1.  The petition for incorporation must include the following information concerning the area proposed to be incorporated:

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Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 266.019

  • county: includes Carson City. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.033
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.

(a) A description of the area prepared by a professional land surveyor licensed pursuant to chapter 625 of NRS, which need not be made from a current survey nor contain courses and distances measured from fixed points, but may be based upon assessor’s parcel maps, existing boundaries of subdivision or parcel maps, visible ground features, extensions of the visible ground features, or by any boundary that coincides with the official boundary of the state, a county, a city, a township, a section or any combination thereof.

(b) The proposed name of the city.

(c) The total acreage of the area.

(d) The number of persons who reside in the area.

(e) The number of owners of record of real property within the area.

(f) A statement that the area meets the requirements of NRS 266.017.

(g) A statement of the committee’s plans for providing police and fire protection, maintaining the streets, providing water and sewer services, collecting the garbage and providing administrative services in the proposed city, with an estimate of the costs and sources of revenue.

(h) A map or plat of the area which is prepared from the description required by paragraph (a) and that shows the existing dedicated streets, sewer interceptors and outfalls and their proposed extensions.

2.  The petition must be substantially in the following form: