“Drainage project” means any natural and artificial watercourses, wells, ditches, lakes, reservoirs, revetments, canals, levees, dikes, walls, embankments, bridges, sewers, culverts, syphons, sluices, flumes, ponds, dams, retarding basins, and other water diversion and storage facilities, pumping stations, stream gauges, rain gauges, flood warning service and appurtenant telephone, telegraph, radio and television service, and all appurtenances […]
“Electrical project” means any facilities for the transmission and distribution of electrical power, either above or beneath the surface of the ground, including lines, poles, conduits, house connections, transformers and related appliances, and all appurtenances and incidentals necessary, useful or desirable for any such facilities (or any combination thereof), including real and other property therefor. […]
“Energy efficiency improvement” means a modification of real property that is designed to reduce the energy consumption of the real property. (Added to NRS by 2009, 1402)
“Energy efficiency improvement project” means the installation or modification of one or more energy efficiency improvements and incidentals which are necessary, useful or desirable for any such improvements and which installation or modification has a useful life, as estimated by a governing body, of not less than 10 years. (Added to NRS by 2009, 1402; […]
“Engineer” means the municipal engineer or any competent engineer or firm of engineers employed by the municipality in connection with any facility, property, project or power herein authorized. (Added to NRS by 1965, 1351)
“Equipment” or “equip” means the furnishing of all necessary or desirable, related or appurtenant facilities, or any combination thereof, appertaining to any facilities, property, project, or interest therein, herein authorized. (Added to NRS by 1965, 1351)
“Federal Government” means the United States of America, or any agency, instrumentality or corporation thereof. (Added to NRS by 1965, 1351)
“Fire protection project” means any facilities for a municipal fire protection system, including, without limitation, fire stations, pumper trucks, hook and ladder trucks, rescue trucks, fire engines, other motor vehicles, water works, hydrants, other water supply facilities, telegraphic fire signals, telephone, telegraph, radio and television service facilities, hooks, ladders, chutes, buckets, gauges, hoses, pumps, fire […]
1. “Governing body” means the city council, city commission, board of county commissioners, board of trustees, board of directors, board of supervisors or other legislative body of the public body proceeding hereunder in which body the legislative powers of the public body are vested. 2. In the case of an unincorporated town, “governing body” means […]
“Hereby,” “herein,” “hereinabove,” “hereinafter,” “hereinbefore,” “hereof,” “hereto” and “hereunder” refer to this Consolidated Local Improvements Law and not solely to the particular portion thereof in which such word is used. (Added to NRS by 1965, 1351)
“Improvement” or “improve” means the extension, widening, lengthening, betterment, alteration, reconstruction, repair or other improvement (or any combination thereof) of facilities, other property, any project, or an interest therein, herein authorized, including, without limitation, conducting promotional activities within an improvement district created for a neighborhood improvement project. (Added to NRS by 1965, 1351; A 1999, […]
“Improvement district” means the geographical area within the municipality designated and delineated by the governing body, in which is located each tract to be assessed for a project. An improvement district may consist of noncontiguous areas. Improvement districts shall be designated by consecutive numbers or in some other manner to identify separately each such district […]
“Mailed notice” or “notice by mail” means the giving by the engineer, clerk, or any deputy thereof, as determined by the governing body, of any designated written or printed notice addressed to the last known owner or owners of each tract being assessed or other designated person at the last known address of each by […]
“Member” means a council member, commissioner, trustee, director or other member of a governing body. (Added to NRS by 1965, 1352)
1. “Municipality” means any county, unincorporated town or city in the State, including Carson City, whether incorporated or governed under a general act, special legislative act or special charter of any type or other political subdivision to which this chapter applies. “Municipal” pertains thereto. Where the context so indicates, “municipality” means the geographical area comprising […]
“Neighborhood improvement project” includes: 1. The beautification and improvement of the public portions of any area, including, without limitation: (a) Public restrooms; (b) Facilities for outdoor lighting and heating; (c) Decorations; (d) Fountains; (e) Landscaping; (f) Facilities or equipment, or both, to enhance protection of persons and property within the improvement district; (g) Ramps, sidewalks […]
“Off-street parking project” means parking facilities for the parking of motor vehicles off the public streets, including graded, regraded, graveled, oiled, surfaced, macadamized, paved, curbed, guttered, drained and sidewalked sites therefor, driveways, ramps, structures, buildings, elevators, traffic control equipment, and all appurtenances and incidentals necessary, useful or desirable for off-street parking facilities (or any combination […]
“Overhead service facilities” means service facilities located above the surface of the ground, except that the term does not include: 1. Facilities including transformers, pull boxes, service terminals, pedestal terminals, splice closures, apparatus cabinets and other similar facilities that normally are above the surface in areas where service lines are underground in accordance with standard […]
“Overpass project” means any bridge, viaduct, or other structure or facilities for the transportation of pedestrians, motor and other vehicles and utility lines, over any street, stream, railroad tracks, and any other way or place, approaches, ramps, structures, crosswalks, sidewalks, driveways, culverts, drains, sewers, manholes, inlets, outlets, retaining walls, artificial lights, pumping equipment, ventilating equipment, […]
“Park project” means real property, facilities and equipment for parks, including without limitation graded, regraded, graveled, surfaced, drained, cultivated and otherwise improved sites therefor, and other recreational facilities, and all appurtenances and incidentals necessary, useful or desirable for any such park property, facilities and equipment. (Added to NRS by 1965, 1353)
