Nevada Code § 474.020

Petition of property owners for formation of district; resolution of county commissioners
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1. When 25 percent or more of the holders
of title or evidence of title to lands lying in one body, whose names appear as
such upon the last county assessment roll, present a petition to the board of
county commissioners of the county in which the land or the greater portion
thereof is located, setting forth the exterior boundaries of the proposed
district and asking that the district so described be formed into a county fire
protection district under the provisions of NRS
474.010 to 474.450 , inclusive, the
board of county commissioners shall pass a resolution declaring the boards
intention to form or organize such territory into a county fire protection
district, naming the district and describing its exterior boundaries.
2. The resolution must:
(a) Fix a time and place for the hearing of the
matter not less than 30 days after its adoption.
(b) Direct the clerk of the board of county
commissioners to publish the notice of intention of the board of county
commissioners to form the county fire protection district, and of the time and
place fixed for the hearing, and must designate that publication must be in a
newspaper of general circulation published in the county and circulated in the
proposed county fire protection district, or if there is no newspaper so
published and circulated, then in a newspaper of general circulation circulated
in the proposed district.

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