State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > Nevada > Title-25 > Chapter-309 > Organization-of-districts > 309-060309.060 County commissioners to canvass votes; order declaring organization of district and election of directors. The board of county commissioners shall meet on or before the sixth working day succeeding the election provided for in NRS 309.050 and proceed to canvass the votes and, if upon the canvass it appears that a majority of votes cast were for “Local Improvement District—Yes,” the board, by an order entered upon its minutes, shall declare the territory organized as an improvement district under the name and style theretofore designated, and declare the persons receiving respectively the highest number of votes for directors to be elected, and cause a copy of the order and a plat of the district, each certified by the clerk of the board of county commissioners, to be recorded immediately in the office of the county recorder of each county in which any portion of the district is situated, and certified copies thereof must also be recorded with the county clerks of those counties. Thereafter the organization of the district is complete.
[4:24:1928; NCL § 3458]—(NRS A 1993, 1054; 2001, 1761; 2007, 623)
NRS 309.065 Extension of additional purposes to districts created pursuant to prior law; procedure; change of name of district. Any district organized or purportedly organized pursuant to chapter 24, Statutes of Nevada 1928, as amended, now cited as chapter 309 of NRS, has all of the powers granted by chapter 309 of NRS, notwithstanding that the district was purportedly organized for less than all of the purposes specified in that act, as so amended; but before a district originally organized for less than all of the purposes specified in NRS 309.030 may be deemed a district organized for any additional purpose or purposes thereunder, there must be filed with the secretary of the board of directors of the district a petition signed by all of the fee owners of property in the district specifically requesting the extension, whereupon a resolution must be adopted by the board of directors accepting the petition, declaring the extension of purposes and at the board’s discretion changing the name of the district.
(Added to NRS by 1964, 12; A 1985, 270)
