AB465

Assembly Bill No. 465–Assemblywoman Tiffany

March 10, 1999

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Referred to Committee on Government Affairs

SUMMARY—Authorizes additional redistricting of county commissioner election districts. (BDR 20-1431)

FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.

Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.

EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [~~omitted material]~~ is material to be omitted. Green numbers along left margin indicate location on the printed bill (e.g., 5-15 indicates page 5, line 15).

AN ACT relating to county commissioners; authorizing additional redistricting of county commissioner election districts; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

1-1 Section 1. NRS 244.018 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-2 244.018 1. If new or changed county commissioner election districts

1-3 must be established because of changes in population [~~or]~~ as determined

1-4 from the data from the decennial census taken by the Bureau of the

1-5 Census of the United States Department of Commerce, because of

1-6 changes in applicable law [,] or because the board of county

1-7 commissioners decided to revise those districts pursuant to subsection 4,

1-8 the board of county commissioners shall establish or adjust the boundaries

1-9 of those districts by ordinance and provide for the election from specified

1-10 districts of the proper numbers of county commissioners for 4-year and 2-

1-11 year terms respectively so that the numbers of county commissioners to be

1-12 elected at each general election thereafter will be as nearly equal as

1-13 possible.

1-14 2. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 244.011, if at the time a

1-15 general election is to be conducted for the election of county

1-16 commissioners from new districts there is incumbent any county

1-17 commissioner, elected at large or from a validly established election

1-18 district, whose term extends beyond the first Monday of January of the

2-1 following year, he is entitled to serve out his term and shall be deemed to

2-2 represent the new district in which he resides.

2-3 3. As soon as possible after the data from each decennial census

2-4 taken by the Bureau of the Census of the United States Department of

2-5 Commerce is made available to the county, the board of county

2-6 commissioners shall revise the county commissioner election districts by

2-7 establishing new county commissioner election districts or adjusting the

2-8 boundaries of the existing county commissioner election districts to the

2-9 extent necessary to ensure the county commissioner election districts are

2-10 as nearly equal in population as practicable.

2-11 4. During the fourth calendar year after the year in which the data

2-12 from the decennial census is made available to the county, the board of

2-13 county commissioners may revise the county commissioner election

2-14 districts by establishing new county commissioner election districts or by

2-15 adjusting the boundaries of the existing county commissioner election

2-16 districts to the extent necessary to ensure the county commissioner

2-17 election districts are as nearly equal in population as practicable if:

2-18 (a) The population in any district exceeds the population in any other

2-19 district by more than 10 percent pursuant to estimates of population

2-20 prepared by an employee of the county in consultation with the

2-21 demographer employed by the department of taxation pursuant to NRS

2-22 360.283; and

2-23 (b) The measure of population used in paragraph (a) is found to be

2-24 reliable by the board of county commissioners.

2-25 5. If the board of county commissioners revises the county

2-26 commissioner election districts pursuant to subsection 4, the revisions

2-27 must be based on a special census conducted pursuant to NRS 244.183 or

2-28 other legally acceptable enumeration of population.

2-29 6. Any county commissioner election district established or adjusted

2-30 pursuant to this section must be composed of entirely contiguous territory

2-31 and be as compact as practicable.

2-32 7. This section does not authorize an increase or decrease in the

2-33 number of county commissioner election districts in a county.