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NV Rev Stat § 278.070 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 278 - Planning and Zoning|NRS 278.070 - Additional officers; employees; consultants.

  1. In addition to electing its chair, the commission shall create and fill such other of its offices as it may determine.  2. The commission may appoint such employees as it may deem necessary for its work, whose appointment, promotion, demotion and removal shall be subject to the same provisions of law as govern other corresponding civil employees of the municipality.  3. The commission may also contract with city planners, engineers, architects and other consultants for such services as it may require.  [Part 6:110:1941; 1931 NCL § 5063.05] + [Part 7:110:1941; 1931 NCL § 5063.06]
NV Rev Stat § 278.080 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 278 - Planning and Zoning|NRS 278.080 - Expenditures; operational needs.

The expenditures of the commission, exclusive of gifts, shall be within the amounts appropriated for the purpose by the governing body, which shall provide the funds, equipment and accommodations necessary for the commission’s work.  [Part 7:110:1941; 1931 NCL § 5063.06]
NV Rev Stat § 278.090 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 278 - Planning and Zoning|NRS 278.090 - Regional planning commission: Creation; selection of representatives.

  1. Except in a county in which a regional planning commission is created pursuant to the provisions of NRS 278.026 to 278.029, inclusive, the board of county commissioners of any county alone or in collaboration with the governing body of the incorporated cities in the county or any of them or in collaboration with the board or boards of county commissioners of any adjacent county or counties, or the governing bodies of adjacent cities may establish a regional planning commission to consist of representatives of the county or counties or cities or region within the county or counties where the local government bodies participate in the formation of the regional planning commission.  2. The commission may also contain representatives of the municipalities to be selected in a manner to be determined by ordinance adopted by the governing bodies of the municipalities, or municipalities and the county or counties concerned.  [Part 4:110:1941; A 1947, 834; 1943 NCL § 5063.03] — (NRS A 1989, 767)
NV Rev Stat § 278.100 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 278 - Planning and Zoning|NRS 278.100 - Regional planning commission: Members; terms; membership on city or county planning commission not public office; compensation; removal; vacancies.

  1. The ordinance must specify the membership of the commission, which must consist of not less than six members or more than 12 members.  2. The ordinance must provide that the term of each member is 4 years, or until his or her successor takes office, except that the terms of two of the members first appointed are 3 years, and the respective terms of two members first appointed are 1 and 2 years. No more than one-third of the members may hold any other public office. For the purposes of this subsection, membership on the planning commission of a county or city must not be considered holding a public office.  3. The governing body creating the commission shall, by resolution, provide what compensation, if any, each of the members shall receive for his or her services as a member, not to exceed $40 per meeting or a total of $200 per month.  4. Members may be removed, after public hearing, by a majority vote of the governing body, for inefficiency, neglect of duty or malfeasance of office.  5. All appointments to fill vacancies must be for the unexpired term.  [Part 4:110:1941; A 1947, 834; 1943 NCL § 5063.03] — (NRS A 1959, 14; 1979, 1386; 1987, 987)
NV Rev Stat § 278.110 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 278 - Planning and Zoning|NRS 278.110 - Regional planning commission: Chair; employees.

  1. Annually, each county or regional planning commission shall elect a chair from its own members.  2. It shall have power to employ experts, clerks and a secretary, and to pay for their services and such other expenses as may be necessary and proper, not exceeding, in all, the annual appropriation that may be made by the county or counties or municipalities for the commission, together with such other funds as may be made available through grant, gift or other means.  [Part 4:110:1941; A 1947, 834; 1943 NCL § 5063.03] — (NRS A 1959, 84)
NV Rev Stat § 278.120 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 278 - Planning and Zoning|NRS 278.120 - Regional planning commission: Appropriation of money for expenses.

  1. The governing body of each municipality and of each county included within a regional planning district is authorized independently or in collaboration with other governing bodies, in their discretion, to appropriate from the funds received by the county or municipality from general taxation or other source money for the expenses of the regional or county planning commission.  2. The county or counties or municipal corporations shall not be chargeable with any expense incurred by the planning commission except pursuant to such an appropriation.  [Part 4:110:1941; A 1947, 834; 1943 NCL § 5063.03]
NV Rev Stat § 278.130 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 278 - Planning and Zoning|NRS 278.130 - Regional planning commission: Performance of duties and functions of city or county planning commission; regional or intergovernmental decisions.

  1. If the governing body of a city or county collaborates in the creation of a regional planning commission and does not create a separate city or county planning commission, the regional planning commission shall perform for the city or county all the duties and functions delegated to a city or county planning commission by the terms of NRS 278.010 to 278.630, inclusive.  2. If a regional planning commission has duties and functions pursuant to NRS 278.010 to 278.630, inclusive, which parallel the duties and functions of a city or county planning commission, the city or county planning commission has the responsibility for making decisions pertaining to planning which have a local effect, and the regional planning commission has the responsibility for making decisions pertaining to planning which have a regional or intergovernmental effect.  [Part 5:110:1941; A 1947, 834; 1943 NCL § 5063.04] — (NRS A 1987, 988; 2013, 3218)
NV Rev Stat § 278.140 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 278 - Planning and Zoning|NRS 278.140 - Regional planning districts: Formation and functions.

  1. The formation of regional planning districts is authorized and a regional planning commission may be created, in accordance with the provisions of NRS 278.010 to 278.630, inclusive, in lieu of separate city or county planning commissions as may be required or authorized by NRS 278.010 to 278.630, inclusive.  2. Regional planning districts shall consist of a portion of a political subdivision, two or more contiguous political subdivisions or contiguous portions of two or more political subdivisions.  3. All territory embraced within a regional planning district shall be contiguous, except where the regional district is composed of two or more municipalities such territories need not be contiguous.  4. In a regional planning district, a regional planning commission shall function in all respects in accordance with the provisions of NRS 278.010 to 278.630, inclusive, except that the plans of the regional planning commission shall coordinate the plans of any city or county planning commission within the region.  5. Reports required by NRS 278.010 to 278.630, inclusive, to be made to a governing body of a city or a county shall be made to the governing body of each city or county within the region, and the procedure set forth in NRS 278.010 to 278.630, inclusive, for action with respect to maps or subdivisions shall not be followed by the regional planning commission for subdivisions which lie within any territory in which there exists a functioning county or city planning commission.  [Part 5:110:1941; A 1947, 834; 1943 NCL § 5063.04] — (NRS A 2013, 3219)
NV Rev Stat § 278.145 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 278 - Planning and Zoning|NRS 278.145 - Report of location of utility project.

  1. Each public utility which owns an interest in or is engaged in the construction or operation of a utility project, or on whose behalf the utility project is constructed, which is located in a region or county whose population is 100,000 or more shall, within 60 days after the utility project has been approved for construction, report the location of the utility project to the planning commission of each city, county or region in which it is located.  2. The planning commission of each city, county or region shall maintain a record of each report it receives from a public utility pursuant to subsection 1.  (Added to NRS by 1991, 952)
NV Rev Stat § 278.150 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 278 - Planning and Zoning|NRS 278.150 - Master plan: Preparation and adoption by planning commission; adoption by governing body of city or county.

  1. The planning commission shall prepare and adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the city, county or region which in the commission’s judgment bears relation to the planning thereof.  2. The plan must be known as the master plan, and must be so prepared that all or portions thereof, except as otherwise provided in subsections 3, 4 and 5, may be adopted by the governing body, as provided in NRS 278.010 to 278.630, inclusive, as a basis for the development of the city, county or region for such reasonable period of time next ensuing after the adoption thereof as may practically be covered thereby.  3. In counties whose population is less than 100,000, if the governing body of the city or county adopts only a portion of the master plan, it shall include in that portion an aboveground utility plan of the public facilities and services element, as described in subparagraph (3) of paragraph (e) of subsection 1 of NRS 278.160.  4. In counties whose population is 100,000 or more but less than 700,000, if the governing body of the city or county adopts only a portion of the master plan, it shall include in that portion:  (a) A conservation plan of the conservation element, as described in subparagraph (1) of paragraph (a) of subsection 1 of NRS 278.160;  (b) The housing element, as described in paragraph (c) of subsection 1 of NRS 278.160;   (c) A population plan of the public facilities and services element, as described in subparagraph (2) of paragraph (e) of subsection 1 of NRS 278.160; and  (d) An aboveground utility plan of the public facilities and services element, as described in subparagraph (3) of paragraph (e) of subsection 1 of NRS 278.160.  5. In counties whose population is 700,000 or more, the governing body of the city or county shall adopt a master plan for all of the city or county that must address each of the elements set forth in paragraphs (a) to (h), inclusive, of subsection 1 of NRS 278.160.  [Part 8:110:1941; A 1947, 834; 1943 NCL § 5063.07] — (NRS A 1973, 1241; 1979, 530; 1995, 2225; 2001, 1679; 2011, 1183; 2013, 1499, 3219; 2017, 1353)
NV Rev Stat § 278.165 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 278 - Planning and Zoning|NRS 278.165 - Development and adoption of aboveground utility plan.

  1. A planning commission or governing body that is required to prepare and adopt a master plan pursuant to the provisions of this chapter shall develop and include in that plan an aboveground utility plan as described in subsection 2. The aboveground utility plan must:  (a) In a county whose population is 700,000 or more, conform with the comprehensive regional policy plan developed pursuant to NRS 278.02528; and  (b) In a county whose population is 100,000 or more but less than 700,000, conform with the comprehensive regional plan developed pursuant to NRS 278.0272.  2. An aboveground utility plan developed by a planning commission or governing body pursuant to this section must:  (a) Provide a process for the designation of corridors for the construction of aboveground utility projects;  (b) Be consistent with any transmission plan prepared by the Office of Energy;  (c) To ensure the continuity of transmission corridors, be consistent with the aboveground utility plan of each adjacent jurisdiction; and  (d) Be consistent with any resource management plan prepared by the Bureau of Land Management applicable to the jurisdiction of the planning commission or governing body, including, without limitation, by ensuring that the aboveground utility plan developed by the planning commission or governing body provides for connectivity between any noncontiguous transmission corridors identified in the plan prepared by the Bureau of Land Management.  3. In developing an aboveground utility plan, a planning commission or governing body shall:  (a) Cooperate with the Bureau of Land Management, the Office of Energy and the planning commission or governing body of each adjacent jurisdiction to ensure that the aboveground utility plan adopted by the planning commission or governing body is consistent with any resource management plan prepared by the Bureau of Land Management, any transmission plan adopted by the Office of Energy and the aboveground utility plan developed by the planning commission or governing body of each adjacent jurisdiction; and  (b) Submit a copy of the aboveground utility plan, including all maps and exhibits adopted as part of the plan, to the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada and the Office of Energy.  (Added to NRS by 2013, 3213)
NV Rev Stat § 278.170 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 278 - Planning and Zoning|NRS 278.170 - Coordination of master plans; adoption of all or parts.

  1. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 2, 3 and 4, the commission may prepare and adopt all or any part of the master plan or any element thereof for all or any part of the city, county or region. Master regional plans must be coordinated with similar plans of adjoining regions, and master county and city plans within each region must be coordinated so as to fit properly into the master plan for the region.  2. In counties whose population is less than 100,000, if the commission prepares and adopts less than all elements of the master plan, it shall include in its preparation and adoption an aboveground utilities plan of the public facilities and services element, as described in subparagraph (3) of paragraph (e) of subsection 1 of NRS 278.160.  3. In counties whose population is 100,000 or more but less than 700,000, if the commission prepares and adopts less than all elements of the master plan, it shall include in its preparation and adoption:  (a) A conservation plan of the conservation element, as described in subparagraph (1) of paragraph (a) of subsection 1 of NRS 278.160;  (b) The housing element, as described in paragraph (c) of subsection 1 of NRS 278.160;  (c) A population plan of the public facilities and services element, as described in subparagraph (2) of paragraph (e) of subsection 1 of NRS 278.160; and  (d) An aboveground utility plan of the public facilities and services element, as described in subparagraph (3) of paragraph (e) of subsection 1 of NRS 278.160.  4. In counties whose population is 700,000 or more, the commission shall prepare and adopt a master plan for all of the city or county that must address each of the elements set forth in NRS 278.160.  [Part 8:110:1941; A 1947, 834; 1943 NCL § 5063.07] — (NRS A 1973, 1243; 1979, 530; 1995, 2228; 2001, 1682; 2011, 1186; 2013, 1504)
NV Rev Stat § 278.180 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 278 - Planning and Zoning|NRS 278.180 - School sites: Commission to notify school boards of preparation of plans for community and public buildings.

The county and city planning commission shall, during the formulation of plans for community design and public buildings, notify the governing boards of school districts having jurisdiction of the areas considered of the preparation of such plans to the end that adequate and properly located school sites may be provided for.  [Part 8:110:1941; A 1947, 834; 1943 NCL § 5063.07]
NV Rev Stat § 278.185 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 278 - Planning and Zoning|NRS 278.185 - Notice of plan for future construction of school.

When the board of trustees of a school district develops a plan for the future construction of one or more schools, it shall notify each city, county or regional planning commission any part of whose territory will be served by a proposed school. The notice must include the grades to be taught, the number of pupils to be accommodated, and the area to be served. The board shall notify each commission of any change in or abandonment of its plan.  (Added to NRS by 1977, 1498; A 1979, 705; 1981, 1707; 1987, 659; 1989, 499; 1993, 2564) — (Substituted in revision for part of NRS 278.349)
NV Rev Stat § 278.190 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 278 - Planning and Zoning|NRS 278.190 - Promotion of plans and regulations; consultations and advice; entry upon land; general powers.

  1. The commission shall endeavor to promote public interest in and understanding of the master plan and of official plans and regulations relating thereto. As a means of furthering the purpose of a master plan, the commission shall annually make recommendations to the governing body for the implementation of the plan.  2. It also shall consult and advise with public officials and agencies, public utility companies, civic, educational, professional and other organizations, and with citizens generally with relation to the carrying out of such plans.  3. The commission, and its members, officers and employees, in the performance of their functions, may enter upon any land and make examinations and surveys and place and maintain necessary monuments and marks thereon.  4. In general, the commission shall have such power as may be necessary to enable it to fulfill its functions and carry out the provisions of NRS 278.010 to 278.630, inclusive.  [Part 8:110:1941; A 1947, 834; 1943 NCL § 5063.07] — (NRS A 1973, 1826; 2013, 3222)
NV Rev Stat § 278.200 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 278 - Planning and Zoning|NRS 278.200 - Form of master plan.

The master plan shall be a map, together with such charts, drawings, diagrams, schedules, reports, ordinances, or other printed or published material, or any one or a combination of any of the foregoing as may be considered essential to the purposes of NRS 278.010 to 278.630, inclusive.  [9:110:1941; 1931 NCL § 5063.08] — (NRS A 1973, 1827; 2013, 3222)
NV Rev Stat § 278.220 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 278 - Planning and Zoning|NRS 278.220 - Adoption of master plan or part thereof by governing body; change to plan adopted by commission.

Except as otherwise provided in NRS 278.150 and 278.225:  1. Upon receipt of a certified copy of the master plan, or of any part thereof, as adopted by the planning commission, the governing body may adopt such parts thereof as may practicably be applied to the development of the city, county or region for a reasonable period of time next ensuing.  2. The parts must thereupon be endorsed and certified as master plans thus adopted for the territory covered, and are hereby declared to be established to conserve and promote the public health, safety and general welfare.  3. Before adopting any plan or part thereof, the governing body shall hold at least one public hearing thereon, notice of the time and place of which must be published at least once in a newspaper of general circulation in the city or counties at least 10 days before the day of hearing.  4. No change in or addition to the master plan or any part thereof, as adopted by the planning commission, may be made by the governing body in adopting the same until the proposed change or addition has been referred to the planning commission for a report thereon and an attested copy of the report has been filed with the governing body. Failure of the planning commission so to report within 40 days, or such longer period as may be designated by the governing body, after such reference shall be deemed to be approval of the proposed change or addition.  [Part 11:110:1941; A 1947, 834; 1943 NCL § 5063.10] — (NRS A 2001, 1683; 2005, 186)
NV Rev Stat § 278.225 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 278 - Planning and Zoning|NRS 278.225 - Governing body may establish by ordinance procedure for adopting minor amendments to master plan; public hearing and notice required before adoption of ordinance.

  1. A governing body may establish by ordinance a procedure by which the governing body may adopt minor amendments to the master plan, or any part thereof, without action by the planning commission.  2. Before adopting an ordinance or a minor amendment pursuant to subsection 1, the governing body shall hold a public hearing and give notice of the hearing in the manner required by subsection 3 of NRS 278.220.  3. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires, "minor amendment" means:  (a) A change in a boundary that is based on a geographical feature, including, without limitation, topography, slopes, hydrographic features, wetland delineation and floodplains, when evidence is produced that the mapped location of the geographical feature is in error;  (b) A change made to reflect the alteration of the name of a jurisdiction, agency, department or district by the governing body, governing board or other governing authority of the jurisdiction, agency, department or district, as applicable, or by another entity authorized by law to make such an alteration; and  (c) An update of statistical information that is based on a new or revised study.  (Added to NRS by 2005, 185)
NV Rev Stat § 278.230 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 278 - Planning and Zoning|NRS 278.230 - Governing body to put adopted master plan into effect.

  1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 278.150, whenever the governing body of any city or county has adopted a master plan or part thereof for the city or county, or for any major section or district thereof, the governing body shall, upon recommendation of the planning commission, determine upon reasonable and practical means for putting into effect the master plan or part thereof, in order that the same will serve as:  (a) A pattern and guide for that kind of orderly physical growth and development of the city or county which will cause the least amount of natural resource impairment and will conform to the adopted population plan, where required, and ensure an adequate supply of housing, including affordable housing; and  (b) A basis for the efficient expenditure of funds thereof relating to the elements of the master plan.  2. The governing body may adopt and use such procedure as may be necessary for this purpose.  [Part 11:110:1941; A 1947, 834; 1943 NCL § 5063.10] — (NRS A 1973, 1243; 1995, 2228; 2001, 1683; 2013, 1506)
NV Rev Stat § 278.240 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 278 - Planning and Zoning|NRS 278.240 - Approval required for certain dedications, closures, abandonments, construction or authorizations.

Whenever the governing body of a city, county or region has adopted a master plan, or one or more elements thereof, for the city, county or region, or for a major section or district thereof, no street, square, park, or other public way, ground, or open space may be acquired by dedication or otherwise, except by bequest, and no street or public way may be closed or abandoned, and no public building or structure may be constructed or authorized in the area for which the master plan or one or more elements thereof has been adopted by the governing body unless the dedication, closure, abandonment, construction or authorization is approved in a manner consistent with the requirements of the governing body, board or commission having jurisdiction over such a matter.  [12:110:1941; 1931 NCL § 5063.11] — (NRS A 1997, 2419; 2013, 1508)