Nevada § 244.050 - Commissioners' districts in counties whose population is less than 100,000: Creation; election; notice; abolishment; election at large of commissioners

§ 244.050. Commissioners' districts in counties whose population is less than 100,000: Creation; election; notice; abolishment; election at large of commissioners

1. Whenever a number of registered voters equal to 25 percent or more of the number

of persons registered to vote at the last preceding general election in any county

whose population is less than 100,000 petitions the board of county commissioners

of their county to divide the county into three commissioner districts, or if the

board has five members, into five commissioner districts, the question must be submitted

to the qualified electors of the county for approval or disapproval at the next succeeding

general election. The board of county commissioners may, on its own motion, submit the question to the

voters. The question must be submitted in such a manner that the voters are also given a choice

as to whether to elect the commissioners from districts or at large, if the division

is approved. If a majority of the voters voting on the question approve the division, the board

of county commissioners shall divide the county into three commissioner districts,

or five commissioner districts, as the case may be, on or before the first Monday

in July preceding each general election. The division must be made to conform to the established boundaries of election precincts

or wards, and each election precinct or ward must be wholly within one of the commissioner

districts provided for in this section. Each commissioner district must embrace, as near as may be, one-third or one-fifth,

as the case may be, of the population of the county, and must consist of adjoining

precincts. 2. The board of county commissioners shall provide by resolution for the dates of

election of commissioners from newly created districts, in such manner as to secure

the earliest representation of each district as the terms of incumbent commissioners

expire. 3. The board of county commissioners shall cause to be published in some newspaper

in the county, if there is one, and if not, then by posting at the door of the courthouse

and one or more conspicuous places in each of the commissioner districts, a notice

specifying the election precincts or wards embraced in each of the commissioner districts

so established. The notice must be posted or published for a period of not less than 20 days before

each general election. 4. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 1, county commissioners must be elected

at large by the qualified electors of the county. 5. The commissioner districts, regardless of when created, may be abolished in the

same manner as provided for their creation in subsection 1. 6. Upon the abolition of commissioner districts the incumbent county commissioners

are entitled to serve the remainder of the terms for which they were elected or appointed,

and thereafter county commissioners must be elected at large from within the county.