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2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.283 - Distribution and apportionment of water; refusal of service to delinquent land; assessment to maintain existing works.

1. All water delivered to the district or the right to the use of which is acquired by the district, under any contract with the United States, shall be distributed and apportioned by the district in accordance with the Acts of Congress applicable thereto, the rules and regulations of the Secretary of the Interior thereunder, and the provisions of the contract. Provision may be made in the contract between the district and the United States for the refusal of water service to any or all lands which may become delinquent in the payment of any assessment, toll or charge levied or imposed for the purpose of carrying out any contract between the district and the United States.
2. In case of a contract with the United States under which the district assumes the operation and maintenance of the existing works, assessments, tolls and charges may be levied or imposed by the board of directors, as provided in this chapter, to raise the sums required annually therefor, including amounts due the United States under the contract.
[57:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3289; NCL § 8075]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.285 - Rent or lease of water.

Districts cooperating with the United States may rent or lease water to private lands, entrymen or municipalities in the neighborhood of the district in pursuance of the contract with the United States.
[Part 55:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3288; NCL § 8073]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.287 - Dissolution of district or change of boundaries: Consent of Secretary of Interior; excluded areas free from liens and charges.

1. When a contract shall have been entered into and is in force and effect between the United States and any irrigation district, the district shall not be dissolved, nor shall the boundaries be changed, except upon written consent of the Secretary of the Interior, filed with the official records of the district.
2. If such consent is given and lands are excluded, the areas excluded shall be free from all liens and charges for payments to become due to the United States.
[Part 62:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3291; NCL § 8080]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.290 - Collection of money or action as fiscal agent of United States: Acceptance of appointment; duties, liabilities and powers of district.

The board of directors may accept on behalf of the district an appointment of the district as fiscal agent of the United States, or authorization of the district by the United States to make collection of moneys for or on behalf of the United States in connection with any federal reclamation project, whereupon the district shall be authorized so to act and to assume the duties and liabilities incident to such action. The board shall have full power to do any and all things required by the federal statutes now or hereafter enacted in connection therewith, and all things required by the rules and regulations now or that may hereafter be established by any department of the Federal Government in regard thereto.
[Part 55:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3288; NCL § 8073]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.293 - Additional bonds of district officers: When required; inspection of district books by federal agents.

1. In any case where an irrigation district is appointed fiscal agent of the United States in connection with any federal reclamation project, or by the United States, or under a contract therewith is authorized or required to make collection of moneys on behalf of the United States, or for payments due the United States under any such contract, each director of the district, and the secretary and the treasurer thereof, shall execute a further and additional bond in such sum as the Secretary of the Interior may require, conditioned for the faithful discharge of the duties of his or her office, or as fiscal or other agent of the United States, or both.
2. Any such bonds may be sued upon by the United States or any person injured by the failure of such officer or officers of the district to perform fully, promptly or completely their respective duties.
3. This requirement shall apply to the directors of a division and, insofar as applicable, to the officers of a district acting in that relation, in case of a contract between the United States and such division.
4. In all cases of contracts with the United States as described above, the board of directors of the district, or of a division thereof, and the secretary and treasurer of a district, shall at any time allow any officer or employee of the United States, when acting under the order of the Secretary of the Interior, to have access to all books, records and documents which are in the possession or control of such officers.
[65:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3293; NCL § 8083]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.295 - Conveyance of property to United States.

Any rights-of-way or other property owned or acquired by the district may be conveyed by the board to the United States insofar as the same may be needed for the construction, operation and maintenance of works by the United States pursuant to this chapter.
[58:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3290; NCL § 8076]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.297 - Authorization of proposal to enter into contract.

Any proposal to enter into a contract with the United States for the repayment of money for construction, the cost of a water supply, the operation and maintenance of existing works, or the acquisition of property, and to issue bonds if any are proposed, must be voted upon at a special election, district election or primary or general state election in the manner provided in the case of the ordinary issuance of district bonds.
[Part 56:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3289; NCL § 8074]—(NRS A 1993, 1085)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.300 - Notice of election: Contents.

Notice of the election provided for in NRS 539.297 shall contain, in addition to the information required in the case of an ordinary bond election:
1. A statement of the maximum amount of money to be payable to the United States for construction purposes, costs of water supply and acquisition of property, exclusive of penalties and interest.
2. A general statement of the property, if any, to be conveyed by the district as provided in this chapter.
[Part 56:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3289; NCL § 8074]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.303 - Ballots: Form.

The ballots at the election shall contain a brief statement of the general purpose of the contract and the amount of the obligation to be assumed, with the words "Contract—Yes," and "Contract—No," or "Contract and bonds—Yes," and "Contract and bonds—No," as the case may be.
[Part 56:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3289; NCL § 8074]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.305 - Validation proceedings.

The board of directors may submit any contract or proposed contract and bond issue to the district court of the county wherein is located the office of the board to determine the validity thereof and the authority of the board to enter into such contract, and the authority for and the validity of the issuance and deposit or transfer of the bonds. The same proceedings shall be had as in the ordinary case of the judicial determination of the validity of bonds and with like effect.
[Part 56:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3289; NCL § 8074]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.307 - Directors relieved of certain duties; adoption of surveys and plans made by United States.

The board of directors of a district is relieved from the duties imposed upon it in NRS 539.255, 539.260, 539.263 and 539.540 to 539.557, inclusive, insofar as the same may not be required in case of a contract between the district and the United States, and in that relation may take advantage of or adopt such surveys and plans as may have been or be made by the United States.
[Part 62:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3291; NCL § 8080]—(NRS A 1967, 1241)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.310 - Payments from revenue derived from annual assessments upon real property; property liable to assessment and levy.

All payments due or to become due to the United States under any contract between the district and the United States, including such payments of interest and principal on bonds as may be required in connection with a deposit or transfer thereof to the United States, shall be paid, unless otherwise provided by contract, by revenue derived from annual assessments apportioned as prescribed in this chapter, and levies thereof upon such real property within the district as may be assessable for district purposes under the laws of the State or by tolls and charges, as the case may be. Such real property shall be and remain liable to be assessed and levied upon for such payments.
[Part 59:64:1919; A 1927, 309; NCL § 8077]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.313 - Annual levy or imposition of tolls or charges to meet payments.

The board of directors annually shall levy an assessment or impose and cause to be collected tolls or charges sufficient to raise the money necessary to meet all payments when due as provided in the contract.
[Part 59:64:1919; A 1927, 309; NCL § 8077]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.315 - Apportionment of assessment in accordance with benefits; ascertainment of benefits.

1. The assessment required in any year to meet the payment due to the United States under the contract may be in accord with an apportionment of benefits made in or in pursuance of such contract.
2. In the ascertainment of such benefits there shall be taken into account:
(a) The provisions of the contract between the United States and the district, the federal laws applicable thereto, and the notice and regulations issued in pursuance of those laws.
(b) In addition, in case such contract is for the assumption by the district as principal or guarantor of indebtedness to the United States theretofore existing on account of district lands, the provisions of existing contracts carrying such indebtedness and the amounts of such liens as may be released in pursuance of the contract between the United States and the district.
[61:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3291; NCL § 8079]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.317 - Assessment of federal public land.

Public lands of the United States within any district shall be subject to assessment for all purposes of this chapter to the extent provided for by the Act of Congress approved August 11, 1916, entitled "An Act to promote reclamation of arid lands," or any other law which may hereafter be enacted by Congress in the same relation, upon full compliance therewith by the district.
[Part 59:64:1919; A 1927, 309; NCL § 8077]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.320 - Obligation of district in case of default of land.

Nothing contained in this chapter shall be construed to relieve the district from its obligation to pay as a district in case of the default of any land, unless so provided by the contract between the district and the United States.
[Part 59:64:1919; A 1927, 309; NCL § 8077]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.323 - Money paid to district treasury and held in United States Contract Fund; disposition of surplus.

1. All moneys collected in pursuance of the contract by assessment and levies or otherwise, and to be paid to the United States, shall be paid into the district treasury and held in a fund to be known as the United States Contract Fund, to be used for payments due to the United States under any such contract.
2. Any surplus moneys that may remain in the United States Contract Fund after any annual or semiannual payment due the United States under the terms of the contract has been fully paid may be transferred to the operation and maintenance fund.
[Part 59:64:1919; A 1927, 309; NCL § 8077]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.325 - Contracts for release of mortgages or liens; assumption by district of indebtedness due United States; apportionment of benefits; collection and payment of taxes and assessments.

1. The board of directors may also provide by contract with the United States for the release of mortgages or liens given or reserved to the United States upon district lands, and may provide for the assumption by the district, either as principal or guarantor, of indebtedness to the United States on account of district lands, and apportion to each tract of land so released benefits in the amount of the obligations to the United States so provided to be released.
2. The contract between the district and the United States may provide for the collection and payment of indebtedness so incurred or assumed by the district and the tax or assessment for the same at the same times and in the same amounts or installments provided in the federal reclamation laws. If so provided in the contract, such taxes and assessments shall become delinquent at the same dates provided in the Act of Congress of August 13, 1914, being c. 247, 38 Stat. 686, known as the Reclamation Extension Act. If it is provided in the contract that the United States waives any penalties for delinquency other or greater than those named in the Reclamation Extension Act, then, instead of the penalties otherwise provided in state laws, the penalties for delinquency in the payment of that part of the tax representing the special assessment for payment of the obligations of the district to the United States shall be the penalties named in the Reclamation Extension Act, and the amount required to be paid in case of any redemption from any tax sale or tax judgment shall be determined by figuring the part thereof due to the United States upon the basis of the amount of such special assessment levied for the purpose of paying the United States plus the penalties named in the Reclamation Extension Act.
3. The board shall have full power to do any and all things required by the federal statutes now or hereafter enacted in connection therewith, and all things required by the rules and regulations now or that may hereafter be established by any department of the Federal Government in regard thereto.
[60:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3290; NCL § 8078]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.327 - Exclusion of district division outside scope of contract.

When an irrigation district comprises lands which are or may be served by works constructed by the United States, and a contract is proposed to be entered into with the United States for the operation and maintenance by the district of the existing works, or for the construction of a drainage system or other extension or improvement of such works, and the lands in a division of the district may be regarded as clearly outside the scope of such contract, the election thereon and for the authorization of the program or undertaking contemplated thereby may be confined to the remaining portion of the district exclusive of such division, and the apportionment of the benefits may be made accordingly. Otherwise, the proceedings in connection with such contract and the program or undertaking contemplated thereby shall be as provided in this chapter.
[64:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3292; NCL § 8082]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.333 - General power; purposes.

1. In addition to the powers with which irrigation districts are or may be vested under the laws of the State, irrigation districts shall have the power to cooperate and contract with the county or counties in which any of the lands of the district may be situated for the following purposes:
(a) Acquisition of lands within the district purchased by the county at delinquent tax sales.
(b) Recovering for the district its proportion of delinquent taxes from the proceeds of the sale of such lands by the county.
(c) Adjustment of all matters growing out of the sales of lands within the district on account of delinquent taxes.
2. The proper county officials are also so authorized to contract.
[Part 54:64:1919; A 1923, 289; 1933, 271; 1931 NCL § 8072]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.335 - Authority to enter into agreements with districts in adjoining states.

It shall be lawful for irrigation districts organized or existing under or by virtue of the laws of the State of Nevada to enter into agreements with contiguous adjoining irrigation districts in other states for the joint construction, acquisition, management and control of diverting, impounding or distributing works for the irrigation or drainage of the lands within the boundaries of their respective districts.
[1:188:1919; 1919 RL p. 3307; NCL § 8232]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.340 - Recordation of contracts and resolutions.

Such contracts or certified copies thereof and certified copies of such resolutions shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder in each county in which is situated any of the lands of the districts or any of the reservoir sites or other real property owned by the districts or acquired under the provisions of NRS 539.335 to 539.353, inclusive.
[Part 2:188:1919; 1919 RL p. 3307; NCL § 8233]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.343 - Provisions as to ownership of property.

Such agreements may provide for joint or several ownership or ownership in common of the property necessary or convenient for the purposes of NRS 539.335 to 539.353, inclusive, and may provide for the terms and conditions under which, or the respective proportions in which, such property shall be held.
[Part 3:188:1919; 1919 RL p. 3308; NCL § 8234]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.347 - Meeting in adjoining state valid.

Any meeting of the board of directors of any such district, held in conjunction with the board of directors of the cooperating district, in the office of such district in the adjoining state, if duly and regularly called as required by law or if regularly adjourned to, shall be as lawful and valid as if held at the office of the board of directors of such district in this state.
[4:188:1919; 1919 RL p. 3308; NCL § 8235]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.350 - Diversion of water.

It shall be lawful for the purposes of such cooperative action to divert water from this state for impounding in the adjoining state or otherwise for distribution to the lands of the cooperating districts, regardless of the state in which such lands are situated, or to divert water from such adjoining state for impounding or otherwise for distribution to the lands of such cooperating districts in this or the adjoining state.
[5:188:1919; 1919 RL p. 3308; NCL § 8236]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.353 - Holding of property in this state or in adjoining state.

So far as may be necessary for fully carrying out the purposes of NRS 539.335 to 539.353, inclusive, such cooperating district in the adjoining state may hold title to property in this state, and such cooperating district in this state may hold title to property in the adjoining state.
[6:188:1919; 1919 RL p. 3308; NCL § 8237]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.355 - Foreign irrigation district authorized to acquire land by purchase or condemnation; conditions.

Any irrigation district heretofore organized and existing under the laws of any state adjoining the State of Nevada, which is now qualified to do business in the State of Nevada as a foreign corporation in the manner provided by law for the qualification of foreign corporations doing business within the State of Nevada, and when the irrigation district is now the owner of lands within the State of Nevada, such lands being now used for reservoir purposes, may and hereby is authorized to acquire title to any land within the State of Nevada by purchase or condemnation necessary or required for dams, ditches, reservoirs and other works for the diversion, conveyance or storage of water which lies within any watershed from which the irrigation district obtains its water supply for the irrigation and development of lands within the boundaries of the irrigation district in the adjoining state.
[1:180:1941; 1931 NCL § 8258]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.357 - Use of land declared public use.

The use of any land and the necessity therefor within the State of Nevada for either, any or all of the purposes specified in NRS 539.355 and 539.360 is hereby declared to be a public use.
[2:180:1941; 1931 NCL § 8258.01]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.360 - Provisions applicable if reciprocal rights granted.

The provisions of NRS 539.355 and 539.357 shall apply to irrigation districts organized and existing under the laws of an adjoining state only when such adjoining state grants like rights and privileges in that state to irrigation districts organized and existing under the laws of the State of Nevada.
[3:180:1941; 1931 NCL § 8258.02]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.363 - Power of division to construct improvements.

Any one of the several divisions of a district may provide for the construction of local drains, laterals, electric power and electric transmission lines, or for the leasing and acquisition of electric power and electric transmission lines, or for a domestic water supply, or may contract for the delivery of electricity, or other improvements, or the replacement or extension of existing works or structures, the benefits of which are limited to such division, in the manner provided in NRS 539.363 to 539.403, inclusive.
[Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.365 - Petition to district directors: Contents; appointment of local board.

Upon presentation to the board of directors of the district of a petition, signed by a majority of the electors of such division representing at least one-half of the total acreage thereof, describing in a general way the local matters proposed to be undertaken, and the estimated cost of preliminary surveys and engineering data, and naming two electors of such division for local directors thereof, the board of directors of the district shall consider such petition at a regular meeting, and, if it finds that the law has been complied with, shall approve the same and appoint the electors named in the petition as members of the local board.
[Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.367 - Local board: Composition; terms of office; vacancies.

1. One local director shall hold office until his or her successor is elected at the next biennial district election and qualifies, and the other local director shall hold office until his or her successor is elected at the second biennial district election after his or her appointment and qualifies.
2. The terms of such local directors shall be determined by lot, and their successors shall be elected for 4-year terms at the biennial elections.
3. The two local directors, with the director of the district from the division, shall constitute the local board of such division.
4. The directors of the district shall fill any vacancy in the office of local director of a division by the appointment of a qualified elector from the division in which the vacancy occurs.
[Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.370 - Compensation of local directors.

Each member of the local board of a division shall receive $5 per day for each day in attending meetings of the board, or while engaged in official business under the order of the board.
[Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.373 - Powers of local board concerning improvements.

The local board may provide for the local undertakings named in NRS 539.363, being authorized for that purpose, insofar as applicable, to exercise the powers and perform the duties granted to or imposed upon the board of directors of the district in connection with its affairs.
[Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.375 - Board of directors of district may incur debts and issue warrants; limitations; assessments.

1. The board of directors of the district may:
(a) Incur an indebtedness not exceeding, in the aggregate, the sum of $15,000, and not exceeding the estimated cost of preliminary surveys and engineering data; and
(b) Cause warrants of the district to issue therefor, bearing interest at a rate which does not exceed by more than 5 percent the Index of Revenue Bonds which was most recently published before the bids are received or a negotiated offer is accepted.
2. The directors of the district may levy an assessment on all the lands in a division benefited by the proposed improvements, in addition to any assessment by the district on the lands within the division, for the payment of the expenses and the redemption of the warrants.
[Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]—(NRS A 1971, 2127; 1975, 875; 1981, 1418; 1983, 586; 1985, 2062)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.377 - Plans and estimates of local undertakings: Preparation; statement of source of money; statement of purposes.

The local board shall thereupon prepare plans and estimates of the local undertakings proposed to be accomplished by such division, stating therein whether the funds therefor are to be raised by a single special assessment not in excess of a stated amount per acre upon the lands benefited, or whether the board is to be authorized to secure the necessary amounts by way of certificates of indebtedness or notes redeemable by annual assessments upon the lands benefited extending over a period of years. If the latter method is to be used, a general statement of the purposes for which the money is to be raised may be substituted for more explicit plans and estimates.
[Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.380 - Filing of plans and estimates or statement with district secretary; request for election.

The plans and estimates or statement must be filed with the secretary of the district, accompanied by a request of the local board that the question of whether to authorize the proposed special assessment or assessments and the construction of the proposed works be submitted to the electors of the division at a special election or the next district election or primary or general state election.
[Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]—(NRS A 1993, 1085)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.383 - Notice of election: Contents; publication.

1. The secretary of the district shall give notice of the purpose, time and place of such election, naming the polling place and inspectors and clerks of the election suggested by the local board.
2. The notice shall be published in the manner provided in this chapter for an election for special assessments in the district.
[Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.387 - Terms of local directors terminate and local board dissolved if proposal fails.

If such election fails of the required two-thirds vote of the electors of the division, the terms of office of the local directors shall thereupon terminate and the local board shall be dissolved.
[Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.390 - Authorization for improvements at election; levy and collection of assessments.

If the special assessment or certificates or notes of indebtedness and construction of the proposed works are authorized at the election, the local board shall levy such assessments or, as the case may be, shall proceed to the levying of annual assessments for the payment of interest and the redemption of certificates of indebtedness or notes. A list of such assessments or the first annual assessment, if to be made that year, shall be delivered to the treasurer of the district and entered by the treasurer in the assessment book or books thereof, and such assessment or assessments, and the collection thereof, shall thereafter take the course of assessments of the district as provided in this chapter.
[Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.393 - Certificates of indebtedness and notes: Signatures of officers of district; treated as bonds of district.

Certificates of indebtedness or notes shall be signed by the officers of the district and, except in the matter of assessments for interest and redemption being limited to the division, shall be treated in the same manner as district bonds.
[Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.395 - Apportionment of benefits; method of levy and collection of assessments.

Benefits shall be apportioned upon the land within such division and assessments levied and collected for the payment of the interest and redemption of certificates of indebtedness or notes in the manner prescribed in the case of district bonds.
[Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.397 - Validation proceedings.

All the proceedings described in NRS 539.363 to 539.395, inclusive, relating to the local undertakings of a division, including apportionment of benefits for undertakings authorized at a special election, district election or primary or general state election, may be confirmed in court as a part of the confirmation proceedings or upon petition of the board of directors of the division.
[Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]—(NRS A 1993, 1085)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.400 - Full payment of local undertakings; termination of terms of local directors; disposition of remaining money.

When the local undertakings provided for in NRS 539.363 to 539.395, inclusive, are accomplished and paid for, a showing to that effect shall be made to the board of directors of the district, and upon the approval thereof by such board the terms of office of the local directors shall terminate, and any moneys of such division in the district treasury shall be appropriately credited to the lands of the division in connection with future assessments against such lands.
[Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.403 - Local improvements affecting two or more divisions: Applicability of NRS 539.363 to 539.403, inclusive.

If such local improvements affect two or more divisions of a district, less than all, then all of the provisions of NRS 539.363 to 539.403, inclusive, shall be applicable to the divisions affected; but if such improvements only affect two divisions, the local board shall consist of the directors of the district from the divisions affected and one other to be appointed by the directors of the district from the divisions affected by such improvements. If such local improvements affect three or more divisions, then the powers provided in NRS 539.363 to 539.403, inclusive, to be exercised by a local board shall be exercised by the directors of the district.
[Part 49:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1951, 438]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.405 - Petition for creation of local board.

When an irrigation district comprises lands which are served by works constructed by the United States and the portion of such works situated in a division of the district may be regarded as a separate unit of the larger system for operation and maintenance purposes, or when local drains, laterals or other improvements may be provided as additions to such works and constitute benefits limited to such division, or when the replacement or extension of such works or some part thereof would constitute benefits limited to such division, a petition signed by the requisite number of electors of such division may be presented to the board of directors of the district and a local board of directors of such division created as provided in this chapter.
[Part 63:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3291; NCL § 8081]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.407 - Powers of local board.

Subject to the limitations contained in NRS 539.410, the local board of directors shall have the power to contract with the United States for the operation of the existing system described in NRS 539.405, or for the construction either by such division or by the United States of local drains, laterals or other improvements and for the operation and maintenance thereof, or for the replacement or extension of existing works or structures and for the operation and maintenance thereof or any separate part of the same.
[Part 63:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3291; NCL § 8081]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.410 - Election required for approval to enter contract and levy assessment.

The local board of directors shall submit to the electors of the division at a special election, district election or primary or general state election the contract for approval and for authorization to levy an assessment or assessments, as provided in this chapter, to secure the money required to carry out the contract, including the amounts that will be due the United States thereunder and that will be required for the construction of the proposed local drains, laterals or other improvements, or for the replacement and extension of existing works or structures.
[Part 63:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3291; NCL § 8081]—(NRS A 1993, 1085)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.413 - Applicability of laws relating to contracts between districts and United States.

The provisions of this chapter relating to cooperation between a district and the United States, including those relating to the distribution and apportionment of water and the apportionment of benefits, shall apply in case of a contract between the United States and a division of a district insofar as applicable.
[Part 63:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3291; NCL § 8081]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.415 - Validation proceedings.

The execution of a contract with the United States and all proceedings ancillary thereto may be confirmed in court as a part of the confirmation proceedings instituted by the district, or upon petition by the board of directors of the division.
[Part 63:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3291; NCL § 8081]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.417 - Assumption of operation and maintenance of existing works only; power of local board to levy assessments and impose tolls and charges.

Where it is proposed that a division assume only the operation and maintenance of the existing works, the contract for the operation and maintenance of the existing works must be submitted to the electors of the division for approval at a special election or the next district election or primary or general state election. The local board of directors, after the contract is made in pursuance of the authority granted in the election, may levy assessments or impose tolls and charges annually or otherwise to raise the amounts necessary to carry out the contract and to operate and maintain the works, including amounts to be paid to the United States pursuant to the contract, in the same manner and to the same effect as may be done by the board of directors of the district under the provisions of this chapter.
[Part 63:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3291; NCL § 8081]—(NRS A 1993, 1086)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.420 - Construction, replacement or extension of works: Power of local board to levy assessments and impose tolls and charges.

1. Where local drains, laterals or improvements are to be constructed, or existing works or structures replaced or extended, and are thereafter to be operated and maintained by the division, the local board shall have power to levy assessments and to impose tolls or charges to raise the money required for such operation and maintenance, including amounts due the United States in that relation.
2. The works described in the contract with the United States shall be constructed, replaced or extended by such local board of directors, and the money raised by such special assessment therefor or for the operation and maintenance thereof shall be collected, kept and disbursed, and the apportionment of benefits made, as provided in this chapter, when a division of the district is authorized to provide for local undertakings the benefits of which are limited to such division.
[Part 63:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3291; NCL § 8081]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.423 - Purposes for which land may be formed into improvement district.

The board of directors may provide for the construction of canals, ditches, laterals, dams, drains or other structures or improvements or the acquirement, replacement, consolidation or extension of the same, or the leasing, acquisition or construction of electrical transmission lines and accessory equipment, the benefits of which affect all or are limited to a portion of the district only, in the manner provided in NRS 539.423 to 539.460, inclusive.
[Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.425 - Proposal of formation: Recommendation of district engineer; petition of landowners; designation of area by directors.

Upon the recommendation in writing by the district engineer, or upon a petition signed by a majority of the electors of the district owning land to be affected, or by electors representing at least one-half of the total acreage to be affected by such a proposed local improvement, defining the boundaries thereof, and requesting the board of directors to undertake the carrying out of the same, the board of directors, if it approves the same, may form and designate such area as an improvement district for the purpose desired, and shall establish and define the boundaries thereof.
[Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.427 - Plans and estimates of cost of improvement; provision for payment of costs.

The board of directors may prepare plans and estimates of the cost of a proposed improvement and determine the manner in which the cost of the improvement must be provided. For this purpose the board of directors may propose the issuance of bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness payable by an assessment or otherwise on the property in the improvement district, bearing interest at a rate which does not exceed by more than 5 percent the Index of Revenue Bonds which was most recently published before the bids are received or a negotiated offer is accepted, payable semiannually, and in such amounts and maturing at such time, not exceeding 20 years, as the board of directors may prescribe.
[Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066]—(NRS A 1971, 2127; 1975, 875; 1981, 1418; 1983, 586; 1985, 2062)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.430 - Submission of proposed improvement, estimated cost and methods of financing to Department of Taxation.

The proposed local improvement, accompanied by the estimated cost thereof, a report of the district engineer, and the proposed method of financing the improvement, shall be submitted by the board of directors of the district to the Department of Taxation for its approval.
[Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066]—(NRS A 1977, 1237)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.433 - Election required after approval by Department of Taxation.

After approval by the Department of Taxation, the board of directors shall submit the question of whether the proposed improvement shall be authorized by the electors of the affected improvement district at a special election or the next district election or primary or general state election.
[Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066]—(NRS A 1977, 1237; 1993, 1086)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.435 - Form of question to be submitted to voters.

The question submitted to the voters pursuant to NRS 539.433 must be substantially in the following form: Shall the improvement of Local Improvement District No. ........ (briefly describing it) be authorized and the indebtedness therefor, estimated in the sum of ........ dollars, be incurred and paid in the manner following (briefly stating the method of payment, whether by bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness and the time or times of payment, together with the rate of interest)?
[Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066]—(NRS A 1993, 1086)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.437 - Conduct of election.

The election shall in all other respects, including the qualification to vote, be conducted in the manner prescribed in this chapter for the holding of elections to approve proposals to subject lands in a district to the repayment for obligations for capital purposes, insofar as such provisions are applicable.
[Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066]—(NRS A 1967, 1216)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.440 - Apportionment of benefits.

After the plan has been approved by the Department of Taxation and the bond issue or other indebtedness has been authorized at the election, the board of directors of the district shall proceed to apportion the benefits in the manner prescribed in this chapter.
[Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066]—(NRS A 1977, 1237; 1993, 1086)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.443 - Confirmation proceedings in district court: Procedure; notice.

1. If the proposed improvement is carried by a vote of two-thirds of the qualified electors voting at such election, the board of directors shall petition the district court of the county in which the principal office of the district is located for confirmation of all of the proceedings in respect to such local improvement in the manner prescribed in this chapter for the confirmation of other proceedings by the district.
2. Upon the filing of such petition in court the judge of the court shall fix a time and place for the hearing thereof, giving notice of at least 2 weeks of such hearing by publication in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county and also by posting three copies of such notice at conspicuous points or places in the improvement district.
3. Upon the hearing before the court upon the petition, any person interested may be heard, and at such hearing the court may correct any error in the matter of apportionment of benefits or in any of the proceedings.
[Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.445 - Authorization to carry out improvement.

If the qualified electors voting at the election vote in favor of the proposed local improvement and the incurring of the indebtedness therefor, and the proceedings are confirmed by the court as prescribed in NRS 539.443, the board of directors may carry out the proposed improvement.
[Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066]—(NRS A 1967, 1216; 1993, 1086)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.447 - Sale of securities; deposit of proceeds in improvement district fund.

1. Upon confirmation by the district court of the proceedings in respect to such local improvement, including all assessments of benefits, and upon the approval of the Department of Taxation and the certification of the State Controller, as provided for in NRS 539.640 to 539.665, inclusive, the board of directors shall negotiate the sale of the securities so authorized in the manner prescribed in this chapter for the sale of district bonds.
2. The proceeds of the sale shall be deposited in a special fund to be designated Improvement District No. ........ Fund, and thereupon the board of directors shall proceed with the improvement.
[Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066]—(NRS A 1977, 1237)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.450 - Securities: Execution by district officers; lien upon issuance of bonds.

1. The securities, whether bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness, when issued, shall be executed by the officers of the district in the manner prescribed in this chapter for the execution of bonds.
2. Bonds shall be issued in the name of the improvement district and when issued shall be a lien upon the land included therein.
[Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.453 - Levy and collection of annual assessments for payment of interest and redemption of securities.

1. For the payment of interest and the redemption of the bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness, the board of directors shall levy annual assessments for the amount of interest and the redemption of the bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness upon the lands affected by the local improvement according to the apportionment of benefits, and the assessments shall be delivered to the secretary of the district and entered by the secretary in the assessment book or books thereof.
2. Such assessment or assessments and the collection thereof shall thereafter take the same course as assessments of the district as provided in this chapter.
[Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.455 - Payment of assessments before issuance of securities.

1. Prior to the issuance of bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness authorized for the purpose of such local improvement, any person, firm or corporation owning land upon which a benefit has been assessed for such improvement may pay all or any portion of the benefits so assessed against the land, and, upon such payment, the benefit so assessed shall be discharged to the extent of such payment.
2. No such payment may be made after the issuance of bonds, notes or certificates of indebtedness authorized to be issued in payment of such improvement except as provided by the district.
[Part 49 1/2:64:1919; added 1923, 289; A 1929, 286; NCL § 8066]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.457 - Powers of directors and officers of district.

The board of directors and all other officers of any irrigation district shall have all the rights, powers and privileges concerning improvement districts and lands thereof, and the proceedings provided for in NRS 539.423 to 539.460, inclusive, as the board of directors and all other officers may have concerning the irrigation district of which such improvement districts are a part.
[49 1/2c:64:1919; added 1947, 303; 1943 NCL § 8066.03]