District board of health: Power to create voluntary financial assistance program to pay cost to connect to community sewerage disposal system; voluntary annual fee; eligibility.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 439.3672
in effect1. The district board of health may create a voluntary financial assistance program to pay 100 percent of the cost for an eligible property owner with an existing septic system whose property is served by a municipal water system to abandon the septic system and connect to the community sewerage disposal system.
2. Upon an affirmative vote of two-thirds of all the members of the district board of health, the district board of health may impose a voluntary annual fee on property owners with existing septic systems whose property is served by a municipal water system to carry out the provisions of this section.
3. If the district board of health imposes a voluntary annual fee pursuant to subsection 2:
(a) The fee must not exceed the annual sewer rate charged by the largest community sewerage disposal system in the county or counties, as applicable, in which the district board of health has been established; and
(b) The district board of health shall not provide financial assistance to any property owner who does not pay the voluntary annual fee in accordance with the provisions of paragraph (b) of subsection 4.
4. A property owner is eligible to receive financial assistance from the program if the property owner:
(a) Has an existing septic system whose property is served by a municipal water system; and
(b) Pays the voluntary annual fee:
(1) Every year that the fee is imposed by the district board of health pursuant to subsection 3; or
(2) If a property owner has not paid the fee in every year that the fee was imposed, pays the balance for all previously imposed fees and the fee for the current year, if imposed by the district board of health.
5. As used in this section:
(a) Community sewerage disposal system means a public system of sewage disposal which is operated for the benefit of a county, city, district or other political subdivision of this State.
(b) Septic system means a well that is used to place sanitary waste below the surface of the ground that is typically composed of a septic tank and a subsurface fluid distribution or disposal system. The term includes a residential individual system for disposal of sewage.
Source: NV Statutes (Official Site)URL: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/NRS-439.htmlFetched: 10/4/2026