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2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.483 - "Pollutant" defined.

"Pollutant":
1. Means dredged spoil, solid waste, incinerator residue, sewage, garbage, sewage sludge, munitions, chemical wastes, biological materials, radioactive materials, heat, wrecked or discarded equipment, rock, sand, cellar dirt and industrial, municipal and agricultural waste discharged into water;
2. Does not mean water, gas or other material which is injected into a well to facilitate production of oil or gas, or water derived in association with oil or gas production and disposed of in a well, if the well is used either for facilitating production or for disposal purposes and if the Department of Health and Human Services determines that such injection or disposal will not result in the degradation of ground or surface water resources.
(Added to NRS by 1975, 1334)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.487 - "Project" defined.

1. "Project" means an undertaking pertaining to such part of the facilities of the county or designated public body as the board or governing body determines to acquire, improve or equip, or any combination thereof, and authorized at one time.
2. "Project" also includes the construction, installation and acquisition of the facilities by the State, acting through the board.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 1728; A 1977, 21)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.489 - "Publication" and "publish" defined.

1. "Publication" or "publish" means three consecutive weekly publications in at least one newspaper having general circulation in the county, the first publication being at least 15 days prior to the designated time or event.
2. Any notice or other instrument published shall not necessarily be made on the same day of the week in each of the 3 weeks; but not less than 14 days, excluding the day of the first publication but including the day of the last publication, shall intervene between the first publication and the last publication.
3. Publication shall be complete on the day of the last publication.
4. Any publication herein required shall be verified by the affidavit of the publisher and filed with the county clerk.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 1728)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.491 - "Service charges" defined.

"Service charges" means the fees, rates and other charges for the use of the facilities of the State, county or designated public body, as the case may be, or for any service rendered by the State, county or public body in the operation thereof, or otherwise.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 1729; A 1977, 21)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.495 - Remedial action required when standards of water quality or conditions of permit to discharge pollutants violated.

If any officer of this state or of the Federal Government who is empowered by law to determine the existence of violations of water quality standards which have the force of state or federal law or violations of conditions of a pollution discharge permit required by state or federal law notifies the county or any public body within the county that such a standard or condition is being violated, or has so notified the county or public body prior to February 24, 1977, and the violation continues after February 24, 1977, the county shall eliminate such violation by the construction, other acquisition, improvement, equipment, operation, maintenance or repair of such facilities therefor as the board deems necessary or advisable, unless such public body, subject to the approval of the board, eliminates such violation. If the violation occurs in facilities owned by another public body, the county is entitled to recover from that public body the costs of eliminating the violation plus interest from the date on which each element of those costs was respectively paid.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 1729; A 1977, 22)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.499 - Procedure for acquisition of facilities.

1. The county, the State, or both, acting through the board, may construct, otherwise acquire, improve, equip, relocate, repair, maintain and operate the facilities or any part thereof for the benefit of the State, the county and their inhabitants, after the board has made such preliminary studies and otherwise taken such action as it determines to be necessary or desirable as preliminaries thereto.
2. When a comprehensive program satisfactory to the board for the acquisition of facilities for the county, the State, or both, is available, such program shall be tentatively adopted. The program need only describe the proposed facilities in general terms and not in detail.
3. A public hearing on the proposed program shall be scheduled, and notice of the hearing shall be given by publication. After the hearing and any adjournments thereof which may be ordered, the board may require changes to be made in the program as the board considers desirable, or the board may approve the program as prepared.
4. If any substantial changes to the comprehensive program are ordered at any time, in the original acquisition of the facilities or in any improvement thereto, or otherwise, a further hearing shall be held pursuant to notice which shall be given by publication.
5. Such a comprehensive program may consist of one project or of more than one project. A public hearing need not be held on each such project if it implements such a comprehensive program on which a public hearing has been held.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 1730; A 1977, 23)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.501 - Acquisition of competing facilities prohibited; acquisition of properties of other public bodies.

1. The county, the State, or both, shall not acquire as a part of the facilities any properties which at the time of their acquisition compete in any area with then existing facilities of a public body providing the same or a similar function or service therein without the consent of such public body, but the facilities of the county, the State, or both, without such consent, may complement such existing facilities of a public body by providing in such an area supplemental functions or services if such existing facilities provide inadequate functions or services.
2. The State or the county may acquire properties of any public body situate in the county as a project of the State or the county or an interest therein.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 1730; A 1977, 24)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.503 - Approval of preliminary plans for facilities.

1. Before the State acting through the board, or the county, prepares or causes to be prepared plans, specifications or other documents for the construction, other acquisition, improvement or equipment of any work or other real property for the facilities of the State or the county except repairs, major renewals and major replacements, the State or the county shall submit preliminary plans to:
(a) The Division of Environmental Protection of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources;
(b) The county board of health; and
(c) The county regional planning body,
for approval of the type, scope and location of the proposed work or other real property for the facilities.
2. Each such agency may require the State or the county to submit additional information to the agency pertaining to any such request for such approval and may require modifications to such plans as a condition of the agency’s approval.
3. Upon the receipt of each agency’s approval in writing of such plans, the State or the county may prepare or cause to be prepared plans, specifications or other documents for the construction, other acquisition, improvement or equipment of such works or property in conformance with such approval.
4. The county board of health shall not require any modification with which the State Environmental Commission does not concur.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 1731; A 1977, 24; 2005, 559)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.505 - Approval of plans and specifications for facilities.

1. Before the State acting through the board, or the county, constructs, otherwise acquires, improves or equips any work or other real property for the facilities of the State or the county except repairs, major renewals and major replacements, the State or the county shall submit plans, specifications or other instruments or other documents pertaining thereto for the approval of such acquisitions, improvements or equipment to the Division of Environmental Protection of the State Department of Conservation and Natural Resources.
2. The Division may require the State or the county to submit additional information pertaining to any such request for such approval and may require modifications to such instruments or documents as a condition of its approval.
3. Upon the receipt of the Division’s approval in writing of such works or other property, the State or the county may construct, otherwise acquire, improve or equip such works or property in conformance with such approval.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 18)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.507 - Methods of funding county’s acquisition of facilities.

The county may also for the purpose of acquiring facilities:
1. Borrow money and issue county securities evidencing any loan to or amount due by the county, provide for and secure the payment of any county securities and the rights of the holders thereof, and purchase, hold and dispose of county securities.
2. Fund or refund any loan or obligation of the county and issue funding or refunding securities to evidence such loan or obligation, as hereinafter provided, without an election.
3. Levy and cause to be collected taxes on and against all taxable property within the county as hereinafter provided, subject to the limitations provided in the Constitution and statutes of this State.
4. Fix, from time to time, increase or decrease, collect and cause to be collected rates, fees and other service charges pertaining to the facilities of the county, including, without limitation, minimum charges and charges for availability of the facilities or services relating thereto, pledge such revenues for the payment of county securities, and enforce the collection of such revenues by civil action or by any other means provided by law.
5. Purchase, acquire by gift or otherwise acquire properties, including, without limitation, existing sewage or wastewater systems or parts thereof or interests therein, of the Federal Government, the State, any public body or any person as a project of the county or so acquire an interest therein. The county may acquire such properties subject to any mortgage, deed of trust or other lien on the acquired properties to secure the payment of any obligations pertaining thereto.
6. Accept contributions or loans from the Federal Government for the purpose of financing the planning, acquisition, improvement, equipment, maintenance and operation of any enterprise in which the county is authorized to engage, and enter into contracts, cooperate with and accept cooperation from, the Federal Government in the planning, acquisition, improvement, equipment, maintenance and operation, and in financing the planning, acquisition, improvement, equipment, maintenance and operation of any such enterprise, including, without limitation, costs of engineering, architectural, and economic investigations and studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, procedures and other action preliminary to the acquisition, improvement or equipment of any project, and do any and all things necessary in order to avail itself of such aid, assistance and cooperation.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 1731; A 1977, 25; 1981, 950)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.513 - Methods of funding State’s acquisition of facilities.

The State, acting through the board, may also for the purpose of acquiring facilities:
1. Borrow money and issue state securities evidencing any loan to or amount due by the State, provide for and secure the payment of any state securities and the rights of the holders thereof, and purchase, hold and dispose of state securities.
2. Fund or refund any loan or obligation of the State and issue funding or refunding securities to evidence such loan or obligation, as hereinafter provided.
3. Levy and cause to be collected taxes on and against all taxable property within the State as hereinafter provided, subject to the limitations provided in the Nevada Constitution.
4. Fix, from time to time, increase or decrease, collect and cause to be collected rates, fees and other service charges pertaining to the facilities of the State, pledge such revenues for the payment of state securities, and enforce the collection of such revenues by civil action or by any other means provided by law.
5. Purchase, acquire by gift or otherwise acquire properties, including, without limitation, existing sewage or wastewater systems or parts thereof or interests therein, of the Federal Government, the county, any public body in the county or any person as a project of the State or so acquire an interest therein. The State may acquire such properties subject to any mortgage, deed of trust or other lien on the acquired properties to secure the payment of any obligations pertaining thereto.
6. Accept contributions or loans from the Federal Government for the purpose of financing the planning, acquisition, improvement, equipment, maintenance and operation of any enterprise in which the State is authorized to engage, and enter into contracts, cooperate with and accept cooperation from, the Federal Government in the planning, acquisition, improvement, equipment, maintenance and operation, and in financing the planning, acquisition, improvement, equipment, maintenance and operation of any such enterprise, including, without limitation, costs of engineering, architectural, and economic investigations and studies, surveys, designs, plans, working drawings, specifications, procedures and other action preliminary to the acquisition, improvement or equipment of any project, and do any and all things necessary in order to avail itself of such aid, assistance and cooperation.
(Added to NRS by 1977, 13)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 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)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.565 - Contracts not binding on State until approved by Governor; exception.

Any contract, except a construction contract, entered into pursuant to the provisions of NRS 244A.555 for facilities as defined in NRS 244A.475 is not binding upon the State until executed or otherwise approved by the Governor, including, without limitation, the execution of securities by the Governor in the manner and as otherwise provided in the State Securities Law.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 1740; A 1977, 33)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.567 - County’s officers to effectuate provisions of County Sewage and Wastewater Law.

The officers of the county are authorized and directed to take all action necessary or appropriate to effectuate the provisions of NRS 244A.455 to 244A.573, inclusive.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 1741; A 1975, 1342)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.569 - County Sewage and Wastewater Law constitutes full authority for exercise of powers granted.

1. NRS 244A.455 to 244A.573, inclusive, without reference to other statutes of the State, except as herein otherwise expressly provided, constitute full authority for the exercise of powers herein granted, including, without limitation, the granting of contractual powers to the State, the county and the other public bodies and the financing of any project herein authorized wholly or in part and the issuance of county or state securities to evidence such loans.
2. No other act or law with regard to the making of contracts, the authorization or issuance of securities, other than the provisions of NRS 350.011 to 350.0165, inclusive, which apply only to the issuance of county securities, or the exercise of any other power herein granted that provides for an election, requires an approval, or in any way impedes or restricts the carrying out of the acts herein authorized to be done applies to any proceedings taken hereunder or acts done pursuant hereto, except as herein otherwise provided.
3. The provisions of no other law, either general, special or local, except as provided herein, apply to the doing of the things herein authorized to be done, and the State, the county and any public body may not perform any of the acts herein authorized to be done, except as herein provided.
4. No notice, consent or approval by the State or any public body or officer thereof is required as a prerequisite to the sale or issuance of any county securities or the making of any contract or the exercise of any other power hereunder except as herein provided.
5. The powers conferred by NRS 244A.455 to 244A.573, inclusive, are in addition to and supplemental to, and the limitations imposed by such sections do not affect the powers conferred by any other law, general or special, and securities may be issued under those sections without regard to the procedure required by any other such law except as otherwise provided in those sections or in the State Securities Law. Insofar as the provisions of such sections are inconsistent with the provisions of any other law, general or special, the provisions of those sections are controlling.
6. No provision contained in NRS 244A.455 to 244A.573, inclusive, repeals or affects any other law or part thereof, it being intended that NRS 244A.455 to 244A.573, inclusive, provide a separate method of accomplishing their objectives and not an exclusive one.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 1741; A 1975, 1342; 1977, 33)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.573 - Areawide waste management plan: Ordinances and regulations; enforcement.

1. The county shall adopt all necessary ordinances, regulations and policies to effectuate the adopted areawide waste management plan described in subsection 1 of NRS 244A.571.
2. All ordinances, regulations and policies adopted by the county shall be enforced by all local political subdivisions in the area covered by the plan.
3. The county shall police the area to insure compliance with the areawide waste management plan and adopted ordinances, regulations and policies. If it is found that the areawide waste management plan or the adopted ordinances, regulations and policies are not being enforced by all local political subdivisions, the county may bring action in a court of competent jurisdiction to insure compliance.
(Added to NRS by 1975, 1335)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.597 - County’s powers concerning recreational facilities.

1. In addition to powers elsewhere conferred upon counties, any county is authorized and empowered:
(a) To establish, construct, purchase, otherwise acquire, reconstruct, improve, extend and better fairgrounds, exposition buildings, convention halls, auditoriums, fieldhouses, amusement halls, public parks, playgrounds, swimming pools, golf courses, recreation centers, museums, zoos, historical sites, other recreational facilities and buildings therefor, and improvements incidental thereto;
(b) To equip and furnish the same;
(c) To acquire a suitable site or grounds for any recreational facilities;
(d) To issue bonds therefor (or any combination thereof), at one time, or from time to time; and
(e) To advertise, publicize and promote the recreational facilities located in the county which are owned by the county, the State or an incorporated city in the county.
2. Recreational facilities shall be deemed to include, without limiting the generality of the provisions of subsection 1, such buildings, incidental improvements, equipment, furnishings, sites and grounds as are used for recreational purposes.
[1:383:1955]—(NRS A 1961, 300, 453; 1963, 99; 1965, 10; 1969, 1576; 1973, 1509)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.605 - Vacancies; reorganization of board.

1. Whenever a vacancy occurs among the members of any county fair and recreation board by reason of resignation, death, expiration of a member’s elected term of office, an increase in population, or otherwise, the vacancy must be filled by the board of county commissioners, in case of county members, and by the chief executive with the approval of the legislative body of the city, in case of city members.
2. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, during January of each odd-numbered year, each county fair and recreation board in this State shall reorganize by electing the officers designated in subsection 1 of NRS 244A.611.
3. During July of each even-numbered year, each county fair and recreation board in any county whose population is 100,000 or more, but less than 700,000, shall reorganize by electing the officers designated in subsection 1 of NRS 244A.611.
4. The officers elected pursuant to subsections 2 and 3 hold office for the ensuing biennium, or until their successors are elected and qualified. Any vacancy among such officers occurring between biennial elections must be filled by the county fair and recreation board to serve out the unexpired term of his or her predecessor.
[3:383:1955]—(NRS A 1957, 365; 1987, 943; 1989, 1904; 2011, 1119)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.607 - Name of board: Designation; use.

Each county fair and recreation board may, by resolution, designate the name by which the fair and recreation board of that county shall be known, and the name designated may contain the name of the largest incorporated city within the county. It shall be lawful for the fair and recreation board of such county to use such designated name for all purposes, including the right to contract, to sue and be sued, and to perform all of its functions and exercise all of its powers.
(Added to NRS by 1967, 1379; A 1969, 1537; 1973, 501)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.609 - Members: Oath; bond; compensation.

1. Whenever any county fair and recreation board has been organized or reorganized, each member thereof shall file with the county clerk:
(a) The member’s oath of office.
(b) A corporate surety bond furnished at county expense, in an amount not to exceed $1,000, and conditioned for the faithful performance of his or her duties as a member of the board.
2. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, no member may receive any compensation as an employee of the board or otherwise, and no member of the board may be interested in any contract or transaction with the board or the county except in his or her official representative capacity.
3. Each member of a board created and existing in a county whose population is 100,000 or more is entitled to receive $480 per month or $80 for each meeting of the board or a committee of the board attended, whichever amount is less.
[Part 5:383:1955]—(NRS A 1957, 365; 1961, 374; 1967, 1378; 1969, 1536; 1971, 266; 1979, 518; 1981, 1227; 1991, 820, 1978)