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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
As used in NRS 349.980 to 349.987, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires:
1. “Board” means the Board for Financing Water Projects created pursuant to NRS 349.957.
2. “Community sewage disposal system” means a public system of sewage disposal which is operated for the benefit of a county, city, district or other political subdivision of this State.
3. “Community water system” means a public water system which:
(a) Has 15 or more service connections; or
(b) Serves 25 or more persons,
at places which are intended for year-round occupancy.
4. “Costs of capital improvements to community water systems and nontransient water systems” means the costs traditionally associated with capital improvements to such systems and includes costs associated with the:
(a) Consolidation of existing systems; and
(b) Transfer and connection of a public water system to a system owned by a purveyor of water or a public utility.
5. “Division of Environmental Protection” means the Division of Environmental Protection of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
6. “Fund” means the Fund for Grants for Water Conservation, Capital Improvements to Certain Water Systems and Improvements to Certain Sewage Disposal Systems.
7. “Individual sewage disposal system” means a single system of sewage treatment tanks and effluent disposal facilities that serves:
(a) A single-family dwelling; or
(b) One or more buildings that are used exclusively for commercial purposes and are not used as single-family dwellings.
8. “Nontransient water system” means a public water system that regularly serves 25 or more of the same persons for more than 6 months per year, but which is not a community water system.
9. “Public water system” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 445A.840.
10. “Purveyor of water” means a political subdivision of this State engaged in the business of furnishing water, for compensation, to persons within the political subdivision.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Nevada Revised Statutes Title 30. Public Borrowing and Obligations § 349.980. Definitions - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/nv/title-30-public-borrowing-and-obligations/nv-rev-st-349-980/
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