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NV Rev Stat § 244A.515 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements|NRS 244A.515 - General powers of State in relation to facilities.

The State, acting through the board, may in relation to the facilities of the State:  1. Acquire office space, equipment, services, supplies, fire and extended coverage insurance, use and occupancy insurance, workers’ compensation insurance, property damage insurance, public liability insurance for the State, the county and their respective officers, agents and employees, and other types of insurance, as the board may determine, but no provision herein authorizing the acquisition of insurance waives any immunity of the State, the county or any director, officer or agent otherwise existing under the laws of the State.  2. Pay or otherwise defray the cost of any project.  3. Establish, operate and maintain facilities within the county across or along any public street, highway, bridge, viaduct or other public right-of-way, or in, upon, under or over any vacant public lands, which public lands now are or may become the property of the State, the county, or a public body, without first obtaining a franchise from the county or the public body having jurisdiction over the same, but the State shall cooperate with the county and any public body having such jurisdiction, shall promptly restore any such street, highway, bridge, viaduct or other public right-of-way to its former state of usefulness as nearly as may be, and shall not use the same in such manner as permanently to impair completely or unnecessarily the usefulness thereof.  4. Adopt, amend, repeal, enforce and otherwise administer such reasonable rules, regulations and orders as the board determines necessary or convenient for the operation, maintenance, management, government and use of the State’s facilities and any other like facilities under its control.  5. Adopt, amend, repeal, enforce and otherwise administer under the police power within the territorial limits of the county such reasonable rules, regulations and orders in relation to the collection, disposal or treatment of sewage and wastewater after a public hearing thereon is held by the board, in connection with which any public body in the area involved or otherwise exercising powers affecting the functions and services therein of the State and persons of interest have an opportunity to be heard, after mailed notice of the hearing is given by the clerk of the board to each such public body and after notice of such hearing is given by publication by the clerk to persons of interest, both known and unknown.  6. Sell and otherwise dispose of any by-products resulting from the operation of the facilities.  (Added to NRS by 1977, 14)
NV Rev Stat § 244A.517 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements|NRS 244A.517 - Additional powers of State: Contract with county for employment of county’s personnel.

The State, acting through the Governor, may, in relation to state facilities, contract with the county for it to hire and retain officers, agents, employees, engineers and any other persons, as county personnel permanent or temporary, whose employment is necessary or desirable to effect the purposes hereof, and to defray any expenses incurred thereby in connection with state facilities as operation and maintenance expenses thereof.  (Added to NRS by 1977, 15)
NV Rev Stat § 244A.525 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements|NRS 244A.525 - Extraterritorial powers and rights of officer, agent or employee of State, county or other public body.

All of the powers, privileges, immunities and rights, exemptions from laws, ordinances and rules, all pension, relief, disability, workers’ compensation and other benefits which apply to the activity of officers, agents or employees of the State or the county or any public body when performing their respective functions within the territorial limits of the respective public agencies apply to them to the same degree and extent while engaged in the performance of any of their functions and duties extraterritorially hereunder, and while engaged in the performance of any of their functions and duties under any contract or agreement authorized hereunder.  (Added to NRS by 1973, 1737; A 1977, 30)
NV Rev Stat § 244A.527 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements|NRS 244A.527 - Manner of exercising board’s powers pertaining to State’s facilities and securities.

The board, in connection with powers which it exercises hereunder and pertaining to any state facilities or state securities, or both, shall exercise such powers in the same manner as if such facilities or securities, or both, were county facilities or county securities, or both, by the adoption of ordinances, resolutions, or otherwise, as provided in chapter 244 of NRS and other laws relating to counties, including, without limitation, NRS 350.579.  (Added to NRS by 1977, 16)
NV Rev Stat § 244A.529 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements|NRS 244A.529 - Power of board to invest money.

The board may invest or cause to be invested all money, whether federal, state, county or other, which may come into its possession under NRS 244A.455 to 244A.573, inclusive, in the manner provided by law for the investment of county funds, but any interest which may be earned on money provided by the State or by the Federal Government shall be added to and applied to the same purpose as the principal.  (Added to NRS by 1977, 16)
NV Rev Stat § 244A.531 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements|NRS 244A.531 - Power of board to levy and collect general taxes.

In addition to the other means for providing revenue to defray the costs of the activities and projects authorized by NRS 244A.455 to 244A.573, inclusive, and to meet general obligation bond requirements, the board shall have power and authority to levy and collect general (ad valorem) taxes on and against all taxable property within the county.  (Added to NRS by 1973, 1737; A 1975, 1341)
NV Rev Stat § 244A.533 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements|NRS 244A.533 - Power of county or State to fix and collect service charges.

  1. The county, or the State acting through the board, may fix, modify and collect or cause to be collected service charges for direct or indirect connection with, or the use or services of, the facilities of the county or the State, respectively. These fees may include minimum charges, charges for the availability of facilities or services, and charges for future capital improvements, whether the facilities are in operation or being acquired.  2. Such service charges may be charged to and collected in advance or otherwise by the county or the State at any time or from time to time from the Federal Government, the State, the county, any public body or any person owning or occupying real property within the county which directly or indirectly is or has been or will be connected with the facilities of the county or the State from which property originates, has originated or may originate rainwater, sewage, liquid wastes, solid wastes, night soil or industrial wastes, which have entered or may enter such facilities, or to which is made available untreated water, potable water or water in any other state, as the case may be, and such owner or occupant of any such real property shall be liable for and shall pay such service charges to the county or the State at the time when and place where such service charges are due and payable.  3. Such service charges of the county or the State may accrue from any date which the board provides in any ordinance authorizing or other instrument pertaining to the issuance of any securities or in any contract with the Federal Government, the State, the county, any public body or any person.  4. For the purpose of charging to and collecting service charges from persons owning or occupying real property which is connected to the facilities of any public body in the county, the county, or the State acting through the board, may bring an action in any court of competent jurisdiction to compel the public body to disclose the names and addresses of all such persons.  (Added to NRS by 1973, 1737; A 1977, 30)
NV Rev Stat § 244A.535 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements|NRS 244A.535 - Contracts for billing and collection of service charges.

The county, or the State acting through the board, may enter into a written contract with any public body or person providing for the billing and collection by such public body or person of any of the service charges levied by the board. If all or any part of any bill rendered by any such public body or person pursuant to any such contract is not paid, and if that public body or person renders any public utility service to the public body or person billed, that public body or person may discontinue its utility service until the bill is paid. The contract between the board and such public body or person may provide for such discontinuance.  (Added to NRS by 1977, 17)
NV Rev Stat § 244A.537 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements|NRS 244A.537 - Service charges payable constitute general obligations; debt limits unaffected.

The Legislature has determined and does hereby declare that the obligations arising from time to time of the State or any public body to pay service charges fixed in connection with the county’s facilities shall constitute general obligations of the State or the public body charged with their payment; but as such obligations accrue for current services and benefits from and use of such facilities, the obligations shall not constitute an indebtedness of the State or the public body within the meaning of any constitutional, charter or statutory limitation or other provision restricting the incurrence of any debt.  (Added to NRS by 1973, 1738)
NV Rev Stat § 244A.539 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements|NRS 244A.539 - Enforcement of collection of service charges by requiring tax levy.

  1. The county, or the State acting through the board, may enforce the collection of service charges made thereby to any public body which fails to pay such charges within 90 days after they become due and payable, in addition to any other remedy fixed by contract or otherwise, by an action in the nature of a writ of mandamus or other action in any court of competent jurisdiction to compel the levy without limitation as to rate or amount, except for the limitation in Section 2 of Article 10 of the Nevada Constitution, by the governing body of the public body and the collection of taxes on and against all taxable property therein sufficient in amount to pay such delinquent charges, together with penalties for delinquencies, court costs, reasonable attorneys’ fees and other cost of collection.  2. The governing body of the public body may so levy such taxes sufficient for the payment of such charges as they become due and payable. The governing body may also apply for that purpose any other funds that may be in the treasury of the public body and legally available therefor, whether derived from any service charges imposed by the public body for the use of or otherwise in connection with its sewer system, or from any other source.  3. Upon such payments being made, the levy or levies of taxes for the payment of the service charges so imposed by the county or the State may thereupon to that extent be diminished.  4. Except to the extent specified in subsection 3, each such public body shall annually levy taxes as provided in subsection 1 sufficient in amount to pay such service charges of the county or the State promptly as they become due and payable.  (Added to NRS by 1973, 1738; A 1977, 30)
NV Rev Stat § 244A.541 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements|NRS 244A.541 - Collection of service charges on tax roll: Election of alternative procedure.

  1. The board may elect to have service charges for county or state facilities for the forthcoming fiscal year collected on the tax roll in the same manner, by the same persons and at the same time as, and together with, the county’s general taxes. If it so elects, it shall cause a written report to be prepared and filed with the county clerk, which shall contain a description of each parcel of real property receiving such services and the amount of the charge for each parcel for such year, computed in conformity with the charges prescribed by the board.  2. This power to elect is alternative to all other powers of the board and this procedure is alternative to other procedures adopted by the board for the collection of such charges.  3. The real property may be described by reference to maps prepared by and on file in the office of the county assessor or by him or her.  4. The board may limit its election to delinquent charges and may do so by preparing and filing the written report, giving notice and holding its hearing only as to such delinquencies.  (Added to NRS by 1977, 17)
NV Rev Stat § 244A.543 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements|NRS 244A.543 - Collection of service charges on tax roll: Notice of filing report and of time and place of hearing.

  1. Before the board may have service charges collected on the tax roll, the board shall cause a notice in writing of the filing of the report proposing to have such charges for the forthcoming fiscal year collected on the tax roll and of the time and place of hearing thereon, to be mailed to each person to whom any parcel or parcels of real property described in the report is assessed in the last equalized assessment roll available on the date the report is prepared, at the address shown on the assessment roll or as known to the assessor. If the board adopts the report, the requirements for notice in writing to the persons to whom parcels of real property are assessed does not apply to hearings on reports prepared in subsequent fiscal years but notice by publication as provided in this section is adequate.  2. The board shall cause notice of the filing of each report and of the time and place of hearing thereon to be published at least 10 but not more than 30 days prior to the date set for hearing in a newspaper of general circulation within the county.  (Added to NRS by 1977, 17)
NV Rev Stat § 244A.545 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements|NRS 244A.545 - Collection of service charges on tax roll: Hearings; final report.

  1. At the time stated in the notice, the board shall hear and consider all objections or protests, if any, to the report referred to in the notice and may continue the hearing from time to time. If the board finds that protest is made by the owners of a majority of separate parcels of property described in the report, then the report shall not be adopted and the charges shall be collected separately from the tax roll.  2. Upon the conclusion of the hearing, the board may adopt, revise, change, reduce or modify any charge or overrule any or all objections and shall make its determination upon each charge as described in the report. This determination is final.  3. After the hearing, when the board has made a final decision on a service charge or fee to be collected on the county tax rolls, the board shall cause to be prepared and filed a final report, which shall contain a description of each parcel receiving the services and the amount of the charge, with the county assessor for inclusion on the assessment roll. If a report is filed after the closing of the assessment roll but before the extension of the tax roll, the auditor shall insert the charges in such extension.  (Added to NRS by 1977, 18)
NV Rev Stat § 244A.547 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements|NRS 244A.547 - Collection of service charges on tax roll: Lien; tax bill; applicability of laws pertaining to levy, collection and enforcement of general taxes.

  1. The amount of service charges to be collected on the tax roll constitutes a lien against the lot or parcel of land against which the charges have been imposed as of the time when the lien of taxes on the roll attach.  2. The county treasurer shall include the amount of the charges on bills for taxes levied against the respective lots and parcels of land. Thereafter, the amount of the charges shall be collected at the same time, in the same manner and by the same persons as, and together with, the general taxes for the county. The charges become delinquent at the same time as such taxes and are subject to the same delinquency penalties.  3. All laws applicable to the levy, collection and enforcement of general taxes of the county, including but not limited to those pertaining to the matters of delinquency, correction, cancellation, refund, redemption and sale, apply to such charges.  4. The county treasurer may issue separate bills for such charges and separate receipts for collection on account of such charges.  (Added to NRS by 1977, 18)
NV Rev Stat § 244A.549 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements|NRS 244A.549 - Lien for unpaid service charges.

  1. Until paid, all service charges of the county or the State charged to any person owning or occupying real property in the county constitute a perpetual lien against the property served, superior to all liens, claims and titles other than liens for general taxes and special assessments. This lien is not extinguished by the sale of any property on account of nonpayment of any other lien, claim or title, including liens for general taxes and special assessments.  2. A lien for unpaid service charges may be foreclosed in the same manner as provided for the foreclosure of mechanics’ liens. Before any such lien is foreclosed the board shall hold a hearing on the lien after notice thereof by registered or certified first-class mail, postage prepaid, addressed to the last known owner at his or her last known address according to the records of the county in which the property is located.  (Added to NRS by 1977, 16; A 1995, 2224)
NV Rev Stat § 244A.551 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements|NRS 244A.551 - Basic penalty for nonpayment of service charges.

The board may provide for a basic penalty for nonpayment of service charges within the time and in the manner prescribed by it. The basic penalty shall not be more than 10 percent of each month’s charges for the first month delinquent. In addition to the basic penalty it may provide for a penalty of not more than 1.5 percent per month for nonpayment of the charges and basic penalty. On the first day of the calendar month following the date of payment specified in the bill the charge becomes delinquent if the bill or that portion thereof which is not in bona fide dispute remains unpaid. The board may provide for collection of the penalties provided for in this section.  (Added to NRS by 1977, 17)
NV Rev Stat § 244A.553 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements|NRS 244A.553 - Collection of delinquent service charges and penalties imposed by civil action.

The county, or the State acting through the board, may collect delinquent service charges and penalties due from the Federal Government, the State, the county, any public body or any person owning or occupying real property, by an action in any court of competent jurisdiction.  (Added to NRS by 1977, 17)
NV Rev Stat § 244A.557 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements|NRS 244A.557 - Service charges for sewerage.

Although the board is empowered on behalf of the State to issue general obligation securities, the board shall assess the costs of the project against the users thereof through sewer service charges collected by or on behalf of the board at such times and in such amounts as will enable the State to pay in timely manner all operation and maintenance expenses and all principal of and interest on any state securities issued, sold and delivered to pay for all or any portion of the project, to accumulate and maintain any reserve and replacement accounts pertaining to the facilities and such securities provided in the ordinance or other proceedings relating thereto, and to make such payments, if any, as it is required to make to the Federal Government or any agency thereof, pursuant to any contract by which the Federal Government made a loan to the State for payment of any of the costs of the project. This section constitutes full and complete authority for the board to levy, collect and enforce such sewer service charges in such manner and in such amounts as the board determines appropriate from time to time.  (Added to NRS by 1973, 1739; A 1977, 32)
NV Rev Stat § 244A.559 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements|NRS 244A.559 - Liability of county or State on its securities and other obligations.

  1. The payment of county or state securities or any other obligations of the county or State shall not be secured by an encumbrance, mortgage or other pledge of property of the county or State, except for its pledged revenues, proceeds of taxes, proceeds of assessments, and any other money pledged for the payment of the securities or such other obligations.  2. No property of the county or the State, except as provided in subsection 5 of NRS 244A.507 and in subsection 1 of this section, is liable to be forfeited or taken in payment of any county or state securities or other obligations of the county or the State.  (Added to NRS by 1973, 1740; A 1977, 32; 1981, 951)
NV Rev Stat § 244A.561 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements|NRS 244A.561 - No recourse based on securities against director, officer or agent of county or State.

No recourse may be had for the payment of the principal of, any interest on, or any prior redemption premiums due in connection with any bonds or other county or state securities or other obligations of the county evidenced by any other contract or for any claim based thereon or otherwise upon the ordinance or resolution authorizing the issuance of such securities or the incurrence of such other obligations or other instrument pertaining thereto, against any individual director or any officer or other agent of the county or the State, past, present or future, either directly or indirectly through the board or the county or State or otherwise, whether by virtue of any constitution or statute, or by the endorsement of any penalty or otherwise, all such liability, if any, being by the acceptance of the securities and as a part of the consideration of their issuance or by the making of any other contract specially waived and released.  (Added to NRS by 1973, 1740; A 1977, 33)
NV Rev Stat § 244A.563 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements|NRS 244A.563 - Faith of State pledged not to impair securities.

The faith of the State is hereby pledged that NRS 244A.455 to 244A.573, inclusive, any law supplemental or otherwise pertaining thereto, and any other act concerning the bonds or other county or state securities, taxes or the pledged revenues, or any combination of such securities, such taxes and such revenues, shall not be repealed nor amended or otherwise directly or indirectly modified in such a manner as to impair adversely any outstanding county or state securities, until all such securities have been discharged in full or provision for their payment and redemption has been fully made, including, without limitation, from the known minimum yield from the investment or reinvestment of moneys pledged therefor in federal securities.  (Added to NRS by 1973, 1740; A 1975, 1341; 1977, 33)