1. surveying and monumenting program is hereby established and must be

1. administered by the state engineer.

1. 2. This program is to aid local governments in this state in the

1. clearance, maintenance, restoration, surveying and monumenting of

1. navigable rivers.

1. 3. Any incorporated city, county or other political subdivision of this

1. state may apply to the state engineer for a grant under this program if the

1. incorporated city, county or other political subdivision requesting the

1. money agrees to match the state grant equally.

4. The state, its departments, divisions and agencies, an incorporated

city, a county and all other political subdivisions of this state, and their

employees and agents, are immune from civil liability for damages caused

by an alteration or disturbance of a riverbed or flooding sustained as a

result of any act or omission by an employee or agent in clearing or causing

to be cleared, maintaining or restoring a channel of a river pursuant to this

section if the channel is cleared, maintained or restored pursuant to a permit

granted by the division of state lands of the state department of

conservation and natural resources and such other permits and approvals as

are required by law.

1. restoration, surveying and monumenting program is hereby created in the

1. state general fund.

1. 2. The money in the account must be administered by the state engineer

1. and must be expended only to aid local governments in the manner

1. provided in NRS 532.220.

1. 3. If the balance in the account is below $250,000, the state engineer

1. may request an allocation from the contingency fund pursuant to NRS

1. 353.266, 353.268 and 353.269.