309.500 - County ordinance; notice.
309.500 County ordinance; notice.
1. Whenever a majority of the members of the board of county commissioners of any county deem it to be in the best interests of the county and of the district that any such district be merged, consolidated or dissolved, it shall so determine by ordinance, after there is first found, determined and recited in such ordinance that:
(a) All outstanding indebtedness and bonds of all kinds of the district have been paid or will be assumed by the resulting merged or consolidated unit of government.
(b) The services of such district are no longer needed or can be more effectively performed by an existing unit of government.
2. The county clerk shall thereupon certify a copy of the ordinance to the board of directors of such district and shall give notice by publication and mailing of:
(a) The adoption of such ordinance;
(b) The determination of the board of county commissioners that the district should be dissolved, merged or consolidated; and
(c) The time and place for hearing on dissolution, merger or consolidation.
3. Notice by publication shall be given by publication of such notice at least once a week for 3 consecutive weeks by three weekly insertions in at least one newspaper of general circulation in the district, the first publication to be at least 15 days prior to the date of the hearing. Notice by mail shall be given by a single mailing by first-class mail (or its equivalent), postage prepaid, by deposit in the United States mails, at least 15 days prior to the date of the hearing, such notice to be mailed to each last known owner of land within any district proposed to be dissolved or merged, and within each district proposed to be consolidated at the last known address of such owner, such addresses and owners being those appearing on the real property assessment rolls for general (ad valorem) taxes of the county and from such other sources as the secretary of the district deems reliable.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 424)