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- NRS 539.147 · Compensation of registrars and election officers.
- NRS 539.150 · Election officers: Oath; vacancies.
- NRS 539.153 · Applicability of general election laws.
- NRS 539.155 · Returns delivered to secretary; canvass by board of directors; declaration of result.
- NRS 539.157 · Declaration of candidates receiving highest number of votes; certificates of election.
- NRS 539.160 · Directors subject to recall from office.
- NRS 539.163 · Petition for recall: Contents; required signatures; filing.
- NRS 539.165 · Petition for recall: Use of copies; verification.
- NRS 539.167 · Petition for recall: Director must hold office 6 months.
- NRS 539.170 · Special election: Call; when held.
- NRS 539.173 · Vacancy filled if director resigns; continuance in office if director does not resign.
- NRS 539.175 · Removal of signature from recall petition: Procedure.
- NRS 539.177 · Nominating petitions for successors; filing.
- NRS 539.180 · Recall ballots: Reasons for recall and answer thereto; form of proposal; names of nominees.
- NRS 539.183 · Result of recall election: Successor elected or vacancy in office created.
- NRS 539.185 · Subsequent recall proceedings barred during director’s term unless previous election expenses paid by petitioners.
- NRS 539.187 · Applicability of general election laws to recall elections.
- NRS 539.188 · Special election may be held upon unanimous vote of board of directors.
- NRS 539.189 · Notice of election for election for issuance of bonds or other securities: Contents.
- NRS 539.190 · General powers of board of directors.
- NRS 539.193 · Agents and employees: Employment and appointment; duties; compensation.
- NRS 539.195 · Entry upon land to make surveys and locate works.
- NRS 539.197 · Contracts.
- NRS 539.200 · Contracts of indemnity and guaranty.
- NRS 539.201 · Purchase of liability insurance.
- NRS 539.203 · Board of directors authorized to sue and to be sued.
- NRS 539.205 · Annual report to State Engineer; recommendations of State Engineer.
- NRS 539.207 · Acquisition of property.
- NRS 539.210 · Use of proceeds of bonds for acquisition.
- NRS 539.213 · Lease of lands for community pasture.
- NRS 539.215 · Investigations and representations requisite to acquiring control over governmental lands.
- NRS 539.217 · Conveyance or donation of lands acquired by district.
- NRS 539.220 · Construction of works across watercourse, road, railway, conduit or other property; restoration of crossed property.
- NRS 539.223 · Rights-of-way over state lands granted; duties of State Engineer and Director of State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
- NRS 539.225 · Eminent domain; rules of practice.
- NRS 539.227 · Vested rights used in connection with mining or generation of power not to be affected or taken.
- NRS 539.230 · Appropriation and distribution; use by irrigation district declared public use; place of use of water.
- NRS 539.233 · Regulations for distribution and use of water; regulating and measuring devices; distribution of regulations.
- NRS 539.234 · Petition for State Engineer to prescribe or clarify rules and regulations relating to distribution and use of water within district.
- NRS 539.235 · Distribution of water by division or district for appropriate charge.
- NRS 539.237 · Authority to generate, transmit, sell and acquire electric power.
- NRS 539.240 · Election required for approval of certain contracts; notice; ballots; limitation; judicial determination of validity.
- NRS 539.243 · Election required for approval of lease of power plant or transmission system owned or controlled by district.
- NRS 539.245 · Authority of board of directors to provide for drainage.
- NRS 539.255 · Award of contract in case of emergency or necessity without advertising for bids.
- NRS 539.260 · Direction and satisfaction of district engineer; approval by board.
- NRS 539.263 · Contract not to be let unless sufficient money in treasury or payable in district’s bonds.
- NRS 539.265 · When bids may be dispensed with; use of construction fund.
- NRS 539.267 · Performance of acts necessary to carry out enlarged powers.
- NRS 539.270 · General powers.
- NRS 539.273 · Purposes of cooperation and contract.
- NRS 539.275 · Provisions includable in contract.
- NRS 539.277 · Bonds: Transfer to or deposit with United States; payment of interest and principal; rate of interest; call for repayment.
- NRS 539.280 · Payment in installments; rate of interest; assessment and levy; lien.
- NRS 539.283 · Distribution and apportionment of water; refusal of service to delinquent land; assessment to maintain existing works.
- NRS 539.285 · Rent or lease of water.
- NRS 539.287 · Dissolution of district or change of boundaries: Consent of Secretary of Interior; excluded areas free from liens and charges.
- NRS 539.290 · Collection of money or action as fiscal agent of United States: Acceptance of appointment; duties, liabilities and powers of district.
- NRS 539.293 · Additional bonds of district officers: When required; inspection of district books by federal agents.
- NRS 539.295 · Conveyance of property to United States.
- NRS 539.297 · Authorization of proposal to enter into contract.
- NRS 539.300 · Notice of election: Contents.
- NRS 539.303 · Ballots: Form.
- NRS 539.305 · Validation proceedings.
- NRS 539.307 · Directors relieved of certain duties; adoption of surveys and plans made by United States.
- NRS 539.310 · Payments from revenue derived from annual assessments upon real property; property liable to assessment and levy.
- NRS 539.313 · Annual levy or imposition of tolls or charges to meet payments.
- NRS 539.315 · Apportionment of assessment in accordance with benefits; ascertainment of benefits.
- NRS 539.317 · Assessment of federal public land.
- NRS 539.320 · Obligation of district in case of default of land.
- NRS 539.323 · Money paid to district treasury and held in United States Contract Fund; disposition of surplus.
- NRS 539.325 · Contracts for release of mortgages or liens; assumption by district of indebtedness due United States; apportionment of benefits; collection and payment of taxes and assessments.
- NRS 539.327 · Exclusion of district division outside scope of contract.
- NRS 539.330 · Contracts of district divisions with United States.
- NRS 539.333 · General power; purposes.
- NRS 539.335 · Authority to enter into agreements with districts in adjoining states.
- NRS 539.337 · Written contracts or resolutions.
- NRS 539.340 · Recordation of contracts and resolutions.
- NRS 539.343 · Provisions as to ownership of property.
- NRS 539.345 · Trial of disputes and enforcement of rights.
- NRS 539.347 · Meeting in adjoining state valid.
- NRS 539.350 · Diversion of water.
- NRS 539.353 · Holding of property in this state or in adjoining state.
- NRS 539.355 · Foreign irrigation district authorized to acquire land by purchase or condemnation; conditions.
- NRS 539.357 · Use of land declared public use.
- NRS 539.360 · Provisions applicable if reciprocal rights granted.
- NRS 539.363 · Power of division to construct improvements.
- NRS 539.365 · Petition to district directors: Contents; appointment of local board.
- NRS 539.367 · Local board: Composition; terms of office; vacancies.
- NRS 539.370 · Compensation of local directors.
- NRS 539.373 · Powers of local board concerning improvements.
- NRS 539.375 · Board of directors of district may incur debts and issue warrants; limitations; assessments.
- NRS 539.377 · Plans and estimates of local undertakings: Preparation; statement of source of money; statement of purposes.
- NRS 539.380 · Filing of plans and estimates or statement with district secretary; request for election.
- NRS 539.383 · Notice of election: Contents; publication.
- NRS 539.385 · Conduct of election.
- NRS 539.387 · Terms of local directors terminate and local board dissolved if proposal fails.
- NRS 539.390 · Authorization for improvements at election; levy and collection of assessments.
- NRS 539.393 · Certificates of indebtedness and notes: Signatures of officers of district; treated as bonds of district.
- NRS 539.395 · Apportionment of benefits; method of levy and collection of assessments.