Nevada § 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
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§ 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. 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.
Source: official Nevada text · Last verified 2026-08-27
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