, and to issue bonds if any are proposed, must be voted upon at a special election, district election or primary or general state election in the manner provided in the case of the ordinary issuance of district bonds.  [Part 56:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3289; NCL § 8074] — (NRS A 1993, 1085)
NV Rev Stat § 539.300 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.300 - Notice of election: Contents.

Notice of the election provided for in NRS 539.297 shall contain, in addition to the information required in the case of an ordinary bond election:  1. A statement of the maximum amount of money to be payable to the United States for construction purposes, costs of water supply and acquisition of property, exclusive of penalties and interest.  2. A general statement of the property, if any, to be conveyed by the district as provided in this chapter.  [Part 56:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3289; NCL § 8074]
NV Rev Stat § 539.303 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.303 - Ballots: Form.

The ballots at the election shall contain a brief statement of the general purpose of the contract and the amount of the obligation to be assumed, with the words "Contract — Yes," and "Contract — No," or "Contract and bonds — Yes," and "Contract and bonds — No," as the case may be.  [Part 56:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3289; NCL § 8074]
NV Rev Stat § 539.305 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.305 - Validation proceedings.

The board of directors may submit any contract or proposed contract and bond issue to the district court of the county wherein is located the office of the board to determine the validity thereof and the authority of the board to enter into such contract, and the authority for and the validity of the issuance and deposit or transfer of the bonds. The same proceedings shall be had as in the ordinary case of the judicial determination of the validity of bonds and with like effect.  [Part 56:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3289; NCL § 8074]
NV Rev Stat § 539.307 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.307 - Directors relieved of certain duties; adoption of surveys and plans made by United States.

The board of directors of a district is relieved from the duties imposed upon it in NRS 539.255, 539.260, 539.263 and 539.540 to 539.557, inclusive, insofar as the same may not be required in case of a contract between the district and the United States, and in that relation may take advantage of or adopt such surveys and plans as may have been or be made by the United States.  [Part 62:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3291; NCL § 8080] — (NRS A 1967, 1241)
NV Rev Stat § 539.310 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.310 - Payments from revenue derived from annual assessments upon real property; property liable to assessment and levy.

All payments due or to become due to the United States under any contract between the district and the United States, including such payments of interest and principal on bonds as may be required in connection with a deposit or transfer thereof to the United States, shall be paid, unless otherwise provided by contract, by revenue derived from annual assessments apportioned as prescribed in this chapter, and levies thereof upon such real property within the district as may be assessable for district purposes under the laws of the State or by tolls and charges, as the case may be. Such real property shall be and remain liable to be assessed and levied upon for such payments.  [Part 59:64:1919; A 1927, 309; NCL § 8077]
NV Rev Stat § 539.313 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.313 - Annual levy or imposition of tolls or charges to meet payments.

The board of directors annually shall levy an assessment or impose and cause to be collected tolls or charges sufficient to raise the money necessary to meet all payments when due as provided in the contract.  [Part 59:64:1919; A 1927, 309; NCL § 8077]
NV Rev Stat § 539.315 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.315 - Apportionment of assessment in accordance with benefits; ascertainment of benefits.

  1. The assessment required in any year to meet the payment due to the United States under the contract may be in accord with an apportionment of benefits made in or in pursuance of such contract.  2. In the ascertainment of such benefits there shall be taken into account:  (a) The provisions of the contract between the United States and the district, the federal laws applicable thereto, and the notice and regulations issued in pursuance of those laws.  (b) In addition, in case such contract is for the assumption by the district as principal or guarantor of indebtedness to the United States theretofore existing on account of district lands, the provisions of existing contracts carrying such indebtedness and the amounts of such liens as may be released in pursuance of the contract between the United States and the district.  [61:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3291; NCL § 8079]
NV Rev Stat § 539.317 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.317 - Assessment of federal public land.

Public lands of the United States within any district shall be subject to assessment for all purposes of this chapter to the extent provided for by the Act of Congress approved August 11, 1916, entitled "An Act to promote reclamation of arid lands," or any other law which may hereafter be enacted by Congress in the same relation, upon full compliance therewith by the district.  [Part 59:64:1919; A 1927, 309; NCL § 8077]
NV Rev Stat § 539.320 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.320 - Obligation of district in case of default of land.

Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to relieve the district from its obligation to pay as a district in case of the default of any land, unless so provided by the contract between the district and the United States.  [Part 59:64:1919; A 1927, 309; NCL § 8077]
NV Rev Stat § 539.323 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.323 - Money paid to district treasury and held in United States Contract Fund; disposition of surplus.

  1. All moneys collected in pursuance of the contract by assessment and levies or otherwise, and to be paid to the United States, shall be paid into the district treasury and held in a fund to be known as the United States Contract Fund, to be used for payments due to the United States under any such contract.  2. Any surplus moneys that may remain in the United States Contract Fund after any annual or semiannual payment due the United States under the terms of the contract has been fully paid may be transferred to the operation and maintenance fund.  [Part 59:64:1919; A 1927, 309; NCL § 8077]
NV Rev Stat § 539.325 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|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.

  1. The board of directors may also provide by contract with the United States for the release of mortgages or liens given or reserved to the United States upon district lands, and may provide for the assumption by the district, either as principal or guarantor, of indebtedness to the United States on account of district lands, and apportion to each tract of land so released benefits in the amount of the obligations to the United States so provided to be released.  2. The contract between the district and the United States may provide for the collection and payment of indebtedness so incurred or assumed by the district and the tax or assessment for the same at the same times and in the same amounts or installments provided in the federal reclamation laws. If so provided in the contract, such taxes and assessments shall become delinquent at the same dates provided in the Act of Congress of August 13, 1914, being c. 247, 38 Stat. 686, known as the Reclamation Extension Act. If it is provided in the contract that the United States waives any penalties for delinquency other or greater than those named in the Reclamation Extension Act, then, instead of the penalties otherwise provided in state laws, the penalties for delinquency in the payment of that part of the tax representing the special assessment for payment of the obligations of the district to the United States shall be the penalties named in the Reclamation Extension Act, and the amount required to be paid in case of any redemption from any tax sale or tax judgment shall be determined by figuring the part thereof due to the United States upon the basis of the amount of such special assessment levied for the purpose of paying the United States plus the penalties named in the Reclamation Extension Act.  3. The board shall have full power to do any and all things required by the federal statutes now or hereafter enacted in connection therewith, and all things required by the rules and regulations now or that may hereafter be established by any department of the Federal Government in regard thereto.  [60:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3290; NCL § 8078]
NV Rev Stat § 539.327 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.327 - Exclusion of district division outside scope of contract.

When an irrigation district comprises lands which are or may be served by works constructed by the United States, and a contract is proposed to be entered into with the United States for the operation and maintenance by the district of the existing works, or for the construction of a drainage system or other extension or improvement of such works, and the lands in a division of the district may be regarded as clearly outside the scope of such contract, the election thereon and for the authorization of the program or undertaking contemplated thereby may be confined to the remaining portion of the district exclusive of such division, and the apportionment of the benefits may be made accordingly. Otherwise, the proceedings in connection with such contract and the program or undertaking contemplated thereby shall be as provided in this chapter.  [64:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3292; NCL § 8082]
NV Rev Stat § 539.330 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.330 - Contracts of district divisions with United States.

Divisions of a district may contract with the United States in the manner provided in NRS 539.405 to 539.420, inclusive.  [Part 63:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3291; NCL § 8081]
NV Rev Stat § 539.333 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.333 - General power; purposes.

  1. In addition to the powers with which irrigation districts are or may be vested under the laws of the State, irrigation districts shall have the power to cooperate and contract with the county or counties in which any of the lands of the district may be situated for the following purposes:  (a) Acquisition of lands within the district purchased by the county at delinquent tax sales.  (b) Recovering for the district its proportion of delinquent taxes from the proceeds of the sale of such lands by the county.  (c) Adjustment of all matters growing out of the sales of lands within the district on account of delinquent taxes.  2. The proper county officials are also so authorized to contract.  [Part 54:64:1919; A 1923, 289; 1933, 271; 1931 NCL § 8072]
NV Rev Stat § 539.335 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.335 - Authority to enter into agreements with districts in adjoining states.

It shall be lawful for irrigation districts organized or existing under or by virtue of the laws of the State of Nevada to enter into agreements with contiguous adjoining irrigation districts in other states for the joint construction, acquisition, management and control of diverting, impounding or distributing works for the irrigation or drainage of the lands within the boundaries of their respective districts.  [1:188:1919; 1919 RL p. 3307; NCL § 8232]
NV Rev Stat § 539.337 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.337 - Written contracts or resolutions.

Such agreements may be evidenced by written contracts executed on behalf of the board of directors or trustees of each respective district or by resolutions entered upon their respective minutes.  [Part 2:188:1919; 1919 RL p. 3307; NCL § 8233]
NV Rev Stat § 539.340 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.340 - Recordation of contracts and resolutions.

Such contracts or certified copies thereof and certified copies of such resolutions shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder in each county in which is situated any of the lands of the districts or any of the reservoir sites or other real property owned by the districts or acquired under the provisions of NRS 539.335 to 539.353, inclusive.  [Part 2:188:1919; 1919 RL p. 3307; NCL § 8233]
NV Rev Stat § 539.343 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.343 - Provisions as to ownership of property.

Such agreements may provide for joint or several ownership or ownership in common of the property necessary or convenient for the purposes of NRS 539.335 to 539.353, inclusive, and may provide for the terms and conditions under which, or the respective proportions in which, such property shall be held.  [Part 3:188:1919; 1919 RL p. 3308; NCL § 8234]
NV Rev Stat § 539.345 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.345 - Trial of disputes and enforcement of rights.

Any rights or disputes arising out of or from the agreements may be tried before and enforced by any court of competent jurisdiction in this state.  [Part 3:188:1919; 1919 RL p. 3308; NCL § 8234]
NV Rev Stat § 539.347 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.347 - Meeting in adjoining state valid.

Any meeting of the board of directors of any such district, held in conjunction with the board of directors of the cooperating district, in the office of such district in the adjoining state, if duly and regularly called as required by law or if regularly adjourned to, shall be as lawful and valid as if held at the office of the board of directors of such district in this state.  [4:188:1919; 1919 RL p. 3308; NCL § 8235]
NV Rev Stat § 539.350 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.350 - Diversion of water.

It shall be lawful for the purposes of such cooperative action to divert water from this state for impounding in the adjoining state or otherwise for distribution to the lands of the cooperating districts, regardless of the state in which such lands are situated, or to divert water from such adjoining state for impounding or otherwise for distribution to the lands of such cooperating districts in this or the adjoining state.  [5:188:1919; 1919 RL p. 3308; NCL § 8236]
NV Rev Stat § 539.353 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.353 - Holding of property in this state or in adjoining state.

So far as may be necessary for fully carrying out the purposes of NRS 539.335 to 539.353, inclusive, such cooperating district in the adjoining state may hold title to property in this state, and such cooperating district in this state may hold title to property in the adjoining state.  [6:188:1919; 1919 RL p. 3308; NCL § 8237]
NV Rev Stat § 539.355 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.355 - Foreign irrigation district authorized to acquire land by purchase or condemnation; conditions.

Any irrigation district heretofore organized and existing under the laws of any state adjoining the State of Nevada, which is now qualified to do business in the State of Nevada as a foreign corporation in the manner provided by law for the qualification of foreign corporations doing business within the State of Nevada, and when the irrigation district is now the owner of lands within the State of Nevada, such lands being now used for reservoir purposes, may and hereby is authorized to acquire title to any land within the State of Nevada by purchase or condemnation necessary or required for dams, ditches, reservoirs and other works for the diversion, conveyance or storage of water which lies within any watershed from which the irrigation district obtains its water supply for the irrigation and development of lands within the boundaries of the irrigation district in the adjoining state.  [1:180:1941; 1931 NCL § 8258]
NV Rev Stat § 539.357 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.357 - Use of land declared public use.

The use of any land and the necessity therefor within the State of Nevada for either, any or all of the purposes specified in NRS 539.355 and 539.360 is hereby declared to be a public use.  [2:180:1941; 1931 NCL § 8258.01]
NV Rev Stat § 539.360 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.360 - Provisions applicable if reciprocal rights granted.

The provisions of NRS 539.355 and 539.357 shall apply to irrigation districts organized and existing under the laws of an adjoining state only when such adjoining state grants like rights and privileges in that state to irrigation districts organized and existing under the laws of the State of Nevada.  [3:180:1941; 1931 NCL § 8258.02]
NV Rev Stat § 539.363 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.363 - Power of division to construct improvements.

Any one of the several divisions of a district may provide for the construction of local drains, laterals, electric power and electric transmission lines, or for the leasing and acquisition of electric power and electric transmission lines, or for a domestic water supply, or may contract for the delivery of electricity, or other improvements, or the replacement or extension of existing works or structures, the benefits of which are limited to such division, in the manner provided in NRS 539.363 to 539.403, inclusive.  [Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]
NV Rev Stat § 539.365 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.365 - Petition to district directors: Contents; appointment of local board.

Upon presentation to the board of directors of the district of a petition, signed by a majority of the electors of such division representing at least one-half of the total acreage thereof, describing in a general way the local matters proposed to be undertaken, and the estimated cost of preliminary surveys and engineering data, and naming two electors of such division for local directors thereof, the board of directors of the district shall consider such petition at a regular meeting, and, if it finds that the law has been complied with, shall approve the same and appoint the electors named in the petition as members of the local board.  [Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]
NV Rev Stat § 539.367 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.367 - Local board: Composition; terms of office; vacancies.

  1. One local director shall hold office until his or her successor is elected at the next biennial district election and qualifies, and the other local director shall hold office until his or her successor is elected at the second biennial district election after his or her appointment and qualifies.  2. The terms of such local directors shall be determined by lot, and their successors shall be elected for 4-year terms at the biennial elections.  3. The two local directors, with the director of the district from the division, shall constitute the local board of such division.  4. The directors of the district shall fill any vacancy in the office of local director of a division by the appointment of a qualified elector from the division in which the vacancy occurs.  [Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]
NV Rev Stat § 539.370 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.370 - Compensation of local directors.

Each member of the local board of a division shall receive $5 per day for each day in attending meetings of the board, or while engaged in official business under the order of the board.  [Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]
NV Rev Stat § 539.373 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.373 - Powers of local board concerning improvements.

The local board may provide for the local undertakings named in NRS 539.363, being authorized for that purpose, insofar as applicable, to exercise the powers and perform the duties granted to or imposed upon the board of directors of the district in connection with its affairs.  [Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]
NV Rev Stat § 539.375 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.375 - Board of directors of district may incur debts and issue warrants; limitations; assessments.

  1. The board of directors of the district may:  (a) Incur an indebtedness not exceeding, in the aggregate, the sum of $15,000, and not exceeding the estimated cost of preliminary surveys and engineering data; and  (b) Cause warrants of the district to issue therefor, bearing interest at a rate which does not exceed by more than 5 percent the Index of Revenue Bonds which was most recently published before the bids are received or a negotiated offer is accepted.  2. The directors of the district may levy an assessment on all the lands in a division benefited by the proposed improvements, in addition to any assessment by the district on the lands within the division, for the payment of the expenses and the redemption of the warrants.  [Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438] — (NRS A 1971, 2127; 1975, 875; 1981, 1418; 1983, 586; 1985, 2062)
NV Rev Stat § 539.377 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.377 - Plans and estimates of local undertakings: Preparation; statement of source of money; statement of purposes.

The local board shall thereupon prepare plans and estimates of the local undertakings proposed to be accomplished by such division, stating therein whether the funds therefor are to be raised by a single special assessment not in excess of a stated amount per acre upon the lands benefited, or whether the board is to be authorized to secure the necessary amounts by way of certificates of indebtedness or notes redeemable by annual assessments upon the lands benefited extending over a period of years. If the latter method is to be used, a general statement of the purposes for which the money is to be raised may be substituted for more explicit plans and estimates.  [Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]
NV Rev Stat § 539.380 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.380 - Filing of plans and estimates or statement with district secretary; request for election.

The plans and estimates or statement must be filed with the secretary of the district, accompanied by a request of the local board that the question of whether to authorize the proposed special assessment or assessments and the construction of the proposed works be submitted to the electors of the division at a special election or the next district election or primary or general state election.  [Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438] — (NRS A 1993, 1085)