Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 541 - Water Conservancy Districts
NRS 541.070 - Time and place for hearing; jurisdiction of district court; judge not to be disqualified.

1. Immediately after the filing of the petition, the court wherein the petition is filed shall by order fix a place and time, not less than 60 days nor more than 90 days after the petition is filed, for hearing thereon, and thereupon the clerk of the court shall cause notice by publication to be made of the pendency of the petition and of the time and place of hearing thereon. The clerk of the court shall also forthwith cause a copy of the notice to be mailed by United States registered or certified mail to the board of county commissioners of each of the several counties having territory within the proposed district.
2. The district court in and for the county in which the petition for the organization of a water conservancy district has been filed shall thereafter for all purposes of this chapter, except as herein otherwise provided, maintain and have original and exclusive jurisdiction, coextensive with the boundaries of the water conservancy district and of land and other property proposed to be included in the district or affected by the district without regard to the usual limits of its jurisdiction.
3. No judge of such court wherein such petition is filed shall be disqualified to perform any duty imposed by this chapter by reason of ownership of property within any water conservancy district or proposed water conservancy district, or by reason of ownership of any property that may be benefited, taxed or assessed therein.
[7:380:1955]—(NRS A 1969, 95)

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