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RE: LVL&WCO. - LAS VEGAS VALLEY WATER DISTRICT . Los Angeles, March 31, 1950 80-8 Mr. Wm. Reinhardt: You have asked about certain phases of the procedure which would be involved in the event Las Vegas Valley Water District should file an action to condemn the water producing and distributing system at Las Vegas, Nevada. The District was created by Chapter 167 of the Nevada Statutes of 1947* Section 1, paragraph (7), authorized the District to exercise in the State of Nevada the right of emi­nent domain in the manner provided by law for the condemna­tion of private property for public use. Section 20 of the same chapter provides as follows: "The power of eminent domain herein granted may be exercised in the manner provided by Nevada Compiled Laws 1929, sections 9153 to 9176, inclu­sive, as amended or supplemented, or any law here­after enacted for that purpose." Section 20 was amended by Chapter 130 of the Nevada Statutes of 1949. The amended section provides in part as follows: "Where an existing water system is so condemned, the district shall be entitled to take possession thereof upon the entry of judgment regardless of the fact that an appeal may be pending, but in such event the district shall be required to pay into court the full amount of the judgment, together with such fur­ther reasonable sum as may be required by the court to pay any further damages and costs that may be re­covered in said proceedings as all damages that may be sustained by the defendant if for any cause the property shall not be finally taken by the district." The sections of the Nevada Compiled Laws referred to in Section 20 are the general provisions relating to eminent domain. AWP.R HS. 1X95 0