NRS 474.020
Petition of property owners for formation of district

  • resolution of county commissioners.

1.

When 25 percent or more of the holders of title or evidence of title to lands lying in one body, whose names appear as such upon the last county assessment roll, present a petition to the board of county commissioners of the county in which the land or the greater portion thereof is located, setting forth the exterior boundaries of the proposed district and asking that the district so described be formed into a county fire protection district under the provisions of NRS 474.010 to 474.450, inclusive, the board of county commissioners shall pass a resolution declaring the board’s intention to form or organize such territory into a county fire protection district, naming the district and describing its exterior boundaries.

2.

The resolution must:

(a)

Fix a time and place for the hearing of the matter not less than 30 days after its adoption.

(b)

Direct the clerk of the board of county commissioners to publish the notice of intention of the board of county commissioners to form the county fire protection district, and of the time and place fixed for the hearing, and must designate that publication must be in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county and circulated in the proposed county fire protection district, or if there is no newspaper so published and circulated, then in a newspaper of general circulation circulated in the proposed district.

Source: Section 474.020 — Petition of property owners for formation of district; resolution of county commissioners., https://www.­leg.­state.­nv.­us/NRS/NRS-474.­html#NRS474Sec020.

Last Updated

Jun. 24, 2021

§ 474.020’s source at nv​.us