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NV Rev Stat § 533.350 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.350 - Applications to be accompanied by maps, drawings and other data.

All applications for permits shall be accompanied or followed by such maps and drawings and such other data as may be prescribed by the State Engineer, and such accompanying data shall be considered a part of the application.  [Part 59:140:1913; A 1919, 71; 1951, 132]
NV Rev Stat § 533.353 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.353 - Application to appropriate water for beneficial use: Participation of county in development and implementation of monitoring, management and mitigation plan.

  1. For each new application to appropriate water for a beneficial use filed on or after January 1, 2012, if the State Engineer requires a monitoring, management and mitigation plan as a condition of appropriating water for a beneficial use, the State Engineer shall, within 30 days after requiring the plan and if requested by the county where the State Engineer has approved the point of diversion, allow the county to participate in an advisory capacity in the development and implementation of the plan.  2. Before approving any plan developed pursuant to subsection 1 and during the period in which the plan, if approved, is carried out, the State Engineer shall consider any comment, analysis or other information submitted by the participating county. The State Engineer is not required to include any comment, analysis or other information submitted by a participating county in a monitoring, management and mitigation plan required pursuant to this section.  3. A decision by the State Engineer whether or not to include in the plan or to follow any comment, analysis or other information submitted by a participating county pursuant to this section is not subject to judicial review pursuant to NRS 533.450.  (Added to NRS by 2013, 494)
NV Rev Stat § 533.355 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.355 - Receipt of application; return for correction or completion; priority of returned application; rejection; recording.

  1. Upon receipt of an application, the State Engineer shall make an endorsement thereon of the date of its receipt and shall keep a record of the date. The State Engineer shall provide the application forms at no cost to the applicants.  2. Except as provided in subsection 3, if upon examination, the application is found to be defective, it must be returned for correction or completion with advice of the reasons therefor, and the date of the return must be endorsed upon the application and a record made of it in the Office of the State Engineer. An application does not lose its priority of filing on account of defects if the application, properly corrected and accompanied by such maps and drawings as may be required, is filed in the Office of the State Engineer within 60 days after the date of the return to applicant. Any application returned for correction or completion, not refiled in proper form within the 60 days, must be cancelled. For good cause shown, upon application made prior to the expiration of the 60-day period, the State Engineer may, in his or her discretion, grant an extension of time not to exceed 60 days in which to file the instruments.  3. If it appears to the State Engineer that an application, which contains information of sufficient accuracy to determine the manner of use and the location from which the water is to be diverted, must be rejected, the State Engineer may reject it without returning it for correction.  4. All applications which comply with the provisions of this chapter must be recorded in a suitable book kept for that purpose.  [60:140:1913; 1919 RL p. 3239; NCL § 7945] — (NRS A 1971, 179; 1981, 358)
NV Rev Stat § 533.357 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.357 - Priority among applications to appropriate underground water for irrigation purposes from same basin.

When two or more applications are made to appropriate underground water for irrigation purposes from what appears to the State Engineer to be the same basin the State Engineer shall observe the following order of priority in acting upon them, according to the status of the applicant and the intended place of use:  1. An owner of land for use on that land.  2. An owner of land for use on adjacent land for which he or she intends to file an application under the Carey Act or the Desert Land Entry Act, 43 U.S.C. §§ 321 et seq.  3. Any other person whose application is preparatory to proceeding under the Carey Act or the Desert Land Entry Act.  (Added to NRS by 1981, 915)
NV Rev Stat § 533.360 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.360 - Notice of application: Contents; publication; mailing required under certain circumstances.

  1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, NRS 533.345 and subsection 2 of NRS 533.370, when an application is filed in compliance with this chapter, the State Engineer shall, within 30 days, publish or cause to be published once a week for 4 consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county where the point of diversion is located, a notice of the application which sets forth:  (a) That the application has been filed.  (b) The date of the filing.  (c) The name and address of the applicant.  (d) The name of the source from which the appropriation is to be made.  (e) The location of the place of diversion, described by legal subdivision or metes and bounds and by a physical description of that place of diversion.  (f) The purpose for which the water is to be appropriated.  The publisher shall add thereto the date of the first publication and the date of the last publication.  2. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, proof of publication must be filed within 30 days after the final day of publication. The State Engineer shall pay for the publication from the application fee. If the application is cancelled for any reason before publication, the State Engineer shall return to the applicant that portion of the application fee collected for publication.  3. If the application is for a proposed well:  (a) For municipal, quasi-municipal or industrial use; and  (b) Whose reasonably expected rate of diversion is one-half cubic foot per second or more,  the applicant shall mail a copy of the notice of application to each owner of real property containing a domestic well that is within 2,500 feet of the proposed well, to the owner’s address as shown in the latest records of the county assessor. If there are not more than six such wells, notices must be sent to each owner by certified mail, return receipt requested. If there are more than six such wells, at least six notices must be sent to owners by certified mail, return receipt requested. The return receipts from these notices must be filed with the State Engineer before the State Engineer may consider the application.  4. The provisions of this section do not apply to an environmental permit or a temporary permit issued pursuant to NRS 533.436 or 533.504.  [61:140:1913; A 1925, 121; 1951, 132] — (NRS A 1975, 1397; 1981, 358; 1985, 489; 1989, 319; 1991, 758; 1993, 2641; 1995, 1530; 2001, 551; 2003, 2979; 2005, 2561; 2011, 756, 1564; 2013, 498, 3679; 2017, 3498)
NV Rev Stat § 533.363 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.363 - State Engineer to notify county commissioners of application to use water in county other than that in which it is appropriated or currently diverted or used.

  1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, if water for which a permit is requested is to be used in a county other than that county in which it is to be appropriated, or is to be diverted from or used in a different county than that in which it is currently being diverted or used, then the State Engineer shall give notice of the receipt of the request for the permit to:  (a) The board of county commissioners of the county in which the water for which the permit is requested will be appropriated or is currently being diverted or used; and  (b) The board of county commissioners of the county in which the water will be diverted or used.  2. The provisions of subsection 1 do not apply:  (a) To an environmental permit or a temporary permit issued pursuant to NRS 533.436 or 533.504.  (b) If:  (1) The water is to be appropriated and used; or  (2) Both the current and requested place of diversion or use of the water are,  within a single, contiguous parcel of real property.  3. A person who requests a permit to which the provisions of subsection 1 apply shall submit to each appropriate board of county commissioners a copy of the application and any information relevant to the request.  4. Each board of county commissioners which is notified of a request for a permit pursuant to this section shall consider the request at the next regular or special meeting of the board held not earlier than 3 weeks after the notice is received. The board shall provide public notice of the meeting for 3 consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in its county. The notice must state the time, place and purpose of the meeting. At the conclusion of the meeting the board may recommend a course of action to the State Engineer, but the recommendation is not binding on the State Engineer.  (Added to NRS by 1981, 782; A 1991, 758; 2011, 1565; 2013, 498, 3679)
NV Rev Stat § 533.364 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.364 - Certain interbasin transfers of groundwater; inventory required under certain circumstances; limitations; fee; time for completion of inventory.

  1. In addition to the requirements of NRS 533.370, before approving an application for an interbasin transfer of more than 250 acre-feet of groundwater from a basin which the State Engineer has not previously inventoried or for which the State Engineer has not conducted, or caused to be conducted, a study pursuant to NRS 532.165 or 533.368, the State Engineer or a person designated by the State Engineer shall conduct an inventory of the basin from which the water is to be exported. The inventory must include:  (a) The total amount of surface water and groundwater appropriated in accordance with a decreed, certified or permitted right;  (b) An estimate of the amount and location of all surface water and groundwater that is available for appropriation in the basin; and  (c) The name of each owner of record set forth in the records of the Office of the State Engineer for each decreed, certified or permitted right in the basin.  2. The provisions of this section do not:  (a) Require the State Engineer to initiate or complete a determination of the surface water or groundwater rights pursuant to NRS 533.087 to 533.320, inclusive, or to otherwise quantify any vested claims of water rights in the basin before approving an application for an interbasin transfer of groundwater from the basin; or  (b) Prohibit the State Engineer from considering information received from or work completed by another person to include in the inventory, if the inventory is otherwise conducted in accordance with the provisions of subsection 1.  3. The State Engineer shall charge the applicant a fee to cover the cost of the inventory. The amount of the fee must not exceed the cost to the State Engineer of conducting the inventory.  4. The State Engineer shall complete any inventory conducted pursuant to subsection 1 within 1 year after commencing the inventory, unless the time limit is waived by the applicant.  (Added to NRS by 2009, 595; A 2017, 3499, 3559)
NV Rev Stat § 533.367 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.367 - Requirement to ensure access of wildlife to water it customarily uses; waiver.

Before a person may obtain a right to the use of water from a spring or water which has seeped to the surface of the ground, the person must ensure that wildlife which customarily uses the water will have access to it. The State Engineer may waive this requirement for a domestic use of water.  (Added to NRS by 1981, 1840)
NV Rev Stat § 533.368 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.368 - Hydrological, environmental or other study: State Engineer to determine need for study; cost of study paid by applicant; regulations.

  1. If the State Engineer determines that a hydrological study, an environmental study or any other study is necessary before the State Engineer makes a final determination on an application pursuant to NRS 533.370 and the applicant, a governmental agency or other person has not conducted such a study or the required study is not available, the State Engineer shall advise the applicant of the need for the study and the type of study required.  2. The required study must be conducted by the State Engineer or by a person designated by the State Engineer, the applicant or a consultant approved by the State Engineer, as determined by the State Engineer.  3. The applicant shall bear the cost of a study required pursuant to subsection 1. A study must not be conducted by the State Engineer or by a person designated by the State Engineer until the applicant has paid a cash deposit to the State Engineer which is sufficient to defray the cost of the study.  4. The State Engineer shall:  (a) Consult with the applicant and the governing body of the county or counties in which the point of diversion and the place of use is located concerning the scope and progress of the study.  (b) Send a copy of the completed study to all attorneys of record, to a public library, if any, or other public building located in the county of origin, to the county or counties in which the point of diversion and the place of use is located and to the governing bodies of the county of origin and of the county or counties in which the point of diversion and the place of use is located.  5. The State Engineer may adopt regulations to carry out the provisions of this section.  (Added to NRS by 1991, 1367)
NV Rev Stat § 533.369 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.369 - Special Account for Studies Concerning Water: Deposits; interest and income; limitation on use of money; refund of money to applicant; balance does not revert to State General Fund.

  1. All money collected pursuant to subsection 3 of NRS 533.364 or subsection 3 of NRS 533.368 must be deposited with the State Treasurer for credit to a special Account for Studies Concerning Water.  2. The interest and income earned on the money in the Account for Studies Concerning Water, after deducting any applicable charges, must be credited to the Account.  3. The money received pursuant to subsection 3 of NRS 533.364 or subsection 3 of NRS 533.368 must be used to defray the cost of conducting the studies required pursuant to subsection 1 of NRS 533.368 and the inventories required pursuant to subsection 1 of NRS 533.364. Any money paid by an applicant that exceeds the amount required to conduct a study must be refunded to the applicant.  4. Any balance remaining in the Account does not revert to the State General Fund at the end of the fiscal year.  (Added to NRS by 1991, 1368; A 2009, 596)
NV Rev Stat § 533.3703 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.3703 - Consideration of consumptive use of water right and proposed beneficial use of water.

  1. The State Engineer may consider the consumptive use of a water right and the consumptive use of a proposed beneficial use of water in determining whether a proposed change in the place of diversion, manner of use or place of use complies with the provisions of subsection 2 of NRS 533.370.  2. The provisions of this section:  (a) Must not be applied by the State Engineer in a manner that is inconsistent with any applicable federal or state decree concerning consumptive use.  (b) Do not apply to any decreed, certified or permitted right to appropriate water which originates in the Virgin River or the Muddy River.  (Added to NRS by 2007, 2015; A 2011, 761)
NV Rev Stat § 533.3705 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.3705 - Limitation on initial quantity of water approved for application; additional studies or evidence may be required; action by State Engineer on other applications in same basin.

  1. Upon approval of an application to appropriate water, the State Engineer may limit the initial use of water to a quantity that is less than the total amount approved for the application. The use of an additional amount of water that is not more than the total amount approved for the application may be authorized by the State Engineer at a later date if additional evidence demonstrates to the satisfaction of the State Engineer that the additional amount of water is available and may be appropriated in accordance with this chapter and chapter 534 of NRS. In making that determination, the State Engineer may establish a period during which additional studies may be conducted or additional evidence provided to support the application.  2. In any basin in which an application to appropriate water is approved pursuant to subsection 1, the State Engineer may act upon any other pending application to appropriate water in that basin that the State Engineer concludes constitutes the use of a minimal amount of water.  (Added to NRS by 2007, 2015)
NV Rev Stat § 533.371 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.371 - Rejection of application for permit for specified period.

The State Engineer shall reject the application and refuse to issue a permit to appropriate water for a specified period if the State Engineer determines that:  1. The application is incomplete;  2. The prescribed fees have not been paid;  3. The proposed use is not temporary;  4. There is no water available from the proposed source of supply without exceeding the perennial yield or safe yield of that source;  5. The groundwater that has not been committed for use from the proposed source of supply has been reserved pursuant to NRS 533.0241;  6. The proposed use conflicts with existing rights; or  7. The proposed use threatens to prove detrimental to the public interest.  (Added to NRS by 1991, 1368; A 2019, 2518)
NV Rev Stat § 533.372 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.372 - Approval or rejection of application to use water to generate energy for export.

Based upon the public interest and the economic welfare of the State of Nevada, the State Engineer may approve or disapprove any application of water to beneficial use or any application which contemplates a change in the place or beneficial use of water to a use involving the industrial purpose of generating energy to be exported out of this state.  (Added to NRS by 1981, 210; A 1981, 1434; 1991, 296)
NV Rev Stat § 533.375 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.375 - State Engineer may require additional information before approval or rejection of application.

Before either approving or rejecting the application, the State Engineer may require such additional information as will enable the State Engineer to guard the public interest properly, and may, in the case of an application proposing to divert more than 10 cubic feet per second of water, or in the case of multiple applications whose cumulative diversions for a single project total more than 10 cubic feet per second of water, require a statement of the following facts:  1. In the case of an incorporated company the State Engineer may require the submission of the articles of incorporation, and the names and places of residence of directors and officers, and the amount of its authorized and of its paid-up capital.  2. If the applicant is not an incorporated company, the State Engineer may require a statement as to the name of the person proposing to construct the work, and a showing of facts necessary to enable the State Engineer to determine whether the applicant has the financial ability to carry out the proposed work, and whether the application has been made in good faith.  [64:140:1913; 1919 RL p. 3241; NCL § 7949] — (NRS A 1991, 61)
NV Rev Stat § 533.382 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.382 - Form, acknowledgment and recording of conveyance.

Except as otherwise provided in NRS 533.387, every conveyance of an application or permit to appropriate any of the public waters, a certificate of appropriation, an adjudicated or unadjudicated water right or an application or permit to change the place of diversion, manner of use or place of use of water must be:  1. Made by deed;  2. Acknowledged in the manner provided in NRS 240.161 to 240.168, inclusive; and  3. Recorded in the office of the county recorder of each county in which the water is applied to beneficial use and in each county in which the water is diverted from its natural source.  (Added to NRS by 1995, 434)
NV Rev Stat § 533.383 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.383 - Effect of recording or failing to record deed of conveyance.

  1. The recording of a deed pursuant to NRS 533.382 shall be deemed to impart notice of the contents of the deed to all persons at the time the deed is recorded, and a subsequent purchaser or mortgagee shall be deemed to purchase and take with notice of the contents of the deed.  2. The deed of:  (a) An application or permit to appropriate any of the public waters;  (b) A certificate of appropriation;  (c) An adjudicated or unadjudicated water right; or  (d) An application or permit to change the place of diversion, manner of use or place of use of water,  that has not been recorded as required by NRS 533.382 shall be deemed void as against a subsequent purchaser who in good faith and for valuable consideration purchases the same application, right, certificate or permit, or any portion thereof, if the subsequent purchaser first records the deed in compliance with NRS 533.382.  (Added to NRS by 1995, 435)