1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, if 25 percent or more of the holders of title or evidence of title to lands lying within the proposed district, whose names appear as such upon the last county assessment roll, present a petition to the board of county commissioners of the county in which the land lies, setting forth the exterior boundaries of the proposed district and asking that the district so described be established within a county hospital district pursuant to the provisions of NRS 450.550 to 450.750, inclusive, the board of county commissioners shall adopt a resolution declaring the intention of the board to include the territory within a county hospital district, naming the district and describing its exterior boundaries.

2. The resolution must:

(a) Fix a time and place for the hearing of the proposed establishment of the district not less than 30 days after its adoption.

(b) Direct the clerk of the board of county commissioners to publish:

(1) The notice of intention of the board of county commissioners to establish the county hospital district; and

(2) The time and place fixed for the hearing.

(c) Designate that the notice must be published in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county and circulated in the proposed county hospital district, or if there is no newspaper so published and circulated, then in a newspaper of general circulation circulated in the proposed district.

3. The provisions of this section do not apply to a proposed hospital district if it includes territory within more than one county.

(Added to NRS by 1969, 1388; A 1997, 3101, 3136; 1999, 639)