What is IVGID According to Past Boards/Staff?

Staff and past Boards of Trustees (“Boards”) will tell you IVGID is what Nevada calls a general improvement district (“GID”). To prove their point, they harken back to IVGID’s creation on May 20, 1961. Because it was on that date that the Washoe County Board of Commissioners (“County Board”) unanimously adopted Bill No. 57 of Ordinance No. 97 which:

“Determine(d) and…declare(d)…creat(ion) and establish(ment of)…the Incline Village General Improvement District…to take effect from and after its passage and publication.”1

Given NRS 318.055(4)(a) instructs that:

“If the District is authorized to exercise more than one basic power2, the words ‘General Improvement District‘ (shall follow)…the chosen name,”

And for this reason the words “General Improvement District” are prominently included within its name, it is a GID.

Moreover, NRS 318.075(1) instructs that:

“Adoption of the ordinance creating the district shall finally and conclusively establish the regular organization of the district against all persons…(and) shall thenceforth be a governmental subdivision of the State of Nevada, a body corporate and politic…a quasi-municipal corporation” and a GID.

Accordingly, staff and past Boards will tell you that because of NRS 318.075(1), it has now conclusively been established that IVGID is “a governmental subdivision of the State of Nevada, a body corporate and politic…a quasi-municipal corporation,” and a GID! Which explains why staff admit on IVGID’s website that the District is a GID because it “was established under Nevada Revised Statutes, Chapter 318.”3

And now you know!

  1. The latter was, May 31, 1961.
  2. And here it is.
  3. NRS 318.010 instructs that “this chapter shall be known and may be cited as the General Improvement District Law.”