548.240 - Administrative Officer of Division to examine and record application and statement; action if name of district similar to name of another district; when district constituted; certificate of
548.240 Administrative Officer of Division to examine and record application and statement; action if name of district similar to name of another district; when district constituted; certificate of organization; boundaries.
1. The Administrative Officer of the Division shall examine the application and statement, and if the Administrative Officer finds that the name proposed for the district is not identical with that of any other conservation district of this State or so nearly similar as to lead to confusion or uncertainty, the Administrative Officer shall record them in an appropriate book of record in his or her office.
2. If the Administrative Officer of the Division finds that the name proposed for the district is identical with that of any other conservation district of this State, or so nearly similar as to lead to confusion and uncertainty, the Administrative Officer shall notify the Commission. The Commission shall thereupon submit a new name for the district. Upon receipt of a new name, free of such defects, the Administrative Officer shall record the application and statement, with the name so modified, in an appropriate book of record in his or her office.
3. When the application and statement have been recorded, the district becomes a governmental subdivision of this State and a public body corporate and politic.
4. The Administrative Officer of the Division shall make and issue to the supervisors a certificate, over his or her signature, of the organization of the district.
5. The boundaries of the district must include the territory determined by the Commission, but must not include any area included within the boundaries of another conservation district organized under the provisions of this chapter.
[Part 5:212:1937; A 1947, 431; 1951, 190]—(NRS A 1973, 750; 1985, 780)