1. The governing body of a county, city or town, upon behalf of the municipality and in its name, without any election, may from time to time acquire, improve, equip, operate and maintain, within or without the municipality, or both within and without the municipality: (a) A curb and gutter project; (b) A drainage project; […]
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 […]
The procedure for acquiring or improving or acquiring and improving any project can be initiated in one of the following ways: 1. Provisional order method; or 2. Petition method. (Added to NRS by 1965, 1356)
1. Whenever the governing body of a municipality determines to form an improvement district to conduct any project, the engineer shall prepare and file with the clerk: (a) Preliminary plans showing: (1) A typical section of the contemplated improvement. (2) The type or types of material, approximate thickness and wideness. (3) A preliminary estimate of […]
1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, whenever the owner or owners of lands to be assessed for not less than 90 percent of the entire cost of any project, including all incidental expenses, constituting at least 66 2/3 percent in frontage, in area or other property basis used for the computation of assessments […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 holding a hearing […]
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 […]
1. In the provisional order the governing body shall set a time, at least 20 days thereafter, and a place at which the owners of the tracts to be assessed, or any other interested persons, may appear before the governing body and be heard as to the propriety and advisability of acquiring or improving, or […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
1. A governing body that forms an improvement district for a neighborhood improvement project may contract with a nonprofit association to provide the improvements that are specified in the plans for the neighborhood improvement project. If creation of the improvement district was initiated by petition, the governing body shall contract for that purpose with the […]
