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NV Rev Stat § 533.150 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.150 - Hearings of objections to preliminary order of determination: Contents and service of notice; procedure; witnesses; evidence.

  1. Unless the claimant waives the requirement for a hearing, the State Engineer shall fix a time and place for the hearing of objections. Notice of the hearing may be sent by registered or certified mail to the persons to be affected by the objections, and the receipt therefor constitutes legal and valid proof of service. The notice may also be served by the State Engineer, or by any person, appointed by the State Engineer, qualified and competent to serve a summons in civil actions. Return thereof must be made in the same manner as in civil actions in the district courts of this state.  2. The State Engineer may adjourn hearings from time to time upon reasonable notice to all parties interested. Depositions may be taken by any person authorized to administer oaths and designated by the State Engineer or the parties in interest, and oral testimony may be introduced in all hearings.  3. Witnesses are entitled to receive fees as in civil cases, to be paid by the party calling those witnesses.  4. The evidence in the proceedings must be confined to the subjects enumerated in the objections and the preliminary order of determination.  5. All testimony taken at the hearings must be reported and transcribed in its entirety.  [30:140:1913; A 1915, 378; 1921, 171; NCL § 7917] — (NRS A 1967, 189; 1981, 88; 1989, 406; 2017, 710)
NV Rev Stat § 533.155 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.155 - Hearing of objections: Court reporter; transcript; division of fees.

All testimony taken at the hearings must be reported and transcribed by a certified court reporter. The original and one copy of the transcript of the proceedings must be filed with the State Engineer. The claimants objecting to the preliminary order of determination shall pay, in equal portions, the fees for the appearance and travel expenses of the court reporter and for transcribing the portion of the hearing consisting of the comments of the State Engineer. Each such claimant shall pay a pro rata portion of the fees for the remaining portion of the hearing consisting of the case made by that claimant.  [32:140:1913; A 1921, 171; NCL § 7919] — (NRS A 1957, 530; 2017, 711)
NV Rev Stat § 533.160 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.160 - Entry of order of determination after hearing of objections to preliminary order; legal effect of order; certification, printing and service of order.

  1. As soon as practicable after the hearing of objections to the preliminary order of determination, the State Engineer shall make and cause to be entered of record in the Office of the State Engineer an order of determination, defining the several rights to the waters of the stream or stream system. The order of determination, when filed with the clerk of the district court as provided in NRS 533.165, has the legal effect of a complaint in a civil action.  2. The order of determination must be certified by the State Engineer. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, a copy of the order of determination must be sent by registered or certified mail or delivered in person to each person who has filed proof of claim and to each person who has become interested through intervention or through filing of objections under the provisions of NRS 533.130 or 533.145.  3. In lieu of sending or delivering a copy of the order of determination pursuant to subsection 2, the State Engineer may:  (a) Make available a copy of the order of determination on the Internet website of the Office of the State Engineer; and  (b) Send by registered or certified mail or deliver in person to each person who has filed a proof of appropriation and to each person who has become interested through intervention notice that the order of determination is available on the Internet website of the Office of the State Engineer.  [33:140:1913; A 1915, 378; 1921, 171; NCL § 7920] — (NRS A 1967, 190; 1969, 1527; 1973, 1478; 1985, 467; 1993, 1701; 1997, 22; 2005, 1093; 2017, 711)
NV Rev Stat § 533.170 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.170 - Exceptions to order of determination: Filing and service; pleadings; findings of fact, judgment and decree; service of findings of fact and cost bill.

  1. At least 5 days prior to the date set for hearing, all parties in interest who are aggrieved or dissatisfied with the order of determination of the State Engineer shall file with the clerk of the court notice of exceptions to the order of determination of the State Engineer. The notice shall state briefly the exceptions taken and the prayer for relief. A copy thereof shall be served upon or transmitted to the State Engineer by registered or certified mail.  2. The order of determination by the State Engineer and the statements or claims of claimants and exceptions made to the order of determination shall constitute the pleadings, and there shall be no other pleadings in the cause.  3. If no exceptions shall have been filed with the clerk of the court as provided in subsection 1, then on the day set for hearing the court may take further testimony if deemed proper, and shall then enter its findings of fact and judgment and decree.  4. On the day set for hearing, all parties in interest who have filed notices of exceptions, as provided in subsection 1, shall appear in person or by counsel, and the court shall hear the same or set the time for hearing, until such exceptions are disposed of.  5. All proceedings thereunder, including the taking of testimony, shall be as nearly as may be in accordance with the Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure; but the provisions of the Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure and NRS 18.110 shall not apply respecting the service of proposed findings of fact and decree or service and filing of a cost bill, and service shall be made in the following manner. All claimants who have filed exceptions or objections to the final order of determination shall be served with a copy of the proposed findings of fact and decree by serving the attorney who appeared for such claimants in the proceedings. All claimants or water users who have not filed exceptions or objections to the final order of determination shall be served with a copy of the proposed findings of fact and decree by serving a copy thereof on the Attorney General. Such service, in each instance, shall be made at least 30 days before the findings of fact and decree shall be signed by the court, and the court shall not sign any findings of fact therein prior to the expiration of such 30 days. The cost bill shall be prepared and filed with the clerk of the court wherein the proceedings are pending, and it shall not be necessary to serve any of the exceptors, claimants or appropriators or their attorneys with a copy of the cost bill.  [35:140:1913; A 1915, 378; 1921, 171; 1927, 334; NCL § 7922] — (NRS A 1969, 95)
NV Rev Stat § 533.175 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.175 - Employment of experts by court.

For further information on any subject in controversy the court may employ one or more qualified persons to investigate and report thereon, under oath, subject to examination by any party in interest as to his or her competency to give expert testimony thereon.  [Part 36:140:1913; A 1915, 378; 1931, 413; 1937, 327; 1931 NCL § 7923]
NV Rev Stat § 533.180 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.180 - Court may refer case to State Engineer for further evidence.

The court may, if necessary, refer the case or any part thereof for such further evidence to be taken by the State Engineer as it may direct, and may require a further determination by the State Engineer, subject to the court’s instructions.  [Part 36:140:1913; A 1915, 378; 1931, 413; 1937, 327; 1931 NCL § 7923]
NV Rev Stat § 533.185 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.185 - Entry of judicial decree; revised map; delivery and filing of final judgment.

  1. After the hearing the court shall enter a decree affirming or modifying the order of the State Engineer.  2. If the court enters a decree holding that the water right of a claimant is different than the right claimed in the proof of appropriation filed by the claimant or determined by the State Engineer in the order of determination, the court may require the claimant to prepare and file with the court and the Office of the State Engineer a revised map which conforms to the decree and the rules and regulations of the State Engineer.  3. Within 30 days after the entry of final judgment by the district court, or if an appeal is taken, within 30 days after the entry of the final judgment by the appellate court or within 30 days after the entry of the final judgment after remand, the clerk of the court issuing the final judgment shall:  (a) Deliver to the State Engineer a certified copy of the final judgment; and  (b) Cause a certified copy of the final judgment to be filed in the office of the county recorder in each county in which the water adjudicated is applied to beneficial use and in each county in which the water adjudicated is diverted from its natural source.  [Part 36:140:1913; A 1915, 378; 1931, 413; 1937, 327; 1931 NCL § 7923] — (NRS A 1995, 436; 2017, 712)
NV Rev Stat § 533.190 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.190 - Costs: Assessment by court; entry of charges on assessment roll; collection and disposition of money.

  1. At any time in the course of the hearings, the court may, in its discretion, by order assess and adjudge against any party such costs as it deems just and equitable or may so assess the costs in proportion to the amount of water right standing allotted at that time, or the court may assess and adjudge such costs and expenses in its final judgment upon the signing, entry and filing of its formal findings of fact, conclusions of law and decree adjudicating the water rights against any party as it deems just and equitable, or may so assess the costs in proportion to the amount of water right allotted and decreed in the final judgment.  2. After the making, entry and filing by the court of the first findings of fact, conclusions of law and decree made, entered and filed by the court in any such water adjudication as distinguished from the first proposed findings of fact, conclusions of law and decree, the court shall assess all costs and expenses against the loser or losers, in any and all subsequent proceedings in any such water adjudication.  3. If costs are assessed or allowed as provided for in this section and in NRS 533.170 and allotted, the State Engineer, within 60 days after such filing and entry, as above described, shall certify to the boards of county commissioners of the respective counties wherein the stream system is situate either the amount of acreage set forth in the order of determination to which water has been allotted, or the respective water rights against which such costs have been assessed by the court, and the charges against each water user in accordance with the court’s judgment and allocation of costs. Upon receipt of the certificate from the State Engineer by the board of county commissioners, the board of county commissioners shall certify the respective charges contained therein to the county assessor of the county in which the land or property served is situated. The county assessor shall enter the amount of the charge on the assessment roll against the claimant’s property or acreage served.  4. The proper officer of the county shall collect the assessment as other assessments are levied and collected, and the assessment is a lien upon the property so served and must be collected in the same manner as other assessments are collected, but such costs must be collected in equal installments over 2 fiscal years.  5. When the assessments are collected, the person collecting the assessments shall transmit the money collected to the State Treasurer at the time that person transmits other assessments collected by him or her as provided by law, and the State Treasurer shall deposit the money in the Adjudication Emergency Account provided for in NRS 532.200, out of which costs and expenses must be paid in the manner provided by law.  [Part 36:140:1913; A 1915, 378; 1931, 413; 1937, 327; 1931 NCL § 7923] — (NRS A 1991, 1783; 1995, 220)
NV Rev Stat § 533.195 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.195 - Powers of successor judge; inapplicability of NRS 3.180.

  1. Whenever a judge before whom a proceeding for the adjudication of a stream system is pending and not yet completed shall cease to be such judge from any cause whatsoever, his or her successor, to whom such proceeding may be assigned or a part of whose duty it becomes to preside in such proceeding, may do all things in and about such adjudication that may be necessary and proper, and may hear and decide all matters in connection therewith or relating thereto and make all orders, decisions, findings of fact, conclusions of law, judgments, decrees, and do all things necessary to complete the adjudication of such stream system to the full extent and the same as though he or she had been the presiding judge in such proceeding from the commencement thereof.  2. NRS 3.180 shall not apply to such stream system adjudication proceedings.  [Part 36:140:1913; A 1915, 378; 1931, 413; 1937, 327; 1931 NCL § 7923]
NV Rev Stat § 533.200 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.200 - Appeal from decree to appellate court: Procedure; service of notice of appeal.

Appeals from such decree may be taken to the appellate court of competent jurisdiction pursuant to the rules fixed by the Supreme Court pursuant to Section 4 of Article 6 of the Nevada Constitution by the State Engineer or any party in interest in the same manner and with the same effect as in civil cases, except as to the following matters. Notice of appeal shall be served upon the attorneys of record for claimants who have filed exceptions or objections to the final order of determination of the State Engineer as provided in NRS 533.170, and all claimants or water users who have not filed exceptions or objections to the final order of determination or appeared in the cause by an attorney shall be served with a copy of notice of appeal by the service of a copy thereof on the Attorney General as their process agent.  [Part 36:140:1913; A 1915, 378; 1931, 413; 1937, 327; 1931 NCL § 7923] — (NRS A 2013, 1786)
NV Rev Stat § 533.205 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.205 - Motion for new trial: Service of notice of intention to move for new trial.

Notice of intention to move for a new trial shall be served upon the attorneys of record for claimants who have filed exceptions or objections to the final order of determination of the State Engineer as provided in NRS 533.170, and all claimants or water users who have not filed exceptions or objections to the final order of determination or appeared in the cause by an attorney shall be served with a copy of notice of intention to move for a new trial by the service of a copy thereof on the Attorney General as their process agent.  [Part 36:140:1913; A 1915, 378; 1931, 413; 1937, 327; 1931 NCL § 7923]
NV Rev Stat § 533.210 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.210 - Finality of decree; application for modification within 3 years after entry; limitations on modification; notice of application.

  1. The decree entered by the court, as provided by NRS 533.185, shall be final and shall be conclusive upon all persons and rights lawfully embraced within the adjudication; but the State Engineer or any party or adjudicated claimant upon any stream or stream system affected by such decree may, at any time within 3 years from the entry thereof, apply to the court for a modification of the decree, insofar only as the decree fixed the duty of water, and upon the hearing of such motion the court may modify such decree increasing or decreasing the duty of water, consistent with good husbandry, and consistent with the principle that actual and beneficial use shall be the measure and limit of the right.  2. Notice of application shall be given as in civil cases.  [36a:140:1913; added 1921, 171; NCL § 7924]
NV Rev Stat § 533.215 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.215 - Waiver of notices by claimants or appropriators.

Whenever there are 10 or less appropriators or claimants upon a stream system, and all of such claimants or appropriators in writing waive the provisions of this chapter with reference to notices and the service and publication thereof, as provided in preceding sections, the State Engineer may make an order of determination without the giving, serving or publication of any notices required in this chapter, and may file the same with the district court in the manner prescribed in NRS 533.165. Whereupon, the same steps and proceedings shall be taken and decree entered as if all preliminary notices had been given prior to the making, entering and filing of the order of determination.  [36b:140:1913; added 1921, 171; NCL § 7925]
NV Rev Stat § 533.220 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.220 - Distribution of water; enforcement of order or decision of State Engineer; appeal.

  1. From and after the filing of the order of determination in the district court, the distribution of water by the State Engineer or by any of the State Engineer’s assistants or by the water commissioners or their assistants shall, at all times, be under the supervision and control of the district court. Such officers and each of them shall, at all times, be deemed to be officers of the court in distributing water under and pursuant to the order of determination or under and pursuant to the decree of the court.  2. Upon the neglect or refusal of any claimant to the use of water as provided in this chapter to carry out or abide by an order or decision of the State Engineer acting as an officer of the court, the State Engineer may petition the district court having jurisdiction of the matter for a review of such order and cause to be issued thereon an order to show cause why the order and decision should not be complied with.  3. The order to show cause shall be personally served on the claimant or claimants complained of, who shall appear and show cause on the day fixed in the court’s order so to do.  4. The hearing on the petition and order to show cause shall be informal and summary in character, with full opportunity afforded each party to present his or her case.  5. Appeals from the judgment may be taken to the appellate court of competent jurisdiction pursuant to the rules fixed by the Supreme Court pursuant to Section 4 of Article 6 of the Nevada Constitution in like manner as appeals in other civil cases; but notice of appeal must be served and filed within 40 days from the entry of judgment.  [36 1/2:140:1913; added 1927, 337; A 1951, 132] — (NRS A 2013, 1786)
NV Rev Stat § 533.225 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.225 - County clerk to transmit certified copy of decree to State Engineer; effectiveness of decree.

Immediately upon the entry of any decree by the court, the county clerk shall transmit a certified copy of the decree to the State Engineer, who shall immediately enter the same upon the records of the Office of the State Engineer. The decree, subject only to the provisions of law relating to appeal and stay of proceedings, shall be in full force and effect.  [37:140:1913; A 1915, 378; 1919 RL p. 3234; NCL § 7927]
NV Rev Stat § 533.230 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.230 - Division of water by State Engineer during time order of determination is pending in district court.

From and after the filing of the order of determination, evidence and transcript with the county clerk, and during the time the hearing of the order is pending in the district court, the division of water from the stream involved in such determination shall be made by the State Engineer in accordance with the order of determination.  [38:140:1913; A 1915, 378; 1919 RL p. 3234; NCL § 7928]
NV Rev Stat § 533.235 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.235 - Operation of order of determination may be stayed by filing bond with court; conditions of bond; duties of State Engineer.

  1. At any time after the order of determination, evidence and transcript has been filed with the clerk of the court, the operation of the order of determination may be stayed in whole or in part by any party upon filing a bond in the court wherein such determination is pending in such amount as the judge thereof may prescribe, conditioned that such party will pay all damage that may accrue by reason of such determination not being enforced, pending a decree by the court.  2. Immediately upon the filing and approval of such bond, the clerk of the court shall transmit to the State Engineer a certified copy of such bond, which shall be recorded in the records of the Office of the State Engineer, and the State Engineer shall act in accordance with such stay.  [39:140:1913; A 1915, 378; 1919 RL p. 3234; NCL § 7929]
NV Rev Stat § 533.240 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 533 - Adjudication of Vested Water Rights; Appropriation of Public Waters|NRS 533.240 - All claimants to be made parties in any suit brought to determine rights; State Engineer to prepare hydrographic survey of stream system; costs; transfer of suit to State Engineer for determination.

  1. In any suit brought in the district court for the determination of a right or rights to the use of water of any stream, all persons who claim the right to use the waters of such stream and the stream system of which it is a part shall be made parties.  2. When the suit has been filed, the court shall direct the State Engineer to furnish a complete hydrographic survey of the stream system as provided in NRS 533.100 in order to obtain all physical data necessary to the determination of the rights involved.  3. The cost of the suit, including the costs on behalf of the State and of the surveys, shall be charged against each of the private parties thereto based on a determination by the court of the relative merits of the claims made by each of the private parties. The court may assess and charge against any party at any time during the suit an equitable amount to pay the costs of the survey upon its approval of an itemized statement therefor submitted by the State Engineer.  4. The court may at any time transfer the suit to the State Engineer for determination as provided in this chapter.  [45:140:1913; 1919 RL p. 3234; NCL § 7930] — (NRS A 1975, 71)