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NV Rev Stat § 710.170 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 710 - Utilities Owned by Local Governments|NRS 710.170 - Powers of board of county commissioners.

The board of county commissioners shall have authority:  1. To enter into any and all necessary contracts with any person, firm, company or corporation generating power for the purchase of electrical energy, power and current.  2. To purchase any existing light line and power line or integral part thereof, upon the most advantageous price and terms to the county.  3. To purchase all proper and necessary equipment, appliances and materials needed for the plant and lines.  4. To enter into contracts with consumers for the sale, distribution and delivery of electrical energy, power and current along its power lines.  5. To make any and all rules and regulations necessary and proper for the management, operation, control and extension thereof.  6. To employ such proper and efficient help and labor as shall be needed.  7. To construct and operate branches or distributing lines, substations and transformers and other electrical appliances as conditions may warrant and require.  [2:127:1923; NCL § 2018] — (NRS A 2001, 2092)
NV Rev Stat § 710.180 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 710 - Utilities Owned by Local Governments|NRS 710.180 - Plants and works deemed public uses; eminent domain.

The plant or plants and the works provided for in NRS 710.160 to 710.280, inclusive, shall be deemed public uses, authorized by the Legislature, such as are assisted by the principle of eminent domain.  [7:127:1923; NCL § 2023]
NV Rev Stat § 710.190 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 710 - Utilities Owned by Local Governments|NRS 710.190 - Title vested in county.

The title of any plant or plants and the appurtenances thereof acquired or constructed by or under the authority of any board of county commissioners as provided in NRS 710.160 to 710.280, inclusive, shall vest and shall be vested in the county and under its control and management.  [9:127:1923; NCL § 2025]
NV Rev Stat § 710.200 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 710 - Utilities Owned by Local Governments|NRS 710.200 - Issuance of bonds for purchase, construction, acquisition or improvement of electrical system.

Subject to the provisions of NRS 710.160 to 710.280, inclusive, the board of county commissioners, for the purchase, construction, other acquisition, extension, betterment, alteration, reconstruction or other major improvement, or any combination thereof, of an electrical system, including, without limitation, the purchase, construction, condemnation and other acquisition of plants, stations, other buildings, structures, equipment, furnishings, transmission and distribution lines, other facilities, lands in fee simple, easements, rights-of-way, other interests in land, other real and personal property and appurtenances, may, at any time or from time to time, in the name and on the behalf of the county, issue:  1. General obligation bonds, payable from taxes;  2. General obligation bonds, payable from taxes, which payment is additionally secured by a pledge of the net revenues derived from the operation of the system; and  3. Revenue bonds constituting special obligations and payable from such net revenues.  [Part 3:127:1923; NCL § 2019] — (NRS A 1969, 1607; 1981, 966; 2001, 2092)
NV Rev Stat § 710.210 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 710 - Utilities Owned by Local Governments|NRS 710.210 - Limitations on issuance of general and special obligation bonds and other securities.

  1. The total of all general obligation bonds and other general obligation securities constituting a debt (but excluding revenue bonds and other securities constituting special obligations) issued to finance any undertaking authorized in NRS 710.160 to 710.280, inclusive, must be in a principal amount not to exceed 2 percent of the assessed valuation of all property in the county for the year in which the bonds are issued. Such general obligation securities constitute a separate classification of debt of the county and do not exhaust its debt-incurring power for other purposes under any other statutory debt limitation.  2. No revenue bonds or other securities constituting special obligations of the county payable from the revenues of the system may be issued for any undertaking authorized in NRS 710.160 to 710.280, inclusive, unless the earnings derived from the operation of the system for the fiscal year immediately preceding the date of the issuance of such revenue bonds or other securities has been sufficient to pay the operation and maintenance expenses of the system for the fiscal year, and, in addition, sufficient to pay an amount representing 125 percent of the average annual principal and interest requirements of the outstanding bonds and other securities of the county payable from the revenues of the system and the bonds or other securities proposed to be issued.  3. This section does not prevent the county from funding, refunding or reissuing any securities of the county appertaining to the system as provided in the Local Government Securities Law, except as therein limited.  [Part 3:127:1923; NCL § 2019] — (NRS A 1969, 1608; 1985, 322)
NV Rev Stat § 710.220 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 710 - Utilities Owned by Local Governments|NRS 710.220 - Applicability of Local Government Securities Law.

Subject to the provisions of NRS 710.160 to 710.280, inclusive, for any undertaking therein authorized the board of county commissioners may, on the behalf and in the name of the county, borrow money, otherwise become obligated, and evidence obligations by the issuance of bonds and other county securities, and in connection with the undertaking or the electrical system, the board may otherwise proceed, all as provided in the Local Government Securities Law.  [Part 3:127:1923; NCL § 2019] — (NRS A 1969, 1608; 1985, 323)
NV Rev Stat § 710.260 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 710 - Utilities Owned by Local Governments|NRS 710.260 - County Light and Power Fund: Creation; use; transfer of surplus to county general fund; deficiency.

Except as may be otherwise provided in any ordinance, indenture or other proceedings pertaining to any outstanding securities pertaining to the electrical system:  1. All moneys received for service or sale of the electrical energy, power and current distributed by the system and other revenues accruing therefrom or in connection therewith shall be paid by the officer or person collecting the same to the county treasurer. All such moneys shall be placed by the county treasurer in the ............... County Light and Power Fund, which is hereby created.  2. From time to time, the board of county commissioners may set aside such portion thereof as may be necessary or advisable to provide for the maintenance, operation and extension of the system.  3. The surplus receipts, after providing for the expense of operation, maintenance and extension, may be apportioned and used for the payment of interest and for the redemption of the bonds. After the redemption of all bonds and the payment of all interest thereon, any remaining surplus may be transferred to the county general fund.  4. Any deficiency which may be incurred in the ................ County Light and Power Fund by reason of insufficient revenues, or otherwise, shall be a charge upon and shall be paid from the county general fund.  [6:127:1923; NCL § 2022] — (NRS A 1969, 1608)
NV Rev Stat § 710.270 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 710 - Utilities Owned by Local Governments|NRS 710.270 - Liability of county treasurer on official bond.

The county treasurer shall be liable on the county treasurer’s official bond for the safekeeping of the moneys which shall come into the county treasurer’s possession under the provisions of NRS 710.160 to 710.280, inclusive, and for the faithful discharge of the county treasurer’s duties thereunder.  [Part 5:127:1923; NCL § 2021]
NV Rev Stat § 710.280 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 710 - Utilities Owned by Local Governments|NRS 710.280 - Existing laws to govern.

The provisions of existing laws respecting the manner of acquisition of public utilities, duties of boards of county commissioners to act upon proper applications and petitions, the collection and enforcement of rates for services, and all other provisions not superseded by NRS 710.160 to 710.270, inclusive, shall apply to the acquisition, management, financing, control and extension of such system.  [8:127:1923; NCL § 2024]
NV Rev Stat § 710.290 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 710 - Utilities Owned by Local Governments|NRS 710.290 - Lease, purchase, construction or financial assistance for operation of railway lines by county or city; agreements with other public agencies.

  1. The governing body of any county or city may lease, purchase, construct or provide financial assistance for the operation of a railway line or lines within the limits of the county or the city, if in the judgment of the governing body it would be to the interest of the county or the city so to do, and pay the resulting expenses out of the general fund of the county or city or from a fund to be created for that purpose by the sale of bonds as provided in NRS 710.290 to 710.390, inclusive.  2. The governing body of any county or city may enter into agreements with other public agencies in accordance with the provisions of the Interlocal Cooperation Act, whereby the powers conferred by subsection 1 may be exercised jointly with respect to any railway line which extends beyond the county or city limits.  [1:43:1915; 1919 RL p. 2699; NCL § 1999] — (NRS A 1979, 564)
NV Rev Stat § 710.300 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 710 - Utilities Owned by Local Governments|NRS 710.300 - Title vested in county or city subject to provisions of agreement.

Subject to the provisions of any agreement entered into pursuant to the Interlocal Cooperation Act, the title to any railway line or lines constructed or acquired by or under the authority of the governing body of any county or city, as provided in NRS 710.290 to 710.390, inclusive, is vested in that county or city and the railway line or lines are under its control and management.  [2:43:1915; 1919 RL p. 2700; NCL § 2000] — (NRS A 1979, 565)
NV Rev Stat § 710.310 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 710 - Utilities Owned by Local Governments|NRS 710.310 - Issuance of bonds for construction, acquisition, improvement or financial assistance for operation of railroad system.

Subject to the provisions of NRS 710.310 to 710.390, inclusive, the governing body of the county or city, for the lease, purchase, construction, other acquisition, extension, betterment, alteration, reconstruction or other major improvement, financial assistance for operation, or any combination thereof, of a railroad system, including without limitation the lease, purchase, construction, condemnation and other acquisition of plants, stations, other buildings, structures, engines, cars, tracks, signal equipment, traffic control equipment, maintenance equipment, other equipment, furnishings, electric transmission lines, other facilities, lands in fee simple, easements, rights-of-way, other interests in land, other real and personal property and appurtenances, may at any time, in the name and on the behalf of the county or the city, issue:  1. In the manner provided in NRS 350.011 to 350.070, inclusive:  (a) General obligation bonds, payable from taxes; and  (b) General obligation bonds, payable from taxes, which payment is additionally secured by a pledge of the net revenues derived from the operation of the system.  2. Revenue bonds constituting special obligations and payable from net revenues, without the necessity of the revenue bonds being authorized at any election.  [3:43:1915; 1919 RL p. 2700; NCL § 2001] — (NRS A 1967, 1227; 1969, 1609; 1979, 565; 1985, 323; 2013, 1956)
NV Rev Stat § 710.320 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 710 - Utilities Owned by Local Governments|NRS 710.320 - Limitations on issuance of general obligation bonds and securities.

  1. The total of all general obligation bonds and other general obligation securities constituting a debt (but excluding revenue bonds and other securities constituting special obligations) issued to finance any undertaking authorized in NRS 710.290 to 710.390, inclusive, must be in a principal amount not to exceed 2 percent of the assessed valuation of all property in the county or the city for the year in which the bonds are issued. Such general obligation securities constitute a separate classification of debt of the county or city and do not exhaust its debt-incurring power for other purposes under any other statutory debt limitation.  2. This section does not prevent the county or city from funding, refunding or reissuing any securities of the county appertaining to the system as provided in the Local Government Securities Law, except as therein limited.  [Part 4:43:1915; 1919 RL p. 2700; NCL § 2002] — (NRS A 1969, 1610; 1979, 565; 1985, 324)
NV Rev Stat § 710.390 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 710 - Utilities Owned by Local Governments|NRS 710.390 - Applicability of Local Government Securities Law.

Subject to the provisions of NRS 710.290 to 710.390, inclusive, for any undertaking authorized in those sections the governing body of the county or city may, on the behalf and in the name of the county or the city, as the case may be, borrow money, otherwise become obligated, and evidence obligations by the issuance of bonds and other securities, and in connection with the undertaking or the railroad system, may otherwise proceed, all as provided in the Local Government Securities Law.  [6:43:1915; 1919 RL p. 2701; NCL § 2004] — (NRS A 1969, 1610; 1979, 566; 1985, 324)
NV Rev Stat § 710.400 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 710 - Utilities Owned by Local Governments|NRS 710.400 - Applicability of NRS 710.400 to 710.590, inclusive; consolidation of unincorporated towns into district.

  1. The provisions of NRS 710.400 to 710.590, inclusive, apply to any unincorporated town within this state which is subject to the provisions of chapter 269 of NRS.  2. Wherever the convenience of the inhabitants thereof will be benefited thereby, the board of county commissioners may join and consolidate two or more unincorporated towns into one sewerage, light or water system district.  [10:169:1911; A 1917, 405; 1919 RL § 949; NCL § 1336] — (NRS A 1983, 155)
NV Rev Stat § 710.410 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 710 - Utilities Owned by Local Governments|NRS 710.410 - Purchase and construction of systems by county commissioners.

Full authority is hereby granted to the boards of county commissioners acting with regard to the management of the affairs and business of any unincorporated town within their respective counties, subject to the provisions of NRS 710.400 to 710.590, inclusive:  1. To acquire, by construction, purchase or otherwise, sewerage systems, light systems, water systems, combined light and water systems, and combined light, water and sewerage systems, and all such other personal or real property as may be necessary for the installment, use and management thereof; and  2. To issue bonds in payment therefor in the amount and manner set forth and prescribed in NRS 710.400 to 710.590, inclusive.  [1:169:1911; RL § 940; NCL § 1327] — (NRS A 1985, 324)
NV Rev Stat § 710.420 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 710 - Utilities Owned by Local Governments|NRS 710.420 - Procedure for construction or purchase of system.

  1. All sewerage systems, light systems, water systems, light and water systems, or sewerage, light and water systems constructed, purchased or otherwise acquired under the provisions of NRS 710.400 to 710.590, inclusive, must be so constructed, purchased or otherwise acquired under the supervision and control of the board of county commissioners acting as the town board.  2. The board of county commissioners acting as the town board may:  (a) Purchase any sewerage system, light system, water system, water and light system, or sewerage, light and water system theretofore established or in use;  (b) Purchase the franchises, rights, privileges and plants thereof from the owners thereof, corporate or private, and improve or extend them; or  (c) Advertise for plans and specifications and bids for the construction of any or all of the systems authorized to be acquired by NRS 710.400 to 710.590, inclusive, as in cases of other public work.  [6:169:1911; RL § 945; NCL § 1332] — (NRS A 1985, 324)
NV Rev Stat § 710.430 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 710 - Utilities Owned by Local Governments|NRS 710.430 - Issuance of bonds for purchase, construction, acquisition or improvement of system.

Subject to the provisions of NRS 710.400 to 710.590, inclusive, the board of county commissioners, for the purchase, construction, other acquisition, extension, betterment, alteration, reconstruction or other major improvement, or any combination thereof, of the system, including without limitation the purchase, construction, condemnation and other acquisition of plants, stations, other buildings, structures, equipment, furnishings, transmission and distribution lines, other facilities, lands in fee simple, easements, rights-of-way, other interests in land, other real and personal property and appurtenances, may, at any time or from time to time, in the name and on the behalf of the town, issue:  1. General obligation bonds, payable from taxes;  2. General obligation bonds, payable from taxes, which payment is additionally secured by a pledge of the net revenues derived from the operation of the system; and  3. Revenue bonds constituting special obligations and payable from net revenues.  [3:169:1911; RL § 942; NCL § 1329] + [11:169:1911; RL § 950; NCL § 1337] — (NRS A 1967, 1738; 1969, 1611; 1981, 966; 1985, 325)
NV Rev Stat § 710.440 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 710 - Utilities Owned by Local Governments|NRS 710.440 - Limitations on issuance of general obligation bonds and securities.

  1. The total of all general obligation bonds and other general obligation securities constituting a debt (but excluding revenue bonds and other securities constituting special obligations) issued to finance any undertaking authorized in NRS 710.400 to 710.590, inclusive, and issued for all other corporate purposes must not at any time exceed the debt limitation in NRS 269.410.  2. This section does not prevent the town from funding, refunding or reissuing any securities of the town appertaining to the system as provided in the Local Government Securities Law, except as therein limited.  [Part 4:169:1911; RL § 943; NCL § 1330] — (NRS A 1967, 1227; 1969, 1612; 1985, 325)
NV Rev Stat § 710.450 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 710 - Utilities Owned by Local Governments|NRS 710.450 - Applicability of Local Government Securities Law.

Subject to the provisions of NRS 710.400 to 710.590, inclusive, for any undertaking therein authorized the board of county commissioners may, on the behalf and in the name of the town, borrow money, otherwise become obligated, and evidence obligations by the issuance of bonds and other securities, and in connection with the undertaking or the system, the board may otherwise proceed, all as provided in the Local Government Securities Law.  [Part 4:169:1911; RL § 943; NCL § 1330] — (NRS A 1967, 1738; 1969, 1612; 1985, 325)
NV Rev Stat § 710.540 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 710 - Utilities Owned by Local Governments|NRS 710.540 - Board of county commissioners to fix rates and regulate use of system.

For the purpose of further providing for the payment of the principal and interest upon the bonds authorized to be issued under NRS 710.400 to 710.590, inclusive, at the time and in the manner specified in NRS 710.400 to 710.590, inclusive, and in such bonds respectively, the board of county commissioners, acting in behalf of a town, and the successors of the county commissioners, meaning any municipal government of a town which may succeed to the control and management of the systems or any of the systems acquired under the provisions of NRS 710.400 to 710.590, inclusive, shall:  1. Fix the rates of service of the systems or any of the systems acquired under the provisions of NRS 710.400 to 710.590, inclusive, to the inhabitants of the town.  2. Adopt ordinances regulating the manner and use by the inhabitants of the systems or any of the systems so acquired.  3. Collect the rates so fixed in the manner prescribed by law for the collection of delinquent taxes or by a proceeding in the nature of a civil action, brought in the name of the board of county commissioners of the county wherein the cause of action arises.  4. Enforce the collections of the rates from delinquents in the manner provided by law.  [8:169:1911; RL § 947; NCL § 1334] — (NRS A 1967, 1739; 1985, 326)
NV Rev Stat § 710.550 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 710 - Utilities Owned by Local Governments|NRS 710.550 - Contingent Funds: Creation; use; surplus assigned as redemption fund for bonds.

  1. All money acquired by the sale of services provided for in NRS 710.400 to 710.590, inclusive, must be paid to the county treasurer and assigned by the county treasurer to a fund to be known as the ................ Contingent Light Fund, Contingent Water Fund, Contingent Sewerage Fund, Contingent Water and Light Fund, or Contingent Sewerage, Water and Light Fund, inserting before the word "contingent" the name of the town to which the Fund is credited.  2. The contingent expense necessary to the installment, management and control of any system acquired under the provisions of NRS 710.400 to 710.590, inclusive, must first be paid out of that Fund.  3. The surplus money remaining after the payment of the contingent expenses must annually thereafter and at the first meeting of the board of county commissioners in January of each year thereafter be assigned by the board of county commissioners to the town as a redemption fund for the payment of the bonds issued under the provisions of NRS 710.400 to 710.590, inclusive.  [Part 9:169:1911; RL § 948; NCL § 1335] — (NRS A 1985, 326)
NV Rev Stat § 710.570 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 710 - Utilities Owned by Local Governments|NRS 710.570 - Procedure when town becomes incorporated city.

  1. In all cases wherein such sewerage systems, light systems, water systems, water and light systems, or sewerage, light and water systems are constructed or acquired under the provisions of NRS 710.400 to 710.590, inclusive, in such unincorporated towns, and those towns are afterward incorporated, the control and management of those systems is vested in their municipal governments.  2. In case the towns are incorporated while the work of construction is in progress, the work must nevertheless be carried on to completion by the board of county commissioners, and, when completed, the system must be turned over to the city government as soon as it has been organized, and it has control and management thereof. The city government shall then provide for the payment of the principal and interest on the bonds, when the revenues from the service of those systems are insufficient therefor, by the levy and collection of taxes as provided in NRS 710.400 to 710.590, inclusive.  3. The county treasurer has custody of the sewerage, light, water, light and water, or sewerage, light and water funds, and the county treasurer shall turn those funds over to the city treasurer immediately upon the qualification of the city treasurer. The bonds, principal and interest must then be paid by the city government in all respects as prescribed for their payment by the board of county commissioners acting in behalf of the city. Whatever may be the designation of the board of control of the incorporated city, it succeeds to all the powers and privileges conferred on the board of county commissioners by the provisions of NRS 710.400 to 710.590, inclusive.  [7:169:1911; RL § 946; NCL § 1333] — (NRS A 1967, 1739; 1983, 155; 1987, 1731)