1. Before entering upon any land pursuant to the provisions of this chapter, the applicant shall file with the Division:
(a) A certified copy of a water permit or a contract for a perpetual water right into which the applicant has entered with whomever is authorized by the Division to furnish water for the reclamation of the land.
(b) Any payments required by regulation.
(c) A written statement from the board of county commissioners of each county in which the land for which application is made is located which certifies the land is zoned for the intended use of the applicant or will be so zoned by the time the applicant intends to put it to such use.
2. The Division shall file all papers submitted by the applicant and, if allowed, shall issue a certificate of location to the applicant. All certificates, when issued, must be recorded in a book kept for that purpose.
3. The balance unpaid on the price fixed by the Division for the land allowed an applicant is payable in such installments and at such times as the Division prescribes, but before a patent is issued the full price of the land must be paid by the settler.
[17:76:1911; RL § 3080; NCL § 5491] — (NRS A 1971, 217; 1977, 376, 1199; 1979, 233)