1. The State Engineer has the right, power and authority to order the removal of any dam, diversion works or obstruction that has been placed in any stream channel or watercourse when the dam, diversion works or obstruction has not been legally established and recognized through a valid claim of vested right, by decree of court or by a permit issued by the State of Nevada.
2. Nothing in this section is to be construed as giving the State Engineer any right or authority to remove any dam or diversion works that has been so legally recognized and established.
3. If the dam, diversion works or obstruction has not been removed after 30 days’ notice in writing given by the State Engineer and served upon the owner or person controlling the dam, diversion works or obstruction, or if no appeal has been taken from the order of the State Engineer as is provided for in NRS 533.450, then the State Engineer may remove the dam, diversion works or obstruction.
4. The State Engineer shall charge the actual cost of that removal to the water distribution account and thereafter present an itemized statement of the charge to the board of county commissioners of the county wherein those expenses were incurred. The board of county commissioners shall thereupon present a bill for the expenses to the person liable therefor under this section, and if that person neglects for 30 days thereafter to pay it, the bill and costs become a lien upon the lands and property of the person so liable for the payment of the bill, and must be collected as delinquent taxes against the lands and property are collected.
[56 1/2:140:1913; added 1951, 132] — (NRS A 1979, 670)
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