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NV Rev Stat § 535.050 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 535 - Dams and Other Obstructions|NRS 535.050 - State Engineer may order removal of dam, diversion works or obstruction; limitation; procedure; payment of costs.

  1. The State Engineer has the right, power and authority to order the removal of any dam, diversion works or obstruction that has been placed in any stream channel or watercourse when the dam, diversion works or obstruction has not been legally established and recognized through a valid claim of vested right, by decree of court or by a permit issued by the State of Nevada.  2. Nothing in this section is to be construed as giving the State Engineer any right or authority to remove any dam or diversion works that has been so legally recognized and established.  3. If the dam, diversion works or obstruction has not been removed after 30 days’ notice in writing given by the State Engineer and served upon the owner or person controlling the dam, diversion works or obstruction, or if no appeal has been taken from the order of the State Engineer as is provided for in NRS 533.450, then the State Engineer may remove the dam, diversion works or obstruction.  4. The State Engineer shall charge the actual cost of that removal to the water distribution account and thereafter present an itemized statement of the charge to the board of county commissioners of the county wherein those expenses were incurred. The board of county commissioners shall thereupon present a bill for the expenses to the person liable therefor under this section, and if that person neglects for 30 days thereafter to pay it, the bill and costs become a lien upon the lands and property of the person so liable for the payment of the bill, and must be collected as delinquent taxes against the lands and property are collected.  [56 1/2:140:1913; added 1951, 132] — (NRS A 1979, 670)
NV Rev Stat § 535.060 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 535 - Dams and Other Obstructions|NRS 535.060 - Obstruction of water by beaver’s dam: Procedure for removal of beaver and dams.

  1. On any stream system and its tributaries in this state the distribution of the waters of which are vested in the State Engineer by law or the final decree of court, where beaver, by the construction of dams or otherwise, are found to be interfering with the lawful and necessary distribution of water to the proper users thereof, the State Engineer, upon complaint of any interested water user, shall investigate or cause the investigation of the matter.  2. The State Engineer and his or her assistants and water commissioners and the Department of Wildlife and its agents may enter upon privately owned lands for the purposes of investigating the conditions complained of and the removal and trapping of beaver.  3. If satisfied that such beaver are interfering with the flow of water to the detriment of water users, the State Engineer shall serve a written notice on the owner of the land, if it is privately owned, stating:  (a) That the beaver thereon are interfering with or stopping the flow of water necessary for the proper serving of water rights; and  (b) That unless, within 10 days from receipt of the notice, written objection to the removal of such beaver is filed with the State Engineer by the landowner, the Department of Wildlife will remove such beaver or as many thereof as will rectify the existing conditions.  4. Failure of the landowner to file such written objections shall be deemed a waiver thereof. Upon receipt of written objections, the State Engineer may make further investigation and may sustain or overrule the objections as the facts warrant. Upon the overruling of the objections, the landowner may have them reviewed by the district court having jurisdiction of the land by filing therein a petition for review within 10 days from the receipt of the order of the State Engineer overruling the objections. The proceedings on the petition must be informal and heard by the court at the earliest possible moment.  5. Upon the landowner’s waiver of objections to the removal of beaver from his or her land, or upon final determination by the court that the beaver should be removed, the State Engineer shall immediately notify the Department of Wildlife of the waiver or determination and the Department or its agents shall enter upon the land from which the beaver are to be removed and remove them or as many as may be necessary to prevent the improper flow of water as directed by the State Engineer.  6. The State Engineer may remove or cause the removal of any beaver dam found to be obstructing the proper and necessary flow of water to the detriment of water users.  [Part 1:61:1949; 1943 NCL § 3148.01] + [2:61:1949; 1943 NCL § 3148.02] — (NRS A 1969, 1561; 1979, 914; 1993, 1702; 2003, 1581)
NV Rev Stat § 535.070 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 535 - Dams and Other Obstructions|NRS 535.070 - Construction of weir in dam situated within 2 miles of incorporated city or town.

  1. The term "water of such river," as used in this section, means the normal and natural flow of water in the river unaffected by flood, storm or other abnormal natural causes.  2. Any person owning, leasing or constructing any dam in any river of this State within 2 miles of an incorporated city governed by a board of county commissioners shall make or construct a weir in the dam of such size as to admit of the free passage of the water of such river during such portions of the year as such water is not being used for irrigating purposes.  3. If any person fails, neglects or refuses to comply with the provisions of subsection 2, the district attorney of the county wherein the dam is situated or being constructed shall commence mandamus proceedings to compel the person to comply with the provisions of subsection 2, or the board of county commissioners of the county may order the weir to be constructed at the expense of the county, and the county has a right of action against the owner or lessee of the dam for all expenses incurred by the county in constructing the weir and may recover judgment on the right of action and satisfy the judgment in the manner provided by law.  4. The provisions of this section do not apply to dams constructed or being constructed or hereafter to be constructed for the purpose of permanently storing the waters of such river for beneficial purposes.  [1:182:1913; 1919 RL p. 2668; NCL § 8002] + [2:182:1913; 1919 RL p. 2669; NCL § 8003] + [3:182:1913; 1919 RL p. 2669; NCL § 8004] + [4:182:1913; 1919 RL p. 2669; NCL § 8005] — (NRS A 1987, 1725)
NV Rev Stat § 535.080 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 535 - Dams and Other Obstructions|NRS 535.080 - Attorney General and County Commissioners of Washoe County authorized to institute actions to maintain flow of Truckee River.

The Attorney General and the Board of County Commissioners of Washoe County are authorized and empowered to commence suits or take such other action as may be necessary to maintain a regular or natural flow of water in the Truckee River, and in all suits so instituted, if necessary, to use the name of "The State of Nevada."  [1:120:1879; cited BH § 5013; RL § 4140; NCL § 7326]
NV Rev Stat § 535.090 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 535 - Dams and Other Obstructions|NRS 535.090 - Unlawful obstruction of appropriator’s water; penalty.

  1. Whenever any appropriator of water has the lawful right-of-way for the storage, diversion or carriage of water, it shall be unlawful to place or maintain any obstruction that shall interfere with the use of his or her works or prevent convenient access thereto.  2. Any person who violates any of the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.  [82:140:1913; 1919 RL p. 3247; NCL § 7968] + [83:140:1913; 1919 RL p. 3247; NCL § 7969] — (NRS A 1967, 610)
NV Rev Stat § 535.100 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 535 - Dams and Other Obstructions|NRS 535.100 - Injury or obstruction of flow of water by sawmill, slaughterhouse, brewery or tannery; civil action.

  1. Any person who is the owner of or in possession of any sawmill used for the making of lumber, or any slaughterhouse, brewery or tannery shall not injure or obstruct the natural flow of water in any river, creek or other stream.  2. Any city or county government, or any person, who is the owner of or in possession of any agricultural lands and who is injured by reason of the violation on the part of any person of the provisions contained in subsection 1 may commence and maintain an action against the person for any damage sustained, in such manner as may be provided by law.  [Part 1:98:1862; B § 3847; BH § 353; C § 432; RL § 4718; NCL § 8248] + [2:98:1862; B § 3848; BH § 354; C § 433; RL § 4719; NCL § 8249] + [3:98:1862; B § 3849; BH § 355; C § 434; RL § 4720; NCL § 8250] — (NRS A 1967, 610; 2007, 2022)
NV Rev Stat § 535.110 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 535 - Dams and Other Obstructions|NRS 535.110 - Unlawful removal, damage or destruction of piling, dike, dock or lock; unlawful structures.

  1. Every person who willfully and maliciously removes, damages or destroys a pile or other material fixed in the ground and used for securing any bank or dam of any river or other water, or any dike, dock, quay, jetty or lock is guilty of a misdemeanor.  2. Every person who:  (a) Moors any vessel, scow, barge, raft or boom to any bridge; or  (b) Erects or maintains any unlawful structure in any stream or river,  is guilty of a misdemeanor.  [Part 1911; C&P § 487; RL § 6752; NCL § 10434] — (NRS A 1993, 864)
NV Rev Stat § 535.200 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 535 - Dams and Other Obstructions|NRS 535.200 - Additional penalties.

  1. In addition to any other penalty provided by law, the State Engineer may, after notice and opportunity for a hearing, require a person who violates any provision of this chapter, any permit, order or decision issued by the State Engineer pursuant to this chapter or any regulation adopted by the State Engineer pursuant to NRS 532.120 to pay an administrative fine not to exceed $10,000 per day for each violation as determined by the State Engineer.  2. If an administrative fine is imposed against a person pursuant to subsection 1, the State Engineer may require the person to pay the costs of the proceeding, including investigative costs and attorney’s fees.  3. An order imposing an administrative fine or requiring the payment of costs or fees pursuant to this section may be reviewed by a district court pursuant to NRS 533.450.  (Added to NRS by 2007, 2021)
NV Rev Stat § 535.210 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 535 - Dams and Other Obstructions|NRS 535.210 - Injunctive and other relief.

  1. The State Engineer may seek injunctive relief in the appropriate court to prevent the continuance or occurrence of any act or practice which violates any provision of this chapter, any permit, order or decision issued by the State Engineer pursuant to this chapter or any regulation adopted by the State Engineer pursuant to NRS 532.120.  2. On a showing by the State Engineer that a person is engaged, or is about to engage, in any act or practice which violates or will violate any provision of this chapter, any permit, order or decision issued by the State Engineer pursuant to this chapter or any regulation adopted by the State Engineer pursuant to NRS 532.120, the court may issue, without a bond, any prohibitory or mandatory injunction that the facts may warrant, including a temporary restraining order issued ex parte or, after notice and hearing, a preliminary or permanent injunction.  3. Failure to establish lack of an adequate remedy at law or irreparable harm is not a ground for denying a request for a temporary restraining order or injunction.  4. The court may require the posting of a sufficient performance bond or other security to ensure compliance with the court order within the period prescribed.  5. Any proceeding conducted or injunction or order issued pursuant to this section is in addition to, and not in lieu of, any other penalty or remedy available for a violation of this chapter.  (Added to NRS by 2007, 2021)
NV Rev Stat § 536.010 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 536 - Ditches, Canals, Flumes and Other Conduits|NRS 536.010 - Construction and maintenance of headgates, measuring devices and flumes.

  1. The owner or owners of any ditch or canal shall maintain to the satisfaction of the State Engineer a substantial headgate at or near the point where the water is diverted, which shall be of such construction that it can be locked and kept closed by the water commissioner.  2. Such owners shall construct and maintain, when required by the State Engineer, suitable measuring devices at such points along such ditch as may be necessary for the purpose of assisting the water commissioner in determining the amount of water that is to be diverted into the ditch from the stream, or taken from it by the various users.  3. Every owner or manager of a reservoir located across or upon the bed of a natural stream or of a reservoir which requires the use of a natural stream channel shall be required to construct and maintain, when required by the State Engineer, a measuring device of a plan to be approved by the State Engineer, below such reservoir, and a measuring device above such reservoir, on every stream or source of supply discharging into such reservoir, for the purpose of assisting the State Engineer or water commissioners in determining the amount of water to which appropriators are entitled and thereafter diverting it for such appropriators’ use.  4. When it may be necessary for the protection of other water users, the State Engineer may require flumes to be installed along the line of any ditch.  [Part 56:140:1913; A 1947, 518; 1943 NCL § 7941]
NV Rev Stat § 536.020 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 536 - Ditches, Canals, Flumes and Other Conduits|NRS 536.020 - Refusal to construct headgates, flumes or measuring devices: State Engineer may close ditch or open sluice gate or outlet of reservoir.

  1. If any owner or owners of irrigation works shall refuse or neglect to construct and put in such headgates, flumes or measuring devices as provided for in NRS 536.010 after 10 days’ notice, the State Engineer may close such ditch, and the same shall not be opened or any water diverted from the source of supply, under the penalties prescribed by law for the opening of headgates lawfully closed, until the requirements of the state engineer as to such headgate, flume or measuring device have been complied with.  2. If any owner or manager of a reservoir, which reservoir requires the use of a natural stream channel, shall neglect or refuse to put in such measuring device after 10 days’ notice by the state engineer, the state engineer may open the sluice gate or outlet of such reservoir and the same shall not be closed, under the penalties of the law for changing or interfering with headgates, until the requirements of the State Engineer as to such measuring device are complied with.  [Part 56:140:1913; A 1947, 518; 1943 NCL § 7941]
NV Rev Stat § 536.030 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 536 - Ditches, Canals, Flumes and Other Conduits|NRS 536.030 - Installation of headgates, measuring devices or flumes by State Engineer; procedure for payment of expenses.

If any person neglects or refuses to install the headgate, measuring device or flume, as required by NRS 536.010, the State Engineer may, in the discretion of the State Engineer, install the headgate, measuring device or flume, as the case may be, and in the first instance charge the actual cost thereof to the water distribution account and thereafter present an itemized statement of the charge to the board of county commissioners of the county wherein the charge and expenses were incurred. The board of county commissioners shall thereupon present a bill for the expenses to the person liable therefor under this section and NRS 536.010 and 536.020, and if that person neglects for 30 days thereafter to pay it, the bill and costs become a lien upon the lands and property of the person so liable for the payment of the bill, and must be collected as delinquent taxes against the lands and property are collected.  [Part 56:140:1913; A 1947, 518; 1943 NCL § 7941] — (NRS A 1979, 670)
NV Rev Stat § 536.040 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 536 - Ditches, Canals, Flumes and Other Conduits|NRS 536.040 - Contribution of owners or recipients of water for proportionate share of work.

  1. In all cases where a ditch is owned by two or more persons, and one or more of those persons fails or neglects to do a proportionate share of the work necessary for the maintenance and operation of the ditch, or to construct suitable headgates or other devices at the point where water is diverted from the main ditch, the owner or owners desiring the performance of the work may, after giving 10 days’ written notice to the other owner or owners who have failed to perform the proportionate share of the work necessary for the operation and maintenance of the ditch, perform the share of the work, and recover therefor from each person in default the reasonable expense of the work. In all cases where a ditch is owned, operated or maintained by an entity, the entity may perform any work necessary for the maintenance and operation of the ditch and recover from each person who, in accordance with a contract or a decreed, certified or permitted right to appropriate water, receives water through the ditch his or her proportionate share of the reasonable expense of the work. Except during an emergency, the entity shall notify each of those persons at least 30 days before incurring any expenses to perform a capital improvement that alters the fundamental character of the ditch. If the entity is a supplier of water, any expenses incurred by the supplier of water for any work performed on an irrigation ditch pursuant to this section must be billed as part of the customer rates of the supplier of water for the delivery of water service through the ditch.  2. As used in this section:  (a) "Supplier of water" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 445A.845.  (b) "Work" includes, without limitation, labor and any accounting, legal or other administrative service performed for the maintenance and operation of a ditch specified in subsection 1.  [79:140:1913; 1919 RL p. 3246; NCL § 7965] — (NRS A 2009, 702)
NV Rev Stat § 536.050 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 536 - Ditches, Canals, Flumes and Other Conduits|NRS 536.050 - Statement of expenses constitutes valid lien against property of defaulting co-owner or recipient of water.

Upon the failure of any co-owner or person who receives water through a ditch from an entity specified in NRS 536.040 to pay his or her proportionate share of such expense, as specified in that section, within 30 days after receiving a statement of the same as performed by his or her co-owner or co-owners or by the entity owning, operating or maintaining the ditch, each person or entity so performing the labor or other work may secure payment of the claim by filing an itemized and sworn statement thereof, setting forth the date of the performance and the nature of the labor or other work so performed, with the county clerk of the county wherein the ditch is situated, and when so filed it constitutes a valid lien against the interest of each person in default and against any property to which water is delivered through the ditch. The lien may be established and enforced in the same manner as provided by law for the enforcement of mechanics’ liens.  [80:140:1913; 1919 RL p. 3247; NCL § 7966] — (NRS A 2009, 703)
NV Rev Stat § 536.060 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 536 - Ditches, Canals, Flumes and Other Conduits|NRS 536.060 - Construction of ditch or flume: Execution and recording of certificate; commencement and completion of work.

  1. Any person or persons desiring to construct and maintain a ditch or flume within any one or more of the counties of this state shall make, sign and acknowledge, before a person entitled to take acknowledgments of deeds, a certificate, specifying:  (a) The name by which the ditch or flume shall be known; and  (b) The names of the places which shall constitute the termini of such ditch or flume.  2. Such certificate shall be accompanied with a plat of the proposed ditch or flume, and shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county or counties within or through which such ditch or flume is proposed to be located. The record of such certificate and plat shall give constructive notice to all persons of the matters therein contained.  3. The work of constructing such ditch or flume shall be commenced within 30 days of the time of making the certificate above mentioned, and shall be continued with all reasonable dispatch until completed.  [1:100:1866; B § 3852; BH § 362; C § 425; RL § 4710; NCL § 7997]
NV Rev Stat § 536.070 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 536 - Ditches, Canals, Flumes and Other Conduits|NRS 536.070 - Examination and survey of private land; condemnation; appeal from findings of appraiser.

  1. Any person or persons proposing to construct a ditch or flume under the provisions of NRS 536.060 to 536.090, inclusive, shall have the right to enter upon private lands for the purpose of examining and surveying the same.  2. Where such lands cannot be obtained by the consent of the owner or owners thereof, so much of the same as may be necessary for the construction of the ditch or flume may be appropriated by such person or persons after making compensation therefor, as follows. Such person or persons shall select one appraiser, and the owner or owners shall select one, and the two so selected shall select a third. In case the owner or owners shall from any cause fail, for the period of 5 days, to select an appraiser as herein provided, then the appraiser selected by the person or persons proposing to construct the ditch or flume shall select a second appraiser, and the two so selected shall select a third. In either case the three selected shall, within 5 days after their selection, meet and appraise the lands sought to be appropriated, after having been first duly sworn by a person entitled to administer oaths, to make a true appraisement thereof, according to the best of their knowledge and ability.  3. If such person or persons shall tender to such owner or owners the appraised value of such land, they shall be entitled to proceed in the construction of the ditch or flume over the lands so appraised, notwithstanding such tender may be refused; but such tender shall always be kept good by such person or persons.  4. An appeal may be taken by either party from the findings of the appraisers to the district court of the county within which the lands so appraised shall be situated, at any time within 10 days after such appraisement.  [2:100:1866; A 1869, 129; B § 3853; BH § 363; C § 426; RL § 4711; NCL § 7998]
NV Rev Stat § 536.080 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 536 - Ditches, Canals, Flumes and Other Conduits|NRS 536.080 - Right of person or entity constructing, operating or maintaining ditch or flume; prior or existing claim or right not interfered with.

Each person or entity constructing, operating or maintaining a ditch or flume under the provisions of NRS 536.060 to 536.090, inclusive, has the undisturbed right and privilege of flowing water through the same, to the full extent of its capacity, for mining, milling, manufacturing, agricultural and other domestic purposes, whether for use by the person or entity or for delivery to others, and to use the same at any necessary and convenient point or points along the line thereof, but nothing contained in NRS 536.060 to 536.090, inclusive, shall be so construed as to interfere with any prior or existing claim or right.  [3:100:1866; A 1889, 96; C § 427; RL § 4712; NCL § 7999] — (NRS A 2009, 703)