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NV Rev Stat § 266.590 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 266 - General Law for Incorporation of Cities and Towns|NRS 266.590 - Fines and penalties: Commitment; recovery by execution; chain gang.

  1. Any person upon whom any fine or penalty shall be imposed may, upon the order of the court before whom the conviction is had, be committed to the county jail or the city jail, or to such other place as may be provided by the city for the incarceration of offenders, until such fine or penalty shall be fully paid.  2. The city council shall have power to provide by ordinance that every person committed shall be required to work for the city at such labor as the person’s strength will permit, not exceeding 8 hours each working day; and for such work the person so employed shall be allowed $4 for each day’s work on account of such fine. The council may provide for the formation of a chain gang for persons convicted of offenses in violation of the ordinances of the city, and for their proper employment for the benefit of the city, and to safeguard and prevent their escape while being so employed.  3. Fines imposed by the municipal court may be recovered by execution against the property of the defendant, or the payment thereof enforced by imprisonment in the city jail of the city at the rate of 1 day for every $4 of such fine, or the court may, in its discretion, adjudge and enter upon the docket a supplemental order that such offender shall work on the streets or public works of the city, at the rate of $4 for each day of the sentence, which shall apply on such fine until the same shall be exhausted or otherwise satisfied.  [Part 32:125:1907; RL § 798; NCL § 1133] + [33:125:1907; RL § 799; NCL § 1134] + [Part 66:125:1907; RL § 832; NCL § 1167] — (NRS A 1967, 1471)
NV Rev Stat § 266.595 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 266 - General Law for Incorporation of Cities and Towns|NRS 266.595 - Appeals.

Appeals to the district court may be taken from any final judgment of the municipal court in accordance with the provisions of NRS 5.073.  [71:125:1907; RL § 837; NCL § 1172] — (NRS A 1991, 467)
NV Rev Stat § 266.600 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 266 - General Law for Incorporation of Cities and Towns|NRS 266.600 - General powers of city council.

The city council may:  1. Control the finances of the corporation.  2. Appropriate money for corporate purposes only, and provide for payment of debts and expenses of the corporation.  3. Levy and collect taxes within the city for general and special purposes on real and personal property, as provided by law.  4. Borrow money on the credit of the city for corporate purposes, in the manner and to the extent allowed by the constitution and the laws, and issue general obligations therefor, but no city may issue or have outstanding at any time bonds in an amount in excess of 30 percent of the total assessed valuation of the taxable property within such city as shown by the last preceding tax list or assessment roll, nor warrants, certificates, scrip or other evidences of indebtedness, excepting the bonded indebtedness, in excess of 20 percent of the assessed valuation. This subsection does not restrict the power of cities as to taxation, assessment, borrowing money, contracting debts or loaning their credit for procuring supplies of water.  5. Secure additionally the payment of any general obligation securities by a pledge of any revenues, other than tax proceeds, legally available therefor.  6. Divide the city into districts for the purpose of local taxation, or create districts for that purpose, as occasion may require.  7. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 576.128 and subsections 4 and 5 of NRS 266.355, raise revenue by levying and collecting a license fee or tax on any private corporation or business within the limits of the city, and regulate it by ordinance. All such license fees and taxes must be uniform with respect to the class upon which they are imposed.  8. Fix the amount of licenses and the terms and manner of their issuance.  [Part 28:125:1907; RL § 794; NCL § 1128] — (NRS A 1967, 55; 1969, 1580; 1981, 953; 1997, 3168; 2005, 731)
NV Rev Stat § 266.605 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 266 - General Law for Incorporation of Cities and Towns|NRS 266.605 - Levy and collection of taxes.

  1. The city council shall annually, at the time prescribed by law for levying taxes for state and county purposes, levy a tax not exceeding 3 percent upon the assessed value of all real estate and personal property within the city made taxable by law, and the tax so levied must be collected at the same time and in the same manner and by the same officers, exercising the same functions, as prescribed and provided in the revenue laws of this State for collection of state and county taxes. The revenue laws of this State shall, in every respect not inconsistent with the provisions of this chapter, be deemed applicable to the levying, assessing and collecting of the city taxes. In the matter of the equalization of assessments, the rights of the city and the rights of the inhabitants of the city must be protected in the same manner and to the same extent by the action of the county board of equalization as are the State and county.  2. Whenever or wherever practicable and expedient, all forms and blanks used in levying, assessing and collecting the state and county revenues must, with such alterations or additions as may be necessary, be used in levying, assessing and collecting the revenue of the city.  3. The city council shall enact all such ordinances as it may deem necessary and not inconsistent with this chapter and the laws of this State, for the prompt, convenient and economical collecting of the city revenue.  [75:125:1907; RL § 841; NCL § 1176] — (NRS A 2001, 632)
NV Rev Stat § 266.610 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 266 - General Law for Incorporation of Cities and Towns|NRS 266.610 - Apportionment of money from road fund by county commissioners.

The several boards of county commissioners in this state shall, from time to time, upon request of the city council, apportion to each incorporated city within the respective counties such proportion of the general road fund of the county as the value of the whole property within the corporate limits of such city, as shown by the assessment roll, shall bear to the whole property of the county, inclusive of the property within incorporated cities, and all such moneys so apportioned shall be expended upon the streets, alleys and public highways of such city under the direction and control of the council.  [76:125:1907; RL § 842; NCL § 1177]
NV Rev Stat § 266.615 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 266 - General Law for Incorporation of Cities and Towns|NRS 266.615 - Ordinances to carry out revenue laws.

The city council has full power to pass and enact all ordinances necessary or required to carry into effect the revenue laws in the city and to enlarge, fix and determine the powers and duties of all officers in relation thereto.  [77:125:1907; RL § 843; NCL § 1178] — (NRS A 2001, 632)
NV Rev Stat § 266.620 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 266 - General Law for Incorporation of Cities and Towns|NRS 266.620 - Payment of fines, forfeitures and other money into city treasury.

All fines and forfeitures for the violation of ordinances and all money collected for licenses or otherwise shall be paid into the treasury of the city at such times and in such manner as may be prescribed by ordinance.  [31:125:1907; RL § 797; NCL § 1132]
NV Rev Stat § 266.660 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 266 - General Law for Incorporation of Cities and Towns|NRS 266.660 - Costs of municipal capital improvements to be paid from proper fund, including proceeds from bonds.

The cost and expense of buildings and land for the use of the city shall be paid for from the proper fund of the city, including without limitation proceeds of bonds authorized by law.  [80:125:1907; RL § 846; NCL § 1181] — (NRS A 1965, 737; 1969, 1581; 1971, 311)
NV Rev Stat § 266.775 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 266 - General Law for Incorporation of Cities and Towns|NRS 266.775 - Petition for disincorporation; publication of notice by district court; question to be submitted to voters at next city election; determination of registered voters.

  1. Whenever one-fourth of the registered voters of any city now existing or hereafter created by general law petition the district court in and for the county in which the corporation is situated for the disincorporation of the city, the district court shall cause to be published, for at least 30 days, a notice stating that the question of disincorporating the corporation will be submitted to the registered voters of the corporation at the next city election. The form of the ballot must be "For Disincorporation" or "Against Disincorporation."  2. The registered voters provided for in this section must be determined from the registration lists as taken from the office of the county clerk for all precincts in the city at the last general election held in the county.  [105:125:1907; A 1915, 35; 1949, 287; 1943 NCL § 1207] — (NRS A 1973, 12; 1987, 366; 1993, 1040)
NV Rev Stat § 266.780 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 266 - General Law for Incorporation of Cities and Towns|NRS 266.780 - Judgment of disincorporation.

The vote must be taken and canvassed in the same manner as in other city elections, and return thereof made to the district court. If the court finds that a majority of the legal votes are cast "For Disincorporation," a judgment must be entered disincorporating the corporation, and upon the entry of the judgment, its corporate powers cease.  [106:125:1907; A 1956, 23] — (NRS A 1987, 366)
NV Rev Stat § 266.785 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 266 - General Law for Incorporation of Cities and Towns|NRS 266.785 - Creation of unincorporated town on disincorporation: Procedure.

  1. If there is, at the time of the entry of the judgment disincorporating a city, a voting population of 600 or more therein, then all of the provisions of chapter 269 of NRS shall immediately apply thereto.  2. If there is, at the time of the entry of the judgment disincorporating a city, a voting population of less than 600 therein, and if within 30 days after the entry of the judgment a written petition is not filed in the clerk’s office of the county in which the disincorporated city is situated praying for the application of the provisions of chapter 269 of NRS, then the board of county commissioners of the county wherein such disincorporated city is situated shall immediately proceed to wind up the affairs of the disincorporated city and shall perform all necessary acts as required by the provisions of NRS 265.010 to 265.100, inclusive, as if the disincorporated city had been disincorporated under the provisions of NRS 265.010 to 265.100, inclusive.  [107:125:1907; A 1956, 23]
NV Rev Stat § 266.790 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 266 - General Law for Incorporation of Cities and Towns|NRS 266.790 - Procedure for completion of unfinished business of court.

  1. If, at the time of the entry of the judgment disincorporating a city, the provisions of chapter 269 of NRS apply immediately to such disincorporated city, then any justice of the peace within the town, as provided in NRS 269.165, shall have jurisdiction to execute and complete all unfinished business standing on the court records of the disincorporated city.  2. If, at the time of the entry of the judgment disincorporating a city which has a voting population of less than 600 therein, no written petition is filed as provided in subsection 2 of NRS 266.785, then the provisions of NRS 265.060 shall thereafter apply.  [108:125:1907; A 1956, 23]
NV Rev Stat § 266.795 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 266 - General Law for Incorporation of Cities and Towns|NRS 266.795 - Judgment disincorporating city: Duties of clerk of district court; delivery of copies; notice of entry; limitation of actions.

  1. Immediately following the entry of the judgment disincorporating a city, the clerk of the district court shall:  (a) Transmit certified copies of the judgment to the Secretary of State and to the county recorder of the county wherein the disincorporated city is situated.  (b) Cause a notice thereof to be published once a week for 4 consecutive weeks in a newspaper published in the county, but if no newspaper is published therein, then the clerk shall give such notice as the district court may prescribe.  2. The notice must contain:  (a) A statement of the fact of disincorporation.  (b) A statement of the provisions of subsection 3.  (c) Such other statements as the district court may require.  3. All claims against the disincorporated city must be filed with the clerk of the board of county commissioners within 3 months from the date of the entry of the judgment disincorporating the city, and all claims not so filed are forever barred.  [109:125:1907; A 1956, 23] — (NRS A 1985, 261)
NV Rev Stat § 267.010 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 267 - Commission Form of Municipal Government|NRS 267.010 - Definitions.

As used in NRS 267.010 to 267.140, inclusive:  1. "Commission form of government" means any form of municipal government not contrary to the Constitution and laws of the United States wherein either:  (a) Both legislative and administrative authority is exercised by the same governing body, members of which are elected by the qualified electors of a city; or  (b) All powers of the city are vested in a governing body, members of which are elected by the qualified electors of the city, which enacts local legislation, adopts budgets, determines policies, and appoints a city manager, who executes the laws and administers the municipal government.  2. "Commissioners" means city commissioners or city council members.  [Part 1:192:1915; A 1919, 366; 1919 RL p. 2658; NCL § 1248] — (NRS A 1959, 125)
NV Rev Stat § 267.020 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 267 - Commission Form of Municipal Government|NRS 267.020 - City may adopt commission form of government.

Any incorporated city in the State of Nevada may adopt the commission form of government and frame its own charter therefor.  [Part 1:192:1915; A 1919, 366; 1919 RL p. 2658; NCL § 1248] — (NRS A 1959, 126; 1987, 1706)
NV Rev Stat § 267.030 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 267 - Commission Form of Municipal Government|NRS 267.030 - Petition for adoption of commission form of government; election of electors to frame charter.

Whenever the qualified voters of any incorporated city desiring to adopt a commission form of government so declare their desire by filing with the governing body of that city a petition having the signatures of one-fourth of the qualified voters voting at the last city election, the governing body shall cause 15 qualified electors to be elected at the next primary or general municipal election or primary or general state election to frame a charter which provides for a commission form of government for the city. The persons elected must have been residents of the city for at least 2 years preceding their election.  [2:192:1915; 1919 RL p. 2658; NCL § 1249] — (NRS A 1959, 126; 1963, 803; 1987, 1706; 1993, 1041)
NV Rev Stat § 267.040 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 267 - Commission Form of Municipal Government|NRS 267.040 - Nomination and election of electors to frame charter.

Nominations of the electors must be made by petition of one-fifth of the qualified voters of the incorporated city. The petition must be filed with the governing body of the city at least 30 days before the day of the election, as provided for in NRS 267.030. The names of all candidates so filed must be placed upon the official ballots to be voted at the election.  [3:192:1915; 1919 RL p. 2658; NCL § 1250] — (NRS A 1959, 127; 1963, 804; 1987, 1707; 1993, 1041)
NV Rev Stat § 267.050 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 267 - Commission Form of Municipal Government|NRS 267.050 - Canvass of returns of election; issuance of certificates of election.

Within 6 working days after the date of the election, the legislative authority of the incorporated city shall:  1. Meet and canvass the returns of the election.  2. Declare the result thereof.  3. Issue certificates of election to the 15 qualified electors having the highest vote therefor.  [Part 4:192:1915; 1919 RL p. 2659; NCL § 1251] — (NRS A 1959, 127; 1987, 1707; 2007, 623)
NV Rev Stat § 267.060 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 267 - Commission Form of Municipal Government|NRS 267.060 - Elected persons to frame charter; publication and posting of charter; affidavits of publication and posting.

  1. The persons elected as provided for in NRS 267.050 shall convene within 10 days and commence to frame a charter for the city and within 90 days thereafter they, or a majority of them, shall submit the charter to the legislative authority of the incorporated city.  2. Within 10 days thereafter, the legislative authority of the city shall:  (a) Cause the proposed charter to be published once in a newspaper published in the incorporated city. If no newspaper is published in the city, the proposed charter must be published once in a newspaper published in the county; and  (b) Cause copies of the proposed charter to be posted in three of the most public places of the city for 30 days.  3. The affidavits of the publisher and of the person posting the copies of the charter must be made immediately after publication and after the posting.  [Part 4:192:1915; 1919 RL p. 2659; NCL § 1251] — (NRS A 1959, 127; 1987, 1707)
NV Rev Stat § 267.070 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 267 - Commission Form of Municipal Government|NRS 267.070 - Election for adoption or rejection of charter: Publication of charter; form of ballot; alternative propositions.

  1. The governing body of the incorporated city shall cause the proposed charter to be published once and posted for 30 days and provide for the submission of the proposed charter to the qualified voters of the incorporated city at the next primary or general municipal election or primary or general state election.  2. The form of ballot concerning the question of the proposed charter at the election must be: "For the proposed charter," "Against the proposed charter."  3. In submitting the proposed charter, or amendments thereto, any alternative article or proposition may be presented to the voters of the incorporated city and may be voted on separately without prejudice to the others. In submitting the amendments, article or proposition, the form of the ballot must be: "For Article No. ..... of the charter," "Against Article No. ..... of the charter."  [Part 4:192:1915; 1919 RL p. 2659; NCL § 1251] — (NRS A 1959, 128; 1963, 804; 1987, 1707; 1993, 1041)
NV Rev Stat § 267.080 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 267 - Commission Form of Municipal Government|NRS 267.080 - Canvass and declaration of result of election; when charter becomes organic law of city.

The officers conducting the election shall make returns thereof within the time and in the manner provided by the state election laws. The vote thereof shall be canvassed and the result declared as provided by such laws. If upon the canvass it shall be found that a majority of the votes so cast at the election were cast in favor of the ratification of the charter, the charter shall become the organic law of the city and shall supersede any existing charter, and all amendments thereto and all special laws inconsistent therewith, when authenticated, recorded and attested as provided in NRS 267.010 to 267.140, inclusive.  [Part 5:192:1915; 1919 RL p. 2659; NCL § 1252] — (NRS A 1959, 128)
NV Rev Stat § 267.090 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 267 - Commission Form of Municipal Government|NRS 267.090 - Certification of charter.

If upon the canvass it is found that a majority of the votes cast at the election were cast in favor of the ratification of the charter, as provided in NRS 267.080, the mayor of the city shall thereupon attach to the charter a certificate in substance as follows:  I, ................, mayor of ................, do hereby certify that in accordance with the terms and provisions of Section 8 of Article 8 of the Constitution, and the laws of the State of Nevada, an election was held on the .......... day of the month of ………. of the year ….., at which 15 qualified electors were elected to prepare a charter for the city of ......................; that notice of the election was given in the manner provided by law; that on the .......... day of the month of ………. of the year ….., the election was held, and the votes cast at that election were canvassed by the governing body of the city, and the following persons were declared elected to prepare and propose a charter for the city of .................  That thereafter, on the .......... day of the month of ………. of the year …., the board of electors returned a proposed charter for the city of ................, signed by the following members thereof: .................  That thereafter the proposed charter was published once in a newspaper and posted in three of the most public places in the city, to wit: For one publication, the publication in a newspaper on the .......... day of the month of ………. of the year ….., and was posted on the .......... day of the month of ………. of the year ……  That thereafter, on the .......... day of the month of ………. of the year ….., an election was held at which the proposed charter was submitted to the qualified electors of the city, and the returns of the election were canvassed by the governing body at a meeting held on the .......... day of the month of ………. of the year ….., and the result of the election was found to be as follows: For the proposed charter, ........ votes; against the proposed charter, ........ votes. Majority for the proposed charter, ........ votes.  Whereupon the charter was ratified by a majority of the qualified electors voting at the election.  And I further certify that the foregoing is a full, true and complete copy of the proposed charter voted upon and ratified as aforesaid.  In testimony whereof, I hereunto set my hand and affix the corporate seal of the city this .......... day of the month of ………. of the year ……  ............................................................................. ,  Mayor of the city of...........................................  Attest:............................ , Clerk of the city of .......   [Part 5:192:1915; 1919 RL p. 2659; NCL § 1252] — (NRS A 1959, 128; 1987, 1708; 1993, 1042; 2001, 46)
NV Rev Stat § 267.100 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 267 - Commission Form of Municipal Government|NRS 267.100 - Recording and attesting of charter and amendments; judicial notice of charter and amendments.

  1. Immediately after being certified as provided in NRS 267.090, the charter shall be recorded by the city clerk in a book to be provided and kept for that purpose and known as the charter book of the city of ................, and when so recorded shall be attested by the clerk and the mayor of the city under the corporate seal thereof.  2. Thereafter any and all amendments to the charter shall be in a like manner recorded and attested.  3. When so recorded and attested, all courts in this state shall take judicial notice of the charter and all amendments thereto.  [Part 5:192:1915; 1919 RL p. 2659; NCL § 1252] — (NRS A 1959, 129)