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2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 538 - Interstate Waters, Compacts and Commissions › NRS 538.241 - Duties of State Controller and State Treasurer.

The State Controller shall draw his or her warrants on the funds administered by the Commission for payment of all claims against those funds and the State Treasurer shall pay them.
[13:71:1935; A 1947, 738; 1943 NCL § 1443.13]—(NRS A 1963, 745; 1973, 1610; 1981, 1442; 1983, 1520)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 538 - Interstate Waters, Compacts and Commissions › NRS 538.251 - Approval of contracts by Governor.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, all contracts entered into by the Commission pertaining to the sale or purchase of water or electrical power, belonging or allotted to or contracted by the State of Nevada are not binding upon the State of Nevada until approved by the Governor.
2. Any contract or agreement by the Commission for the transmission of electrical power or to sell:
(a) Supplemental power to a holder of a long-term firm contract with the State for power if the supplemental power is procured by the Commission from a prearranged source and is secured by the holder for his or her own use; or
(b) Short-term or interruptible power on short notice for immediate acceptance to a holder of a long-term firm contract with the State for power who can take delivery of the short-term or interruptible power when it is available,
does not require the approval of the Governor to be binding upon the State.
[Part 1:71:1935; 1931 NCL § 1443.01] + [14:71:1935; 1931 NCL § 1443.14]—(NRS A 1963, 745; 1965, 407; 1973, 1610; 1981, 915, 1442; 1987, 2313; 1989, 926; 1995, 975)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 538 - Interstate Waters, Compacts and Commissions › NRS 538.270 - "Commission" defined. [Effective until the effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600).]

As used in NRS 538.270 to 538.410, inclusive, "Commission" means the California-Nevada Interstate Compact Commission of the State of Nevada.
[2:153:1955]—(R effective on effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600))
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 538 - Interstate Waters, Compacts and Commissions › NRS 538.280 - Creation. [Effective until the effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600).]

There is hereby created the California-Nevada Interstate Compact Commission of the State of Nevada.
[1:153:1955]—(R effective on effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600))
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 538 - Interstate Waters, Compacts and Commissions › NRS 538.290 - Composition; qualifications of commissioners. [Effective until the effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600).]

1. The Commission shall consist of eight commissioners: The State Engineer, who shall be a nonvoting commissioner, and seven commissioners to be appointed by the Governor.
2. In making such appointments the Governor shall appoint two commissioners from the Walker River Irrigation District; one commissioner from the Carson River water users above Lahontan Reservoir; one commissioner from the Truckee-Carson Irrigation District; one commissioner from the Washoe County Water Conservation District; one commissioner from the Sierra Pacific Power Company; and one commissioner from the Lake Tahoe area in Nevada.
3. Each commissioner so appointed must be an elector and a water user or an employee of a water user within the State of Nevada.
[Part 3:153:1955]—(R effective on effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600))
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 538 - Interstate Waters, Compacts and Commissions › NRS 538.300 - Terms of commissioners. [Effective until the effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600).]

1. The tenure of office of the commissioners appointed by the Governor shall be at the pleasure of the Governor, but the terms of the commissioners appointed by the Governor shall not extend beyond 4 years from the date of their several appointments, unless reappointed by the Governor at the end of the term.
2. The duties of the appointed commissioners shall terminate when an agreement or compact agreed upon by the Commission has been submitted to the Legislature of the State of Nevada and has been ratified by it, and also submitted to the Congress of the United States and has been ratified by it.
[Part 3:153:1955]—(R effective on effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600))
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 538 - Interstate Waters, Compacts and Commissions › NRS 538.320 - Compensation of commissioners and employees of Commission. [Effective until the effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600).]

1. Commissioners who are not in the regular employ of the State are entitled to receive a salary of not more than $80 per day, as fixed by the Commission, for time actually spent on the work of the Commission, except when a commissioner is employed by the Commission to render special, technical or professional services, in which event the commissioner is entitled to receive fees and expenses commensurate with the service rendered.
2. While engaged in the business of the Commission, each member of the Commission who is not employed by the Commission to render special, technical or professional services and each employee of the Commission is entitled to receive the per diem allowance and travel expenses provided for state officers and employees generally.
[4:153:1955]—(NRS A 1975, 299; 1981, 1987; 1985, 436; 1989, 1718)—(R effective on effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600))
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 538 - Interstate Waters, Compacts and Commissions › NRS 538.330 - Payment of expenses. [Effective until the effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600).]

The expenses of carrying out the provisions of NRS 538.270 to 538.410, inclusive, must be paid out of an appropriate account of the Division of Water Resources of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources in the State General Fund.
[Part 12:153:1955]—(NRS A 1985, 721)—(R effective on effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600))
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 538 - Interstate Waters, Compacts and Commissions › NRS 538.340 - Expenses; payment of claims. [Effective until the effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600).]

1. The Commission may incur necessary expenses to effectuate its purpose.
2. Claims for payment of all expenses incurred by the Commission, including the expenses of the commissioners, shall be made by the Office of the State Engineer and the State Board of Examiners and paid as other claims against the State are paid.
[Part 6:153:1955] + [Part 12:153:1955]—(R effective on effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600))
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 538 - Interstate Waters, Compacts and Commissions › NRS 538.350 - Chair and Secretary of Commission. [Effective until the effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600).]

1. The Chair of the Commission shall be selected by the Commission.
2. The Commission shall appoint a Secretary, who may be one of the commissioners.
[5:153:1955] + [Part 6:153:1955]—(R effective on effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600))
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 538 - Interstate Waters, Compacts and Commissions › NRS 538.360 - Employees. [Effective until the effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600).]

The Commission may employ such agents, attorneys, engineers and other employees as it deems necessary to carry out the functions of NRS 538.270 to 538.410, inclusive.
[Part 6:153:1955]—(R effective on effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600))
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 538 - Interstate Waters, Compacts and Commissions › NRS 538.370 - Duties of Attorney General. [Effective until the effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600).]

At the request of the Commission, the Attorney General, or whomever the Attorney General may appoint, shall aid and assist the commissioners appointed for the State of Nevada whenever necessary in order to facilitate the work in carrying out the intent and purpose of NRS 538.270 to 538.410, inclusive.
[11:153:1955]—(R effective on effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600))
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 538 - Interstate Waters, Compacts and Commissions › NRS 538.380 - Duties of Commission relative to interstate waters. [Effective until the effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600).]

1. It is the function of the Commission to cooperate with a similar commission representing the State of California in formulating and submitting to the legislatures of both states and the Congress of the United States for their approval an interstate compact relative to the distribution and use of the waters of Lake Tahoe and the Truckee, Carson and Walker Rivers and their tributaries, and other related matters.
2. The Commission shall also cooperate with any person appointed by the President of the United States to participate in the negotiations as a representative of the United States and to make a report thereon to the Congress.
[7:153:1955]—(R effective on effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600))
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 538 - Interstate Waters, Compacts and Commissions › NRS 538.390 - Approval of compact or agreement. [Effective until the effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600).]

No compact or agreement shall be binding on the State of Nevada until it has been approved by the Legislature of this state and the Congress of the United States.
[8:153:1955]—(R effective on effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600))
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 538 - Interstate Waters, Compacts and Commissions › NRS 538.400 - Investigations of water resources; other powers. [Effective until the effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600).]

The commissioners of the State of Nevada shall have full authority:
1. To make such investigation of the water resources within the basins of the Truckee, Carson and Walker Rivers and Lake Tahoe as may be necessary in order to determine the facts as to physical conditions obtaining upon such water resources.
2. To make reports to the Legislature of the State of Nevada.
3. To perform such other duties as may be necessary to determine sufficiently such facts, and to secure the necessary information in order that they may properly perform their duties as commissioners of the State of Nevada upon the joint commission.
4. To accept grants of money from and to make contracts with any person or agency, public or private, including the United States Government, for the purpose of making planning surveys in the area as determined by the Commission, and to cooperate with the appropriate federal, state and county agencies in having such planning surveys made.
[9:153:1955]—(NRS A 1957, 528)—(R effective on effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600))
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 538 - Interstate Waters, Compacts and Commissions › NRS 538.410 - General powers and duties. [Effective until the effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600).]

The Commission representing the State of Nevada on the joint commission shall have full authority:
1. To carry on negotiations for such compact or agreement.
2. To attend meetings of the joint commission whenever convened.
3. Generally to perform such duties as shall be required of the commissioners thereof in carrying out the purpose and intent of NRS 538.270 to 538.410, inclusive.
[10:153:1955]—(R effective on effective date of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact (NRS 538.600))
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 538 - Interstate Waters, Compacts and Commissions › NRS 538.620 - Compensation of commissioners and State Engineer; claims for payment of expenses.

1. The Nevada members of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact Commission, designated or appointed pursuant to Article IV of the Compact, if not in the regular employ of the State, are entitled to receive a salary of not more than $80 per day, as fixed by the Commission, for time actually spent on the work of the Compact Commission.
2. The State Engineer and any other Nevada commission members who are in the regular employ of the State are not entitled to additional compensation.
3. While engaged in the business of the Commission, the State Engineer and any other Nevada commission members are entitled to receive the per diem allowance and travel expenses provided for state officers and employees generally.
4. Claims for payment of all such expenses incurred by the commission members must be made by the Office of the State Engineer on vouchers approved by the State Engineer and the State Board of Examiners and paid as other claims against the State are paid.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 88; A 1977, 146; 1981, 1988; 1985, 437; 1989, 1719)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 538 - Interstate Waters, Compacts and Commissions › NRS 538.630 - Duties of state officers; cooperation.

1. All officers of this state shall do all things falling within their jurisdiction necessary or incidental to carrying out the provisions of the Compact.
2. All officers, departments and persons of and in the government and administration of this state shall, upon the request of the California-Nevada Interstate Compact Commission, furnish the Commission with information and data possessed by them and aid the Commission by any means within their legal powers.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 89)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.013 - Definitions.

As used in this chapter:
1. "County treasurer" or "treasurer of the county" shall be held to mean "ex officio tax receiver" or "tax receiver" of the county.
2. "Irrigation district" or "district" shall be held to mean any irrigation district organized under the laws of this state prior to July 1, 1919, as well as under this chapter, to the full extent required to accomplish the purposes of this chapter. Whenever the words "irrigation district" are or have been used in any action or proceeding or in any act or resolution of the Legislature, such words shall be construed to mean an irrigation district organized under the provisions of chapter 134, Statutes of Nevada 1911, or acts supplementary thereto or amendatory thereof, or an irrigation district organized or existing under this chapter.
3. "Works of an irrigation district" shall be held to include any drain or watercourse, any side, lateral, spur or branch ditch or drain, whether opened, covered or tiled, or any natural watercourse into which drains or ditches of the district may enter for the purpose of outlet, whether such watercourse is situated in or outside of the district.
[Part 10a:64:1919; added 1923, 289; NCL § 8018] + [67:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3293; NCL § 8085] + [Part 70:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3294; NCL § 8088]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.015 - Publication of notice.

Whenever in this chapter any notice is required to be given by publication, such provision shall be satisfied by publishing the same in a weekly newspaper the same number of times consecutively as the number of weeks mentioned in the requirement.
[66:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3293; NCL § 8084]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.017 - Construction.

1. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as repealing or in any wise modifying the provisions of any other law relating to the subject of irrigation or drainage except such as may be contained in chapter 134, Statutes of Nevada 1911, and subsequent acts supplementary thereto or amendatory thereof, all of which acts, so far as they may be inconsistent with this chapter, are repealed.
2. Nothing in this chapter shall be so construed as to:
(a) Affect the validity of any district organized under the laws of this state prior to July 1, 1919, or its right in or to property, or any of its rights or privileges of whatsoever kind or nature; but such districts are hereby made subject to the provisions of this chapter as far as applicable.
(b) Affect, impair or discharge any contract, obligation, lien or charge for or upon which any district was or might become liable or chargeable had this chapter not been passed.
(c) Affect the validity of any bonds which have been issued but not sold.
(d) Affect any action pending on July 1, 1919.
3. In such districts as have been organized prior to July 1, 1919, and in which directors of the various divisions thereof have been elected by the votes of the electors of the district at large, such elections are hereby confirmed.
4. In the cases of any district or districts any portion of the proceedings for the organization of which were instituted under prior existing laws and completed under the provisions of this chapter, such district or districts shall be deemed to have been duly organized under this chapter, and the organization thereof is hereby confirmed.
5. Any district organized under prior laws of this state may adopt and subject itself to all the provisions of this chapter by a unanimous resolution of its board of directors, and the organization of such district is hereby confirmed.
6. The directors of any district organized prior to July 1, 1919, and not divided into divisions may request the board of county commissioners to define and establish such divisions, and the board of county commissioners shall forthwith define and establish divisions in such district as nearly equal in size as practicable and in number equal to the directors in the district.
[68:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; NCL § 8086] + [69:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3293; NCL § 8087]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.020 - Petition for organization of district.

1. A majority in number of the holders of title, or evidence of title, to lands susceptible of one mode of irrigation from a common source or combined sources, and by the same system or combined systems of works, may propose the organization of an irrigation district pursuant to this chapter if they hold title or evidence of title to at least one-half part of the total area of the land in the proposed district. In computing the total area in the proposed district, the public domain of the United States of America, excepting any portion thereof held by entrymen pursuant to any law of the United States, must be excluded.
2. Every signer of a petition for the organization of an irrigation district must be the holder of title or evidence of title to land within the proposed district. The holder of a bona fide contract to purchase land, having been in the actual possession thereof at least 1 year pursuant to the contract, and whose name appears upon the preceding equalized county assessment roll for the payment of taxes of the land, shall be deemed the holder of title thereto for all of the purposes of this chapter.
3. The equalized county assessment roll next preceding the presentation of a petition for the organization of an irrigation district is sufficient evidence of title for the purpose of this chapter, but other evidence may be received, including receipts or other evidence of rights of entrymen on land pursuant to any law of the United States. These entrymen are competent signers of the petition and the land on which they have made entries shall, for the purpose of the petition, be deemed to be owned by them. The entrymen share all the privileges and obligations of freeholders and owners of private land within the district pursuant to this chapter, including the right to vote and hold office, subject to the terms of the Act of Congress entitled "An Act to promote the reclamation of arid lands," approved August 11, 1916, being c. 319, 39 Stat. 506, also designated as 43 U.S.C. §§ 621-630.
[Part 1:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1927, 302, 309; 1929, 77; NCL § 8008]—(NRS A 1989, 1172)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.023 - Inclusion of state lands in district; Governor may sign petition.

1. When within a proposed irrigation district there exists one or more tracts of land owned and used by the State of Nevada for state purposes and susceptible of the same mode of irrigation or taking water for irrigation from the same source, system or combined systems as other privately owned lands within the proposed district, the Governor, with the advice of the State Engineer, may sign any petition for the organization of such irrigation district.
2. Should such irrigation district be thereafter organized in accordance with the provisions of law, such lands so belonging to the State of Nevada shall be subject to the same rights, privileges and obligations as are or may be belonging to or imposed on the privately owned lands within the district, and in this respect and for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this chapter the heads of departments or the commissions or boards having supervision or control of the state institution to which such tracts or units of land are attached, for supervisory purposes, shall include in their report and biennial budget for submission to the Governor and Legislature such items or amounts as may from time to time become an obligation on the lands of the district.
[Part 1:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1927, 302, 309; 1929, 77; NCL § 8008]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.025 - Contents of petition.

1. Whenever it is proposed to organize an irrigation district, a petition shall first be presented to the board of county commissioners of the county in which the lands or the greater portion thereof are situated, signed by the required number, possessing the qualifications provided for in NRS 539.020 and 539.023, which petition shall:
(a) Set forth and particularly describe the proposed boundaries of the district.
(b) Pray that the same may be organized under the provisions of this chapter.
2. The petitioners may determine in the petition whether the proposed district shall be divided into three, five or seven divisions, and whether it shall have three, five or seven directors. If no number is named in the petition, the board of county commissioners may determine whether the number shall be three, five or seven.
[Part 1:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1927, 302, 309; 1929, 77; NCL § 8008] + [Part 2:64:1919; A 1921, 118; NCL § 8009]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.027 - Undertaking.

The petitioners must accompany the petition with a good and sufficient bond, to be approved by the board of county commissioners, in double the amount of the probable cost of organizing the district, conditioned that the bondsmen will pay all of the costs in case the organization is not effected.
[Part 2:64:1919; A 1921, 118; NCL § 8009]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.030 - Petition filed in office of county clerk; publication of notice of time of meeting; newspaper in which publication to be made; contents of notice.

1. The petition shall be filed in the office of the county clerk and a notice thereof shall be published by the county clerk for at least 2 weeks before the time at which it is to be presented to the board of county commissioners. Publication shall be in some newspaper printed and published in the county where the petition is presented, which newspaper shall be designated by the board of county commissioners as the newspaper most likely to impart notice of the hearing of the petition.
2. The notice shall set forth:
(a) That the petition has been filed.
(b) The time of the meeting of the board of county commissioners to consider the petition.
(c) A description of the territory to be embraced in the proposed district.
[Part 2:64:1919; A 1921, 118; NCL § 8009]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.033 - Presentation of petition to county commissioners; hearing.

When the petition is presented, and it shall appear that the notice of the presentation of the petition has been given and that the petition has been signed by the requisite number of petitioners as required by this chapter, the board of county commissioners shall hold a hearing on the petition.
[Part 3:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1925, 203; 1931, 265; 1935, 135; 1931 NCL § 8010]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.035 - Adjournment of hearing.

The board of county commissioners may adjourn the hearing from time to time, not exceeding 3 weeks in all.
[Part 3:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1925, 203; 1931, 265; 1935, 135; 1931 NCL § 8010]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.037 - Determination as to land to be formed into district.

1. Contiguous or neighboring lands susceptible of irrigation from the common source or combined sources, not included in the district as described in the petition, at the hearing may, upon application of the holder or holders of title or evidence of title thereto as prescribed in NRS 539.020 and 539.023, be included in the district.
2. Lands described in the petition not susceptible of irrigation from such system or systems may upon similar application be excluded therefrom.
3. The board of county commissioners shall not modify the boundaries described in the petition so as to change the object of the petition or so as to exempt from the operation of this chapter any land which is susceptible of irrigation by such system or systems.
[Part 3:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1925, 203; 1931, 265; 1935, 135; 1931 NCL § 8010]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.040 - Informalities in petition to be disregarded; reason for refusal or dismissal of petition; mandamus.

1. In the hearing of any petition, the board of county commissioners shall disregard any informalities therein.
2. If the board of county commissioners deny the petition or dismiss it for any reasons on account of the provisions of this chapter not having been complied with, which are the only reasons upon which the board of county commissioners shall have the right to refuse or dismiss the petition, the board of county commissioners shall state its reasons in writing therefor in detail, which shall be entered upon its records.
3. If the reasons are not well founded, a writ of mandamus shall, upon proper application therefor, issue out of the district court of the county compelling the board of county commissioners to act in compliance with this chapter, which writ shall be heard within 20 days from the date of issuance, such time to be excluded from the time given the board of county commissioners to act upon the petition.
[Part 3:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1925, 203; 1931, 265; 1935, 135; 1931 NCL § 8010]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.043 - Order granting or denying petition; order granting petition to establish boundaries and designate name.

Upon the completion of the hearing, the board of county commissioners shall forthwith make an order denying or granting the prayer of the petition, and if the same is granted shall, in the order, define and establish the boundaries and designate the name of such proposed district and divide the same into three, five or seven divisions, as prescribed in the petition, as nearly equal in size as may be practicable.
[Part 3:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1925, 203; 1931, 265; 1935, 135; 1931 NCL § 8010]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.045 - Order calling election.

1. Upon making an order granting the prayer of the petition as provided in NRS 539.043, the board of county commissioners shall by further order entered upon its record submit to the qualified electors of the proposed district at the next primary or general election the question of whether that district shall be organized pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, and by that order shall submit the names of one or more persons from each of the divisions of the district to be voted for as directors of the district.
2. One director must be elected from each division by the qualified electors of the district and be a qualified elector of the district and holder of title, or evidence of title as prescribed in NRS 539.020 and 539.023, to land within the division from which the director is elected.
[Part 3:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1925, 203; 1931, 265; 1935, 135; 1931 NCL § 8010]—(NRS A 1993, 1081)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.047 - Notice of election: Contents; publication.

1. The board of county commissioners shall give notice of such election, which shall be published for 2 weeks prior to such election in a newspaper within the county where the petition is filed.
2. Such notice shall require the electors to cast ballots, which shall contain the words "Irrigation District—Yes," or "Irrigation District—No," or words equivalent thereto, and the names of persons to be voted for as directors.
[Part 3:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1925, 203; 1931, 265; 1935, 135; 1931 NCL § 8010]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.050 - Election precincts.

For the purpose of the election to organize the district, each division constitutes an election precinct.
[Part 3:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1925, 203; 1931, 265; 1935, 135; 1931 NCL § 8010]—(NRS A 1993, 1081)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.053 - Conduct of election; absent voters’ ballots.

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, all such elections shall be conducted as near as may be practicable in accordance with the general election laws of this state, including the right to vote by absent voter’s ballot.
[Part 4:64:1919; A 1927, 309; NCL § 8011]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.055 - Canvass of votes; order declaring territory formed as district under designated name; recording of order and plat.

1. The board of county commissioners shall meet on or before the sixth working day succeeding such election and proceed to canvass the votes cast thereat.
2. If upon such canvass it appears that a majority of the electors voted "Irrigation District—Yes," the board, by an order entered upon its minutes, shall:
(a) Declare such territory duly organized as an irrigation district under the name and style theretofore designated.
(b) Declare the persons receiving respectively the highest number of votes for directors to be duly elected.
(c) Cause a copy of such order and a plat of the district, each duly certified by the clerk of the board of county commissioners, to be immediately filed for record in the office of the county recorder of each county in which any portion of such lands is situated. Certified copies thereof shall also be filed with the county clerks of such counties.
3. Thereafter, the organization of the district shall be complete.
[Part 4:64:1919; A 1927, 309; NCL § 8011]—(NRS A 2007, 626)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.057 - Conclusiveness of record of county commissioners concerning proceedings.

The record of the board of county commissioners of the proceedings had and taken by it under the provisions of this chapter shall be, in the absence of fraud, conclusive evidence of the matters and things therein recited.
[Part 3:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1925, 203; 1931, 265; 1935, 135; 1931 NCL § 8010]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.060 - Name of district; change of name of certain districts.

1. The name of any district organized after July 1, 1919, pursuant to this chapter must contain either the words "irrigation district," "water conservation district," "water conservancy district" or "water improvement district."
2. Any district organized and existing before, on or after July 1, 1919, the name of which must include the words "irrigation district," may change its name by substituting for the word "irrigation" either the words "water conservation," "water conservancy" or "water improvement," or may change the entire name or designation of the district by filing with the board of county commissioners, with which the original petition was filed for the organization of the district, a certified copy of a resolution of its board of directors adopted by the unanimous vote of all the members of the board at a regular meeting thereof providing for such a change of name. All proceedings of such a district must be had under the changed name, but all existing obligations and contracts of the district entered into under its former name must remain outstanding without change and with the validity thereof unimpaired and unaffected by the change of name.
[71:64:1919; added 1921, 118; A 1923, 289; NCL § 8089]—(NRS A 1997, 1621)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.063 - Officers of district.

The officers of an irrigation district shall consist of three, five or seven directors, a president and a vice president elected from their number, and a secretary and treasurer.
[Part 9:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1927, 309; 1933, 271; 1931 NCL § 8016]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.065 - Directors: Terms of office; qualifications.

1. The directors elected at the organization election shall be selected by lot so that one, two or three directors, according to whether there are in all three, five or seven on the board, shall hold office until their successors are elected at the next regular election and qualify, and two, three or four directors, as the case may be, shall hold office until their successors are elected at the second regular election after organization and qualify.
2. At the regular election biennially thereafter directors shall be elected, to replace the directors whose terms expire, for terms of 4 years, or until their successors are elected and qualify. Directors so elected shall have the qualifications prescribed in this chapter for directors elected at the time of organization.
[Part 5:64:1919; A 1933, 271; 1931 NCL § 8012]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.067 - Directors: Oaths; bonds.

1. Within 10 days after receiving the certificate of his or her election, each director shall take and subscribe to an official oath and file the same with the secretary of the board of directors.
2. Each member of the board of directors shall execute an official bond in the sum of $2,000, which shall be approved by the judge of the district court in and for the county where such organization is effected. Such bonds shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder and filed with the secretary of the board.
[Part 7:64:1919; A 1921, 118; NCL § 8014]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.070 - Directors: Vacancies in office.

1. Any vacancy in the office of director shall be filled from the division in which the vacancy occurs by the remaining members of the board.
2. In cases where a vacancy occurs in the office of director and the remaining directors, at the next regular monthly meeting of the board of directors following such vacancy, do not by a majority vote of such remaining directors appoint a successor to fill such vacancy, then the president of the board of directors shall fill such vacancy by appointment.
3. In the event of the vacancy occurring in the office of the director who is president of the board, then the vice president shall fill the vacancy by appointment.
4. A director appointed to fill a vacancy, as provided in this section, shall hold the office until the next biennial election, and until the director’s successor is elected and qualified.
[Part 9:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1927, 309; 1933, 271; 1931 NCL § 8016]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.071 - Expansion of number of directors authorized if federal reclamation project operated and project authorized for additional purposes; procedure.

1. Notwithstanding any other provision of this chapter, if an irrigation district operates a federal reclamation project pursuant to a contract with the United States and the project is authorized for purposes in addition to irrigation, the district may expand the number of directors on the board of directors of the district in the manner provided in this section.
2. The number of directors may be increased pursuant to this section by a number not to exceed one less than the number of elected directors on the board. The addition of directors pursuant to this section may be proposed by resolution adopted by the board of directors or upon the petition of not less than 51 percent of the qualified electors of the district.
3. The resolution or petition proposing to increase the number of directors must designate the number of additional directors proposed, the interest to be represented by each additional director and the method by which each additional director will be appointed. The interest to be represented by each additional director must be an interest which owns a water right for an authorized purpose of the federal reclamation project.
4. The board of directors shall submit the question of expanding the board of directors in accordance with the resolution or petition to the qualified electors of the district at the next district election or primary or general state election. Notice of the election must be given in the manner provided in NRS 539.125.
5. If the result of the election is in favor of the expansion, the board of directors must be expanded in accordance with the resolution or petition. The new directors must be appointed at the time of the next biennial election of directors, and must determine their respective tenures of office in the manner provided in NRS 539.065. After the initial terms, directors appointed pursuant to this section hold office for a term of 4 years. The successor to a director appointed pursuant to this section must be appointed not later than the biennial election which coincides with the expiration of the director’s term.
6. By resolution of the elected directors or by petition of not less than 51 percent of the qualified electors of the district, the directors added pursuant to this section may be eliminated, or the interests they represent or their appointing authorities may be changed, in the same manner that directors are added pursuant to this section.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 1081; A 1993, 1081)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.073 - Organization of board; election and appointment of officers.

1. Immediately upon their election and qualification following the organization election the board of directors shall meet and organize, elect a president and a vice president, and appoint a secretary and a treasurer.
2. On the first Monday in May next following their election thereafter, the board of directors shall meet and organize, elect a president and a vice president, and appoint a secretary and a treasurer.
[Part 9:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1927, 309; 1933, 271; 1931 NCL § 8016]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.075 - Secretary and treasurer: Appointment; bond.

1. The secretary and the treasurer shall be appointed by the board of directors and may or may not be members of the board. One person may be appointed to serve as secretary and treasurer.
2. Such officers shall serve at the will of the board.
3. The secretary and the treasurer shall file bonds for the faithful performance of their duties. The bonds shall be approved by the board.
[Part 9:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1927, 309; 1933, 271; 1931 NCL § 8016]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.077 - Assistant secretary: Appointment; duties.

The board may also appoint an assistant secretary who shall exercise such of the powers and perform such of the duties of the secretary as may be designated by the board of directors, except that such assistant secretary shall not be invested with authority to sign on behalf of the secretary any bonds of the district.
[Part 9:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1927, 309; 1933, 271; 1931 NCL § 8016]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.080 - Compensation and expenses of directors and other officers.

1. A member of the board of directors is entitled to receive not more than $80 per day and actual traveling expenses for each day spent attending meetings of the board or while engaged in official business under the order of the board.
2. The board shall fix the compensation to be paid to the other officers named in this chapter; but the board shall, upon the petition of a majority of the electors within the district, submit to the electors at any general election of the district a schedule of salaries and fees to be paid the directors and officers thereof. The petition must be presented to the board 20 days before the general election. The schedule of salaries and fees must be put into effect upon the first of the month after the election if it was approved by a two-thirds vote.
[12:64:1919; A 1945, 298; 1943 NCL § 8023]—(NRS A 1957, 309; 1965, 673; 1973, 786; 1981, 582; 1999, 921)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.081 - Interest in certain contracts prohibited; penalties.

1. All directors and other officers named in this chapter are prohibited from being directly or indirectly interested in any contract awarded by the board or in the profits to be derived from the contract.
2. For any violation of this section the director or officer is guilty of a gross misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof forfeits his or her office.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 1114)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.083 - Office of board.

The board of directors shall designate some place within the county where the organization of the district was effected as the office of the board.
[Part 9:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1927, 309; 1933, 271; 1931 NCL § 8016]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.085 - Regular meetings: Time and place; notice of change of time; judicial day.

1. The board shall hold a regular monthly meeting in its office on the day of the month fixed by resolution duly entered upon the minutes. When the time for such a monthly meeting has been fixed it cannot again be changed for 12 months, and it can only be changed by resolution passed at least 2 months prior to the time such change shall take effect, and upon publication in a newspaper of general circulation in the district for at least 2 weeks prior to such change.
2. Should the regular meeting day fall upon a nonjudicial day, such meeting shall be held on the first judicial day thereafter.
[Part 9:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1927, 309; 1933, 271; 1931 NCL § 8016]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.087 - Special meetings: Calling by president or board; notice; business to be transacted.

1. The board of directors shall hold such special meetings as shall be required for the purpose of transaction of business; but all special meetings must be called by the president or a majority of the board.
2. The order calling such special meeting shall be entered on the record, and the secretary shall give each member not joining in the order 3 days’ notice of such special meeting.
3. The order must specify the business to be transacted at such special meeting; and none other than that specified shall be transacted.
[Part 9:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1927, 309; 1933, 271; 1931 NCL § 8016]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.090 - Legal meeting: Attendance of all members.

Whenever all members of the board are present at a meeting the same shall be deemed a legal meeting and any lawful business may be transacted.
[Part 9:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1927, 309; 1933, 271; 1931 NCL § 8016]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.095 - Quorum; affirmative vote of majority required for certain questions.

A majority of the members constitutes a quorum for the transaction of business, but on all questions requiring a vote, there must be an affirmative vote of at least a majority of all the members of the board.
[Part 9:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1927, 309; 1933, 271; 1931 NCL § 8016]—(NRS A 2001, 1129)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.097 - Records open to inspection.

1. All records of the board shall be open to the inspection of any elector during business hours.
2. The board of directors of each irrigation district, or the secretary thereof, shall at any time allow any member of the board of county commissioners, when acting under the order of such board, to have access to all books, records and vouchers of the district which are in the possession or control of the board of directors or the secretary.
[Part 9:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1927, 309; 1933, 271; 1931 NCL § 8016] + [52:64:1919; 1919 RL p. 3288; NCL § 8070]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.103 - Director not to be employed by district as engineer, watermaster or manager.

1. No director shall, during the director’s term of office, be employed by the district as district engineer, watermaster or manager.
2. This section shall not be construed as depriving the board of the right and power to appoint a committee or committees to act for the board whenever and wherever necessary to carry out the purposes of this chapter.
[74:64:1919; added 1929, 286; NCL § 8092]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.105 - Establishment of precincts and polling places.

1. Each division shall constitute an election precinct for the purposes of this chapter.
2. After the organization of the district the directors may divide a division into two or more precincts and fix the polling places therein.
3. By affirmative vote of all of their number or of all of their number save one, the directors may reduce the number of election precincts to one or more within the district, establish the boundaries thereof, and fix the polling place or places therein.
[Part 3:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1925, 203; 1931, 265; 1935, 135; 1931 NCL § 8010]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 539 - Irrigation Districts › NRS 539.107 - Procedure for change of boundaries.

1. Whenever in the opinion of the board of directors it is advisable to do so, the board is empowered to change the boundaries of one or more divisions of the district in order to equalize more nearly the number of electors in the respective divisions, but new lands shall not be included within the district boundaries and lands within the district boundaries and lands within the district shall not be excluded by such change of boundaries, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.
2. A change of division boundaries shall become effective when a certified copy of a resolution making such change, attached to a copy of a map or plat of the district delineating the new division boundary lines, both being certified as correct by the secretary of the district, shall be filed in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the division whose boundaries have been so changed is situated.
[Part 10:64:1919; A 1921, 118; 1923, 289; 1925, 203; 1927, 309; 1951, 55]