1. Each director before entering upon his or her official duties shall take and subscribe to an oath, before a person authorized to administer oaths, that he or she will support the Constitutions of the United States and the State of Nevada and will honestly, faithfully and impartially perform the duties of the office.
2. Upon taking oath, the board shall choose one of their number chair of the board and president of the district, and shall elect some suitable person secretary of the board and of the district, who may or may not be a member of the board. The board shall adopt a seal and shall keep audio recordings or transcripts of all meetings and, in a well-bound book, a record of all its proceedings, minutes of all meetings, certificates, contracts, bonds given by employees and all corporate acts, which, except as otherwise provided in NRS 241.035, must be open to inspection of all owners of property in the district, as well as to all other interested persons. A copy of the minutes or audio recordings must be made available to a member of the public upon request at no charge pursuant to NRS 241.035.
3. Each member of the board is entitled to receive as compensation for his or her service such sum as may be ordered by the board, not in excess of the sum of $80 per day and actual traveling expenses for each day spent attending meetings of the board or while engaged in official business under the order of the board.
[11:380:1955]—(NRS A 1973, 786; 1985, 1222; 1999, 922; 2005, 1414; 2013, 332)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 541 - Water Conservancy Districts
NRS 541.030 - Legislative declarations.
NRS 541.120 - Quorum of board.
NRS 541.130 - Duties of secretary; board may employ chief engineer, attorney and other employees.
NRS 541.140 - Powers of board.
NRS 541.160 - Board may levy and collect taxes and special assessments; classification of methods.
NRS 541.210 - Board may levy additional assessments to pay deficiencies.
NRS 541.220 - Board to hear objections to assessments; procedure; appeal to district court.
NRS 541.230 - Officials charged with duty to collect taxes; taxes levied create equal lien.
NRS 541.240 - Sale of real property for unpaid taxes and assessments.
NRS 541.250 - Property exempt from assessments.
NRS 541.260 - Board may dispose of water under contracts.
NRS 541.270 - Liens to secure payment of annual installments.
NRS 541.280 - Board may create sinking fund.
NRS 541.290 - Powers of board in distribution of water.
NRS 541.300 - Contracts relating to electrical energy.
NRS 541.310 - Change of boundaries: Petition for inclusion of other lands; procedure.
NRS 541.320 - Petition for exclusion of lands in district; procedure; court order.
NRS 541.330 - Board may enter into contracts relative to payments to be made to United States.
NRS 541.340 - Acquisition of works: Procedure for creation of indebtedness; elections.
NRS 541.350 - Publication of resolution for creation of indebtedness.
NRS 541.360 - Conduct of election; canvass of returns.
NRS 541.370 - Majority vote required to authorize indebtedness; resubmission of proposition.
NRS 541.390 - Notice; jurisdiction of district court not lost for failure to give notice.
NRS 541.400 - Cases to be heard by court at earliest practicable moment.