Chapter 244 - Counties: Government
- ADVERTISING OF COUNTY’S RESOURCES AND ADVANTAGES
- AGRICULTURE AND FAIRS
- AIRCRAFT NOISE
- 244.412 - “Committee” defined.
- 244.414 - Advisory committee on aircraft noise: Establishment in county whose population is 400,000 or more; members; terms; vacancies; chair; compensation; meetings.
- 244.416 - Advisory committee on aircraft noise: Powers.
- 244.418 - Establishment of toll-free telephone number in county whose population is 400,000 or more to report alleged violations of rules or regulations pertaining to aircraft noise; maintenance of re
- APPROVED YOUTH SHELTERS
- 244.421 - Definitions.
- 244.422 - “Approved youth shelter” defined.
- 244.423 - “Necessary services” defined.
- 244.424 - “Runaway or homeless youth” defined.
- 244.426 - “Youth” defined.
- 244.427 - “Youth shelter” defined.
- 244.428 - Designation by ordinance; contents of ordinance; regulations.
- CERTIFICATION OF PROPERTY MANAGERS
- 244.331 - Definitions.
- 244.3315 - “Apartment complex” defined.
- 244.332 - “Certificate” defined.
- 244.3325 - “Property” defined.
- 244.333 - “Property management” defined.
- 244.3335 - “Unit” defined.
- 244.334 - Certification of persons who engage in property management in unincorporated area of county; application; fees; renewal; conditions; penalty; exceptions.
- 244.3345 - Ordinance to require property in unincorporated area of county to be managed by person issued certificate; penalty; exceptions.
- CONTRACTS
- COUNTY CODE
- COUNTY MANAGERS
- COUNTY PARK AND RECREATION COMMISSIONS
- 244.3071 - Definitions.
- 244.3072 - Power of county to create.
- 244.3073 - Petition for creation of commission; study of feasibility; approval by appropriate state agency.
- 244.3074 - Organizational ordinance: Contents.
- 244.3075 - Supplementation of organizational ordinance.
- 244.3076 - Number, qualifications and appointment of members.
- 244.3077 - Commissioners: Terms; vacancies; compensation and expenses.
- 244.3078 - Oath of office; no bond required.
- 244.3079 - Election of officers; treasurer; seal.
- 244.30791 - Meetings; records; quorum.
- 244.30792 - Powers and duties.
- COUNTY PARK COMMISSIONS
- 244.308 - Definitions.
- 244.3081 - Recreational, cultural and park facilities: Powers of certain counties.
- 244.3082 - Exercise of powers by commission; ordinance.
- 244.3083 - Contents of ordinance organizing commission.
- 244.3084 - Supplementation of organizational ordinance.
- 244.3085 - Number and appointment of members.
- 244.3086 - Terms of office; vacancies; compensation and expenses of commissioners.
- 244.3087 - Oath of office; no bond required.
- 244.3088 - Election of officers; treasurer; seal.
- 244.3089 - Meetings; records; quorum.
- 244.309 - Powers and duties.
- COUNTY PRINTING
- COUNTY PROPERTY
- 244.265 - Care and preservation of property.
- 244.270 - Control, management and gifts of property.
- 244.273 - Use of county’s equipment on private road; conditions.
- 244.275 - Purchase or lease of property for use of county; appraisal.
- 244.276 - Purchase, sale or exchange of property with owners abutting road or flood control facility to adjust road or flood control facility; reversion of property acquired by dedication.
- 244.277 - Acceptance of grant of right-of-way, permit, lease or patent over certain federal lands.
- 244.278 - Maintenance and repair of dedicated streets or easements acquired by general improvement district.
- 244.279 - Sale or lease of right-of-way or water rights to public utility.
- 244.2795 - Sale or lease of certain real property: Appraisal required; qualifications and selection of appraisers; disclosure statements; interest of appraiser or related person in property or adjoini
- 244.281 - Sale or lease of certain real property: Determination that sale or lease is in best interest of county; notice; appraisal; exceptions; second offering; effect of sale or lease in violation o
- 244.2815 - Sale, lease or disposal of real property of county for redevelopment or economic development; requirements.
- 244.282 - Sale of certain real property at auction: Resolution declaring intention to sell property; requirements; notice; procedure for conducting sale; deposit to cover certain costs; effect of sale
- 244.2825 - Transfer or sale of real property which was part of original mining townsite and which was acquired by county directly from Federal Government.
- 244.283 - Lease of real property of county; notice; bids.
- 244.2835 - Lease of real property to certain nonprofit organizations.
- 244.284 - Lease or conveyance of real property of county to corporation for public benefit.
- 244.286 - Lease or lease-purchase agreement for construction or remodeling of building or facility; conveyance of property; applicability of certain provisions to agreement for construction or remodel
- 244.287 - Conveyance of property to nonprofit organization for development of affordable housing: Application; public hearing; conditions; annual list of property conveyed; subordination of interest i
- 244.288 - Industrial development of real property by county; notice; hearing; option to purchase property.
- 244.290 - Reconveyance, sale or lease of land donated, dedicated or condemned for public purposes.
- 244.292 - Acquisition and maintenance of cemeteries; conveyance of property used as cemetery after public hearing.
- 244.294 - Construction and maintenance of parking facilities; fees; exclusive parking in designated spaces.
- DISTRICT FOR COUNTY FIRE DEPARTMENT
- 244.2961 - Creation and administration of district; regulation of explosive, combustible or inflammable material; duties of employees; certain counties to adopt ordinance pertaining to transportation
- 244.2962 - County commissioners in certain counties to submit reports to Legislature with certain information concerning transport of person to medical facility by each fire department and ambulance s
- 244.2963 - Assumption of certain rights, duties, liabilities and obligations.
- 244.2965 - Boundaries of district.
- FINANCIAL POWERS
- 244.200 - Examination and audit: Officers’ accounts; money and property entrusted to and fees or compensation received by public administrators.
- 244.205 - Examination and allowance of accounts.
- 244.207 - Central receiving and disbursing systems for county money.
- 244.210 - Demands: Cumulative voucher sheets; allowance.
- 244.215 - Procedure when county auditor or county comptroller refuses demand.
- 244.220 - Conditions precedent to approval of demand: Indebtedness deducted; compliance; exception.
- 244.225 - Publication of financial statement.
- 244.230 - Authorized debts and liabilities only to be created.
- 244.235 - District attorney to attend board meetings when accounts and claims audited; restriction on presentation of claim by district attorney.
- 244.240 - Resident taxpayer may file written objection to allowance of claim; action by board.
- 244.245 - Recovery of costs in action against county.
- 244.250 - Unaudited claims to be presented within 6 months.
- GENERAL POWERS
- 244.150 - Levy of taxes.
- 244.1505 - Expenditure of public money; grant of public money and donation of certain property to certain nonprofit organizations or governmental entities.
- 244.1507 - Consolidation or division of powers and duties of county offices in counties whose population is less than 40,000: Mechanism; prerequisites; timing.
- 244.151 - Department of public works: Creation; director and employees.
- 244.152 - Public works: County’s powers subordinate to powers of Nevada Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. [Effective upon proclamation by Governor of withdrawal of California from Tahoe Regional Plannin
- 244.153 - Public works: County’s powers subordinate to powers of regional planning agency.
- 244.154 - Planning, subdivision regulation and zoning: County’s powers subordinate to limits upon development established in certain geographical regions by certain state acts.
- 244.155 - Roads and bridges.
- 244.157 - Improvements: County’s powers same as those of general improvement district.
- 244.160 - Care of indigent sick persons.
- 244.1605 - Provision of medical facilities and services in outlying areas.
- 244.1607 - Establishment of neighborhood justice center; services to be provided; authorization to charge fee; financial support; report of activities for distribution to Legislature.
- 244.161 - Promotion of civil and equal rights.
- 244.1615 - Institution of program or sponsorship of activity to increase participation in public policy and government.
- 244.162 - Rehabilitation of delinquent children.
- 244.163 - County coroner: Creation of office by ordinance; appointment, qualifications and duties; punishment for offenses.
- 244.164 - Registrar of voters: Creation of office; appointment, qualifications, powers and duties.
- 244.165 - Prosecution and defense of suits.
- 244.167 - Employment of security officers.
- 244.170 - Rewards for apprehension or conviction of defaulting or absconding county or township officers.
- 244.175 - Rewards for apprehension of murderers.
- 244.180 - Indexing of records and proceedings.
- 244.183 - Special census.
- 244.186 - Sale of video service over video service network: Prohibitions; enforcement; remedy not exclusive.
- 244.187 - Displacement or limitation of competition: Services.
- 244.188 - Displacement or limitation of competition: Areas in which authorized; methods; limitation.
- 244.189 - Development of affordable housing, control and protection of animals, and rehabilitation of certain residential property; taxes; civil penalty in lieu of criminal penalty.
- 244.190 - Cooperative agreements for modification of weather; expenses.
- 244.194 - Voting or counting devices: Rental, lease or other acquisition.
- 244.1945 - Advisory boards: Establishment; travel expenses.
- GENERAL PROVISIONS
- 244.010 - Minimum number of county commissioners.
- 244.011 - Change in number of county commissioners in county whose population is less than 100,000.
- 244.014 - Number and terms of county commissioners in county whose population is 100,000 or more but less than 400,000; commissioners’ districts.
- 244.016 - Number of county commissioners in county whose population is 400,000 or more; commissioners’ districts.
- 244.018 - Establishment of additional or changed commissioners’ districts: Manner of electing county commissioners.
- 244.020 - Qualifications of county commissioners.
- 244.025 - Election of county commissioners in county whose population is less than 100,000.
- 244.027 - Election of county commissioners in county whose population is less than 100,000 and which has not been divided into commissioners’ districts.
- 244.030 - Term of office of county commissioners.
- 244.035 - County commissioners required to take oath of office; effect of failure to take oath.
- 244.040 - Vacancy in office of county commissioner.
- 244.050 - Commissioners’ districts in counties whose population is less than 100,000: Creation; election; notice; abolishment; election at large of commissioners.
- 244.055 - Seal of county commissioners.
- 244.060 - Board of county commissioners: Quorum; tie vote.
- 244.065 - Commissioners may administer oaths.
- 244.070 - Election and terms of chair and vice chair of board of county commissioners; clerk of board.
- 244.075 - Records of board: Duties of clerk; public inspection.
- 244.085 - Regular and additional meetings of board; meetings held outside county seat; meetings with other governing bodies; attendance at conventions, conferences, seminars or hearings.
- 244.090 - Special meetings of board: Call; notice; filling temporary appointments; canvass of election returns.
- GRAFFITI
- 244.3691 - Definitions.
- 244.36915 - “Graffiti” defined.
- 244.3692 - “Residential property” defined.
- 244.3693 - Removal or covering of graffiti on real or personal property of county; civil penalty.
- 244.36935 - Removal or covering of graffiti on perimeter of residential property by county.
- 244.3694 - Removal or covering of graffiti on nonresidential property by owner or county.
- 244.3695 - Graffiti reward and abatement fund: Creation; use; administrative assessments; payment of rewards.
- HEALTH AND SAFETY
- 244.355 - Animals running at large on highways may be prohibited by ordinance.
- 244.3555 - Permits to solicit charitable contributions while standing on median strip of highway or sidewalk adjacent to highway.
- 244.356 - Ordinance regulating traffic on streets of residential and commercial areas in federal military installation authorized.
- 244.357 - Police, sanitary, loitering, prowling and traffic ordinances: Enactment and enforcement.
- 244.35705 - Ordinance concerning criminal gang activity and certain buildings and places harboring such activity: Injunctions; damages, fees and costs; violation of injunction; immune entities.
- 244.3571 - Ordinance to regulate operation of electric personal assistive mobility devices.
- 244.3573 - Provision of public safety within certain areas of mobile home park.
- 244.3575 - Ordinances regulating parking: Civil penalty in lieu of criminal sanction.
- 244.358 - Ordinance for control of rabies.
- 244.359 - Ordinance concerning control of animals, license fee and designation of and requirement of liability insurance policy for inherently dangerous animals; applicability; civil liability in lieu
- 244.360 - Abatement of nuisances: Complaint; notice; hearing; order; enforcement of order; costs; alternative procedures.
- 244.3601 - Dangerous structure or condition posing imminent danger: Determination; notice; securing or summary abatement; costs as special assessment.
- 244.3603 - Abatement of chronic nuisances: Adoption and contents of ordinance; closure of property by court order; civil penalties; special assessment against property to recover costs of abatement.
- 244.3605 - Abatement of dangerous structures or conditions, rubbish, noxious plant growth and other public nuisances: Adoption and contents of ordinance; civil penalties; special assessment against pr
- 244.3607 - Recovery by county of costs of relocating tenants resulting from nuisance or other condition: Notice; hearing; appeal.
- 244.361 - Regulation and control of smoke and pollution of air.
- 244.363 - Prevention of excessive noise.
- 244.364 - Limited authority to regulate firearms; restrictions concerning registration of certain firearms in county whose population is 400,000 or more.
- 244.365 - Prevention of pollution of streams by sawdust; tax levy.
- 244.3651 - Program to provide financial assistance to persons to connect to public water or sewer system under certain circumstances in county whose population is 100,000 or more but less than 400,000
- 244.3653 - Program to provide financial assistance to owners of public or private property, to make such property resistant to flood damage, in county whose population is 100,000 or more but less than
- 244.3655 - Requiring users of certain water systems to connect into system provided by public utility or public entity; assessment of costs of connection.
- 244.366 - Water and sewer facilities: Construction; acquisition; operation and maintenance; unlawful acts; penalty.
- 244.36605 - Delinquent charges for financial assistance or for the provision of certain services related to water; election by county to collect delinquencies on tax roll.
- 244.3661 - Imposition of excise tax on use of water; rate of tax; interest on late payment; facility for treatment of water.
- 244.3663 - Package plant for sewage treatment: Remedies for unsatisfactory service or violation of conditions; assumption of control by county; assessment for operation and maintenance.
- 244.3665 - Prohibition of waste of water.
- 244.367 - Fireworks: Regulation and control.
- 244.3673 - Investigation of fires and enforcement of regulations of State Fire Marshal by certain counties.
- 244.3675 - Regulation of construction, maintenance and safety of buildings, structures and property; adoption of codes and establishment of fees.
- 244.368 - Areas within which city’s building code supersedes less stringent provisions of county’s building code.
- 244.3685 - Prescription drugs or medicine at reduced prices.
- 244.369 - Food handlers: Ordinance requiring physical examinations; limitations.
- JUVENILE FORESTRY CAMPS
- MEDICAL SCHOLARSHIPS
- MUSEUMS, ART CENTERS AND HISTORICAL SOCIETIES
- NEVADA ASSOCIATION OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS
- OFFICE OF COORDINATOR OF SERVICES FOR VETERANS
- ORDINANCES
- ORGANIZATIONS FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT
- RECREATIONAL AND CULTURAL CENTERS
- 244.300 - Operation, maintenance and improvement of parks, golf courses and other centers to which county holds title.
- 244.305 - Acquisition of land for park, recreational, cultural and memorial purposes.
- 244.306 - Operation and maintenance of swimming pools and other centers acquired by gift.
- 244.307 - Expenditure of county money for construction, improvement or repair of facilities owned by city or school district.
- 244.30701 - Sale of naming rights relating to county-owned shooting range in county whose population is 400,000 or more: Ordinance establishing procedures for sale; enterprise fund for proceeds of sal
- REGULATION AND LICENSING OF OUTDOOR ASSEMBLIES
- 244.354 - Ordinance required.
- 244.3541 - “Assembly” defined.
- 244.3542 - License required.
- 244.3543 - Application for license: Time; contents.
- 244.3544 - Hearing: Notice; investigation; grant, denial or conditioning of license; issuance of license.
- 244.3545 - Conditions which may be imposed.
- 244.3546 - Denial of license: Grounds; notice.
- 244.3547 - Revocation and reinstatement of license; notice.
- 244.3548 - Unlawful acts.
- REGULATION, TAXATION AND LICENSING OF BUSINESSES ANDOCCUPATIONS
- 244.335 - Powers of commissioners and county license boards; application for certain licenses; license tax as lien; confidential information.
- 244.33503 - Continuation of license tax in county whose population is 100,000 or more; use of proceeds; pledge of proceeds.
- 244.33505 - Business required to submit affidavit concerning industrial insurance upon application for license or post office box; receipt of document setting forth rights and responsibilities promoti
- 244.33506 - Application for or renewal of license, permit or certificate: Statement regarding obligation of child support required; grounds for denial; duty of board of county commissioners. [Effectiv
- 244.33507 - Application for issuance of license, permit or certificate: Social security number required. [Effective until the date of the repeal of the federal law requiring each state to establish pr
- 244.33508 - Mandatory suspension of license, certificate or permit for failure to pay child support or comply with certain subpoenas or warrants; reinstatement. [Effective until the date of the repeal
- 244.33509 - Imposition of civil penalty in lieu of criminal penalty for violation of certain ordinances concerning licensing or regulation of businesses.
- 244.3351 - Optional tax on revenues from rental of transient lodging: Imposition and administration.
- 244.33512 - Optional tax on revenues from rental of transient lodging: Distribution and use of proceeds of tax imposed throughout county.
- 244.33514 - Optional tax on revenues from rental of transient lodging: Use of proceeds of tax imposed within boundaries of transportation district.
- 244.33516 - Optional tax on revenues from rental of transient lodging: Periodic reports to Legislature.
- 244.3352 - Mandatory tax on revenues from rental of transient lodging: Imposition and collection; schedule for payment; penalty and interest for late payment.
- 244.3354 - Mandatory tax on revenues from rental of transient lodging: Distribution of proceeds.
- 244.3356 - Mandatory tax on revenues from rental of transient lodging: Prohibited uses of proceeds.
- 244.33561 - Additional mandatory tax on revenues from rental of transient lodging in certain counties: Imposition and collection; limitation; schedule for payment; penalty and interest for late paymen
- 244.33563 - Additional mandatory tax on revenues from rental of transient lodging in certain counties: Distribution of proceeds. [Effective through June 30, 2011.]
- 244.33565 - Taxes on revenues from rental of transient lodging: Adoption of ordinance defining “transient lodging.”
- 244.3357 - Taxes on revenues from rental of transient lodging: Annual report to Department of Taxation.
- 244.3358 - Taxes on revenues from rental of transient lodging: Assignment of certain proceeds by certain counties to general improvement district furnishing recreational facilities; use of proceeds as
- 244.3359 - Taxes on rental of transient lodging: Limitations on imposition of new tax and on increase in rate of existing tax; legislative declaration; exceptions. [Effective through June 30, 2011.]
- 244.336 - Farmers’ markets: Definitions.
- 244.337 - Farmers’ markets: Licensing and regulation.
- 244.338 - Farmers’ markets: Responsibilities of licensee; unlawful acts.
- 244.340 - Tent shows, circuses, theme parks and permanent exhibitions: Licensing by ordinance; license tax; exception to requirement of acquiring state license or certificate.
- 244.345 - Dancing halls, escort services, entertainment by referral services and gambling games or devices; limitation on licensing of houses of prostitution.
- 244.3475 - Paging services in county whose population is 400,000 or more: Ordinance required regarding maintenance of certain records.
- 244.348 - Pawnbrokers: Additional license required to use motor vehicle as collateral for loan; fee for additional license.
- 244.3485 - Secondhand dealers: Licensing; fines for certain violations.
- 244.349 - Grant of license required upon relocation of business under certain circumstances.
- 244.350 - Sale of intoxicating liquors: Licensing and regulation by county liquor board; exceptions.
- 244.3501 - Sale of intoxicating liquors: Enactment, style and recording of liquor board’s ordinances.
- 244.351 - Sale of intoxicating liquors: Sale by minors allowed in certain circumstances.
- 244.352 - License board and liquor board may be merged.
- 244.3525 - Administration of oaths; payment of witnesses; appointment and qualifications of hearing officers; service of notice.
- WILDLIFE AND NATURAL RESOURCES
- 244.386 - Preservation of endangered species or subspecies in county whose population is 400,000 or more: General powers; fee for construction or grading of land in unincorporated areas; creation of e
- 244.387 - Removal of wild horses from private property.
- 244.388 - Establishment, use and operation of wetlands mitigation bank.