NRS318.199. Rates, tolls and charges for sewerage or water services or products: Schedules; public hearings; adoption of resolution; action to set aside resolution.

      1.  The board of trustees of any district organized or reorganized under this chapter and authorized to furnish sanitary sewer facilities pursuant to NRS 318.140 or to furnish water facilities pursuant to NRS 318.144 shall establish schedules showing all rates, tolls or charges for services performed or products furnished.

      2.  Whenever the board of trustees proposes to change any individual or joint rate, toll, charge, service or product, or any individual or joint practice which will affect any rate, toll, charge, service or product, the board of trustees shall hold public hearings after 30 days’ notice has been given to all users of the service or product within the district.

      3.  Notice shall be given by publication in a newspaper published in the county and if no such newspaper is published, then a newspaper published in this state which has a general circulation in the county. The notice shall not be placed in that portion of the newspaper where legal notices and classified advertisements appear and the type used in the headline of such notice shall not be smaller than 18 point.

      4.  All users of the service or product shall be afforded a reasonable opportunity to submit data, views or arguments orally or in writing at the place, date and time specified in the notice, or at any subsequent place or time to which the hearing may be adjourned.

      5.  If, after public hearing, the board of trustees determines that the proposed action is required, the board shall adopt a resolution establishing the new or changed rates, tolls, charges, services to be performed or products to be furnished.

      6.  Within 30 days immediately following the effective date of such resolution, any person who has protested it may commence an action in any court of competent jurisdiction to set aside the resolution.

      7.  Within 30 days after the effective date of the resolution, the secretary of the district shall file a copy of the new schedules in the office of the district. The schedules shall be made available to any user of the service or product.

      (Added to NRS by 1977, 541)