Nevada Revised Statutes 318A.170 – Effect of adoption of ordinance creating district; time to commence court action to set aside ordinance creating district; filing of copies of ordinance
1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, the adoption of an ordinance creating a district establishes the regular organization of the district, which is a governmental subdivision of this State, a body corporate and politic and a quasi-municipal corporation.
Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 318A.170
- Clerk: means :
(a) If a district is created or proposed to be created by a county, the county clerk. See Nevada Revised Statutes 318A.030
- Corporation: A legal entity owned by the holders of shares of stock that have been issued, and that can own, receive, and transfer property, and carry on business in its own name.
- Governing body: means the governing body of a county or city that proposes to create or creates a district pursuant to this chapter. See Nevada Revised Statutes 318A.030
- Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.
- person: means a natural person, any form of business or social organization and any other nongovernmental legal entity including, but not limited to, a corporation, partnership, association, trust or unincorporated organization. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.039
2. Within 30 days immediately following the effective date of such ordinance any person who has filed a written protest, as provided in NRS 318A.150, shall have the right to commence an action in any court of competent jurisdiction to set aside such determination. Thereafter all actions or suits attacking the regularity, validity and correctness of that ordinance and all proceedings, determinations and instruments taken, adopted or made before such ordinance’s final passage, shall be perpetually barred.
3. Within 30 days immediately following the effective date of the ordinance creating the district, the governing body shall cause to be filed a copy of the ordinance in the office of the clerk and shall cause to be filed an additional copy of the ordinance in the Office of the Secretary of State, which filings shall be without fee and be otherwise in the same manner as articles of incorporation are required to be filed under chapter 78 of NRS.