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Public Service Canjalasiaa May 16, 1950 Fags 2. purpose of the district, as gathered from tha Act, ia to provide for the procurement, storage, distribution and sale of eater and rights in tha aee thereof from lake Head for industrial, irrigation, municipal and domestic use, and to provide for the conservation of ground mater resources of the las Vegas Valley, and to purchase acquire and construct the necessary marks to carry out the purpose for which, it mas created. Provision la also made for extensive powers relating to issuance of revenue and general obligation bonds, particularly ia the 19*9 amendment® to the Act as found in Chapter 130, 19^9 Statutes. An examination of the acts providing for the creation and establishment of toe mater district and the broad powers vested thereby In its board of directors discloses that whatever else the district is or may become as a public entity, that in carrying wit the paramount purpose of the lav it is and mill be at least a quasi public corporation exercising the functions of a public u tility. Answering query So. 1 . Bad the functions, powers wad authority of the mater district and its board of directors been left as provided in the 19^7 Act, the query mould be easily answered by reference to the opinion of this office, Number 732, rendered your CcaamieBlon March 11, 191*9, relative to the jurisdiction of toe Commission over Lincoln County Power M strict No. 1, organised and existing under Chapter 72, Statutes of 1935. We there held that auto power district did not fa ll within the jurisdiction of the Commission with reference to toe approval by the CcaaaiBsieRj of a change in ownership of the water system of the town of Pioehe and the fixing of rates for mater service, upon the ground and for the reason that said Chapter 72 contained a provision that such chapter mas complete ia itself and that no other law, general or special, should apply to such power district. fhs 19*17 Las Vegas Mater M strict Act in Sect icn 19 provided: "fhat this act is complete in itself and shall be controlling. © » provisions of any other lam, general, special or local, except as provided in this act, shall act apply to a district incorporated under this act.* An examination of the 19**7 Act fails to disclose any exception to Section 19 relating to the powers of the Coamiasion, so, had the 19**7 Act not been amended in 19**9» it is clear that no jurisdiction mas vested in this CcrastiaaioR over any act or practice of the mater district.