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In all pollbooks and lists of registered electors prepared for any election hereunder, the names of electors who have registered or reregistered for such election shall be distinguished from the names of those who voted at the last preceding district election, but who have not so registered or reregistered, by the letter R enclosed in parentheses placed before each of the names of the form er and the omission thereof in connection w ith the names of the form er and the omission thereof in connection with the names of the latter. R egistration of voters for any regular or special election shall close on the W ednesday preceding such election. The registration oath may be taken before the registrars or deputy registrars, any member of an election board, or any officer authorized by law to adm inister oaths. All oaths taken before the election board shall be by them preserved and returned with the ballots. (As amended, Chap. 130, Nevada Statutes, 1949.) Section 7. Before opening the polls each inspector and each clerk m ust take and subscribe to an oath to faithfully perform the duties imposed upon him by law. Any elector of the precinct may adm inister and certify such oath. Vacancies occurring during the progress of the election may be filled by the rem aining inspector or inspectors, and any inspector of election may adm inister and certify oaths. The time of opening and closing the polls, the manner of conducting the election, canvassing and announcing the result, the keeping of the tally list, and the m aking and certifying of such result, and the disposition of the ballots after election, shall be the same, as near as may be, as provided for elections under the general election law of this state. R egistrars and election officers may receive such compensation for their services as the board shall prescribe, not exceeding the am ount paid for similar services at general elections. The returns shall be delivered to the secretary of the district, and no list, tally paper, or returns from any election shall be set aside or rejected for w ant of form if it can be satisfactorily understood. The board of directors shall meet at its usual place of m eeting on the second M onday after an election to canvass the returns, and it Shall proceed in the same manner and w ith like effect, as near as may be, as the board of county commissioners in canvassing the returns of general elections, and when it shall have declared the result the secretary shall make full entries in his record in like m anner as is required of the county clerk in general elections. The board of directors m ust declare elected the person or persons having the highest num ber of votes given for each office. The secretary shall immediately make out and deliver to such person or persons a certificate of election, signed by him and authenticated with the seal of the board. W ithin ten days after receiving the certificate of his election, each director shall take and subscribe to an official oath and file the same with the secretary of the board of directors. Each member of said board of directors shall execute an official bond in the sum of ten thousand [dollars] ($10,000), which shall be approved by the judge of the district court in and for the county where such organization is effected. Such bonds shall be recorded in the office of the county recorder and filed w ith the secretary of the board. The costs of such bonds shall be borne by said w ater district. Section 8. T he officers of such district shall consist of seven directors as aforesaid, a president and a vice president, elected from their number, a secretary, and treasurer. The board may appoint an assistant secretary who shall exercise such of the powers and perform such of the duties of the secretary as may be designated by the board of directors, except th at such assistant secretary shall not be invested w ith authority to sign on behalf of the secretary any bonds of the district. The secretary and treasurer shall be appointed by the board of directors and may or may not be members of said board. Such officers shall serve at the will of the board. One person may be appointed to serve as secretary and treasurer. The board may also appoint an engineer and manager and such other assistants as may be necessary. The directors immediately upon their election and qualifi­cation shall meet and organize. The board of directors shall designate some place within the county as the office of the board, and the board shall hold a regular monthly m eeting in this office on such day of the m onth as th at fixed upon by resolution duly entered upon the minutes. All meetings of the board shall be public, and a m ajority of the members shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, but on all questions requiring vote there shall be a concurrence of at least a m ajority of the members of the board. All records of the board shall be open to the inspec­tion of any elector during business hours. On the first M onday in May next following their election, the board of directors shall meet and organize, and elect a president and vice president, and appoint a secretary and treasurer. The appointees aforesaid shall file bonds, which shall be approved by the board for the faithful performance of their duties. Any vacancies in the office of director shall be filled from the division in which the vacancy occurs by the rem aining members of the board. In cases where a vacancy occurs in the office of director, and the rem aining directors, at the next regular m onthly m eeting of the board of directors following such vacancy, do not by a m ajority vote of such rem aining directors appoint a successor to fill such a vacancy, then the president of the board of directors shall fill such vacancy by appointment, and in the event of the 5 vacancy occurring in the office of the director who is president of the board, then the vice president shall fill the vacancy by appointment. A director appointed to fill a vacancy, as above provided, shall hold his office until the next biennial election, and until his successor is elected and qualified. Section 9. The board of directors shall have power to manage and conduct the business and affairs of the district, to make and execute all necessary contracts, to employ and appoint such agents, officers, and employees, delegates to conventions, or other representatives in the interest of the district as may be required, and prescribe their duties and rem uneration, and to establish bylaws, rules, and regulations for the distribution and use of w ater in the district. Said bylaws, rules, and regulations shall be printed in convenient form for distribution throughout the district. For the purpose of acquiring control over governm ent lands within the district, and of complying with the provisions of an act of Congress of A ugust 11, 1916, entitled “An act to promote reclama­tion of arid lands,” the board shall have power to make such investigation, and base thereon such representations and assurances to the secretary of the interior as may be requisite. The board and its agents and employees shall have the right to enter upon any land to make surveys, and may locate the necessary irrigation and other works, and the lines of any canal or canals, and the necessary branches for the same, on any lands which may be deemed best for such location. Section 10. Any person who shall wrongfully or purposely fill up, cut, damage, injure, or destroy, or in any manner impair, the usefulness of any reservoir, canal, ditch, lateral, drain, headgate, dam, or other work, structure, or improvement constructed or acquired under the provisions of this act, or shall wrongfully and maliciously interfere w ith any officer, agent, or employee of the district in the proper discharge of his duties, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be fined in any sum not exceeding five hundred dollars ($500) or imprisoned not to exceed [ninety] (90) days in the county jail, or by both such fine and im prisonm ent; provided further, that the w ater district damaged by any such act may also bring a civil action for damages sustained by any such act, and in such proceeding the prevailing party shall also be entitled to attorney’s fees and costs of court. Section 11. All moneys belonging to or in the custody of the w ater district shall, so far as possible, be deposited in such state or national bank or banks in this state as the treasurer or other officer of such w ater district having legal custody of said moneys shall select for the safe-keeping thereof, and shall be subject to withdraw al at any time on demand of the treasurer or other authorized officer. For the security of such deposits there shall be delivered to the treasurer of such w ater district a bond or bonds of a corporate surety qualified to act as sole surety on bonds or undertakings required by the laws of this state, and approved by the insurance commissioner of this state as a company possessing the qualifications required for the purpose of transacting a surety business within this state; provided, th at the penal am ount of such bond or bonds shall at no time be less than the am ount of money deposited by such w ater district with such depositary; said bond or bonds shall secure and guarantee the full and complete repaym ent to such w ater district or the paym ent to its order of all funds so deposited, together with interest thereon. The premium for such corporate surety bond or bonds, in the discretion of the directors of the w ater district, may be paid out of the funds so deposited or may be required to be paid by the depositary; provided, however, th at said depositary may, in lieu of said corporate surety bond or bonds, deposit w ith the treasurer of such w ater district treasury notes or United States bonds, or other securities which are legal investments for savings bonds in this state, the m arket value of which shall at all times equal the am ount of funds so deposited as collateral security, and such securities shall be placed by such treasurer in escrow in some bank other than the depositary of the funds of such district. In the event of the failure of the depositary to repay such funds to the district on demand, or to pay the same to its order, the securities so placed in escrow shall be redelivered to the treasurer and may be sold by him with or w ithout notice, and the proceeds thereof used to reimburse the district. The treasurer, or other officer, of such district having legal custody of its moneys, may, in his discretion, deposit such moneys, in whole or in part, in United States postal savings banks. He shall also have power to deposit such moneys in the same manner and under the same conditions as may be applicable to the deposit of state, county, and/or municipal funds by the legal custodians thereof. Section 12. The board of directors of any district now or hereafter organized under the provisions of this act shall have power to enter into contracts of indemnity and guaranty, in such form as may be approved by said board, relating to or connected w ith the performance of any contract or agreement which said district shall be empowered to enter into under the provisions of this act or any other law of this state. 6