NRS543.580. Chief engineer and general manager: Investigations, reports and estimates; recommendations; employment of engineers and surveyors.

      1.  The chief engineer and general manager may investigate carefully the best plan or plans:

      (a) To control the floodwaters of the district and the floodwaters of streams that have their sources outside of the district but flow into the district;

      (b) To conserve those waters for beneficial and useful purposes by spreading, storing, retaining, or causing to percolate into the soil within or without the district, or to save or conserve in any manner, any of those waters; and

      (c) To protect the watercourses, watersheds, public highways, life and property in the district from damage from that water,

Ê and to obtain such other information in regard thereto as may be deemed necessary or useful in carrying out the purposes of NRS 543.170 to 543.830, inclusive.

      2.  The chief engineer and general manager shall make and file reports from time to time with the board, which must show:

      (a) A general description of the work to be done on each project or work of improvement.

      (b) General plans, profiles, cross sections and other general specifications of the work to be done on each project or work of improvement.

      (c) A general description of the lands, rights-of-way, easements and property proposed to be taken, acquired or injured in the carrying out of that work.

      (d) An estimate of the cost of each project or work of improvement including:

             (1) An estimate of the costs of lands, rights-of-way, easements and property proposed to be taken, acquired or injured in carrying out the project or work of improvement.

             (2) An estimate of all incidental expenses likely to be incurred in connection therewith, including legal, clerical, engineering, superintendence, inspection, printing and advertising, and stating the total amount of bonds, if any, necessary to be issued to pay for it.

             (3) A comparison of the total cost of the proposed works with an estimate of the cost of condemnation and relocation or replacement of property within the boundaries of the floodplain.

      3.  The chief engineer and general manager shall, from time to time, as directed by the board, file with the board supplementary, amendatory and additional reports and recommendations as necessity and convenience may require.

      4.  The chief engineer and general manager may, subject to the control and direction of the board, employ other engineers, surveyors and other persons required for making all surveys and doing any work necessary for the making of the reports.

      (Added to NRS by 1961, 437; A 1985, 1196; 1987, 725)