408.146 - Sale or lease of certain water rights to public utility; reconveyance.

408.146  Sale or lease of certain water rights to public utility; reconveyance.

      1.  The Board may sell or lease any of the State’s water rights which are appurtenant to real property acquired pursuant to this chapter to a public utility engaged in the business of furnishing water for municipal, industrial and domestic purposes without first offering those water rights to the public.

      2.  If a public utility wishes to dispose of any water right acquired pursuant to subsection 1, it must be reconveyed to the State.

      (Added to NRS by 1983, 526; A 1985, 704; 1987, 1800; 1989, 1300)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 408.207)