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NV Rev Stat § 539.383 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.383 - Notice of election: Contents; publication.

  1. The secretary of the district shall give notice of the purpose, time and place of such election, naming the polling place and inspectors and clerks of the election suggested by the local board.  2. The notice shall be published in the manner provided in this chapter for an election for special assessments in the district.  [Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]
NV Rev Stat § 539.385 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.385 - Conduct of election.

The election shall be held, as near as may be, as provided in this chapter for an election for special assessments in the district.  [Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]
NV Rev Stat § 539.387 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.387 - Terms of local directors terminate and local board dissolved if proposal fails.

If such election fails of the required two-thirds vote of the electors of the division, the terms of office of the local directors shall thereupon terminate and the local board shall be dissolved.  [Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]
NV Rev Stat § 539.390 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.390 - Authorization for improvements at election; levy and collection of assessments.

If the special assessment or certificates or notes of indebtedness and construction of the proposed works are authorized at the election, the local board shall levy such assessments or, as the case may be, shall proceed to the levying of annual assessments for the payment of interest and the redemption of certificates of indebtedness or notes. A list of such assessments or the first annual assessment, if to be made that year, shall be delivered to the treasurer of the district and entered by the treasurer in the assessment book or books thereof, and such assessment or assessments, and the collection thereof, shall thereafter take the course of assessments of the district as provided in this chapter.  [Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]
NV Rev Stat § 539.393 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.393 - Certificates of indebtedness and notes: Signatures of officers of district; treated as bonds of district.

Certificates of indebtedness or notes shall be signed by the officers of the district and, except in the matter of assessments for interest and redemption being limited to the division, shall be treated in the same manner as district bonds.  [Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]
NV Rev Stat § 539.395 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.395 - Apportionment of benefits; method of levy and collection of assessments.

Benefits shall be apportioned upon the land within such division and assessments levied and collected for the payment of the interest and redemption of certificates of indebtedness or notes in the manner prescribed in the case of district bonds.  [Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]
NV Rev Stat § 539.397 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.397 - Validation proceedings.

All the proceedings described in NRS 539.363 to 539.395, inclusive, relating to the local undertakings of a division, including apportionment of benefits for undertakings authorized at a special election, district election or primary or general state election, may be confirmed in court as a part of the confirmation proceedings or upon petition of the board of directors of the division.  [Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438] — (NRS A 1993, 1085)
NV Rev Stat § 539.400 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.400 - Full payment of local undertakings; termination of terms of local directors; disposition of remaining money.

When the local undertakings provided for in NRS 539.363 to 539.395, inclusive, are accomplished and paid for, a showing to that effect shall be made to the board of directors of the district, and upon the approval thereof by such board the terms of office of the local directors shall terminate, and any moneys of such division in the district treasury shall be appropriately credited to the lands of the division in connection with future assessments against such lands.  [Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]
NV Rev Stat § 539.403 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.403 - Local improvements affecting two or more divisions: Applicability of NRS 539.363 to 539.403, inclusive.

If such local improvements affect two or more divisions of a district, less than all, then all of the provisions of NRS 539.363 to 539.403, inclusive, shall be applicable to the divisions affected; but if such improvements only affect two divisions, the local board shall consist of the directors of the district from the divisions affected and one other to be appointed by the directors of the district from the divisions affected by such improvements. If such local improvements affect three or more divisions, then the powers provided in NRS 539.363 to 539.403, inclusive, to be exercised by a local board shall be exercised by the directors of the district.  [Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]
NV Rev Stat § 539.405 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.405 - Petition for creation of local board.

When an irrigation district comprises lands which are served by works constructed by the United States and the portion of such works situated in a division of the district may be regarded as a separate unit of the larger system for operation and maintenance purposes, or when local drains, laterals or other improvements may be provided as additions to such works and constitute benefits limited to such division, or when the replacement or extension of such works or some part thereof would constitute benefits limited to such division, a petition signed by the requisite number of electors of such division may be presented to the board of directors of the district and a local board of directors of such division created as provided in this chapter.  [Part 63:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3291; NCL § 8081]
NV Rev Stat § 539.407 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.407 - Powers of local board.

Subject to the limitations contained in NRS 539.410, the local board of directors shall have the power to contract with the United States for the operation of the existing system described in NRS 539.405, or for the construction either by such division or by the United States of local drains, laterals or other improvements and for the operation and maintenance thereof, or for the replacement or extension of existing works or structures and for the operation and maintenance thereof or any separate part of the same.  [Part 63:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3291; NCL § 8081]
NV Rev Stat § 539.410 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.410 - Election required for approval to enter contract and levy assessment.

The local board of directors shall submit to the electors of the division at a special election, district election or primary or general state election the contract for approval and for authorization to levy an assessment or assessments, as provided in this chapter, to secure the money required to carry out the contract, including the amounts that will be due the United States thereunder and that will be required for the construction of the proposed local drains, laterals or other improvements, or for the replacement and extension of existing works or structures.  [Part 63:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3291; NCL § 8081] — (NRS A 1993, 1085)
NV Rev Stat § 539.413 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.413 - Applicability of laws relating to contracts between districts and United States.

The provisions of this chapter relating to cooperation between a district and the United States, including those relating to the distribution and apportionment of water and the apportionment of benefits, shall apply in case of a contract between the United States and a division of a district insofar as applicable.  [Part 63:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3291; NCL § 8081]
NV Rev Stat § 539.415 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.415 - Validation proceedings.

The execution of a contract with the United States and all proceedings ancillary thereto may be confirmed in court as a part of the confirmation proceedings instituted by the district, or upon petition by the board of directors of the division.  [Part 63:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3291; NCL § 8081]
NV Rev Stat § 539.417 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.417 - Assumption of operation and maintenance of existing works only; power of local board to levy assessments and impose tolls and charges.

Where it is proposed that a division assume only the operation and maintenance of the existing works, the contract for the operation and maintenance of the existing works must be submitted to the electors of the division for approval at a special election or the next district election or primary or general state election. The local board of directors, after the contract is made in pursuance of the authority granted in the election, may levy assessments or impose tolls and charges annually or otherwise to raise the amounts necessary to carry out the contract and to operate and maintain the works, including amounts to be paid to the United States pursuant to the contract, in the same manner and to the same effect as may be done by the board of directors of the district under the provisions of this chapter.  [Part 63:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3291; NCL § 8081] — (NRS A 1993, 1086)
NV Rev Stat § 539.420 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.420 - Construction, replacement or extension of works: Power of local board to levy assessments and impose tolls and charges.

  1. Where local drains, laterals or improvements are to be constructed, or existing works or structures replaced or extended, and are thereafter to be operated and maintained by the division, the local board shall have power to levy assessments and to impose tolls or charges to raise the money required for such operation and maintenance, including amounts due the United States in that relation.  2. The works described in the contract with the United States shall be constructed, replaced or extended by such local board of directors, and the money raised by such special assessment therefor or for the operation and maintenance thereof shall be collected, kept and disbursed, and the apportionment of benefits made, as provided in this chapter, when a division of the district is authorized to provide for local undertakings the benefits of which are limited to such division.  [Part 63:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3291; NCL § 8081]
NV Rev Stat § 539.423 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.423 - Purposes for which land may be formed into improvement district.

The board of directors may provide for the construction of canals, ditches, laterals, dams, drains or other structures or improvements or the acquirement, replacement, consolidation or extension of the same, or the leasing, acquisition or construction of electrical transmission lines and accessory equipment, the benefits of which affect all or are limited to a portion of the district only, in the manner provided in NRS 539.423 to 539.460, inclusive.  [Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066]
NV Rev Stat § 539.425 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.425 - Proposal of formation: Recommendation of district engineer; petition of landowners; designation of area by directors.

Upon the recommendation in writing by the district engineer, or upon a petition signed by a majority of the electors of the district owning land to be affected, or by electors representing at least one-half of the total acreage to be affected by such a proposed local improvement, defining the boundaries thereof, and requesting the board of directors to undertake the carrying out of the same, the board of directors, if it approves the same, may form and designate such area as an improvement district for the purpose desired, and shall establish and define the boundaries thereof.  [Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066]
NV Rev Stat § 539.427 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.427 - Plans and estimates of cost of improvement; provision for payment of costs.

The board of directors may prepare plans and estimates of the cost of a proposed improvement and determine the manner in which the cost of the improvement must be provided. For this purpose the board of directors may propose the issuance of bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness payable by an assessment or otherwise on the property in the improvement district, 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, payable semiannually, and in such amounts and maturing at such time, not exceeding 20 years, as the board of directors may prescribe.  [Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066] — (NRS A 1971, 2127; 1975, 875; 1981, 1418; 1983, 586; 1985, 2062)
NV Rev Stat § 539.430 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.430 - Submission of proposed improvement, estimated cost and methods of financing to Department of Taxation.

The proposed local improvement, accompanied by the estimated cost thereof, a report of the district engineer, and the proposed method of financing the improvement, shall be submitted by the board of directors of the district to the Department of Taxation for its approval.  [Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066] — (NRS A 1977, 1237)
NV Rev Stat § 539.433 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.433 - Election required after approval by Department of Taxation.

After approval by the Department of Taxation, the board of directors shall submit the question of whether the proposed improvement shall be authorized by the electors of the affected improvement district at a special election or the next district election or primary or general state election.  [Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066] — (NRS A 1977, 1237; 1993, 1086)
NV Rev Stat § 539.435 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.435 - Form of question to be submitted to voters.

The question submitted to the voters pursuant to NRS 539.433 must be substantially in the following form: Shall the improvement of Local Improvement District No. ........ (briefly describing it) be authorized and the indebtedness therefor, estimated in the sum of ........ dollars, be incurred and paid in the manner following (briefly stating the method of payment, whether by bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness and the time or times of payment, together with the rate of interest)?  [Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066] — (NRS A 1993, 1086)
NV Rev Stat § 539.437 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.437 - Conduct of election.

The election shall in all other respects, including the qualification to vote, be conducted in the manner prescribed in this chapter for the holding of elections to approve proposals to subject lands in a district to the repayment for obligations for capital purposes, insofar as such provisions are applicable.  [Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066] — (NRS A 1967, 1216)
NV Rev Stat § 539.440 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.440 - Apportionment of benefits.

After the plan has been approved by the Department of Taxation and the bond issue or other indebtedness has been authorized at the election, the board of directors of the district shall proceed to apportion the benefits in the manner prescribed in this chapter.  [Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066] — (NRS A 1977, 1237; 1993, 1086)
NV Rev Stat § 539.443 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.443 - Confirmation proceedings in district court: Procedure; notice.

  1. If the proposed improvement is carried by a vote of two-thirds of the qualified electors voting at such election, the board of directors shall petition the district court of the county in which the principal office of the district is located for confirmation of all of the proceedings in respect to such local improvement in the manner prescribed in this chapter for the confirmation of other proceedings by the district.  2. Upon the filing of such petition in court the judge of the court shall fix a time and place for the hearing thereof, giving notice of at least 2 weeks of such hearing by publication in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county and also by posting three copies of such notice at conspicuous points or places in the improvement district.  3. Upon the hearing before the court upon the petition, any person interested may be heard, and at such hearing the court may correct any error in the matter of apportionment of benefits or in any of the proceedings.  [Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066]
NV Rev Stat § 539.445 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.445 - Authorization to carry out improvement.

If the qualified electors voting at the election vote in favor of the proposed local improvement and the incurring of the indebtedness therefor, and the proceedings are confirmed by the court as prescribed in NRS 539.443, the board of directors may carry out the proposed improvement.  [Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066] — (NRS A 1967, 1216; 1993, 1086)
NV Rev Stat § 539.447 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.447 - Sale of securities; deposit of proceeds in improvement district fund.

  1. Upon confirmation by the district court of the proceedings in respect to such local improvement, including all assessments of benefits, and upon the approval of the Department of Taxation and the certification of the State Controller, as provided for in NRS 539.640 to 539.665, inclusive, the board of directors shall negotiate the sale of the securities so authorized in the manner prescribed in this chapter for the sale of district bonds.  2. The proceeds of the sale shall be deposited in a special fund to be designated Improvement District No. ........ Fund, and thereupon the board of directors shall proceed with the improvement.  [Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066] — (NRS A 1977, 1237)
NV Rev Stat § 539.450 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.450 - Securities: Execution by district officers; lien upon issuance of bonds.

  1. The securities, whether bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness, when issued, shall be executed by the officers of the district in the manner prescribed in this chapter for the execution of bonds.  2. Bonds shall be issued in the name of the improvement district and when issued shall be a lien upon the land included therein.  [Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066]
NV Rev Stat § 539.453 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.453 - Levy and collection of annual assessments for payment of interest and redemption of securities.

  1. For the payment of interest and the redemption of the bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness, the board of directors shall levy annual assessments for the amount of interest and the redemption of the bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness upon the lands affected by the local improvement according to the apportionment of benefits, and the assessments shall be delivered to the secretary of the district and entered by the secretary in the assessment book or books thereof.  2. Such assessment or assessments and the collection thereof shall thereafter take the same course as assessments of the district as provided in this chapter.  [Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066]
NV Rev Stat § 539.455 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.455 - Payment of assessments before issuance of securities.

  1. Prior to the issuance of bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness authorized for the purpose of such local improvement, any person, firm or corporation owning land upon which a benefit has been assessed for such improvement may pay all or any portion of the benefits so assessed against the land, and, upon such payment, the benefit so assessed shall be discharged to the extent of such payment.  2. No such payment may be made after the issuance of bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness authorized to be issued in payment of such improvement except as provided by the district.  [Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066]
NV Rev Stat § 539.457 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.457 - Powers of directors and officers of district.

The board of directors and all other officers of any irrigation district shall have all the rights, powers and privileges concerning improvement districts and lands thereof, and the proceedings provided for in NRS 539.423 to 539.460, inclusive, as the board of directors and all other officers may have concerning the irrigation district of which such improvement districts are a part.  [49 1/2c:64:1919; added 1947, 303; 1943 NCL § 8066.03]
NV Rev Stat § 539.460 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.460 - Applicability of chapter to improvement districts.

All the provisions of this chapter, where applicable, shall apply to such improvement districts.  [Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066]
NV Rev Stat § 539.463 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.463 - Issuance; conditions.

  1. The board of directors of any irrigation district may cause funding or refunding bonds to be issued for the purpose of funding or refunding any or all outstanding bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness of any improvement district in the irrigation district.  2. Such funding or refunding bonds shall, except as otherwise provided in NRS 539.463 to 539.475, inclusive, be issued in substantially the manner and form prescribed by this chapter for the issuance of other bonds of improvement districts in irrigation districts, and the provisions of this chapter concerning the authorization, certification, issuance and sale of bonds of improvement districts in irrigation districts are applicable to bonds issued under NRS 539.463 to 539.475, inclusive; but no plan, estimate or report of the district engineer is required to be made or approved as provided in NRS 539.427 and 539.430, nor may any new apportionment of benefits in respect of such bonds be required to be made or confirmed by the district court, but instead the board of directors of any irrigation district desiring to fund or refund any of the bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness of any improvement district in the irrigation district may submit its proposed plan for the funding or refunding of such bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness to the Department of Taxation.  [Part 49 1/2a:64:1919; added 1935, 7; 1931 NCL § 8066.01] — (NRS A 1977, 1238)