1. The governing body shall have power by ordinance or other appropriate legal action taken to diminish, reduce and contract the established limits or boundaries of the city and to detach and sever from the city any area or territory within such limits, in the following manner:

(a) The governing body, of its own motion or upon petition in writing signed by a majority of the property owners within the area proposed or sought to be detached, shall cause to be prepared and filed with its clerk an accurate map or plat, made and certified by a competent surveyor, showing the area proposed or sought to be detached and the boundaries contemplated to be diminished or contracted.

(b) Two copies of such plat, with a brief statement in duplicate of the reasons for the proposed action, shall then be filed with the commission, which shall review the proposal and act upon it in the manner provided by NRS 268.638 to 268.652, inclusive.

(c) The governing body shall then cause to be published in a newspaper in the city for not less than 1 week a notice of its intention to consider and act upon the matter of the proposed change in the boundaries, briefly describing such change and referring to the map on file, and fixing a time when the governing body will meet and consider objections or protests against the proposed change.

(d) At the time fixed, unless there is presented and filed written objections or protests against such change, signed by a majority of the property owners within the area proposed or sought to be detached, the governing body may take favorable action upon the matter, and may by ordinance or other appropriate legal action taken declare the area under consideration severed and detached from the city, and the boundaries diminished or contracted as proposed.

(e) A copy of the map mentioned in paragraph (a), certified by the surveyor and by the clerk, with a certified copy of the ordinance or action as passed, approved and published, shall be at once filed with the county recorder of the proper county and upon such filing the change in boundaries shall be deemed complete and the area detached.

2. Where any territory is detached from a city as provided in this section, provision shall be made for such proportion of any outstanding general obligations of such city as the assessed valuation of property in the territory bears to the total assessed valuation of property in such city and for such proportion of any obligations secured by the pledge of revenues from a public improvement as the revenue arising within the territory bears to the total revenue from such improvement as follows:

(a) If the territory is annexed to another city, such proportionate obligation shall be assumed according to its terms by the annexing city.

(b) If the territory is not so annexed, taxes shall be levied by the board of county commissioners upon all taxable property in the district, sufficient to discharge such proportionate general obligation according to its terms.

(c) In lieu of either method provided in paragraphs (a) and (b), where substantially all of the physical improvements for which the obligation was incurred are within the territory remaining, and with the consent of the governing body of the city from which such territory is detached and of the holders of such obligations, the entire obligation may be assumed by such city and the detached territory released therefrom.

(Added to NRS by 1967, 1625)