§ 548.430 — Permissible provisions

Nevada § 548.430

• Jurisdiction: Nevada
• Title 49: AGRICULTURE
• Ch. 548: Conservation

Text

1. The regulations to be adopted by the Commission under the provisions of NRS 548.410 to 548.435 , inclusive, may include:
(a) Provisions requiring the carrying out of necessary engineering operations, including the construction of terraces, terrace outlets, check dikes, dams, ponds, ditches and other necessary structures.
(b) Provisions requiring observance of particular methods of cultivation, including contour cultivating, contour furrowing, lister furrowing, sowing, planting, strip cropping, seeding, and planting of lands to water-conserving and erosion-preventing plants, trees and grasses, forestation, and revegetation.
(c) Specifications of cropping programs and tillage practices to be observed.
(d) Provisions requiring the retirement from cultivation of highly erosive areas or of areas on which erosion may not be adequately controlled if cultivation is carried on.
(e) Provisions for such other means, measures, operations, and programs as may assist conservation of renewable natural resources and prevent or control soil erosion and sedimentation in the conservation district, having due regard to the legislative findings set forth in NRS 548.095 to 548.113 , inclusive.
2. As used in this section, “revegetation” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 528.097 .

Legislative History

[Part 9:212:1937; 1931 NCL § 6870.09]—(NRS A 1973, 758 ; 2015, 1985 ; 2021, 632 )