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NV Rev Stat § 541.360 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 541 - Water Conservancy Districts|NRS 541.360 - Conduct of election; canvass of returns.

The respective election boards shall conduct the election in their respective precincts in the manner prescribed by law for the holding of general elections, and shall make their returns to the secretary of the district. At any regular or special meeting of the board held not earlier than 6 working days following the date of the election, the returns thereof must be canvassed and the results thereof declared. If any election held pursuant to NRS 541.340 is consolidated with any primary or general election, the returns thereof must be made and canvassed at the time and in the manner provided by law for the canvass of the returns of such a primary or general election. The canvassing body shall promptly certify and transmit to the board a statement of the result of the vote upon the proposition submitted pursuant to NRS 541.340. Upon receipt of the statement, the board shall tabulate and declare the results of the proposition voted on at the election.  [36:380:1955] — (NRS A 1993, 1091; 2007, 627)
NV Rev Stat § 541.370 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 541 - Water Conservancy Districts|NRS 541.370 - Majority vote required to authorize indebtedness; resubmission of proposition.

  1. If it appears from the returns that a majority of the qualified electors of the district who voted on any proposition submitted pursuant to NRS 541.340 voted in favor of the proposition, the district may incur the indebtedness or obligations and enter into the contract for the purpose or purposes and object or objects provided for in the proposition submitted pursuant to NRS 541.340, and in the amount so provided and at a rate of interest not exceeding the rate of interest recited in the resolution.  2. Submission of the proposition of incurring such obligation or other indebtedness at a special, primary or general election does not prohibit submission of the same proposition or other propositions at a subsequent special, primary or general election.  [37:380:1955] — (NRS A 1993, 1092)
NV Rev Stat § 541.380 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 541 - Water Conservancy Districts|NRS 541.380 - Board may petition court for judicial determination of orders, acts, power, taxes and contracts.

  1. The board may, in its discretion, at any time file a petition in the court, praying a judicial examination and determination of the validity of the proceedings for the formation of any water conservancy district or subdistrict thereof purported to be formed under the provisions of this chapter or any amendment thereof or of any power conferred hereby or by any amendment hereto or of any tax or assessment levied or of any act, proceeding or contract of any such district or subdistrict, whether or not the contract shall have been executed, including proposed contracts for the acquisition, construction, maintenance or operation of works for such district or subdistrict.  2. The petition shall set forth the facts whereon the validity of such order, power, assessment, act, proceeding or contract is founded and shall be verified by the president of the board. Notice of the filing of the petition shall be given by the clerk of the court, under the seal thereof, stating in brief outline the contents of the petition and showing where a complete copy of any contract or contracts, therein mentioned, may be examined. The notice shall be served by publication at least once a week for 4 consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the principal office of the district is located, and by posting the same in the office of the district at least 30 days prior to the date fixed in the notice for the hearing on the petition. Any owner of property in the district or person interested in the contract or proposed contract may appear and answer the petition at any time prior to the date fixed for the hearing or within such further time as may be allowed by the court, and the petition shall be taken as confessed by all persons who fail so to appear.  3. The petition and notice shall be sufficient to give the court jurisdiction and, upon hearing, the court shall examine into and determine all matters and things affecting the question submitted, shall make such findings with reference thereto and render such judgment and decree thereon as the case warrants. Costs may be divided or apportioned among the contesting parties in the discretion of the trial court.  4. Review of the judgment of the court may be had as in other similar cases, except that such review must be applied for within 30 days after the time of the rendition of such judgment, or within such additional time as may be allowed by the court within 30 days.  5. The Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure shall govern in the matters of pleading and practice where not otherwise specified herein.  6. The court shall disregard any error, irregularity or omission which does not affect the substantial rights of the parties.  [38:380:1955]
NV Rev Stat § 541.390 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 541 - Water Conservancy Districts|NRS 541.390 - Notice; jurisdiction of district court not lost for failure to give notice.

In every case where a notice is provided for in this chapter, if the court finds for any reason that due notice was not given, the court shall not thereby lose jurisdiction and the proceeding in question shall not thereby be void or be abated, but the court shall in that case order due notice to be given and shall continue the hearing until such time as notice shall be properly given, and thereupon shall proceed as though notice had been properly given in the first instance.  [39:380:1955]
NV Rev Stat § 541.400 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 541 - Water Conservancy Districts|NRS 541.400 - Cases to be heard by court at earliest practicable moment.

  1. All cases in which there may arise a question of the validity of the organization of a water conservancy district or a question of the validity of any proceeding under this chapter shall be advanced as a matter of immediate public interest and concern, and be heard at the earliest practicable moment.  2. The courts shall be open at all times for the purposes of this chapter.  [40:380:1955]
NV Rev Stat § 541.410 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 541 - Water Conservancy Districts|NRS 541.410 - Liberal construction of chapter.

This chapter, being necessary to secure and preserve the public health, safety, convenience and welfare, and for the security of public and private property, shall be liberally construed to effect the purposes of this chapter.  [41:380:1955]
NV Rev Stat § 541.420 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 541 - Water Conservancy Districts|NRS 541.420 - Conflicting laws declared nonoperative.

All laws or parts of laws conflicting in any way with any of the provisions of this chapter in regard to the improvements or improvement districts, or regulating or limiting the power of taxation or assessments, or otherwise interfering with the accomplishment of the purposes of this chapter according to its terms, are hereby declared nonoperative and noneffective as to this chapter as completely as if they did not exist. But all such laws and parts of laws shall not in any other way be affected by this chapter.  [43:380:1955]
NV Rev Stat § 543.010 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 543 - Control of Floods|NRS 543.010 - "Director" defined.

As used in NRS 543.010 to 543.150, inclusive, "Director" means the Director of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.  (Added to NRS by 1960, 56)
NV Rev Stat § 543.020 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 543 - Control of Floods|NRS 543.020 - Declaration of policy.

It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State of Nevada to cooperate with the United States and its departments and agencies, and with the counties, cities and public districts of the State, in preventing loss of life and property, disruption of commerce, interruption of transportation and communication and waste of water resulting from floods, and in furthering the conservation, development, utilization and disposal of water.  (Added to NRS by 1960, 56)
NV Rev Stat § 543.030 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 543 - Control of Floods|NRS 543.030 - Director of State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to give assurances and perform acts required in connection with projects as directed by Legislature.

The Director is hereby authorized to give all assurances and perform any other acts required by the Secretary of the Army and the Congress of the United States in connection with flood control projects in the State of Nevada, when and as directed by acts of the Legislature of the State of Nevada.  (Added to NRS by 1959, 165)
NV Rev Stat § 543.040 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 543 - Control of Floods|NRS 543.040 - Flood Control Account: Creation; money in Account does not lapse.

The Flood Control Account is hereby created in the State General Fund. Money in the Flood Control Account does not lapse at the end of any fiscal year.  (Added to NRS by 1959, 165; A 1979, 116; 1991, 1786)
NV Rev Stat § 543.050 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 543 - Control of Floods|NRS 543.050 - Flood Control Account: Authorized expenditures; reimbursements.

The Director shall use the money in the Flood Control Account to pay all necessary costs in order to carry out the assurances and to perform the acts provided for in NRS 543.030. Reimbursements to the Account must be in the manner described in NRS 543.060.  (Added to NRS by 1959, 165; A 1979, 116; 1991, 1787)
NV Rev Stat § 543.060 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 543 - Control of Floods|NRS 543.060 - Reimbursements in proportion to benefit received; time of payments; budgets.

  1. The Director shall determine which counties, cities and public districts benefit by the project, and whether the State is benefited by the project, and to what extent there is benefit to the subdivisions, and reimbursement to the Flood Control Account must be made in proportion to the benefit received.  2. If any portion of the Flood Control Account is used for maintenance of any of those flood control projects, the Flood Control Account must be fully reimbursed for cost of the maintenance by the State, counties, cities and public districts benefited by the project.  3. The Director shall determine the period for repayment of the initial nonfederal charges as provided for under subsection 1, which period may not be more than 5 years after completion of the project for which money has been authorized.  4. The Director, after having determined the benefits as set forth in subsection 1, shall, between the first Monday of October and the first Monday of December of each year, prepare a budget showing the amount of money estimated to be necessary to repay the initial capital outlay, which initial capital outlay is to be assessed in equal annual installments, and any estimated maintenance cost for the then current year, and submit the budget to the board of county commissioners. When the flood control project lies in more than one county, separate budgets must be prepared for each county.  (Added to NRS by 1959, 165; A 1979, 116; 1991, 1787)
NV Rev Stat § 543.070 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 543 - Control of Floods|NRS 543.070 - Certification of charges by county commissioners to county assessor; entry on assessment roll; collection of special tax; liens.

  1. Upon receipt of such budget by the board of county commissioners, the board of county commissioners shall certify the respective charges contained therein to the county assessor. The county assessor shall enter the amount of such charge or charges on the assessment roll against the beneficiaries.  2. The proper officers of the county shall collect such special tax as other special taxes are collected, and such charge shall be a lien upon the property so served, and shall be collected in the same manner as other taxes are collected.  (Added to NRS by 1959, 165)
NV Rev Stat § 543.080 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 543 - Control of Floods|NRS 543.080 - Taxes and charges deposited for credit to Flood Control Account; claims against Account.

  1. The taxes and charges provided for in NRS 543.070, when collected, must be deposited with the State Treasurer for credit to the Flood Control Account.  2. All bills against the Account must be certified by the Director and, when certified and approved by the State Board of Examiners, the State Controller is authorized to draw his or her warrant against the Flood Control Account.  (Added to NRS by 1959, 166; A 1979, 117; 1991, 1787)
NV Rev Stat § 543.090 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 543 - Control of Floods|NRS 543.090 - Loans to counties, cities and public districts for planning, engineering, administration, acquisition of easements and other costs.

  1. Whenever the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Army has approved or may approve a work of improvement or a flood control project in the State of Nevada, and the Congress of the United States has appropriated or may appropriate money for such work or project, and a county, city or public district, or a combination thereof, has given or is in a position to give the assurances required by the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act, Public Law 566, 83rd Congress, 68 Stat. 666, as amended, or the Flood Control Act of 1954, Public Law 780, 83rd Congress, 68 Stat. 1256, as amended, and such county, city or public district is in need of immediate financial assistance for planning, engineering, administration, acquisition of easements and rights-of-way or other costs, such county, city or public district may apply to the Director for such assistance in the manner provided in NRS 543.090 to 543.140, inclusive.  2. A city, county or public district may apply to the Director for financial assistance pursuant to NRS 543.090 to 543.140, inclusive, for the payment of the cost of surveying along a river when such surveying potentially but not necessarily will culminate in or assist a flood control project.  (Added to NRS by 1960, 56; A 1973, 772)
NV Rev Stat § 543.100 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 543 - Control of Floods|NRS 543.100 - Loans approved by Director of State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Governor and State Board of Finance.

Upon a petition from a county, city or public district to the Director, in a form prescribed by the Director, requesting financial assistance to aid in paying the costs of planning, engineering, administration, acquisition of easements and rights-of-way and other proper expenses connected with a flood control project, or in paying costs for a riparian survey, the Director may, following study and approval of the proposed project or survey, and subject to the approval of the Governor and the State Board of Finance, loan money from the Flood Control Account in the manner provided in NRS 543.090 to 543.140, inclusive.  (Added to NRS by 1960, 56; A 1973, 773; 1979, 117; 1991, 1787)
NV Rev Stat § 543.110 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 543 - Control of Floods|NRS 543.110 - Contents of petition for loan; repayment period; budgets.

  1. Each petition to the Director must describe the proposed flood control project or riparian survey, state the amount of money requested, and designate the areas to be assessed to reimburse the Flood Control Account.  2. The Director shall determine the period to be allowed for repayment of the money loaned, which period may not be longer than 5 years from the date of the loan.  3. The Director shall, between the first Monday of October and the first Monday of December of each year following the date of any loan, prepare a budget based on repayment of the loan in equal annual installments showing the amount of money to be repaid in the next succeeding fiscal year, and shall submit the budget to the board of county commissioners of the county in which the project or survey is located. If the project or survey is located in more than one county, separate budgets must be prepared for each county.  (Added to NRS by 1960, 56; A 1973, 773; 1979, 117; 1991, 1787)
NV Rev Stat § 543.120 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 543 - Control of Floods|NRS 543.120 - Certification of charges by county commissioners to county assessor; entry on assessment roll; collection of special tax; liens.

  1. Upon receipt of a budget from the Director, the board of county commissioners shall certify the charge or charges contained therein to the county assessor. The county assessor shall enter such charge or charges on the assessment roll against the property benefited.  2. The appropriate officers of the county shall collect such charges in the same manner as special taxes are collected. Such charge shall be a lien upon the property so assessed, which shall be enforced in the same manner as other property tax liens are enforced.  (Added to NRS by 1960, 56)
NV Rev Stat § 543.130 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 543 - Control of Floods|NRS 543.130 - Receipts deposited in Flood Control Account; claims against Account.

  1. The receipts of the charges provided for in NRS 543.120, when collected, must be deposited, in the same manner as receipts of special taxes are deposited, with the State Treasurer for credit to the Flood Control Account.  2. All claims against the Account must be certified by the Director, and when they have been certified and approved by the State Board of Examiners, the State Controller shall draw his or her warrant against the Flood Control Account.  (Added to NRS by 1960, 57; A 1979, 117; 1991, 1788)
NV Rev Stat § 543.140 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 543 - Control of Floods|NRS 543.140 - Limitations on loans.

Loans may be made pursuant to NRS 543.090 to 543.140, inclusive, from time to time for each proposed flood control project at the discretion of the Director and within the limits of money available in the Flood Control Account.  (Added to NRS by 1960, 57; A 1979, 117; 1991, 1788)
NV Rev Stat § 543.150 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 543 - Control of Floods|NRS 543.150 - Legislative declaration; application; conditions; repayment.

  1. The Legislature finds and declares that the people of this State have a paramount interest in the maximum use of all the water of the State and in efficient and effective water distribution to the public by governmental subdivisions, thus ensuring the public’s health and safety.  2. Whenever the system for the distribution of water of a governmental subdivision of this State has been damaged by flood or other act of God, resulting in an emergency condition of a shortage of water for public use, the governing body of the governmental subdivision may make application to the Director for a loan to assist in repairing the damage. The application must be made in the manner and form prescribed by the Director. The Director shall transmit the application to the Bureau of Environmental Health of the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services requesting an investigation and survey of the damage, and a report thereon. If the report of the Bureau of Environmental Health of the Division of Public and Behavioral Health finds that the damage has resulted in a lack of service and a threat to public health because of the emergency resulting from a shortage of water, the Director may loan money from an appropriate account of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources in the State General Fund to repair the damage or to reimburse the governmental subdivision for money expended by it to repair the damage. The Director shall determine the period to be allowed for repayment of the money, not to exceed 20 years after the date of the loan. The Director shall also determine the schedule of repayment of the loans. All money received by the Director as repayments of loans must be deposited in the account from which it was lent.  (Added to NRS by 1961, 447; A 1963, 573; 1973, 1406; 1985, 721)
NV Rev Stat § 543.170 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 543 - Control of Floods|NRS 543.170 - Legislative declaration.

The Legislature finds and declares that:  1. Facilities to alleviate flooding in any district, whether located in a city, an unincorporated town or another unincorporated area of the county, benefit all the residents and owners of property in the district.  2. These facilities provide protection for life and property throughout the district, and usually require planning and development throughout a drainage basin.  (Added to NRS by 1961, 427; A 1985, 1190)
NV Rev Stat § 543.180 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 543 - Control of Floods|NRS 543.180 - Definitions.

As used in NRS 543.170 to 543.830, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 543.181 to 543.188, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.  (Added to NRS by 1961, 427; A 1975, 749; 1985, 1191; 1987, 431, 720; 2001, 892)
NV Rev Stat § 543.181 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 543 - Control of Floods|NRS 543.181 - "Acquisition" and "acquire" defined.

Acquisition includes extension, alteration, reconstruction, repair or other improvement by purchase, construction, installation, reconstruction, condemnation, lease, rent, gift, grant, bequest, devise, contract or other means, or any combination thereof. "Acquire" has a correspondingly extensive meaning.  (Added to NRS by 1985, 1189)
NV Rev Stat § 543.182 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 543 - Control of Floods|NRS 543.182 - "Board" defined.

Board means the board of directors of a district.  (Added to NRS by 1985, 1189)
NV Rev Stat § 543.184 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 543 - Control of Floods|NRS 543.184 - "District" defined.

District means any district for the control of floods organized or, in the case of organizational provisions, proposed to be organized, pursuant to NRS 543.170 to 543.830, inclusive.  (Added to NRS by 1985, 1189; A 1987, 720)
NV Rev Stat § 543.185 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 543 - Control of Floods|NRS 543.185 - "Hydrographic area" defined.

Hydrographic area means the drainage basin of a stream and its tributaries as described in the master plan.  (Added to NRS by 1985, 1189; A 1989, 1523)
NV Rev Stat § 543.1855 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 543 - Control of Floods|NRS 543.1855 - "Master plan" defined.

Master plan means the master plan for control of floods.  (Added to NRS by 1987, 429)
NV Rev Stat § 543.186 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 543 - Control of Floods|NRS 543.186 - "Project" and "improvement" defined.

Project and "improvement" each means any structure, facility, undertaking or system which a district is authorized to acquire, improve, equip, maintain or operate.  (Added to NRS by 1985, 1189)
NV Rev Stat § 543.188 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 543 - Control of Floods|NRS 543.188 - "Taxpaying elector" defined.

Taxpaying elector means a person who is qualified to vote at general elections in this state, whether or not registered to vote or a resident in the district, and who, or whose spouse, is obligated as an owner or as a contract purchaser at a designated time or event to pay a general tax on real property within the district.  (Added to NRS by 1985, 1189)
NV Rev Stat § 543.190 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 543 - Control of Floods|NRS 543.190 - Computation of time.

To compute any period prescribed in NRS 543.170 to 543.830, inclusive, the day of the first publication, or other designated time, must be excluded and the day of the last publication, or other designated action or time, must be included.  (Added to NRS by 1961, 428; A 1987, 720)