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2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 269 - Unincorporated Towns › NRS 269.650 - Annexation by town whose population is less than 25,000 in county whose population is less than 700,000: Ordinance; boundaries.

In a county whose population is less than 700,000, those areas, including subdivisions, which are adjacent or contiguous to an unincorporated town whose population is less than 25,000, and which require substantially all of the services described in NRS 269.575, may be annexed by the unincorporated town by ordinance adopted by the town board or the board of county commissioners. The ordinance must contain a provision requiring that the town boundary be surveyed, mapped, platted and so enlarged as to include the area to be annexed. Upon filing of the plat or map of the town, including the area annexed, it constitutes the legal boundary of the town.
(Added to NRS by 1979, 279; A 1979, 1333; 1989, 1916; 2011, 1168)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 269 - Unincorporated Towns › NRS 269.652 - Annexation by town whose population is less than 25,000 in county whose population is less than 700,000: Commencement of proceedings to initiate.

Proceedings to initiate any annexation authorized by NRS 269.650 may be commenced by:
1. Petition of a majority of the taxpayers residing in the area to be annexed;
2. Recommendation of the county planning commission;
3. Resolution of the town board or the board of county commissioners,
or by any combination thereof.
(Added to NRS by 1979, 279; A 1985, 710)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 269 - Unincorporated Towns › NRS 269.654 - Annexation by town whose population is less than 25,000 in county whose population is less than 700,000: Notice.

If a town board or board of county commissioners proposes to adopt an ordinance that provides for the annexation of an area by an unincorporated town pursuant to NRS 269.650, the town board or board of county commissioners shall, at the time the title and summary of the proposed ordinance are published in a newspaper pursuant to NRS 269.155:
1. Send a copy of the proposed ordinance by certified mail, return receipt requested, to each owner of real property in the area proposed to be annexed; and
2. Post a notice of the proposed annexation on the Internet website, if any, established and maintained by the town board or board of county commissioners.
(Added to NRS by 2011, 586)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 269 - Unincorporated Towns › NRS 269.660 - Annexation by town in county whose population is 700,000 or more: Privileges, benefits and obligations of annexed territory and its inhabitants; municipal taxes.

In a county whose population is 700,000 or more, from and after the effective date of the annexation of territory by an unincorporated town, the territory annexed and its inhabitants and property are subject to all debts, laws, ordinances and regulations in force in the annexing unincorporated town and are entitled to the same privileges and benefits as other parts of the annexing unincorporated town. The newly annexed territory is subject to municipal taxes levied by the annexing unincorporated town for the fiscal year following the effective date of annexation.
(Added to NRS by 2011, 515)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 270 - Correction and Vacation of Plats › NRS 270.010 - Procedure for correction of maps or plats.

Whenever:
1. The map or plat of any city or of any part thereof or addition thereto, filed or recorded in accordance with the then existing law or filed and recorded in accordance with this chapter is, by reason of error or mistake, or lack of sufficient description, or by reason of the fact that the original map or plat is lost or destroyed, or by reason of the fact that there have been filed or recorded two or more conflicting maps or plats for such city or part thereof or addition thereto, is uncertain or ambiguous; or
2. By reason of the mistaken, faulty, erroneous platting or description of or on any such map or plat, or by reason of the destruction of section corners or other artificial or natural monuments, there is any substantial uncertainty, ambiguity or confusion as to the correct and accurate description or location of the lands, blocks or lots therein described or the lines of the blocks, lots, streets, alleys, highways, parks, school property, cemeteries or other pieces or parcels devoted to public use,
such lost or destroyed map or plat may be restored or such faulty, erroneous or ambiguous map or plat may be corrected, or the confusion, ambiguity or uncertainty arising by reason of there being two or more conflicting maps or plats, or by reason of the destruction of section corners or other artificial or natural monuments, may be cured as provided in NRS 270.010 to 270.150, inclusive.
[1:120:1919; 1919 RL p. 2663; NCL § 1355]—(NRS A 1977, 1515)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 270 - Correction and Vacation of Plats › NRS 270.030 - Compensation of surveyor; employment of other engineers.

1. The city council or other legislative board of the city shall allow to the city engineer or county engineer or other engineer employed for making such survey and maps a reasonable compensation for the services of the engineer so employed and for the services of such assistant or assistants as that engineer may employ in the work and such expenses as are necessary to mark permanently the points and lines of such survey.
2. In the event that the engineer employed shall for any reason fail to complete the work within a reasonable time, the board or council may employ such other and further engineers or surveyors as may be necessary to complete the work.
[3:120:1919; 1919 RL p. 2664; NCL § 1357]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 270 - Correction and Vacation of Plats › NRS 270.040 - Filing of original map with clerk; posting of copies; notice of time for objections.

1. When the survey has been completed and the map or maps, or plat or plats, prepared as provided in NRS 270.010 to 270.150, inclusive, the board or council shall cause sufficient prints thereof to be made, whereupon the original map or maps so prepared shall be filed with the clerk of the board or council, who shall endorse the date of filing thereon and shall cause prints thereof to be placed on display in each of 3 public places within the city and shall give public notice thereof by posting in at least 3 public places in the city and by publication in a newspaper printed and published in the county and of general circulation in the city, at least once a week for 4 successive weeks.
2. The notice shall state briefly the filing of the plat or map, the purpose thereof and the places where the same is on display, and shall notify all persons that may be affected thereby to file their written objections or exceptions thereto, if any they have, with the board or council, not more than 60 days from the date of the first publication of the notice and that after the expiration of such period the maps or plats will be filed with the district court for their adoption and approval in accordance with the provisions of NRS 270.010 to 270.150, inclusive. The posting shall be made within 5 days of the first publication. If no newspaper is printed or published within the county, the publication shall be made in a newspaper printed and published in one of the counties nearest thereto.
3. The due publication of the notice shall be shown by the affidavit of the manager or publisher of the newspaper in which the same is published, and the posting of the notice shall be shown by affidavit of the clerk or of the person posting the notices.
4. The board or council shall also furnish additional blue or blueline prints of the maps or plats at a reasonable cost to any parties desiring such copies.
[4:120:1919; 1919 RL p. 2665; NCL § 1358]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 270 - Correction and Vacation of Plats › NRS 270.050 - Objections and exceptions to plat: Form and contents.

1. Objections or exceptions to such maps or plats shall be in writing, under the oath of the objecting or excepting party, and shall be filed with the clerk of the board not later than 60 days after the first publication of the notice and the clerk shall endorse his or her filing marks thereon.
2. The objections or exceptions need not be in any precise or particular form, but shall state clearly the nature of the objection or exception and the grounds and facts upon which the same are based, and shall conform so far as may be practicable to pleadings in courts of record. No answer or reply need be made or filed to put such objections or exceptions at issue, but the same shall be considered at issue upon the map or plat and the objections or exceptions thereto. Such objections or exceptions shall be entitled: "Before the City Council (or ........, as the case may be) of the City of ................, County of ................, State of Nevada. In the matter of the adoption of a map or plat of and for the City of ................ (or the ................ addition to, such city, as the case may be)."
[5:120:1919; 1919 RL p. 2665; NCL § 1359]—(NRS A 1977, 1516)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 270 - Correction and Vacation of Plats › NRS 270.060 - City to commence action in district court; contents of complaint; notice of lis pendens; service of summons.

1. Within 30 days after the expiration of the 60 days from the date of the first publication, the city council, or other legislative board of the city shall commence an action in the district court of the State of Nevada, in and for the county in which the city is situate, in which such city shall be the party plaintiff and in which shall be joined as parties defendant all persons who are by the plaintiff known to have, or appear by the county assessor’s lists in the county to have, any interest, whether legal or equitable and whether in possession or expectancy in or to any of the blocks, lots or any other pieces or parcels of property, whose title would be affected by the adoption of the map or maps, or plat or plats.
2. Such action shall be commenced by the filing of a complaint, in which the plaintiff shall set forth the making and filing of the map or maps, plat or plats, in accordance with the provisions of NRS 270.010 to 270.150, inclusive, and the other and further things and notices herein required. Together with the complaint the plaintiff shall file such map or maps, or plat or plats, together with such written objections or exceptions thereto as may have been filed as herein provided, and shall pray the court for an order adopting, fixing and establishing the map or maps, or plat or plats, and fixing, settling, establishing, determining and adjudicating the points, lines, descriptions, metes, bounds, names, numbers and letters of all blocks, lots, streets, alleys, highways, parks, schools, cemeteries and other properties devoted to public use and all lines and corners therein shown.
3. At the time of commencing such action the plaintiff shall cause to be filed in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the property is situate, a notice of the pendency of the action, and such notice, when recorded, shall be considered a notice thereof to all persons to the extent and effect now provided by law.
4. The summons shall be served as provided in NRS and the Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure; but if the corrections shall not change the boundaries in any property owner’s property, the summons shall be served by publication thereof for 4 consecutive weeks in some newspaper in the county in which the property is situated, and such publication shall be deemed to be legal service thereof.
[6:120;1919; A 1929, 20; NCL § 1360]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 270 - Correction and Vacation of Plats › NRS 270.070 - Contents and posting of summons; property deemed within jurisdiction of district court; fictitious defendants.

1. The summons in the action need not contain a description by lot or block numbers or by metes and bounds, but shall refer generally to the purpose of the action and shall contain the name of the city or part thereof or addition thereto to be affected by the action.
2. A copy of the summons shall be posted in 3 conspicuous places within the city within 10 days after the filing of the complaint.
3. After the service of the summons and complaint, as herein provided, and the filing of the notice of the pendency of such action and the posting of summons, as in this section specified, all of the property within such city or part thereof or addition thereto shall, for all of the purposes of the action, be conclusively deemed within the jurisdiction of the district court in which such action is brought.
4. If the names of the owner or owners of any of the property within the city shall be unknown to the plaintiff, such fact may be recited in the complaint in the action and any and all such owners impleaded under fictitious names, and the complaint may be thereafter amended if the true names of such fictitious defendants or any of them be thereafter ascertained. The judgment and decree in the action shall be binding and conclusive as to all of the property affected, whether the owners, or one or more thereof, of any of the parcels of property within the city be actually named as party or parties defendant or not.
[7:120:1919; 1919 RL p. 2666; NCL § 1361]—(NRS A 1977, 1517)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 270 - Correction and Vacation of Plats › NRS 270.080 - Further pleadings: Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure; hearing given precedence.

1. Further pleadings may be served and filed in the action in all respects as provided in the Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure for other actions and the cause shall proceed in all respects in accordance with the regular practice in courts of record in this State.
2. When the cause is at issue upon the plaintiff’s complaint and the respective answers of such defendants as shall have appeared in the action, and the reply of the plaintiff to any affirmative matters set up in any one or more of such answers, and when the default of all defendants failing to appear has been entered, the court shall set the matter down for hearing at the earliest practicable date and the hearing thereof shall have precedence over all other matters upon the calendar, except matters of a similar nature, and except hearings on temporary or permanent injunctions and except such matters as are given precedence by law.
[8:120:1919; 1919 RL p. 2666; NCL § 1362]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 270 - Correction and Vacation of Plats › NRS 270.090 - Findings of fact, conclusions of law and judgment; recording of certified copy of judgment, map and plat; fees for recording; county recorder to provide copy of map or plat or access to digital map or plat to county assessor.

1. The findings of fact and conclusions of law and judgment must be made and entered as in other cases, and exceptions, motions for new trial and appeals may be had as provided in NRS and the Nevada Rules of Appellate Procedure.
2. The court or judge thereof shall in the findings and decree establish a definite map or plat of the city, or part thereof or addition thereto, in accordance with the pleadings and proof, and shall, by reference, make a part of the findings and judgment the map or plat so established.
3. Wherever blocks or parts of blocks in the original lost, destroyed, conflicting, erroneous or faulty maps or plats have been insufficiently or incorrectly platted, numbered or lettered, the omission, insufficiency or fault must be supplied and corrected in accordance with the pleadings and proof.
4. If the map or plat prepared by the surveyor is inadequate or impracticable of use for the judgment, the judgment or decree may require the making of a new map or plat in accordance with the provisions of the findings and judgment.
5. A certified copy of the judgment, together with the map or plat as is established by the court, must be recorded in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the action is tried. All the ties and descriptions of section or quarter section corners, monuments or marks required by NRS 270.020 must appear on the map finally established by the judgment. The county recorder may collect and receive as fees for recording and indexing the certified copy of the judgment and map, $10 for the map, and the specific statutory fees for the judgment, but not exceeding $50.
6. The judgment may require that all prior existing maps in conflict with the map or plat adopted be so marked or identified by the county recorder to show the substitution of the new map or plat in place thereof.
7. A county recorder who records a map or plat pursuant to this section shall, within 7 working days after recording the map or plat, provide to the county assessor at no charge:
(a) A duplicate copy of the map or plat and any supporting documents; or
(b) Access to the digital map or plat and any digital supporting documents. The map or plat and the supporting documents must be in a form that is acceptable to the county recorder and the county assessor.
[9:120:1919; A 1929, 17; NCL § 1363]—(NRS A 1977, 1517; 1983, 349; 2001, 1559, 1757; 2003, 2785)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 270 - Correction and Vacation of Plats › NRS 270.100 - Appeal: Procedure.

1. In the event of any appeal, as mentioned in NRS 270.090, it shall only be necessary for the appellant:
(a) To appeal from such part of the judgment, decree, order denying motion for new trial, etc., as applies to the particular controversy upon which such appeal is taken; and
(b) To cause to be prepared, and for the clerk to prepare and certify to, on such appeal, such parts of the record on appeal, transcript on appeal, judgment record, etc., as apply to such particular controversy, or
such appeal may be taken upon an agreed statement on appeal, or an agreed statement of facts stipulated to between the appellant and respondent and approved by the court or judge.
2. Any number of such appeals may be taken separately by the several parties to such action, or one or more of such appellants may join in one appeal.
3. Except as herein otherwise provided, the proceedings on such appeal shall conform with the Nevada Rules of Appellate Procedure.
[9a:120:1919; added 1929, 17; NCL § 1364]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 270 - Correction and Vacation of Plats › NRS 270.110 - City attorney or district attorney may prosecute action; employment of other counsel.

The city council, or other legislative board of the city, may cause such action to be commenced and prosecuted by the city attorney of such city or the district attorney of the county in which such city is situate or may retain additional or other counsel for the purpose of the action and may allow a reasonable sum for the compensation of the attorney or attorneys so acting.
[10:120:1919; 1919 RL p. 2667; NCL § 1365]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 270 - Correction and Vacation of Plats › NRS 270.120 - Questions of fact may be referred to master; property may be taken for public use; procedure.

1. The court or judge trying the cause may refer any questions of fact arising therein to a master or commissioner for findings and determination, and the findings of such master or commissioner shall be subject to review by such court or judge.
2. The court or judge before whom the cause is tried shall have full jurisdiction over all questions that may be properly at issue upon the pleadings, including such issues that may arise by reason of any conflict between the lots, blocks, streets, alleys, highways, parks, cemeteries, schools and other public properties, or the lines or corners thereof, as shown by the map or maps, or plat or plats, filed with the complaint, and the rights or alleged rights of any one or more of the owners of any of the property described in the complaint or embraced in the map or maps, or plat or plats.
3. In the event that it is necessary, for the purpose of fixing and establishing the map or maps, or plat or plats, to devote any pieces or parcels of property owned by any of the defendants within the city, subdivision or addition to public uses as streets or alleys, it shall be proper for the court or judge to appoint three appraisers, who shall appraise and assess the value of such property, and the court may condition the approval of such map or plat on the payment or proper tender by plaintiff to such party defendant of such assessed sum. Any two of such three appraisers shall be competent to act, and their appraisement or assessment shall be subject to review by the court.
[11:120:1919; 1919 RL p. 2667; NCL § 1366]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 270 - Correction and Vacation of Plats › NRS 270.130 - Equitable jurisdiction of court to settle rights, conflicts and controversies; court may vest title; stipulations between parties.

1. The court or judge trying the cause shall have full equitable jurisdiction to settle and determine all rights, conflicts and controversies arising out of any situation wherein it is claimed or alleged that improvements owned by any of the defendants encroach upon any streets, alleys or other public places.
2. If it appear to the court or judge that any of the defendants has constructed improvements upon what appears, from the maps or plats submitted, to comprise streets, alleys or other public places in the city, and that the construction of such improvements was made by such defendant or defendants in good faith and in the supposition that such improvements were constructed within the property lines of such defendant or defendants, or in reliance upon any map or plat supposed to be correct or authentic, or in reliance upon any monuments supposed to be correct or authentic, or in reliance upon the lines upon which other improvements in such block or in other blocks had been constructed, and if it appear that the retention of possession and the vesting of title in such defendants of such portions of the streets, alleys or other public places can be maintained without material injury to the public, or to the other residents of the city, the court shall have full power and authority, in its findings and decree, to declare such title and possession vested in such defendant or defendants; or may, in its discretion and in accordance with the facts, the law and the equities in the case, declare such possession and title vested in such defendant or defendants, upon such terms as may be just and equitable, or upon the payment of such sums as may be right and proper by such defendant or defendants to the city or town.
3. Nothing herein contained shall be construed as making it obligatory upon such court or judge to decree or vest title in any such defendant or defendants to property necessary for public use. The court or judge may, in the findings and decree, recognize and approve any stipulation, otherwise appearing to be fair and equitable and without fraud or collusion, between the city or town, on the one hand, as plaintiff, and any of the separate or several individual defendants, as to the establishing of such lines, and no such stipulation shall be invalid by reason of the fact that any other defendant or defendants shall not be parties thereto, save and except where such stipulation shall affect the actual property lines of other defendants. No such findings or decree shall be invalid by reason of misjoinder or nonjoinder of parties in or to the action in the settlement of such individual conflicts.
[11a:120:1919; added 1929, 17; NCL § 1367]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 270 - Correction and Vacation of Plats › NRS 270.140 - Applicability of NRS 270.010 to 270.150, inclusive, to towns.

NRS 270.010 to 270.150, inclusive, shall apply to like extent to towns within the State of Nevada, the word "town" being substituted wherever the word "city" appears therein and "the legislative board of the town" (or, in the event that such town have no legislative board, then the "board of county commissioners of the county in which such town is situate") shall be substituted for "city council or other legislative board of the city."
[12:120:1919; 1919 RL p. 2668; NCL § 1368]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 270 - Correction and Vacation of Plats › NRS 270.150 - Additional rights and remedies.

The rights and remedies provided for in NRS 270.010 to 270.150, inclusive, shall be in addition to those existing under subsisting law in regard to the establishing and vacating of townsites or parts thereof or property devoted to public purposes therein.
[13:120:1919; 1919 RL p. 2668; NCL § 1369]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 270 - Correction and Vacation of Plats › NRS 270.160 - Procedure.

1. Any owner or owners of platted land in an incorporated city may make application in writing to the city council of the city wherein such land is situated for the vacation of the portion of the plat so owned by them, together with such portion of any and all streets, alleys and public ways as adjoin or abut the same.
2. Such application shall particularly describe the portion of the plat, and of the streets, alleys and public ways sought to be vacated, and shall be signed by the applicant or applicants.
3. A copy of such application shall be published at the expense of the applicant or applicants in a newspaper of general circulation published in such city, at least once a week for 3 successive weeks, which publication shall be deemed due and sufficient notice to all persons interested of the nature and purpose of such application.
4. Upon the filing of such application and proof of publication with the city clerk, the city council shall, at its next regular meeting, proceed to hear, consider and dispose of the same, and if the city council be satisfied that neither the public nor any person will be materially injured thereby, it shall order such portion of the plat, streets, alleys and public ways vacated in accordance with such application, a certified copy of which order shall be duly recorded in the office of the recorder of the county wherein such land is situated. Such county recorder shall endorse the information contained in the order on the original plat.
5. Such owner or owners shall cause to be prepared, at their expense, a revised plat plainly showing the approved vacation, and record it with the county recorder of the county in which the property is located after such revised plat has been approved by the city council. Such revised plat shall comply with all requirements of this chapter.
[1:73:1917; A 1941, 39; 1931 NCL § 1372]—(NRS A 1971, 763)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 270 - Correction and Vacation of Plats › NRS 270.170 - Person claiming material injury may commence action to have order of vacation set aside.

Any person claiming material injury by any order so made by the city council may at any time within 60 days after the date of such order commence an action in the district court having jurisdiction to have such order set aside.
[2:73:1917; 1919 RL p. 2663; NCL § 1373]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 270 - Correction and Vacation of Plats › NRS 270.180 - NRS 270.160 and 270.170 supplementary; applicability.

NRS 270.160 and 270.170 are intended to supplement and not to supersede the existing laws relating to the vacation of city and town plats and do not apply to land divided pursuant to NRS 278.010 to 278.630, inclusive.
[3:73:1917; 1919 RL p. 2664; NCL § 1374]—(NRS A 1977, 1518; 2015, 318; 2017, 2049)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 270A - Joint Municipal Organizations › NRS 270A.010 - Power of cities and towns to join organization.

It shall be lawful for the governing body of any city or town in this state, whether organized under the general laws or a special or home rule charter, to join with the governing body of any other city or town, or cities or towns, in the formation of an organization of municipalities for the purpose of securing concerted action among such municipalities in behalf of such measures as the organization shall determine to be in the common interest of the municipalities.
[1:18:1951]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 270A - Joint Municipal Organizations › NRS 270A.020 - Powers of organization.

The joint municipal organization, when formed, shall have the power:
1. To meet at such times and places as it may determine for discussion of such measures as affect the welfare of the municipal members of the organization.
2. To maintain an office, and to put in charge thereof a secretary or other officer or agents as the organization may deem to be necessary.
3. To circulate any literature or information among the municipal officers of this state as it may from time to time determine to be wise.
4. Generally to take such action as it may deem wise in support of such measures as it may deem to be in the interest of the member municipalities of the organization.
[2:18:1951]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 270A - Joint Municipal Organizations › NRS 270A.030 - Appropriation of money authorized; expenses of delegates.

1. Any city or town which shall join or which shall help form such an organization, as is authorized by NRS 270A.010, may appropriate through its governing body out of its general fund money to pay the annual dues in the joint municipal organization and the expenses of such delegates as the governing body may designate to attend meetings of any such organization.
2. If the governing body of the particular city or town has so appropriated money as hereinabove provided for, then delegates shall receive the per diem allowance and travel expenses provided for state officers and employees generally.
[3:18:1951]—(NRS A 2007, 602)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 270B - Foreign Municipal Corporations › NRS 270B.010 - Filing requirements.

1. Every municipal corporation organized in another state, that enters this State to do business, shall, before commencing work or doing any business in this State, file in the Office of the Secretary of State:
(a) A certified copy of its charter, or of the statute or statutes, or legislative, executive or governmental acts, or other instruments of authority by which it was created; and
(b) The information required pursuant to NRS 77.310.
2. A certified copy of the charter, papers or other instruments and the information required pursuant to NRS 77.310, certified by the Secretary of State of this State, must also be filed in the office of the county clerk of the county where the principal place of business of the municipality in this State is located.
[1:107:1933; 1931 NCL § 1849]—(NRS A 1989, 953; 2007, 2717)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 270B - Foreign Municipal Corporations › NRS 270B.020 - Payment of minimum fee.

Any such municipal corporation so entering this state for the purpose of constructing works and doing business herein shall pay to the Secretary of State the minimum fee required by law to be paid by foreign corporations authorized to do business within this state.
[2:107:1933; 1931 NCL § 1850]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 270B - Foreign Municipal Corporations › NRS 270B.030 - Issuance of certificate by Secretary of State.

On filing certified copies of charters, papers or other instruments and the certificate of acceptance as required by NRS 270B.010, and paying the fees required by NRS 270B.020, the Secretary of State shall issue to any such municipal corporation a certificate certifying that the filings have been made and fees paid, and that the municipal corporation is authorized under the laws of the State of Nevada to do business within this State.
[3:107:1933; 1931 NCL § 1851]—(NRS A 1989, 953)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 270B - Foreign Municipal Corporations › NRS 270B.040 - Applicability of laws and regulations.

Any such municipal corporation so entering this state for the purpose of doing business herein shall be subject to all of the laws of this state and all of the regulations of this state specifically applicable to any particular business or activity in which such municipalities may engage, as the same are now, or hereafter may be made, applicable to foreign corporations doing like or similar business or work in this state.
[4:107:1933; A 1941, 49; 1931 NCL § 1852]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 270B - Foreign Municipal Corporations › NRS 270B.050 - Registered agent: Appointment.

Every foreign municipal corporation owning property or doing business in this State shall appoint and keep in this State a registered agent as provided in NRS 14.020.
[Part 1911 CPA § 82; A 1933, 191; 1939, 66; 1931 NCL § 8580]—(NRS A 2007, 2717)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 270B - Foreign Municipal Corporations › NRS 270B.060 - Service of process.

Service of process on a foreign municipal corporation owning property or doing business in this state shall be made in the manner provided in NRS 14.020 and 14.030.
[Part 1911 CPA § 83; A 1921, 107; 1939, 66; 1931 NCL § 8581]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.015 - Applicability of chapter.

Except as otherwise provided in NRS 271.700, this chapter applies:
1. To any unincorporated town.
2. To any city, including Carson City, whether incorporated or governed under a general act, special legislative act or special charter, enacted, adopted or granted pursuant to Section 1 or 8 of Article 8 of the Constitution of the State of Nevada, or otherwise.
3. To any county for any project outside of any city.
4. To any county, city, or town for a project not specified in this chapter but which that municipality is otherwise authorized by law to acquire and defray its cost by special assessment, and to any other political subdivision of this State otherwise authorized by law to acquire a specified or described project and to defray its cost by special assessment. In such a case, this chapter provides the method of doing so, to the extent that a special procedure is not provided in the authorizing statute.
5. To a county for a project or benefited property within the boundaries of a city or another county, if the city or other county within whose boundaries the project or benefited property is located consents to the exercise of powers under this chapter within its boundaries, in an interlocal agreement entered into pursuant to NRS 277.045 to 277.180, inclusive.
6. To a city for a project or benefited property outside the boundaries of the city, if the county or other city within whose boundaries the project or benefited property is located consents to the exercise of powers under this chapter within its boundaries, in an interlocal agreement entered into pursuant to NRS 277.045 to 277.180, inclusive.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1348; A 1969, 953, 960; 1979, 490; 1981, 957; 1983, 126; 1987, 1716; 1989, 255; 1995, 1963; 2017, 1529)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.017 - Issuance of interim warrants and bonds by municipality.

Any municipality creating an improvement district in connection with any project and defraying the cost thereof wholly or in part by the levy and collection of assessments against assessable property in the district pursuant to any special charter, special act or other law other than the Consolidated Local Improvements Law may issue interim warrants and bonds and provide for their payment as herein provided.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 1614)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.020 - Legislative declaration.

It is hereby declared as a matter of legislative determination:
1. That providing for municipalities to which this chapter appertains the purposes, powers, duties, rights, disabilities, privileges, liabilities and immunities herein provided will serve a public use and will promote the health, safety, prosperity, security and general welfare of the inhabitants thereof and of the State of Nevada.
2. That the acquisition, improvement, equipment, maintenance and operation of any project herein authorized is in the public interest, is conducive to the public welfare, and constitutes a part of the established and permanent policy of the State of Nevada.
3. That the necessity for this chapter is a result of the large population growth and intense residential, commercial and industrial development in the incorporated and unincorporated areas of portions of the State and of the ensuing need for extensive local improvements therein.
4. That the Legislature recognizes the duty of municipalities as instruments of State Government to meet adequately the needs for such facilities within their boundaries, in cooperation with the State, counties and districts within the State.
5. That for the accomplishment of these purposes, the provisions of this chapter shall be broadly construed, and the rule that statutes in derogation of the common law are to be strictly construed shall have no application to this chapter.
6. That the notices herein provided are reasonably calculated to inform each interested person of his or her legally protected rights.
7. That the rights and privileges herein granted and the duties, disabilities and liabilities herein provided comply in all respects with any requirement or limitation imposed by any constitutional provision.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1349)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.025 - Decision of governing body prima facie evidence of correctness.

Except for an action or decision made conclusive by a provision of this chapter, the action and decision of a municipality’s governing body as to all matters passed upon by it in relation to any action, matter or thing provided in this chapter is, in the absence of fraud, prima facie evidence of its correctness.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1349; A 1991, 1872)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.030 - Definitions.

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 271.035 to 271.253, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1349; A 1983, 871; 1985, 267, 1484; 1989, 523; 1997, 2495; 1999, 853, 2864; 2003, 2935; 2009, 1403; 2015, 143; 2015, 29th Special Session, 37; 2017, 2203, 3808)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.035 - "Acquisition" and "acquire" defined.

"Acquisition" or "acquire" means the opening, laying out, establishment, purchase, construction, securing, installation, reconstruction, lease, gift, grant from the Federal Government, any public body or person, endowment, bequest, devise, condemnation, transfer, assignment, option to purchase, other contract, or other acquirement (or any combination thereof) of facilities, other property, any project, or an interest therein, herein authorized.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1349)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.037 - "Art project" defined.

"Art project" means any works of art which are:
1. Selected through a public process; and
2. Displayed within the boundaries of an improvement district at a location which is:
(a) Accessible to the public; and
(b) On property:
(1) Owned by a governmental entity; or
(2) Over which a governmental entity has a permanent easement for public access.
(Added to NRS by 2003, 2932)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.040 - "Assessable property" defined.

"Assessable property" means the tracts of land specially benefited by any project the cost of which is wholly or partly defrayed by the municipality by the levy of assessments, except:
1. Any tract owned by the Federal Government, in the absence of its consent to the assessment.
2. Any tract owned by the municipality, unless the governing body of the municipality adopts a resolution finding that the tract is specially benefited by the project.
3. Any street or other public right-of-way.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1349; A 1971, 942; 2005, 1825)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.045 - "Assessment" and "assess" defined.

"Assessment" or "assess" means a special assessment, or the levy thereof, against any tract specially benefited by any project, to defray wholly or in part the cost of the project, which assessment shall be made on a front foot, zone, area or other equitable basis, as may be determined by the governing body, but in no event shall any assessment exceed the estimated maximum special benefits to the tract assessed or its reasonable market value, as determined by the governing body, as provided in NRS 271.365.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1350)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.065 - "Condemnation" and "condemn" defined.

"Condemnation" or "condemn" means the acquisition by the exercise of the power of eminent domain of property for any facilities, other property, project, or an interest therein, herein authorized. A municipality may exercise in the State the power of eminent domain, either within or without the municipality, and, in the manner provided by law for the condemnation of private property for public use, may take any property necessary to carry out any of the objects or purposes hereof, whether such property be already devoted to the same use by any corporate district or other public body, or otherwise, and may condemn any existing works or facilities in the municipality now or hereafter used. The power of eminent domain vested in the governing body shall include the power to condemn, in the name of the municipality, either the fee simple or any lesser estate or interest in any real property which the governing body by resolution shall determine is necessary for carrying out the purposes hereof. Such resolution shall be prima facie evidence that the taking of the fee simple or easement, as the case may be, is necessary.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1350)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.070 - "Cost" and "cost of project" defined.

"Cost," or "cost of the project," or words of similar import, means all or any part designated by the governing body of the cost of any facilities, project, or interest therein, being acquired, which cost, at the option of the governing body may include all or any part of the incidental costs pertaining to the project, including without limiting the generality of the foregoing, preliminary expenses advanced by the municipality from funds available for use therefor in the making of surveys, preliminary plans, estimates of cost, assessment plats, other preliminaries, the costs of appraising, printing, employing engineers, architects, fiscal agents, attorneys at law, clerical help, other agents or employees, costs of making, publishing, posting, mailing and otherwise giving any notice in connection with the project, the taking of options, the levy of assessments, the issuance of securities, the filing or recordation of instruments, the discounting of bonds, interest on interim warrants, the levy and collection of assessments and installments thereof, and all other expenses necessary or desirable and appertaining to any project, as estimated or otherwise ascertained by the governing body.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1350)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.080 - "County assessor" defined.

"County assessor" means the county assessor of the county in which the municipality proceeding hereunder is located; and if any such municipality is located in more than one county, "county assessor" means each county assessor of each county in which such municipality is located.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1351)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.090 - "Curb and gutter project" defined.

"Curb and gutter project" means any curbs and gutters acquired or improved and appertaining to sidewalks or streets, or both, and all appurtenances and incidentals, including real and other property therefor.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1351)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.095 - "Drainage project" defined.

"Drainage project" means any natural and artificial watercourses, wells, ditches, lakes, reservoirs, revetments, canals, levees, dikes, walls, embankments, bridges, sewers, culverts, syphons, sluices, flumes, ponds, dams, retarding basins, and other water diversion and storage facilities, pumping stations, stream gauges, rain gauges, flood warning service and appurtenant telephone, telegraph, radio and television service, and all appurtenances and incidentals necessary, useful or desirable for any such facilities (or any combination thereof), including real and other property therefor.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1351)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.097 - "Electrical project" defined.

"Electrical project" means any facilities for the transmission and distribution of electrical power, either above or beneath the surface of the ground, including lines, poles, conduits, house connections, transformers and related appliances, and all appurtenances and incidentals necessary, useful or desirable for any such facilities (or any combination thereof), including real and other property therefor.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 177)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.099 - "Energy efficiency improvement project" defined.

"Energy efficiency improvement project" means the installation or modification of one or more energy efficiency improvements and incidentals which are necessary, useful or desirable for any such improvements and which installation or modification has a useful life, as estimated by a governing body, of not less than 10 years.
(Added to NRS by 2009, 1402; A 2017, 1397)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.105 - "Equipment" and "equip" defined.

"Equipment" or "equip" means the furnishing of all necessary or desirable, related or appurtenant facilities, or any combination thereof, appertaining to any facilities, property, project, or interest therein, herein authorized.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1351)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.113 - "Fire protection project" defined.

"Fire protection project" means any facilities for a municipal fire protection system, including, without limitation, fire stations, pumper trucks, hook and ladder trucks, rescue trucks, fire engines, other motor vehicles, water works, hydrants, other water supply facilities, telegraphic fire signals, telephone, telegraph, radio and television service facilities, hooks, ladders, chutes, buckets, gauges, hoses, pumps, fire extinguishers, fans, artificial lights, respirators, rescue equipment and other fire protection and fire-fighting apparatus, or any combination thereof, and other buildings, structures, furnishings and equipment therefor.
(Added to NRS by 2015, 29th Special Session, 36)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.115 - "Governing body" defined.

1. "Governing body" means the city council, city commission, board of county commissioners, board of trustees, board of directors, board of supervisors or other legislative body of the public body proceeding hereunder in which body the legislative powers of the public body are vested.
2. In the case of an unincorporated town, "governing body" means the board of county commissioners or, if appropriate, the town board.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1351; A 1967, 1737; 1969, 325; 1981, 957; 1983, 126)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.120 - "Hereby," "herein," "hereinabove," "hereinafter," "hereinbefore," "hereof," "hereto" and "hereunder" defined.

"Hereby," "herein," "hereinabove," "hereinafter," "hereinbefore," "hereof," "hereto" and "hereunder" refer to this Consolidated Local Improvements Law and not solely to the particular portion thereof in which such word is used.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1351)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.125 - "Improvement" and "improve" defined.

"Improvement" or "improve" means the extension, widening, lengthening, betterment, alteration, reconstruction, repair or other improvement (or any combination thereof) of facilities, other property, any project, or an interest therein, herein authorized, including, without limitation, conducting promotional activities within an improvement district created for a neighborhood improvement project.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1351; A 1999, 2864; 2015, 144)