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2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.130 - "Improvement district" defined.

"Improvement district" means the geographical area within the municipality designated and delineated by the governing body, in which is located each tract to be assessed for a project. An improvement district may consist of noncontiguous areas. Improvement districts shall be designated by consecutive numbers or in some other manner to identify separately each such district in the municipality.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1351; A 2005, 1825)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.135 - "Mailed notice" and "notice by mail" defined.

"Mailed notice" or "notice by mail" means the giving by the engineer, clerk, or any deputy thereof, as determined by the governing body, of any designated written or printed notice addressed to the last known owner or owners of each tract being assessed or other designated person at the last known address of each by deposit, at least 20 days prior to the designated hearing or other time or event, in the United States mails, postage prepaid as first-class mail. The names and addresses of such property owners shall be obtained from the records of the county assessor or from such other source or sources as the clerk or the engineer deems reliable. Any list of such names and addresses appertaining to any improvement district may be revised from time to time, but such a list need not be revised more frequently than at 12-month intervals. Any mailing of any notice herein required shall be verified by the affidavit or certificate of the engineer, clerk, the deputy, or other person mailing the notice, which verification shall be retained in the records of the municipality at least until all assessments and bonds appertaining thereto have been paid in full, or any claim is barred by a statute of limitations. Such affidavit of mailing shall be prima facie evidence of the mailing of such notice in accordance with the requirements of this section.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1352)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.145 - "Municipality" defined.

1. "Municipality" means any county, unincorporated town or city in the State, including Carson City, whether incorporated or governed under a general act, special legislative act or special charter of any type or other political subdivision to which this chapter applies. "Municipal" pertains thereto. Where the context so indicates, "municipality" means the geographical area comprising the municipality.
2. "Municipality" does not include an irrigation district or other special district governed by title 48 of NRS.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1352; A 1969, 325; 1971, 2100; 1979, 490; 1981, 958; 1983, 126; 1987, 1717)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.147 - "Neighborhood improvement project" defined.

"Neighborhood improvement project" includes:
1. The beautification and improvement of the public portions of any area, including, without limitation:
(a) Public restrooms;
(b) Facilities for outdoor lighting and heating;
(c) Decorations;
(d) Fountains;
(e) Landscaping;
(f) Facilities or equipment, or both, to enhance protection of persons and property within the improvement district;
(g) Ramps, sidewalks and plazas; and
(h) Rehabilitation or removal of existing structures; and
2. The improvement of an area by providing promotional activities.
(Added to NRS by 1999, 2861; A 2015, 143)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 271.063)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.150 - "Off-street parking project" defined.

"Off-street parking project" means parking facilities for the parking of motor vehicles off the public streets, including graded, regraded, graveled, oiled, surfaced, macadamized, paved, curbed, guttered, drained and sidewalked sites therefor, driveways, ramps, structures, buildings, elevators, traffic control equipment, and all appurtenances and incidentals necessary, useful or desirable for off-street parking facilities (or any combination thereof), including real and other property therefor.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1352)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.152 - "Overhead service facilities" defined.

"Overhead service facilities" means service facilities located above the surface of the ground, except that the term does not include:
1. Facilities including transformers, pull boxes, service terminals, pedestal terminals, splice closures, apparatus cabinets and other similar facilities that normally are above the surface in areas where service lines are underground in accordance with standard underground practices.
2. On-the-ground facilities that are attached to overhead service facilities and used to connect an underground system to the overhead service facilities.
(Added to NRS by 1997, 2493)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.155 - "Overpass project" defined.

"Overpass project" means any bridge, viaduct, or other structure or facilities for the transportation of pedestrians, motor and other vehicles and utility lines, over any street, stream, railroad tracks, and any other way or place, approaches, ramps, structures, crosswalks, sidewalks, driveways, culverts, drains, sewers, manholes, inlets, outlets, retaining walls, artificial lights, pumping equipment, ventilating equipment, and all appurtenances and incidentals necessary, useful or desirable for any such overpass (or any combination thereof), including real and other property therefor.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1352)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.160 - "Park project" defined.

"Park project" means real property, facilities and equipment for parks, including without limitation graded, regraded, graveled, surfaced, drained, cultivated and otherwise improved sites therefor, and other recreational facilities, and all appurtenances and incidentals necessary, useful or desirable for any such park property, facilities and equipment.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1353)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.170 - "Posting" defined.

"Posting" means posting, at least 20 days prior to the designated hearing or other time or event:
1. On the website of the municipality, if any; or
2. In three public places located on public property at or near the site of the project.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1353; A 2005, 1825)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.178 - "Promotional activity" defined.

"Promotional activity" includes:
1. Promotion of public events that benefit business or real property in the improvement district.
2. Providing music in any public place within the improvement district.
3. Promotion of tourism within the improvement district.
4. Marketing and economic development, including the recruitment and retention of retail business.
5. Providing services related to security, sanitation, the removal of graffiti, the cleaning of streets and sidewalks and providing other municipal services that are supplemental to those typically provided by the municipality.
6. Any other activity that benefits businesses and real property located in the improvement district.
(Added to NRS by 1999, 2861)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.185 - "Public body" defined.

"Public body" means the State of Nevada, or any agency, instrumentality, or corporation thereof, or any municipality, school district, other type district, or any other subdivision of the State, excluding the Federal Government.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1353; A 1981, 958)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.190 - "Publication" and "publish" defined.

"Publication" or "publish" means publication in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the municipality and published at least once a week. Except as herein otherwise expressly provided or necessarily implied, "publication" or "publish" also means publication for at least once a week for 3 consecutive weeks by 3 weekly insertions, the first publication being at least 15 days prior to the designated time or event. Unless otherwise so stated, it shall not be necessary that publication be made on the same day of the week in each of the 3 calendar weeks, but not less than 14 days shall intervene between the first publication and the last publication. Any publication herein required shall be verified by the affidavit of the publisher and filed with the clerk.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1353)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.193 - "Rail project" defined.

"Rail project" means any railroad, railroad tracks, rail spurs and any structures or facilities necessary for freight rail service provided by a regional transportation commission pursuant to NRS 277A.283, including, without limitation, equipment, terminals, stations, platforms and other facilities necessary, useful or desirable for such a project and all property, easements, rights-of-way and other rights or interests incidental to the project.
(Added to NRS by 2017, 3808)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.195 - "Real property" defined.

"Real property" means:
1. Land, including land under water.
2. Buildings, structures, fixtures and improvements on land.
3. Any property appurtenant to or used in connection with land.
4. Every estate, interest, privilege, easement, franchise and right in land, legal or equitable, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, rights-of-way, terms for years, and liens, charges or encumbrances by way of judgment, mortgage or otherwise, and the indebtedness secured by such liens.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1353)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.199 - "Renewable energy project" defined.

"Renewable energy project" means any improvement to real property, and facilities and equipment used to generate electricity from renewable energy to offset customer load in whole or in part on the real property, and all appurtenances and incidentals necessary, useful or desirable for any such improvements, facilities and equipment, and which improvement has a useful life, as estimated by a governing body, of not less than 10 years.
(Added to NRS by 2009, 1403; A 2017, 1397)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.200 - "Sanitary sewer project" defined.

"Sanitary sewer project" means facilities appertaining to a municipal sanitary sewerage system for the collection, interception, transportation, treatment, purification and disposal of sewage, liquid wastes, solid wastes, night soil, and industrial wastes, including without limitation a sewerage treatment plant, sewerage purification and treatment works and disposal facilities, drying beds, pumping plant and station, connections, laterals, other collection lines, outfalls, outfall sewers, trunk sewers, intercepting sewers, force mains, water lines, sewer lines, conduits, ditches, pipes, and transmission lines, engines, valves, pumps, meters, apparatus, fixtures, structures, buildings, and all appurtenances and incidentals necessary, useful or desirable for the collection, interception, transportation, treatment, purification and disposal of sewage, liquid wastes, solid wastes, night soil and industrial wastes (or any combination thereof), including real and other property therefor.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1353)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.203 - "Security wall" defined.

"Security wall" means any wall composed of stone, brick, concrete, concrete blocks, masonry or similar building material, together with footings, pilasters, outriggers, grillwork, gates and other appurtenances, constructed around the perimeter of a residential subdivision with respect to which a final map has been recorded pursuant to NRS 278.360 to 278.460, inclusive, to protect the several tracts in the subdivision and their occupants from vandalism.
(Added to NRS by 1983, 870)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.204 - "Service facilities" defined.

"Service facilities" means any works or improvements used or useful in providing:
1. Electric or communication service; or
2. Service from a video service network, as that term is defined in NRS 711.145,
including, but not limited to, poles, supports, tunnels, manholes, vaults, conduits, pipes, wires, conductors, guys, stubs, platforms, crossarms, braces, transformers, insulators, cutouts, switches, capacitors, meters, communication circuits, appliances, attachments and appurtenances.
(Added to NRS by 1997, 2493; A 2007, 1378)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.2045 - "Service provider" defined.

"Service provider" means:
1. A person or corporation subject to the jurisdiction of the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada that provides electric or communication service to the public; and
2. A video service provider, as that term is defined in NRS 711.151, that provides service from a video service network,
by means of service facilities.
(Added to NRS by 1997, 2493; A 2007, 1379)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.205 - "Sidewalk project" defined.

"Sidewalk project" means any sidewalk, including without limitation graded, regraded, graveled, surfaced, macadamized and paved pedestrian rights-of-way, artificial lights and lighting equipment, and all appurtenances and incidentals (or any combination thereof), including real and other property therefor.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1354)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.208 - "Special benefit" defined.

"Special benefit" means the increase in the market value of a tract that is directly attributable to a project for which an assessment is made as determined by the local government that made the assessment. The term may include incidental costs of the project as determined by the local government.
(Added to NRS by 1989, 523; A 1991, 668)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.215 - "Storm sewer project" defined.

"Storm sewer project" means facilities appertaining to a municipal storm sewer system for the collection, interception, transportation and disposal of rainfall and other storm waters, including without limitation inlets, connections, laterals, other collection lines, outfalls, outfall sewers, trunk sewers, intercepting sewers, force mains, water lines, sewer lines, canals, pipes, transmission lines, natural and artificial watercourses, wells, ditches, reservoirs, revetments, engines, valves, pumps, meters, apparatus, fixtures, structures, buildings, and all appurtenances and incidentals necessary, useful or desirable for the collection, interception, transportation and disposal of rainfall and other storm waters (or any combination thereof), including real and other property therefor.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1354)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.223 - "Street beautification project" defined.

"Street beautification project" means the beautification of any street, including, without limitation, median strips, pedestrian malls, covered walkways or areas, water distribution and irrigation systems, retaining walls, landscaping, tree planting, shrubbery, foliage, fountains, waterfalls, decorative structures, benches, information booths, restrooms, signs and other structures, and the reconstruction and relocation of existing municipally owned works, improvements or facilities on such streets, whether or not performed in conjunction with a street project or off-street parking project, or both.
(Added to NRS by 1999, 853)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.225 - "Street project" defined.

"Street project" means any street, including without limitation grades, regrades, gravel, oiling, surfacing, macadamizing, paving, crosswalks, sidewalks, driveway approaches, curb cuts, curbs, gutters, culverts, drains, sewers, manholes, inlets, outlets, retaining walls, bridges, overpasses, tunnels, underpasses, approaches, artificial lights and lighting equipment, parkways, grade separators, traffic separators and traffic control equipment, and all appurtenances and incidentals (or any combination thereof), including real and other property therefor.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1354)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.234 - Tourism and entertainment project" defined.

"Tourism and entertainment project" means any publicly owned building or complex of buildings to accommodate or house public and private activities as a part of a multi-faceted center for tourism, including, without limitation, library facilities, museum facilities, theater facilities, aquarium facilities, art galleries, picture galleries, auditorium facilities, exposition facilities, athletic facilities, racing facilities and any other structures, fixtures, appurtenances and property and other incidentals which are necessary, useful or desirable for such a project, or any combination thereof.
(Added to NRS by 2003, 2932)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.235 - "Tract" defined.

"Tract" means any tract, lot or other parcel of land for assessment purposes, whether platted or unplatted, regardless of lot or land lines. Lots, plots, blocks and other subdivisions may be designated in accordance with any recorded plat thereof; and all lands, platted and unplatted, shall be designated by a definite description. For all purposes of the Consolidated Local Improvements Law and any law amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, any tract which is assessable property in an improvement district may be legally described pursuant to NRS 361.189.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1354; A 1969, 953; 1975, 1682)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.237 - "Transportation project" defined.

"Transportation project" means a project to provide local transportation for public use, and includes works, systems and facilities for transporting persons, rolling stock, equipment, terminals, stations, platforms and other facilities necessary, useful or desirable for such a project, and all property, easements, rights-of-way and other rights or interest incidental to the project.
(Added to NRS by 1985, 1484)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.245 - "Underpass project" defined.

"Underpass project" means any tunnel, tube or other structure or facilities for the transportation of pedestrians, motor and other vehicles, and utility lines, under any street, stream, railroad tracks, and any other way or place, approaches, ramps, structures, crosswalks, sidewalks, driveways, culverts, drains, sewers, manholes, inlets, outlets, retaining walls, artificial lights, pumping equipment, ventilating equipment, and all appurtenances and incidentals necessary, useful or desirable for any such underpass (or any combination thereof), including real and other property therefor.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1355)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.250 - "Water project" defined.

"Water project" means facilities appertaining to a municipal water system for the collection, transportation, treatment, purification and distribution of water, including without limitation springs, wells, other raw water sources, basin cribs, dams, reservoirs, towers, other storage facilities, pumping plants and stations, filter plant, purification system, water treatment facilities, power plant, waterworks plant, valves, standpipes, connections, hydrants, conduits, flumes, sluices, canals, ditches, water transmission and distribution mains, pipes, lines, laterals, and service pipes, engines, boilers, pumps, meters, apparatus, tools, equipment, fixtures, structures, buildings, and all appurtenances and incidentals necessary, useful or desirable for the acquisition, transportation, treatment, purification and distribution of potable water or untreated water for domestic, commercial and industrial use and irrigation (or any combination thereof), including real and other property therefor.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1355)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.252 - "Waterfront maintenance project" defined.

1. "Waterfront maintenance project" means any maintenance or repair, regardless of whether performed in conjunction with a waterfront project, to:
(a) Public property that is located along the shore of a public body of water; or
(b) Areas within or under a public body of water.
2. The term includes, without limitation, maintenance and repair of restrooms, fishing sites, boardwalks, decks, boat ramps, utilities, facilities for controlling drainage, parking facilities, sidewalks, benches, bulkheads, and retaining walls and lighting equipment and dredging for boat ways, erosion protection, environmental mitigation, landscaping, pumping and excavation, and all appurtenances and incidentals thereto.
(Added to NRS by 2017, 2202)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.253 - "Waterfront project" defined.

1. "Waterfront project" means any improvement to:
(a) Public property that is located along the shore of a public body of water; or
(b) Areas within or under a public body of water.
2. The term includes, without limitation, restrooms, fishing sites, boardwalks, decks, boat ramps, utilities, facilities for controlling drainage, parking facilities, lighting, dredging for boat ways, erosion protection, environmental mitigation, landscaping, sidewalks, benches, bulkheads, retaining walls, pumping and excavation, and all appurtenances and incidentals thereto.
(Added to NRS by 2015, 143)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.255 - Computation of time.

For the purpose of computing any period of time prescribed herein, including but not limited to publications, the day of the first publication, other act or designated time shall be excluded, and the day of the last publication, other act or designated time shall be included.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1355)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.257 - Circumstances under which majority of property owners may act on behalf of all property owners.

Except as otherwise provided by law or an agreement between the respective parties, and regardless of the date on which an interest in property was acquired, if a property owner:
1. Owns property that is:
(a) Subject to a covenant, condition or restriction recorded against the property before July 1, 2017; and
(b) Not subject to the provisions of chapter 116 of NRS; and
2. Owns additional property jointly with one or more other such property owners or owns a fractional interest in additional property as a tenant in common along with one or more other such property owners,
any property owners representing at least a majority of the ownership of such additional property may act on behalf of all the property owners who own such additional property.
(Added to NRS by 2017, 4038)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.270 - Collateral powers.

The governing body of any municipality, upon behalf of the municipality and in its name, for the purpose of defraying all the cost of acquiring or improving, or acquiring and improving, any project herein authorized, or any portion of the cost thereof not to be defrayed with moneys available therefor from the general fund, any special fund, or otherwise, shall have power hereunder:
1. To levy assessments against assessable property within the municipality and to cause the assessments so levied to be collected.
2. To levy from time to time and cause to be collected taxes against all taxable property within the municipality, without limitation as to rate or amount, except for the limitation in Section 2 of Article 10 of the Constitution of the State of Nevada, to pay the principal of and interest on bonds to the extent assessments are insufficient therefor.
3. To pledge the proceeds of any assessments and taxes levied hereunder to the payment of special assessment bonds and to create liens on such proceeds to secure such payments.
4. To issue special assessment bonds as herein provided.
5. To make all contracts, execute all instruments and do all things necessary or convenient in the exercise of the powers granted herein, or in the performance of the municipality’s covenants or duties or in order to secure the payment of its bonds, provided no encumbrance, mortgage or other pledge of property (excluding any money) of the municipality is created thereby, and provided no property (excluding money) of the municipality is liable to be forfeited or taken in payment of such bonds.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1356)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.290 - Subsequent procedure after filing of petition.

1. Except as otherwise expressly provided or necessarily implied in this section or in NRS 271.285, upon the filing of such a petition, the governing body shall proceed in the same manner as is provided for hereby where proceedings are initiated by the governing body.
2. Upon the filing of a petition for the acquisition or improvement of a neighborhood improvement project, the governing body shall hold a public hearing on the petition. At least 20 days before the public hearing, the governing body shall:
(a) Mail notice of the hearing to each owner of real property within the proposed improvement district and to each tenant who resides or owns a business located within the proposed improvement district; and
(b) Publish notice of the hearing in a newspaper of general circulation in the municipality,
describing the purpose and general location of the proposed improvement district, and the date, time and place of the proposed public hearing.
3. At the public hearing, any owner of real property or tenant who resides or owns a business located within the proposed district for a neighborhood improvement project may present, orally or in writing, the reasons why he or she believes that:
(a) The petition does not contain a sufficient number of qualified signatures; or
(b) The finding required by subsection 4 cannot reasonably be made with respect to any part of the proposed improvement district.
4. After consideration of any objections made at the hearing, and of any other information reasonably known to it, the governing body must, as a condition precedent to the initiation of the procedure for acquiring or improving a neighborhood improvement project, find that the public interest will benefit by the provision of the proposed improvements within that part of the municipality. In making this determination, the governing body shall consider the differences it finds between the municipality as a whole and the territory within and adjacent to the proposed improvement district.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1358; A 1999, 2868; 2015, 147)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.295 - Combination of projects.

1. More than one project may be combined in one improvement district when the governing body determines such projects may be combined together in an efficient and economical improvement district.
2. If in the combination of projects, they shall be separate and distinct by reason of substantial difference in their character or location, or otherwise, each such project shall be considered as a unit or quasi-improvement district for the purpose of petition, remonstrance and assessment.
3. In case of such combination, the governing body shall designate the project and area constituting each such unit, and in the absence of an arbitrary and unreasonable abuse of discretion, its determination that there is or is not such a combination and its determination of the project and area constituting each such unit shall be final and conclusive.
4. The costs of acquiring or improving each such project shall be segregated for the levy of assessments and an equitable share of the incidental costs shall be allocated to each such unit.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1358)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.296 - Neighborhood improvement projects: Dissolution of improvement district.

1. The governing body may, by resolution, dissolve an improvement district that is created for the purposes of a neighborhood improvement project if property owners whose property is assessed for a combined total of more than 50 percent of the total amount of the assessments of all the property in the improvement district submit a written petition to the governing body that requests the dissolution of the district within the period prescribed in subsection 2.
2. The dissolution of an improvement district pursuant to this section may be requested within 30 days after:
(a) The first anniversary of the date the improvement district was created; and
(b) Each subsequent anniversary thereafter.
3. As soon as practicable after the receipt of the written petition of the property owners submitted pursuant to subsection 1, the governing body shall pass a resolution of intention to dissolve the improvement district. The governing body shall give notice of a hearing on the dissolution. The notice must be provided and the hearing must be held in the manner set forth in NRS 271.380 and 271.385. If the governing body determines that dissolution of the improvement district is appropriate, it shall dissolve the improvement district by resolution, effective not earlier than the 30th day after the hearing.
4. If there is indebtedness, outstanding and unpaid, incurred to accomplish any of the purposes of the improvement district, the portion of the assessment necessary to pay the indebtedness remains effective and must be continued in the following years until the debt is paid.
(Added to NRS by 1999, 2864; A 2015, 148; 2023, 1073)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.297 - Neighborhood improvement projects: Modification of plan or plat.

An association with which a governing body contracts pursuant to NRS 271.332 may, at any time, request that the governing body modify a plan or plat with regard to the neighborhood improvement project. Upon the written request of the association, the governing body may modify the plan or plat by ordinance after providing notice and holding a hearing on the proposed modification in the manner set forth in NRS 271.380 and 271.385. If the proposed modification of a plat expands the territory for assessment, a person who owns or resides within a tract which is located within the territory proposed to be added to the improvement district may file a protest pursuant to NRS 271.392 at any time before the governing body modifies the plat by ordinance. A petition is not required for a modification made pursuant to this section.
(Added to NRS by 1999, 2862; A 2015, 148; 2023, 1074)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.300 - Effect of estimates.

1. Any estimate of cost required or authorized herein shall not constitute a limitation upon such cost nor a limitation upon the rights and powers of the governing body or of any officers, agents or employees of the municipality, except as herein otherwise expressly stated.
2. No assessment, however, shall exceed the amount of the estimate of maximum special benefits to the tract assessed from any project.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1358)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.306 - Apportionment of assessments for irregularly shaped tracts; objections to acquisition or improvement of project.

1. Regardless of the basis used for apportioning assessments, the amount apportioned to a wedge or V or any other irregularly shaped tract must be in proportion to the special benefits thereby derived.
2. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 3 and 4, if, within the time specified in the notice, complaints, protests and objections in writing, that is, all written remonstrances, against acquiring or improving the project proposed by initiation of the governing body are filed with the clerk, signed by the owners of tracts constituting a majority of the frontage, of the area, of the zone, or of the other basis for the computation of assessments, as the case may be, of the tracts to be assessed in the improvement district or in the assessment unit if the improvement district is divided into assessment units, the project therein must not be acquired or improved unless:
(a) The municipality pays one-half or more of the total cost of the project, other than a park project, with money derived from other than the levy of assessments; or
(b) The project constitutes not more than 2,640 feet, including intersections, remaining unimproved in any street, including an alley, between improvements already made to either side of the same street or between improvements already made to intersecting streets. In this case the governing body may on its own motion cause the intervening and unimproved part of the street to be improved. Such improvements will not be stayed or defeated or prevented by written complaints, protests and objections thereto, unless the governing body in its sole discretion, deems such written complaints, protests and objections proper to cause the improvement to be stayed or prevented.
3. Written remonstrances by the owners of tracts constituting 50 percent of the basis for the computation of assessments suffice to preclude the acquisition or improvement of a street beautification project or waterfront maintenance project.
4. Written remonstrances by the owners of tracts constituting at least one-third of the basis for the computation of assessments suffice to preclude the acquisition or improvement of a neighborhood improvement project. For the purposes of this subsection, the property of a single owner may not be counted as constituting more than 10 percent of the basis.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 1871; A 1993, 291; 1999, 856, 2871; 2015, 151; 2017, 2206)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.307 - Preparation of document by engineer without prior direction of governing body.

When expressly authorized by a provision of this chapter and the conditions of paragraph (a) or (b), or both, of subsection 2 of NRS 271.306 are satisfied, the engineer may prepare a document required by this chapter without the prior direction of the governing body, and the governing body may ratify the document by ordinance or resolution upon determining that the document is satisfactory. The determination of the governing body is conclusive.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 1872)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.308 - Emergency ordinance.

Except as otherwise provided in NRS 271.475:
1. When expressly authorized by a provision of this chapter and the conditions of paragraph (a) or (b), or both, of subsection 2 of NRS 271.306 are satisfied, an ordinance required by this chapter may be adopted or amended as if an emergency existed.
2. The governing body’s declaration, if any, in any ordinance that it is such an ordinance is conclusive in the absence of fraud or gross abuse of discretion.
3. Such an ordinance may become effective at any time when an emergency ordinance of the municipality may go into effect.
4. Such an ordinance may be adopted by an affirmative vote of not less than two-thirds of all the voting members of the governing body, excluding from any such computation any vacancy on the governing body and any member thereon who may vote only to break a tie vote.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 1871; A 1995, 390)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.310 - Provisional order: Hearing; determination of governing body.

1. On the date and at the place fixed for the hearing any and all property owners interested in the project may present their views in respect to the proposed projects to the governing body. The governing body may adjourn the hearing from time to time.
2. After the hearing has been concluded, after all written complaints, protests and objections have been read and considered, and after all persons desiring to be heard in person have been heard, the governing body shall consider the arguments, if any, and any other relevant material put forth, and shall by resolution or ordinance, as the board determines, pass upon the merits of each such complaint, protest or objection.
3. If the governing body determines that it is not for the public interest that the proposed project, or a part of the project, be made, the governing body shall make an order by resolution to that effect, and thereupon the proceedings for the project, or the part of the project determined against by the order, must stop and must not be begun again until the adoption of a new resolution.
4. Any complaint, protest or objection to:
(a) The propriety of acquiring or improving or acquiring and improving the project;
(b) The estimated cost of the project;
(c) The determination concerning the portion of the cost of the project to be paid by assessments;
(d) The method used to estimate the special benefits to be derived from the project generally or by any tract in the assessment area;
(e) The basis established for apportionment of the assessments; or
(f) The regularity, validity and correctness of any other proceedings or instruments taken, adopted or made before the date of the hearing,
shall be deemed waived unless presented in writing at the time and in the manner provided by NRS 271.305.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1361; A 1975, 845; 1991, 671)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.315 - Appeal from adverse order: Pleading with particularity required; judicial review limited.

1. Any person filing a written complaint, protest or objection as provided in NRS 271.305 may, within 30 days after the governing body has finally passed on the complaint, protest or objection by resolution or ordinance as provided in subsection 2 of NRS 271.310, commence an action or suit in any court of competent jurisdiction to correct or set aside the determination, but thereafter all actions or suits attacking the validity of the proceedings and the amount of benefits are perpetually barred.
2. Any person who brings an action pursuant to this section must plead with particularity and prove the facts upon which he or she relies to establish:
(a) That the estimate of the benefits to be derived from the project or the method used to apportion the cost of the project is fraudulent, arbitrary or unsupported by substantial evidence; or
(b) That any provision of NRS 271.265 to 271.310, inclusive, or 271.800 has been violated.
Conclusory allegations of fact or law are insufficient to comply with the requirements of this subsection.
3. In any action brought pursuant to this section, judicial review of the proceedings is confined to the record before the governing body. Evidence that has not been presented to the governing body must not be considered by the court.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1361; A 1975, 845; 1991, 667, 671; 1997, 2496)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.320 - Procedure after hearing; modification; division into construction units.

1. After the hearing and after the governing body has:
(a) Disposed of all complaints, protests and objections, oral and in writing;
(b) Determined that it is not prevented from proceeding pursuant to subsection 3 or 4 of NRS 271.306; and
(c) Determined that:
(1) Either or both exceptions stated in subsection 2 of NRS 271.306 apply; or
(2) There were not filed with the clerk complaints, protests and objections in writing and signed by the owners of tracts constituting a majority of the frontage, of the area, of the zone, or of the other basis for the computation of assessments stated in the notice, of the tracts to be assessed in the improvement district or in the assessment unit, if any,
and the governing body has jurisdiction to proceed, the governing body shall determine whether to proceed with the improvement district, and with each assessment unit, if any, except as otherwise provided in this chapter.
2. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 271.640 to 271.646, inclusive, if the governing body desires to proceed and desires any modification, by motion or resolution it shall direct the engineer to prepare and present to the governing body:
(a) A revised and detailed estimate of the total cost, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the cost of acquiring or improving each proposed project and of each of the incidental costs. The revised estimate does not constitute a limitation for any purpose.
(b) Full and detailed plans and specifications for each proposed project designed to permit and encourage competition among the bidders, if any project is to be acquired by construction contract.
(c) A revised map and assessment plat showing respectively the location of each project and the tracts to be assessed therefor, not including any area or project not before the governing body at a provisional order hearing.
3. That resolution, a separate resolution, or the ordinance creating the improvement district may combine or divide the proposed project or projects into suitable construction units for the purpose of letting separate and independent contracts, regardless of the extent of any project constituting an assessment unit and regardless of whether a portion or none of the cost of any project is to be defrayed other than by the levy of special assessments. Costs of unrelated projects must be segregated for assessment purposes as provided in this chapter.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1361; A 1991, 1876; 1999, 2871; 2011, 2915)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.325 - Resolution of governing body; adoption and amendment of ordinance creating district; recording list of tracts and estimated assessments; overlapping boundaries of neighborhood improvement projects prohibited.

1. When an accurate estimate of cost, full and detailed plans and specifications and map are prepared, are presented and are satisfactory to the governing body, it shall, by resolution, make a determination that:
(a) Public convenience and necessity require the creation of the district; and
(b) The creation of the district is economically sound and feasible.
This determination may be made part of the ordinance creating the district adopted pursuant to subsection 2 and is conclusive in the absence of fraud or gross abuse of discretion.
2. The governing body may, by ordinance, create the district and order the proposed project to be acquired or improved. This ordinance may be adopted and amended as if an emergency existed.
3. The ordinance must prescribe:
(a) The extent of the improvement district to be assessed, by boundaries or other brief description, and similarly of each assessment unit therein, if any.
(b) The kind and location of each project proposed, without mentioning minor details.
(c) The amount or proportion of the total cost to be defrayed by assessments, the method of levying assessments, the number of installments and the times in which the costs assessed will be payable.
(d) The character and extent of any construction units.
4. The engineer may further revise the cost, plans and specifications and map from time to time for all or any part of any project, and the ordinance may be appropriately amended. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 271.640 to 271.646, inclusive, such amendment must take place before letting any construction contract therefor and before any work being done other than by independent contract let by the municipality.
5. The ordinance, if amended, must order the work to be done as provided in this chapter.
6. Upon adoption or amendment of the ordinance, the governing body shall cause to be recorded in the office of the county recorder a certified copy of a list of the tracts to be assessed and the amount of maximum benefits estimated to be assessed against each tract in the assessment area, as shown on the assessment plat as revised and approved by the governing body pursuant to NRS 271.320. Neither the failure to record the list as provided in this subsection nor any defect or omission in the list regarding any parcel or parcels to be included within the district affects the validity of any assessment, the lien for the payment thereof or the priority of that lien.
7. The governing body may not adopt an ordinance creating or modifying the boundaries of an improvement district for a neighborhood improvement project if the boundaries of the improvement district overlap an existing improvement district created for a neighborhood improvement project.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1362; A 1989, 255, 525; 1991, 1876; 1995, 390; 1999, 2872; 2001, 1758; 2011, 2916; 2015, 151)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 271 - Local Improvements › NRS 271.330 - Methods of acquisition or improvement.

1. Any construction work for any project shall be done in any one or more of the following three ways:
(a) By independent contract.
(b) By use of municipally owned or leased equipment and municipal officers, agents and employees.
(c) By another public body or the Federal Government acquiring or improving a project or any interest therein which is herein authorized, which results in general benefits to the municipality and in special benefits to the assessable property being assessed therefor by the municipality within its boundaries.
2. Any project or any interest therein not involving construction work appertaining to a capital improvement may be acquired or improved pursuant to any appropriate contract, or otherwise, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the condemnation or other acquisition of real property. In such case nothing herein in subsection 1 nor in NRS 271.335, 271.340 or 271.345 shall be applicable.
3. Notwithstanding a project herein authorized or any interest therein may not be owned by a municipality nor be directly acquired or improved, nor the costs thereof directly incurred, by a municipality, and notwithstanding the project herein authorized or any interest therein may be located on land, an easement or other interest therein, or other real property owned by the Federal Government or a public body other than the municipality, the municipality shall have the power:
(a) To acquire or improve, or both acquire and improve, or to cooperate in the acquisition or improvement of, or both the acquisition and improvement of, the project, or any interest therein, with the Federal Government or any public body (other than the municipality), pursuant to agreement between or among the municipality and such other bodies corporate and politic, so long as the project or the interest therein acquired or improved, or both acquired and improved, results in general benefits to the municipality and in special benefits to the assessable property being assessed therefor by the municipality within its boundaries.
(b) To levy special assessments on such assessable property to defray all or any part of the costs of the project or any interest therein, or to defray all or any part of the municipality’s share of such costs if all costs are not being defrayed by the municipality.
(c) To issue bonds and to exercise other powers herein granted and appertaining to such acquisition or improvement, or both.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1362)