2015 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 309 - Local Improvement Districts
NRS 309.130 - General powers of board of directors.

1. The board of directors may:

(a) Manage and conduct the business and affairs of the district.

(b) Make and execute all necessary contracts.

(c) Employ and appoint such agents, officers and employees, delegates to conventions, or other representatives in the interest of the district as may be required and prescribe their duties and remunerations.

(d) Establish bylaws, rules and regulations for the district. The bylaws, rules and regulations must be printed in convenient form for distribution throughout the district.

2. The board and its agents and employees may enter upon any land to make surveys and may locate the necessary works on any lands which may be deemed best for such a location.

3. The board may:

(a) Acquire by purchase, condemnation or other legal means, all lands, rights and other property necessary for the construction, use and supply, operation, maintenance, repair and improvement of the works of the district, including canals and works constructed and being constructed by private owners, lands for reservoirs for the storage of water, and all other works and appurtenances, within or without the State of Nevada. In case of purchase of property the bonds of the district hereinafter provided for may be used in payment of not less than 90 percent of their par value and accrued interest.

(b) Acquire or contract for the delivery of electric power and electric power or transmission lines, except that the board shall not acquire or contract for the construction or acquisition of electric power or transmission lines at a cost exceeding the sum of $15,000 without first receiving the approval of the voters at a special election, district election or primary state election as provided in this chapter.

4. The board may do any lawful act necessary to be done to accomplish the things and purposes described in this section.

5. The collection, storage, conveyance, distribution and use of water by or through the works of improvement districts hereafter organized, together with the rights-of-way for sewers, sites for reservoirs, electric power and transmission lines, and all other works and property required to carry out fully the provisions of this chapter, are hereby declared to be a public use.

6. The board of directors may change the boundaries of one or more divisions of the district to equalize more nearly the number of electors in the respective divisions, whenever in the opinion of the board, it is advisable to so do, except that no new lands may be included within the district boundaries, and lands within the district boundaries and lands within the district must not be excluded by such a change of boundaries, except as otherwise provided in this chapter. The change of division boundaries is effective when a certified copy of a resolution making that change, attached to a copy of a map or plat of the district delineating the new division boundary lines, both being certified as correct by the secretary of the district, is filed in the office of the county recorder of the county in which the division whose boundaries have been so changed is situate.

7. The board may institute, maintain and defend, in the name of the district, all actions and proceedings, suits at law and in equity.

[10:24:1928; NCL § 3464] + [11:24:1928; NCL § 3465]—(NRS A 1993, 1055)