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NV Rev Stat § 539.690 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.690 - Special assessments: Procedure for levy; election; authority to levy assessments for number of years for specific purposes.

  1. The board of directors of a district may, at any time when deemed advisable, submit to the qualified electors of the district at a special election, district election or primary or general state election the question of whether a special assessment shall be levied for the purpose of raising money to be applied to any of the purposes provided in this chapter.  2. The election must be held and the result thereof determined and declared in all respects in conformity with the provisions of this chapter in respect to bond elections.  3. The notice must specify the amount of money proposed to be raised and the purpose for which it is intended to be used, and whether an equal rate of assessment or a special apportionment of benefits is to be made in that relation if either is proposed.  4. At the election, the ballots must contain the words "Assessment — Yes," or "Assessment — No."  5. If two-thirds or more of the votes cast are "Assessment — Yes," the board shall immediately proceed to apportion the benefits, if that apportionment is to be made, and to levy an assessment sufficient to raise the amount voted.  6. The assessment so levied must be entered in the assessment book or books by the secretary of the board and collected in the same manner as other assessments provided for in this chapter and when received by the treasurer of the district must be deposited and kept in the construction fund.  7. At the election, there may be submitted the proposition of authorizing the board of directors to levy each year for a stated number of years assessments not exceeding a stated amount per acre to provide a fund from which repairs may be made and replacement and extensions of existing works may be constructed and paid for as the necessity arises. In that case, if a general description of the proposed undertaking is provided, no plans and specifications are required to be provided in advanced. If the proposition is approved by two-thirds of the electors, the board may levy the assessment and it must be collected as other assessments are collected pursuant to this chapter. Money realized from the assessments must be deposited and kept in the general fund and disbursed by the treasurer in accordance with the direction of the board or rules and regulations established by it.  [48:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3286; NCL § 8064] — (NRS A 1993, 1088)
NV Rev Stat § 539.693 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|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.

  1. Whenever the county officers designated in NRS 539.683 shall sell any of the lands in the district because of delinquencies in the payment of district, state or county taxes, the lands shall be sold subject to the accrued and accruing liens for district assessments, charges and tolls against the same; and under no circumstances shall the water and water rights of the district be included or sold at such delinquent sales unless and until all district taxes, assessments, charges and tolls against such lands shall have been first fully paid to the district.  2. Unpaid and accruing district assessments, taxes, charges and tolls against such lands sold at delinquent tax sales shall continue a charge and lien against such lands, and any purchaser of such lands, except the district itself, shall take the same subject to the payment by the purchaser of all such accrued and accruing charges, tolls, assessments and taxes in addition to the purchase price of the land.  [Part 29 1/2:64:1919; added 1927, 309; A 1929, 286; 1933, 271; 1935, 135; 1931 NCL § 8042]
NV Rev Stat § 539.697 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.697 - Distribution and sale of water acquired at sale for delinquent tax or summary foreclosure.

The board shall not, however, sell or dispose of water appurtenant to, apportioned, or allotted to the lands acquired at delinquent tax sales, or at summary sales, until and unless the remaining lands in the district under irrigation to which benefits have been apportioned by the district and which are entitled to receive water from the district pursuant to the apportionment of benefits, and from the same source of supply, shall have a sufficient and adequate water supply available for such irrigated areas as have been apportioned benefits. The board of directors shall distribute such waters acquired at delinquent tax sales or at summary foreclosure sales among the remaining nondelinquent landowners in the district entitled to receive water from the district in, as near as may be, the same proportion as fixed by the original apportionment of benefits for the remaining nondelinquent lands. In case the water right appurtenant to land acquired at a delinquent sale shall be based upon a contract with the United States, the district may, with the consent of the United States, make any desired disposition of such water right.  [Part 29 1/2:64:1919; added 1927, 309; A 1929, 286; 1933, 271; 1935, 135; 1931 NCL § 8042]
NV Rev Stat § 539.700 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.700 - Exclusion of land from benefits if land sold for delinquent taxes or assessments: Consent of bondholders and others.

Whenever any lands in the district have been sold for delinquent irrigation district taxes or assessments or for delinquent state and county or other taxes, and the title of such lands has passed as provided by law, either to the county or to the irrigation district, and the period of redemption has expired, the board of directors of the district shall have the power by and with the written consent of the bondholders holding 100 percent of the outstanding bonds of the district, or in case of a contract with the United States constituting a lien upon the lands, then also with the written consent of the Secretary of the Interior, or in case there are outstanding certificates of indebtedness which constitute a lien upon the lands of the district, then with the written consent of the holders of 100 percent of those holding such certificates of indebtedness, to exclude such lands, or any part thereof, from further participation in the benefits of the district, and particularly to exclude such lands or any part thereof from any further right to receive from the district either under an apportionment of benefits or any other waters of the district.  [Part 29 3/4:64:1919; added 1937, 372; A 1953, 379]
NV Rev Stat § 539.703 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.703 - Water and water rights become part of general supply when land excluded from further participation in benefits.

Whenever the board of directors of the district shall have adopted a resolution excluding such lands from further participation in the benefits of the district and from the right to receive district waters, the water or water rights theretofore apportioned to the lands shall be and become a part of the general water supply of the district and apportioned among the remaining nondelinquent lands in the same proportion as such remaining nondelinquent lands have been apportioned benefits, not in excess, however, of an adequate water supply for such remaining land based upon the duty of water recognized by the district; but in case the water right appurtenant to land acquired at a delinquent sale shall be based upon a contract with the United States the district may, with the consent of the United States, make any desired disposition of such water right.  [Part 29 3/4:64:1919; added 1937, 372; A 1953, 379]
NV Rev Stat § 539.708 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.708 - Petition for annexation: Contents; inclusion of lands within municipal corporation.

  1. The holder or holders of any title or evidence of title, as defined in NRS 539.020 and 539.023, representing one-half or more of any lands adjacent to or in the vicinity of an irrigation district, whether contiguous or not, and which are susceptible of irrigation or drainage, or both, by the district system, or combined systems of works, may file with the board of directors of the district a petition, in writing, setting forth that those lands are susceptible of irrigation or drainage, or both, as the case may be, by the district system or systems, and praying that the land be annexed.  2. The petition must describe the land and also describe the several parcels owned by the petitioners.  3. All or any portion of the lands in any city in which the vote for mayor at the last preceding election was not less than 550 votes and not more than 1,000 votes, may in the same manner be included within the boundaries of any irrigation district if the lands are susceptible of irrigation or drainage, or both, by the district system or systems, and upon their inclusion the lands in the city, town or municipal corporation are subject to all of the provisions of this chapter.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1613; A 1989, 1175; A 1989, 1175)
NV Rev Stat § 539.712 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.712 - Notice of filing of petition for annexation: Posting; contents; advancement of costs by petitioners.

  1. The secretary shall cause a notice of the filing of such petition to be given for 3 consecutive weeks by posting in five public and conspicuous places in the district, with at least one posting in each division thereof.  2. The notice shall:  (a) State the filing of such petition.  (b) State the names of the petitioners.  (c) Contain a description of the lands mentioned in the petition, sufficient to identify the same.  (d) Notify all persons interested in or who may be affected by such change of boundaries of the district to appear at the office of the board at a time named in the notice and show cause, in writing, if any they have, why the lands mentioned should not be annexed to the district.  3. The petitioner or petitioners shall advance to the district treasurer sufficient money to pay the estimated cost of these proceedings.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1614)
NV Rev Stat § 539.714 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.714 - Hearing on annexation petition.

  1. The board of directors, at the time mentioned in the notice, or at any other time to which the hearing may be adjourned, shall hear the petition and all the objections thereto.  2. The failure of any person to show cause as provided in NRS 539.712 shall be taken as an assent on that person’s part to a change of the boundaries of the district so as to include the whole or part of the land mentioned in the petition.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1614)
NV Rev Stat § 539.716 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.716 - Conditions precedent to annexation; apportionment and assessment of benefits.

  1. The board of directors may require as a condition to the granting of the petition that the petitioners shall pay to the district such sums as nearly as the same can be estimated as the petitioners or their grantors would theretofore have been required to pay had such lands been included in the district at the time the same was originally organized, and may apportion such benefits as are just and equitable to such lands in accordance with the benefits derived or which will accrue to each tract or subdivision thereof from the construction or proposed construction of a drainage works or other works, or the purchase or proposed purchase of any works for the district.  2. The board of directors shall examine each tract or legal subdivision of such annexed lands or proposed annexed lands and shall determine the benefits which will accrue or which have accrued, and such lands shall be apportioned their pro rata share of the cost of such works in proportion to the benefits derived by the lands therefrom.  3. The board shall make or cause to be made a list of such apportionment or distribution, which list shall contain a complete description of each subdivision or tract of land so annexed or proposed to be annexed with the rate per acre of such apportionment or distribution and the name of the owner thereof, or it may prepare a map on a convenient scale showing each of the subdivisions or tracts with the rate per acre of such apportionment entered thereon; but where all or any portion of the lands are apportioned benefits by the board at the same rate, a general statement to that effect shall be sufficient.  4. Whenever thereafter an assessment is made, either in lieu of bonds or an annual assessment for raising the interest on bonds, or any portion of the principal, or the expenses of maintaining the property of the district, or any special assessment voted by the electors, it shall be spread upon the lands in the same proportion as the assessments of benefits. The benefits arising from the undertakings for which special assessments are made may be distributed equally over the lands, or especially apportioned, and assessments or tolls and charges may be made or imposed as provided in this chapter, when coming within the designation of operation and maintenance charges, by way of a minimum stated charge per acre, whether water is used or not, and a charge for water used in excess of the amount delivered for the minimum charge, or such other reasonable method of fixing or collecting the operation and maintenance charge as the board of directors may adopt.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1614)
NV Rev Stat § 539.718 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.718 - Order of annexation: Contents; survey.

  1. The board of directors, if it deems it not for the best interest of the district to include therein the lands mentioned in the petition shall reject all or any part of the same.  2. If the board deems it for the best interests of the district, and if no objections to the annexation of the lands have been filed as required in this chapter, the board may order, without any election, that the lands mentioned in the petition or any part thereof be annexed to the district. The order shall describe the lands so annexed, and the board shall cause a survey thereof to be made if deemed necessary.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1615)
NV Rev Stat § 539.722 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.722 - Resolution approving annexation notwithstanding electors’ objections: Adoption; contents.

If 40 percent of the total number of registered electors as evidenced by the total registration at the last preceding election file objections in writing to the annexation of the lands, or any part thereof, mentioned in the petition, and if the board notwithstanding deems it for the best interests of the district to include the lands mentioned in the petition, or some part thereof, the board shall adopt a resolution to that effect. The resolution shall describe the lands proposed to be included in the district.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1615)
NV Rev Stat § 539.724 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.724 - Election on question of annexation: Notice; procedure; form of ballots.

  1. Upon the adoption of the resolution mentioned in NRS 539.722, the board shall submit to the voters of the district at the next district election or primary or general state election the question of whether the lands described in the resolution shall be annexed to the district.  2. Notice of the election must be published and the election conducted in the manner prescribed by this chapter for the issuance of bonds of the district.  3. The notice of election must describe the lands proposed to be annexed to the district.  4. The ballots cast at the election must contain the words "for annexation," or "against annexation," or expressions equivalent thereto.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1615; A 1993, 1089)
NV Rev Stat § 539.726 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.726 - Order of annexation following election: Contents; recording.

  1. If at such election a majority of all the votes cast is against annexation, the board shall proceed no further in the matter.  2. If a majority of such votes is in favor of annexation, the board shall thereupon order that the boundaries of the district be changed to include the lands to be so annexed and cause a copy of such order, together with a plat of the lands, each certified to by the secretary of the board, to be filed for record in the office of the county recorder of the county or counties in which such lands are situated.  3. The order shall describe the land so annexed and thereafter such lands shall be subject to all the provisions of this chapter. Immediately after the filing for record of the order annexing the lands, the directors shall state on their minutes to which division or divisions in the district the lands shall be attached, or may redivide the district to accommodate the lands.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1615)
NV Rev Stat § 539.728 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.728 - Apportionment of benefits following annexation: Compliance with statutes.

If the lands are annexed to the district as provided in this chapter, and the board of directors apportions benefits to such annexed lands as provided in this chapter, the provisions of NRS 539.563, 539.565 and 539.567 shall, insofar as applicable, be complied with.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1616)
NV Rev Stat § 539.732 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.732 - Lands in one district not to be included in another district.

No lands while they remain within a district shall be included in any other district.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1616)
NV Rev Stat § 539.734 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.734 - Inclusion within district of state lands and state lands held under contract to purchase.

  1. Whenever state lands held under contract to purchase are included within the boundaries of any irrigation district, such lands shall be subject to all the provisions of this chapter the same as any other land held in private ownership.  2. State lands, not under contract to purchase, shall not become a part of an irrigation district except by the consent of the State Land Registrar, who is authorized and required to consent thereto on behalf of the State upon there being filed in his or her office a certificate signed by the State Engineer to the effect that such lands will be benefited by inclusion therein.  3. District assessments, charges and tolls against such lands not under contract shall become a charge against the lands, and any sale or contract to sell any such lands thereafter shall be conditioned upon the payment, by the purchaser or contractor, of all such accrued charges in addition to the purchase price of the land.  4. In case of state land held under contract, the person holding such contract shall be deemed the owner of the land for the purposes of this chapter, and liens shall attach to his or her rights under such contract, and such liens shall be enforced as in other cases, subject to the paramount title of the State, and subject to the rights of a purchaser at a sale for delinquent assessments to be subrogated to the rights of such contract holder to acquire patent to such land from the State.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1616)
NV Rev Stat § 539.736 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.736 - Exclusion of land: Grounds; limitations.

The board of directors of any district now or hereafter formed under the provisions of this chapter, either upon its own initiative or upon the application in writing of any holder of title or of evidence of title to land in the district, may, by a majority vote, exclude from the district any land or lands theretofore included in the district, and change the boundary lines of the district so as to exclude or leave out certain tracts or portions of tracts when the proposed system or systems of irrigation cannot practically include such land or lands, or when such land or lands would not be benefited by remaining in the district or by any future improvement it might make, or when the land sought to be excluded has been, or is about to be, incorporated into or made a part of any city or town, or when the land sought is adjacent and contiguous to any city or town and it is proposed to develop such land as building sites and areas; but if improvements have been commenced, or made, or authorized, or if there are bonds or other contracts or certificates of indebtedness outstanding, no land shall be excluded and no established liens shall be released unless all of the holders of bonds or contracts or certificates of indebtedness constituting liens against the land sought to be excluded, and the owner of such land if the owner has not petitioned for exclusion thereof, shall consent in writing to the exclusion and unless all bonded indebtedness of the district chargeable to the land sought to be excluded is paid, or except as provided in NRS 539.738 to 539.748, inclusive.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1616)
NV Rev Stat § 539.738 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.738 - Notice of proposed exclusion: Publication; contents.

Within 10 days after the receipt of any such application, or after the passage by the board of a resolution proposing the withdrawal of such lands, the directors of the district shall give notice of such proposed change or exclusion and of the date, time and place of a meeting to be held by the board to consider such proposed change or exclusion by publication for two issues 7 days apart in some newspaper printed in the county in which the land sought to be excluded is situated, at least 30 days before the meeting to consider such exclusion or change.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1617)
NV Rev Stat § 539.742 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.742 - Resolution excluding land; objections.

  1. All persons failing to file written objections within 50 days from the date of the filing of the petition for exclusion shall be conclusively deemed to have consented to such exclusion.  2. If 25 percent of the holders of bonds or contracts or certificates of indebtedness constituting liens against the land sought to be excluded file objections to such exclusion within the 50-day period the petition for exclusion shall be denied; otherwise, the board at its sole discretion, but then only upon the payment of all bonded indebtedness of the district chargeable to the land sought to be excluded, may by resolution exclude the land from the district, and the land shall thereafter be denied all benefits under the district.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1617)
NV Rev Stat § 539.744 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts|NRS 539.744 - Order or denial of exclusion; publication of order.

  1. Not less than 50 days after the filing with the board of an application in writing by a qualified elector of the district or after the board has of its own initiative and by resolution declared its intention of excluding any land or lands from the district, and after having first given notice as prescribed in NRS 539.738, the board shall meet and consider the matter and shall order or deny the exclusion of the lands in whole or in part.  2. A copy of the order of the board shall be published for two issues 1 week apart in some newspaper published in the county in which the land is situated.  (Added to NRS by 1967, 1617)