Nevada · statute · Nev. Rev. Stat. ch. 267 · 32 active provisions
As used in NRS 267.010 to 267.140, inclusive: 1. “Commission form of government” means any form of municipal government not contrary to the Constitution and laws of the United States wherein either: (a) Both legislative and administrative authority is exercised by the same governing body, members of which are elected b…
Any incorporated city in the State of Nevada may adopt the commission form of government and frame its own charter therefor.
Whenever the qualified voters of any incorporated city desiring to adopt a commission form of government so declare their desire by filing with the governing body of that city a petition having the signatures of one-fourth of the qualified voters voting at the last city election, the governing body shall cause 15 quali…
Nominations of the electors must be made by petition of one-fifth of the qualified voters of the incorporated city. The petition must be filed with the governing body of the city at least 30 days before the day of the election, as provided for in NRS 267.030. The names of all candidates so filed must be placed upon the…
Within 6 working days after the date of the election, the legislative authority of the incorporated city shall: 1. Meet and canvass the returns of the election. 2. Declare the result thereof. 3. Issue certificates of election to the 15 qualified electors having the highest vote therefor.
1. The persons elected as provided for in NRS 267.050 shall convene within 10 days and commence to frame a charter for the city and within 90 days thereafter they, or a majority of them, shall submit the charter to the legislative authority of the incorporated city. 2. Within 10 days thereafter, the legislative authori…
1. The governing body of the incorporated city shall cause the proposed charter to be published once and posted for 30 days and provide for the submission of the proposed charter to the qualified voters of the incorporated city at the next primary or general municipal election or primary or general state election. 2. T…
The officers conducting the election shall make returns thereof within the time and in the manner provided by the state election laws. The vote thereof shall be canvassed and the result declared as provided by such laws. If upon the canvass it shall be found that a majority of the votes so cast at the election were cas…
If upon the canvass it is found that a majority of the votes cast at the election were cast in favor of the ratification of the charter, as provided in NRS 267.080, the mayor of the city shall thereupon attach to the charter a certificate in substance as follows: I, ................, mayor of ................, do hereb…
1. Immediately after being certified as provided in NRS 267.090, the charter shall be recorded by the city clerk in a book to be provided and kept for that purpose and known as the charter book of the city of ................, and when so recorded shall be attested by the clerk and the mayor of the city under the corpo…
1. Any city having adopted a charter pursuant to the provisions of NRS 267.010 to 267.140, inclusive, has pursuant to the charter: (a) All of the powers enumerated in the general laws of the State for the incorporation of cities. (b) Such other powers necessary and not in conflict with the Constitution and laws of the…
Any city adopting a charter under the provisions of NRS 267.010 to 267.140, inclusive, has all of the powers which are now or may hereafter be conferred upon incorporated cities by the laws of the State, and all such powers as are usually exercised by municipal corporations of like character and degree, whether or not…
In any region of this state for which there has been established by interstate compact a regional planning agency, the powers of a city organized under NRS 267.010 to 267.140, inclusive, with respect to the location and construction of all public works are subordinate to the powers of such regional planning agency.
1. The governing body of a city having the type of commission form of government described in paragraph (b) of subsection 1 of NRS 267.010, which has acquired by the provisions of any federal or any other law real property within its corporate boundaries, and which has adopted a policy, by its charter, of leasing or se…
1. The governing body of an incorporated city having a commission form of government may, on its own motion, and shall, upon receiving a written petition signed by a number of registered voters of the city not less than 25 percent of the number who actually voted at the preceding municipal general election seeking the…
Except where the context otherwise requires, the definitions in NRS 267.455 to 267.500, inclusive, govern the construction of NRS 267.450 to 267.530, inclusive.
“Acquisition” or “acquire” means the opening, laying out, establishment, purchase, construction, securing, installation, reconstruction, lease, gift, grant from the Federal Government, this state, any public body therein, or any person, the endowment, bequest, devise, condemnation, transfer, assignment, option to purch…
“Drainage project” means any natural and artificial water facilities for the collection, channeling, impoundment and disposal of rainfall, other surface and subsurface drainage waters and storm and floodwaters, including without limitation ditches, ponds, dams, spillways, retarding basins, detention basins, lakes, rese…
“Federal Government” means the United States of America, or any agency, instrumentality or corporation thereof.
“Governing body” means the city council, city commission, board of supervisors, town council, town board or other local legislative or governing body of the municipality.
“Improvement” or “improve” means the extension, widening, lengthening, betterment, alteration, reconstruction or other major improvement (or any combination thereof) of any properties pertaining to a project or an interest therein, but does not mean renovation, reconditioning, patching, general maintenance or other min…
“Municipal” means pertaining to a municipality as defined in NRS 267.485.
“Municipality” means any incorporated city organized pursuant to NRS 267.010 to 267.140, inclusive, which has a population of 4,000 or more.
“Project” means the acquisition, improvement and equipment (or any combination thereof) of a drainage project, sewerage project or water project (or any combination thereof).
“Sewerage project” means facilities pertaining to a municipal sanitary sewerage system for the collection, interception, transportation, treatment, purification and disposal of sewage, liquid wastes, solid wastes, night soil and industrial wastes, including without limitation a sewerage treatment plant, sewerage purifi…