A. At such time as the Nevada legislature shall authorize Pershing County to manage public lands situated within the county's exterior boundaries, the board of Pershing County commissioners is authorized to take all actions and do all things reasonably necessary to assume management of said public lands.
B. The board of Pershing County commissioners is authorized to develop plans and take all other reasonable actions preparatory to future assumption of management of the natural resources of the county's public lands.
C. The grant of authority set forth in this section includes the power and duty to protect and further all traditional commercial and noncommercial uses of public lands within the county, and to provide for continued general access to and multiple use of the public lands by all traditional users, and the power to do all things reasonably necessary to effect the purposes of this section.
D. The board of Pershing County commissioners is expressly authorized to:
1. Impose and collect fees and charges for use of the county's public lands "natural resources" as defined in section 11.30.030 of this title for commercial or noncommercial purposes;
2. To use the fees and charges collected to finance management and improvement of those natural resources and for the general purposes of the county;
3. To determine when and if certain public lands should be devoted to special purposes rather than multiple use in order to better utilize the particular natural resources found on those lands, and to provide for orderly transfer of special purpose public lands to private ownership if that will effect more desirable utilization of the resources. (Ord. 262, 2009)