NRS 533.080
State water right surveyors: Certain projects required to be performed by surveyor

  • qualifications
  • appointment
  • regulations
  • compensation
  • State Engineer’s Water License Account.

1.

All maps, surveys and measurements of water required pursuant to this chapter must be made by a state water right surveyor. No survey, map or measurement of flow of water may be approved by the State Engineer unless the survey is made by a state water right surveyor.

2.

Any licensed professional engineer or land surveyor who has a practical knowledge of surveying or engineering and who is familiar with land surveying and mapping and the measurement of water, and who is of good moral standing, must be considered for appointment as a state water right surveyor upon application to the State Engineer. The application must be in the form prescribed by the State Engineer and accompanied by a fee of $50.

3.

The State Engineer may require any applicant for appointment to the position of state water right surveyor to pass such reasonable examination as to the applicant’s qualifications as is provided by the State Engineer.

4.

Whenever the State Engineer approves the qualifications of an applicant, the State Engineer shall issue a certificate to the applicant designating the applicant as a state water right surveyor.

5.

Every water right surveyor’s certificate expires on June 30 of each year unless renewed by application in the form prescribed by the State Engineer. A fee of $20 must be paid each year for renewal. All application and renewal fees must be accounted for in the State Engineer’s Water License Account, which is hereby created in the State General Fund, and must be used to pay costs pertaining to the certificate and renewal and other costs associated with carrying out the provisions of this section.

6.

An appointment may be revoked by the State Engineer at any time for good cause shown.

7.

The State Engineer may provide such additional regulations governing the qualifications and official acts of state water right surveyors as are reasonable and not inconsistent with this chapter.

8.

The State of Nevada is not liable for the compensation of any state water right surveyor, but a state water right surveyor is entitled to be paid by the person employing the state water right surveyor.

9.

Officers and employees of the Federal Government are entitled to apply for the position of state water right surveyor and are exempt from the requirement that a state water right surveyor must be a professional engineer or professional land surveyor set forth in subsection 2. Any certificate issued to those officers and employees must include a restriction limiting those officers and employees to work for the Federal Government.

Source: Section 533.080 — State water right surveyors: Certain projects required to be performed by surveyor; qualifications; appointment; regulations; compensation; State Engineer’s Water License Account., https://www.­leg.­state.­nv.­us/NRS/NRS-533.­html#NRS533Sec080.

533.005
Definitions. 533.007
“Interbasin transfer of groundwater” defined. 533.010
“Person” defined. 533.015
“State Engineer” defined. 533.020
“Stream system” defined. 533.023
“Wildlife purposes” defined. 533.024
Legislative declaration. 533.025
Water belongs to public. 533.027
Applicability of chapter to de minimus collection of precipitation. 533.030
Appropriation for beneficial use 533.035
Beneficial use: Basis, measure and limit of right to use. 533.037
Determination of priority of water right acquired for use in federal reclamation project 533.040
Water used for beneficial purposes to remain appurtenant to place of use 533.045
Right to divert ceases when necessity for use does not exist. 533.050
Beneficial use of water declared a public use 533.055
Storage of water for beneficial purpose 533.060
Right to use limited to amount necessary 533.065
Standards of measurement. 533.070
Quantity of water appropriated limited to amount reasonably required for beneficial use 533.075
Rotation in use of water. 533.080
State water right surveyors: Certain projects required to be performed by surveyor 533.085
Vested rights to water not impaired. 533.0241
Duty of State Engineer to reserve certain amount of groundwater. 533.0243
Temporary conversion of agricultural water for certain purposes: Legislative declaration 533.0245
State Engineer prohibited from carrying out duties in conflict with certain decrees, orders, compacts or agreements. 533.0247
State Engineer, assistants and agents authorized to enter land to investigate and carry out duties.
Last Updated

Jun. 24, 2021

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