328.120 - State Engineer to give technical and engineering advice on water rights, reclamation, control of floods and protection of watersheds. - Nevada Statutes

328.120  State Engineer to give technical and engineering advice on water rights, reclamation, control of floods and protection of watersheds.  On matters under the provisions of NRS 328.065 to 328.135, inclusive, affecting water rights, reclamation, flood control and watershed protection, the Legislative Commission shall call upon the State Engineer for technical and engineering advice, and the water law of this state is the rule of decision in all matters relating to water rights.

      [14:108:1947; 1943 NCL § 2898.14]—(NRS A 1981, 921)

      NRS 328.135  Offer or agreement for cession of state jurisdiction before June 2, 1981: Construction; effect of noncompliance with federal or state laws.  Any offer or agreement by the State of Nevada to grant a cession of jurisdiction before June 2, 1981, must be construed according to the law in effect at the time of the cession. If any condition of the federal or state laws which were in force at that time has not been complied with before June 2, 1981, the State’s conditional cession of jurisdiction is declared to be void and of no effect, and as to such land the State retains the entire jurisdiction it exercised or was entitled to exercise when the United States acquired the land.

      (Added to NRS by 1981, 920)