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\ w*t*r district created Powers of To acquire lands, etc. Chap. I67 - A n Act to create a water district in the Las Vegas valley, Clark County, Nevada; to provide for the procurement, storage, distribution and sale of water and rights in the use thereof fro® Lake Mead for industrial. Irrigation, municipal, and domestic ut*§§ to provide for the conservation of the ground water resources of the Las vegan valley, and to create authority to purchase, acquire, and construct the necessary works to carry out the provi- * slons of this act; to authorise a tax levy for the payment of obligations during the organisational period, and to provide for the issuance of district bonds to be paid solely fro® the operating revenues of such district, (Approved March a?, if iff) The People of the State of Nevada* represented in Senate and Assembly, do enact as follows? SSCTIOK 1. A water district may be created in the Las Vegas vaUey, as hereinafter provided for, objects and purposes? for the followin*g 1, To have perpetual succession, 2. To sue and be sued in the name of said district in all actions and proceedings in all courts and tribunals of competent jurisdiction. ?* 1° ad°P* * a®&1 *»<3 alter it at pleasure, h. To take by grant, purchase, gift, devise, or lease, or otherwise, and to hold, use, enjoy, and to lease or dispose it* fv personal property of every kind within or without itthse pdoiwsetrr.ict necessary or convenient to the full exercise of 5. To acquire, by purchase, lease, construction, or other-t0 J-IbM* Of war, mnnti, privilege., end property of every kind, whether reel or per-tonal, and to construct, maintain, and operate any and all works or improvements within or without the district necessary or proper to carry cut any of the objects or purposes of improve any works or Improve«m*etnetnds, ©ard pdr otpo,e rtreyp aaicrq,u iroer d obtvh erwise it as authorised by this act. w surface or underground reservoirs within the district for the common benefit of the districts to concede and reclaim water for present and future use within .the districts to appropriate and acquire water, and. water rights, and import water into the district, and to conserve tame within the district, for any useful purpose to the dls- J*lf|| maintain, intervene in, and compromise i®f2L5ltJ9*^ fad exPpein sPe$s : dofi,s traincyt ,a cotri oont oherr pwirsoec*e eadnidng tio navsosluvmien g toher ownership or use of waters or water rights trict ort heo f dicsomtmroinc t beunseefdi to r tou saenfuyl lfanodr asniyt upautrepdo steh eroefi nt,h e odri sinvolving the wasteful use of water therein; to commence, (Senate Bill He. 63 - Senator Baker) - 1 -