1. 1. Whenever an application for decommissioning a dam is filed or a request for approval of plans and specifications for a new dam or for the alteration and enlargement of any dam in any stream in this state is submitted to the State Engineer, the State Engineer shall notify the Department of Wildlife and make the application or plans and specifications, as applicable, available to the Department of Wildlife.
2. 2. In the construction of a dam, or the alteration or enlargement of a dam, the owner shall conform with the provisions of law for the installation of fishways over or around dams and for the protection and preservation of fish in streams obstructed by dams.

[Part 77 1/2:140:1913; added 1951, 132]—(NRS A 1979, 913; 2025, 362)