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2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 541 - Water Conservancy Districts › NRS 541.290 - Powers of board in distribution of water.

The board shall have the following powers concerning the management, control, delivery, use and distribution of water by the district:
1. To make and enforce all reasonable regulations for the management, control and delivery of water, subject to the provisions of NRS 416.060.
2. To withhold the delivery of water upon which there are any defaults or delinquencies of payment.
3. Subject to such limitations as may be prescribed by the board of directors, to provide for and declare forfeitures of rights to the use of water upon default or failure to comply with any order, contract or agreement for the purchase, lease or use of water and to resell, lease or otherwise dispose of water upon which forfeiture has been declared.
4. To allocate and reallocate the use of water to lands within the district.
5. To provide for and grant the right, upon terms, to transfer water from lands to which water has been allocated to other lands within the district and to discharge liens from lands to which same was theretofore attached and to create liens, as provided in this chapter, upon lands to which the use of such water is transferred.
[29:380:1955]—(NRS A 1977, 552)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 541 - Water Conservancy Districts › NRS 541.300 - Contracts relating to electrical energy.

The board is authorized to enter into contracts for the operation and maintenance of works for the generation and supplying of electrical energy and for the disposition of power generated thereat. The board may also enter into contracts for the acquisition, purchase, sale or other disposition of electrical energy.
[30:380:1955]—(NRS A 2001, 2091)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 541 - Water Conservancy Districts › NRS 541.310 - Change of boundaries: Petition for inclusion of other lands; procedure.

1. The boundaries of any district organized under the provisions of this chapter may be changed in the manner herein prescribed, but the change of boundaries of the district shall not:
(a) Impair or affect its organization or its rights in or to property, or any of its rights or privileges whatsoever.
(b) Affect or impair or discharge any contract, obligation, lien or charge for or upon which it might be liable or chargeable had such change of boundaries not been made.
2. The owners of lands may file with the board a petition, in writing, praying that such lands be included in the district. The petition shall describe the tracts or body of land owned by the petitioners, and such petition shall be deemed to give assent of the petitioners to the inclusion in the district of the lands described in the petition. The petition must be acknowledged in the same manner that conveyances of land are required to be acknowledged.
3. The secretary of the board shall cause notice of filing of such petition to be given and published in the county in which the lands are situated, which notice shall state the filing of such petition, names of petitioners, description of lands mentioned and the prayer of the petitioners; and it shall give notice to all persons interested to appear at the office of the board at the time named in the notice and show cause in writing, if any they have, why the petition should not be granted.
4. The board shall at the time and place mentioned, or at such time or times at which the hearing may be adjourned, proceed to hear the petition and all objections thereto presented, in writing, by any person showing cause why the petition should not be granted. The failure of any person interested to show cause, in writing, shall be deemed and held and taken as an assent on his or her part to the inclusion of such lands in the district as prayed for in the petition.
5. If the petition is granted, the board shall make an order to that effect and file same with the clerk of the court, and upon order of the court the lands shall be included in the district.
[31:380:1955]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 541 - Water Conservancy Districts › NRS 541.320 - Petition for exclusion of lands in district; procedure; court order.

1. The owner or owners in fee of any lands constituting a portion of the district may file with the board a petition praying that such lands be excluded and taken from the district.
2. Petitions shall describe the lands which the petitioners desire to have excluded. The petition must be acknowledged in the same manner and form as required in case of a conveyance of land and be accompanied by a deposit of money sufficient to pay all costs of the exclusion proceedings.
3. The secretary of the board shall cause a notice of filing of such petition to be published in the county in which the lands, or the major portion thereof, are located. The notice shall state the filing of such petition, the names of petitioners, descriptions of lands mentioned in the petition, and the prayer of the petitioners; and it shall notify all persons interested to appear at the office of the board at the time named in the notice, showing cause in writing, if any they have, why the petition should not be granted.
4. The board at the time and place mentioned in the notice, or at the time or times at which the hearing of the petition may be adjourned, shall proceed to hear the petition and all objections thereto presented, in writing, by any person showing cause why the prayer of the petition should not be granted. The filing of such petition shall be deemed and taken as an assent by each and all such petitioners to the exclusion from the district of the lands mentioned in the petition, or any part thereof. The board, if they deem it not for the best interests of the district that the lands mentioned in the petition, or portion thereof, shall be excluded from the district, shall order that the petition be denied; but if the board deems it for the best interest of the district that the lands mentioned in the petition, or some portion thereof, be excluded from the district, and if there are not outstanding bonds of the district, then the board may order the lands mentioned in the petition, or some portion thereof, to be excluded from the district. In case a contract has been made between the district and the United States or any agency thereof, no change shall be made in the boundaries of the district unless the Secretary of the Interior shall assent thereto in writing and such assent be filed with the board. Upon such assent, any lands excluded from the district shall upon order of the court be discharged from all liens in favor of the United States under the contract with the United States or under bonds deposited with its agents.
5. Upon allowance of such petition, the board shall file a certified copy of the order of the board making such change with the clerk of the court, and upon order of the court the lands shall be excluded from the district.
[32:380:1955]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 541 - Water Conservancy Districts › NRS 541.330 - Board may enter into contracts relative to payments to be made to United States.

To pay for construction, operation, and maintenance of works and expenses preliminary and incidental thereto, the board is authorized to enter into a contract or contracts with the United States or any agency thereof, providing for payment therefor in installments or otherwise.
[33:380:1955]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 541 - Water Conservancy Districts › NRS 541.350 - Publication of resolution for creation of indebtedness.

The resolution provided for in NRS 541.340 must be published once a week for 2 consecutive weeks, the last publication of which must be at least 10 days before the election, in a newspaper of general circulation printed and published within the district.
[35:380:1955]—(NRS A 1993, 1091)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 541 - Water Conservancy Districts › NRS 541.360 - Conduct of election; canvass of returns.

The respective election boards shall conduct the election in their respective precincts in the manner prescribed by law for the holding of general elections, and shall make their returns to the secretary of the district. At any regular or special meeting of the board held not earlier than 6 working days following the date of the election, the returns thereof must be canvassed and the results thereof declared. If any election held pursuant to NRS 541.340 is consolidated with any primary or general election, the returns thereof must be made and canvassed at the time and in the manner provided by law for the canvass of the returns of such a primary or general election. The canvassing body shall promptly certify and transmit to the board a statement of the result of the vote upon the proposition submitted pursuant to NRS 541.340. Upon receipt of the statement, the board shall tabulate and declare the results of the proposition voted on at the election.
[36:380:1955]—(NRS A 1993, 1091; 2007, 627)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 541 - Water Conservancy Districts › NRS 541.370 - Majority vote required to authorize indebtedness; resubmission of proposition.

1. If it appears from the returns that a majority of the qualified electors of the district who voted on any proposition submitted pursuant to NRS 541.340 voted in favor of the proposition, the district may incur the indebtedness or obligations and enter into the contract for the purpose or purposes and object or objects provided for in the proposition submitted pursuant to NRS 541.340, and in the amount so provided and at a rate of interest not exceeding the rate of interest recited in the resolution.
2. Submission of the proposition of incurring such obligation or other indebtedness at a special, primary or general election does not prohibit submission of the same proposition or other propositions at a subsequent special, primary or general election.
[37:380:1955]—(NRS A 1993, 1092)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 541 - Water Conservancy Districts › NRS 541.380 - Board may petition court for judicial determination of orders, acts, power, taxes and contracts.

1. The board may, in its discretion, at any time file a petition in the court, praying a judicial examination and determination of the validity of the proceedings for the formation of any water conservancy district or subdistrict thereof purported to be formed under the provisions of this chapter or any amendment thereof or of any power conferred hereby or by any amendment hereto or of any tax or assessment levied or of any act, proceeding or contract of any such district or subdistrict, whether or not the contract shall have been executed, including proposed contracts for the acquisition, construction, maintenance or operation of works for such district or subdistrict.
2. The petition shall set forth the facts whereon the validity of such order, power, assessment, act, proceeding or contract is founded and shall be verified by the president of the board. Notice of the filing of the petition shall be given by the clerk of the court, under the seal thereof, stating in brief outline the contents of the petition and showing where a complete copy of any contract or contracts, therein mentioned, may be examined. The notice shall be served by publication at least once a week for 4 consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation in the county in which the principal office of the district is located, and by posting the same in the office of the district at least 30 days prior to the date fixed in the notice for the hearing on the petition. Any owner of property in the district or person interested in the contract or proposed contract may appear and answer the petition at any time prior to the date fixed for the hearing or within such further time as may be allowed by the court, and the petition shall be taken as confessed by all persons who fail so to appear.
3. The petition and notice shall be sufficient to give the court jurisdiction and, upon hearing, the court shall examine into and determine all matters and things affecting the question submitted, shall make such findings with reference thereto and render such judgment and decree thereon as the case warrants. Costs may be divided or apportioned among the contesting parties in the discretion of the trial court.
4. Review of the judgment of the court may be had as in other similar cases, except that such review must be applied for within 30 days after the time of the rendition of such judgment, or within such additional time as may be allowed by the court within 30 days.
5. The Nevada Rules of Civil Procedure shall govern in the matters of pleading and practice where not otherwise specified herein.
6. The court shall disregard any error, irregularity or omission which does not affect the substantial rights of the parties.
[38:380:1955]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 541 - Water Conservancy Districts › NRS 541.390 - Notice; jurisdiction of district court not lost for failure to give notice.

In every case where a notice is provided for in this chapter, if the court finds for any reason that due notice was not given, the court shall not thereby lose jurisdiction and the proceeding in question shall not thereby be void or be abated, but the court shall in that case order due notice to be given and shall continue the hearing until such time as notice shall be properly given, and thereupon shall proceed as though notice had been properly given in the first instance.
[39:380:1955]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 541 - Water Conservancy Districts › NRS 541.400 - Cases to be heard by court at earliest practicable moment.

1. All cases in which there may arise a question of the validity of the organization of a water conservancy district or a question of the validity of any proceeding under this chapter shall be advanced as a matter of immediate public interest and concern, and be heard at the earliest practicable moment.
2. The courts shall be open at all times for the purposes of this chapter.
[40:380:1955]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 541 - Water Conservancy Districts › NRS 541.420 - Conflicting laws declared nonoperative.

All laws or parts of laws conflicting in any way with any of the provisions of this chapter in regard to the improvements or improvement districts, or regulating or limiting the power of taxation or assessments, or otherwise interfering with the accomplishment of the purposes of this chapter according to its terms, are hereby declared nonoperative and noneffective as to this chapter as completely as if they did not exist. But all such laws and parts of laws shall not in any other way be affected by this chapter.
[43:380:1955]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.020 - Declaration of policy.

It is hereby declared to be the policy of the State of Nevada to cooperate with the United States and its departments and agencies, and with the counties, cities and public districts of the State, in preventing loss of life and property, disruption of commerce, interruption of transportation and communication and waste of water resulting from floods, and in furthering the conservation, development, utilization and disposal of water.
(Added to NRS by 1960, 56)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.030 - Director of State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources to give assurances and perform acts required in connection with projects as directed by Legislature.

The Director is hereby authorized to give all assurances and perform any other acts required by the Secretary of the Army and the Congress of the United States in connection with flood control projects in the State of Nevada, when and as directed by acts of the Legislature of the State of Nevada.
(Added to NRS by 1959, 165)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.040 - Flood Control Account: Creation; money in Account does not lapse.

The Flood Control Account is hereby created in the State General Fund. Money in the Flood Control Account does not lapse at the end of any fiscal year.
(Added to NRS by 1959, 165; A 1979, 116; 1991, 1786)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.050 - Flood Control Account: Authorized expenditures; reimbursements.

The Director shall use the money in the Flood Control Account to pay all necessary costs in order to carry out the assurances and to perform the acts provided for in NRS 543.030. Reimbursements to the Account must be in the manner described in NRS 543.060.
(Added to NRS by 1959, 165; A 1979, 116; 1991, 1787)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.060 - Reimbursements in proportion to benefit received; time of payments; budgets.

1. The Director shall determine which counties, cities and public districts benefit by the project, and whether the State is benefited by the project, and to what extent there is benefit to the subdivisions, and reimbursement to the Flood Control Account must be made in proportion to the benefit received.
2. If any portion of the Flood Control Account is used for maintenance of any of those flood control projects, the Flood Control Account must be fully reimbursed for cost of the maintenance by the State, counties, cities and public districts benefited by the project.
3. The Director shall determine the period for repayment of the initial nonfederal charges as provided for under subsection 1, which period may not be more than 5 years after completion of the project for which money has been authorized.
4. The Director, after having determined the benefits as set forth in subsection 1, shall, between the first Monday of October and the first Monday of December of each year, prepare a budget showing the amount of money estimated to be necessary to repay the initial capital outlay, which initial capital outlay is to be assessed in equal annual installments, and any estimated maintenance cost for the then current year, and submit the budget to the board of county commissioners. When the flood control project lies in more than one county, separate budgets must be prepared for each county.
(Added to NRS by 1959, 165; A 1979, 116; 1991, 1787)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.070 - Certification of charges by county commissioners to county assessor; entry on assessment roll; collection of special tax; liens.

1. Upon receipt of such budget by the board of county commissioners, the board of county commissioners shall certify the respective charges contained therein to the county assessor. The county assessor shall enter the amount of such charge or charges on the assessment roll against the beneficiaries.
2. The proper officers of the county shall collect such special tax as other special taxes are collected, and such charge shall be a lien upon the property so served, and shall be collected in the same manner as other taxes are collected.
(Added to NRS by 1959, 165)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.080 - Taxes and charges deposited for credit to Flood Control Account; claims against Account.

1. The taxes and charges provided for in NRS 543.070, when collected, must be deposited with the State Treasurer for credit to the Flood Control Account.
2. All bills against the Account must be certified by the Director and, when certified and approved by the State Board of Examiners, the State Controller is authorized to draw his or her warrant against the Flood Control Account.
(Added to NRS by 1959, 166; A 1979, 117; 1991, 1787)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.090 - Loans to counties, cities and public districts for planning, engineering, administration, acquisition of easements and other costs.

1. Whenever the Secretary of Agriculture or the Secretary of the Army has approved or may approve a work of improvement or a flood control project in the State of Nevada, and the Congress of the United States has appropriated or may appropriate money for such work or project, and a county, city or public district, or a combination thereof, has given or is in a position to give the assurances required by the Watershed Protection and Flood Prevention Act, Public Law 566, 83rd Congress, 68 Stat. 666, as amended, or the Flood Control Act of 1954, Public Law 780, 83rd Congress, 68 Stat. 1256, as amended, and such county, city or public district is in need of immediate financial assistance for planning, engineering, administration, acquisition of easements and rights-of-way or other costs, such county, city or public district may apply to the Director for such assistance in the manner provided in NRS 543.090 to 543.140, inclusive.
2. A city, county or public district may apply to the Director for financial assistance pursuant to NRS 543.090 to 543.140, inclusive, for the payment of the cost of surveying along a river when such surveying potentially but not necessarily will culminate in or assist a flood control project.
(Added to NRS by 1960, 56; A 1973, 772)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.100 - Loans approved by Director of State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, Governor and State Board of Finance.

Upon a petition from a county, city or public district to the Director, in a form prescribed by the Director, requesting financial assistance to aid in paying the costs of planning, engineering, administration, acquisition of easements and rights-of-way and other proper expenses connected with a flood control project, or in paying costs for a riparian survey, the Director may, following study and approval of the proposed project or survey, and subject to the approval of the Governor and the State Board of Finance, loan money from the Flood Control Account in the manner provided in NRS 543.090 to 543.140, inclusive.
(Added to NRS by 1960, 56; A 1973, 773; 1979, 117; 1991, 1787)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.110 - Contents of petition for loan; repayment period; budgets.

1. Each petition to the Director must describe the proposed flood control project or riparian survey, state the amount of money requested, and designate the areas to be assessed to reimburse the Flood Control Account.
2. The Director shall determine the period to be allowed for repayment of the money loaned, which period may not be longer than 5 years from the date of the loan.
3. The Director shall, between the first Monday of October and the first Monday of December of each year following the date of any loan, prepare a budget based on repayment of the loan in equal annual installments showing the amount of money to be repaid in the next succeeding fiscal year, and shall submit the budget to the board of county commissioners of the county in which the project or survey is located. If the project or survey is located in more than one county, separate budgets must be prepared for each county.
(Added to NRS by 1960, 56; A 1973, 773; 1979, 117; 1991, 1787)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.120 - Certification of charges by county commissioners to county assessor; entry on assessment roll; collection of special tax; liens.

1. Upon receipt of a budget from the Director, the board of county commissioners shall certify the charge or charges contained therein to the county assessor. The county assessor shall enter such charge or charges on the assessment roll against the property benefited.
2. The appropriate officers of the county shall collect such charges in the same manner as special taxes are collected. Such charge shall be a lien upon the property so assessed, which shall be enforced in the same manner as other property tax liens are enforced.
(Added to NRS by 1960, 56)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.130 - Receipts deposited in Flood Control Account; claims against Account.

1. The receipts of the charges provided for in NRS 543.120, when collected, must be deposited, in the same manner as receipts of special taxes are deposited, with the State Treasurer for credit to the Flood Control Account.
2. All claims against the Account must be certified by the Director, and when they have been certified and approved by the State Board of Examiners, the State Controller shall draw his or her warrant against the Flood Control Account.
(Added to NRS by 1960, 57; A 1979, 117; 1991, 1788)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.140 - Limitations on loans.

Loans may be made pursuant to NRS 543.090 to 543.140, inclusive, from time to time for each proposed flood control project at the discretion of the Director and within the limits of money available in the Flood Control Account.
(Added to NRS by 1960, 57; A 1979, 117; 1991, 1788)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.150 - Legislative declaration; application; conditions; repayment.

1. The Legislature finds and declares that the people of this State have a paramount interest in the maximum use of all the water of the State and in efficient and effective water distribution to the public by governmental subdivisions, thus ensuring the public’s health and safety.
2. Whenever the system for the distribution of water of a governmental subdivision of this State has been damaged by flood or other act of God, resulting in an emergency condition of a shortage of water for public use, the governing body of the governmental subdivision may make application to the Director for a loan to assist in repairing the damage. The application must be made in the manner and form prescribed by the Director. The Director shall transmit the application to the Bureau of Environmental Health of the Division of Public and Behavioral Health of the Department of Health and Human Services requesting an investigation and survey of the damage, and a report thereon. If the report of the Bureau of Environmental Health of the Division of Public and Behavioral Health finds that the damage has resulted in a lack of service and a threat to public health because of the emergency resulting from a shortage of water, the Director may loan money from an appropriate account of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources in the State General Fund to repair the damage or to reimburse the governmental subdivision for money expended by it to repair the damage. The Director shall determine the period to be allowed for repayment of the money, not to exceed 20 years after the date of the loan. The Director shall also determine the schedule of repayment of the loans. All money received by the Director as repayments of loans must be deposited in the account from which it was lent.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 447; A 1963, 573; 1973, 1406; 1985, 721)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.170 - Legislative declaration.

The Legislature finds and declares that:
1. Facilities to alleviate flooding in any district, whether located in a city, an unincorporated town or another unincorporated area of the county, benefit all the residents and owners of property in the district.
2. These facilities provide protection for life and property throughout the district, and usually require planning and development throughout a drainage basin.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 427; A 1985, 1190)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.180 - Definitions.

As used in NRS 543.170 to 543.830, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 543.181 to 543.188, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 427; A 1975, 749; 1985, 1191; 1987, 431, 720; 2001, 892)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.181 - "Acquisition" and "acquire" defined.

"Acquisition" includes extension, alteration, reconstruction, repair or other improvement by purchase, construction, installation, reconstruction, condemnation, lease, rent, gift, grant, bequest, devise, contract or other means, or any combination thereof. "Acquire" has a correspondingly extensive meaning.
(Added to NRS by 1985, 1189)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.188 - "Taxpaying elector" defined.

"Taxpaying elector" means a person who is qualified to vote at general elections in this state, whether or not registered to vote or a resident in the district, and who, or whose spouse, is obligated as an owner or as a contract purchaser at a designated time or event to pay a general tax on real property within the district.
(Added to NRS by 1985, 1189)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.190 - Computation of time.

To compute any period prescribed in NRS 543.170 to 543.830, inclusive, the day of the first publication, or other designated time, must be excluded and the day of the last publication, or other designated action or time, must be included.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 428; A 1987, 720)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.195 - Publication of notice.

When notice is required to be given by publication pursuant to NRS 543.170 to 543.830, inclusive, publication must be made at least once each week for 3 consecutive weeks in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the district. It is not necessary that publication be made on the same day of the week in each of the 3 calendar weeks, but the first publication must be at least 15 days before the designated time or event.
(Added to NRS by 1985, 1189; A 1987, 720)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.200 - Correction of faulty notices.

In any case where a notice is provided for in NRS 543.170 to 543.830, inclusive, if the court finds for any reason that due notice was not given, the court does not thereby lose jurisdiction, and the proceeding in question is not void or abated. The court shall order notice to be given and shall continue the hearing until such time as notice is properly given, and thereupon shall proceed as though notice had been properly given in the first instance.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 428; A 1987, 720)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.210 - Sufficiency of NRS 543.170 to 543.830, inclusive.

NRS 543.170 to 543.830, inclusive, without reference to other statutes of the state, except as specifically provided in NRS 543.170 to 543.830, inclusive, constitute full authority for the authorization and issuance of bonds pursuant to NRS 543.170 to 543.830, inclusive. No other law with regard to the authorization or issuance of bonds that provides for an election, requires an approval, or in any way impedes or restricts the carrying out of the acts authorized by NRS 543.170 to 543.830, inclusive, to be done applies to any proceedings taken under NRS 543.170 to 543.830, inclusive, or acts done pursuant thereto, it being intended that NRS 543.170 to 543.830, inclusive, provide a separate method of accomplishing their objectives, and not an exclusive one, and NRS 543.170 to 543.830, inclusive, does not repeal or amend any such other law.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 428; A 1987, 720)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.240 - Area included within district.

1. In any county whose population is 700,000 or more, the entire county constitutes the district.
2. In any other county a district may:
(a) Consist of one contiguous area or of two or more noncontiguous areas.
(b) Include all or part of municipal corporations and other political subdivisions.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 429; A 1985, 1192; 1989, 1931; 2011, 1295)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.250 - Creation in certain counties; interest not prohibited; inclusion of territory within another county.

1. In any county whose population is less than 700,000 the board of county commissioners may create districts.
2. No member of a board of county commissioners or board of directors is disqualified to perform any duty imposed by NRS 543.170 to 543.830, inclusive, by reason of ownership of property within any proposed district.
3. A district so created may include territory within another such county, with the consent of the board of county commissioners of the other county.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 429; A 1969, 1545; 1975, 749; 1985, 1192; 1987, 721; 1989, 1931; 2011, 1296)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.260 - Initiating ordinance; contents.

1. The organization of a district must be initiated by the adoption of an ordinance by the board of county commissioners, which ordinance is in NRS 543.170 to 543.830, inclusive, sometimes designated the "initiating ordinance."
2. The initiating ordinance must set forth:
(a) The name of the proposed district, consisting of a chosen name preceding the words "District for the Control of Floods."
(b) A statement of the necessity for the district and the general purposes for which the district is proposed to be created.
(c) A statement that improvements of the district will not interfere with or affect vested water rights.
(d) A general description of the boundaries of the district or the territory to be included therein, with such certainty as to enable a property owner to determine whether his or her property is within the district.
(e) The place and time for the hearing on the creation of the district.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 429; A 1987, 721)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.270 - Notice of organizational hearing.

After such initiating ordinance has been adopted by the board of county commissioners, the county clerk shall give notice by publication of the intention of the board of county commissioners to establish such district, which notice shall set forth the name, statement of purposes, general description and time and place of hearing.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 429)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.280 - Protests against organization of district.

1. Any taxpaying elector within the district may, on or before the date fixed, protest against the establishment of such district, in writing, which protest must be filed with the county clerk.
2. If, at or before the time fixed in the initiating ordinance and notice, written protest is filed, signed by 51 percent or more of the taxpaying electors within the proposed district, the district must not be established.
3. If any written protests are filed and the board of county commissioners determines that the protests so filed represent less than 51 percent of the taxpaying electors in the district, the board of county commissioners may proceed with the creation of the district. If the board of county commissioners does so proceed, the ordinance of the board of county commissioners creating the district, for which provision is made in NRS 543.170 to 543.830, inclusive, must contain a recital as to the percentage of protest and that recital is binding and conclusive for all purposes.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 429; A 1987, 721)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.290 - Organizational hearing; ordinance creating or abandoning.

1. At the place, date and hour specified for the hearing in the notice or at any subsequent time to which the hearing may be adjourned, the board of county commissioners shall give full consideration to all protests which may have been filed and shall hear all persons desiring to be heard and shall thereafter adopt an ordinance either creating the district or determining that it shall not be created.
2. Any ordinance creating a district may contain such changes as may be considered by the board of county commissioners to be equitable and necessary.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 430)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.300 - Conclusiveness of ordinance creating district; filing of ordinance with Secretary of State; filing of map with county recorder.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, the adoption of the ordinance creating the district shall finally and conclusively establish the regular organization of the district against all persons, which district shall thenceforth be a governmental subdivision of the State of Nevada, a body corporate and politic and a quasi-municipal corporation.
2. Within 30 days immediately following the effective date of such ordinance any person who has filed a written protest, as provided in NRS 543.280, shall have the right to commence an action in any court of competent jurisdiction to set aside such determination. Thereafter all actions or suits attacking the regularity, validity and correctness of that ordinance and all proceedings, determinations and instruments taken, adopted or made prior to such ordinance’s final passage shall be perpetually barred.
3. Within 30 days after the effective date of the ordinance creating the district, the county clerk shall:
(a) File a copy of the ordinance in the county clerk’s office and shall cause to be filed an additional copy of the ordinance in the Office of the Secretary of State, which filings shall be without fee and be otherwise in the same manner as articles of incorporation are required to be filed under chapter 78 of NRS.
(b) File with the county recorder a map showing the boundaries of the district.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 430)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.320 - Board of county commissioners or regional transportation commission constitutes board of directors.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, the district is governed by a board of directors consisting of the members of the board of county commissioners of the county.
2. If the district coincides with a county in which a regional transportation commission has been created pursuant to chapter 277A of NRS, unless the county has a population of 100,000 or more but less than 700,000, the members of that commission constitute the board of directors of the district.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 431; A 1985, 1192; 1995, 2662; 2011, 1296)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.330 - District officers: Designation and selection; duties; compensation and expenses.

1. The board shall meet in July of each year to organize and choose one of its members as chair of the board and president of the district, and elect a secretary of the board and of the district, who may or may not be a member of the board.
2. The county treasurer is the treasurer of the board and of the district.
3. The secretary shall keep audio recordings or transcripts of all meetings and, in a well-bound book, a record of all of the board’s proceedings, minutes of all meetings, certificates, contracts, bonds given by employees, and all corporate acts, which, except as otherwise provided in NRS 241.035, must be open to inspection by all owners of real property in the district as well as other interested persons. A copy of the minutes or audio recordings must be made available to a member of the public upon request at no charge pursuant to NRS 241.035.
4. The treasurer shall keep strict and accurate accounts of all money received by and disbursed for and on behalf of the district in permanent records.
5. No member of the board may receive compensation for the member’s services, but members may be reimbursed for their necessary expenses in attending district meetings and for necessary expenses incurred in traveling within and without the State when required to carry out the affairs of the district.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 431; A 1985, 1192; 2005, 1415; 2013, 332)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.340 - Meetings; quorum; written policies and procedures.

1. In addition to the requirements of NRS 543.330, the board may meet at such time or times and at such regular meeting place within the district as it determines by resolution.
2. Special meetings may be held on notice to each member of the board as often as, and at such place or places within the district as, the needs of the district require.
3. A majority of the members of the board constitutes a quorum at any meeting.
4. The board shall adopt written policies and procedures for administering the district and for operating and maintaining its projects and improvements.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 431; A 1985, 1193)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.355 - Citizens’ advisory committee: Creation; composition; powers and duties.

1. Each district shall establish a citizens’ advisory committee to be composed of representatives of the general public. The committee must consist of one member appointed by the county and each city all or part of whose territory is included in the district, and one member appointed by each member of the board. The board shall determine the terms of the members.
2. The members of the committee shall elect a chair and a vice chair. The committee may adopt rules for its own management.
3. The committee may meet as often as necessary to advise the board.
4. The committee shall represent the public interest and advise the board on matters related to the master plan and such other matters as the board directs.
(Added to NRS by 1987, 429)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.365 - Aesthetic enhancement of projects.

The board may enhance any project of the district by providing recreational facilities, landscaping and similar amenities in order to increase the usefulness of the project to the community, provide aesthetic compatibility with the surrounding community and mitigate the adverse effect of the project on the environment.
(Added to NRS by 1985, 1190)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.368 - Location of improvement along or across public road or highway.

Any improvement pursuant to NRS 543.170 to 543.830, inclusive, may be located, constructed and maintained in, along or across any public road or highway in the district in a manner that affords security for life and property. The board shall restore or cause to be restored the road or highway to its former condition as nearly as may be, in order not to impair its usefulness.
(Added to NRS by 1985, 1190; A 1987, 722)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.400 - Acquisition, improvement and disposal of property.

The board may take by grant, purchase, gift, devise or lease, or otherwise, and hold, use, enjoy and lease, or dispose of real or personal property of every kind within or without the district necessary or proper to carry out any of the purposes of NRS 543.170 to 543.830, inclusive, and to complete, extend, add to, repair or otherwise improve any works or improvements or any property acquired by the district as authorized by NRS 543.170 to 543.830, inclusive.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 432; A 1987, 722)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.410 - Storage and reclamation of floodwater; actions and proceedings concerning water.

The board may:
1. Store floodwater in surface or underground reservoirs within or without the district for the common benefit of the district.
2. Conserve and reclaim floodwaters for present and future use within the district.
3. Subject to the limitations contained in NRS 543.170 to 543.830, inclusive, to appropriate and acquire water and water rights, and import water into the district and conserve it within or without the district for any useful flood control purpose.
4. Commence, maintain, intervene in and compromise, in the name of the district or otherwise, and assume the costs and expenses of any action or proceeding involving or affecting ownership or use of water or water rights within the district used or useful for any purpose of the district.
5. Commence, maintain, intervene in, determine, compromise, and assume the costs and expenses of any action or proceeding involving the wasteful use of water in the district.
6. Prevent unlawful exportation of water from the district.
7. Prevent contamination and pollution of the surface or subsurface waters used in the district.
8. Commence, maintain and defend actions and proceedings to prevent interference with waters used in the district as may endanger and damage the inhabitants, lands or use of water in the district. The board shall not intervene or take part in, or pay the costs and expenses of, actions or proceedings between the owners of lands or water rights within the boundaries of the district which do not involve taking water outside or away from the district.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 432; A 1987, 722)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.420 - Eminent domain.

Subject to the limitations contained in NRS 543.170 to 543.830, inclusive, the board may exercise the right of eminent domain within and without the district, in the manner provided by law for the condemnation of property for public use or for taking any property necessary to carry out the purposes of NRS 543.170 to 543.830, inclusive.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 432; A 1975, 750; 1987, 723)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 543 - Control of Floods › NRS 543.440 - Use of property taken by eminent domain declared public use; diversion of water.

1. It is hereby declared that the use of the property, lands, rights-of-way, easements or materials which may be condemned, taken or appropriated under the provisions of NRS 543.170 to 543.830, inclusive, is a public use subject to the regulation and control of the State in the manner prescribed by law.
2. The provisions of NRS 543.170 to 543.830, inclusive, do not authorize any district or person to divert the waters of any river, creek, stream, irrigation system, canal or ditch from its channel to the detriment of any person having any interest in that river, creek, stream, irrigation system, canal or ditch or the waters thereof or therein, unless previous compensation is first ascertained and paid therefor under the laws of this state authorizing the taking of private property for public use.
(Added to NRS by 1961, 432; A 1987, 723)