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2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.027 - "Drainage and flood control project" defined.

"Drainage and flood control project" means any natural and artificial water facilities for the collection, transportation, impoundment and disposal of rainfall, storm, flood or surface drainage waters, including, without limitation, ditches, lakes, reservoirs, revetments, levees, dikes, walls, embankments, bridges, sewers, culverts, inlets, connections, laterals, collection lines, outfalls, outfall sewers, trunk sewers, intercepting sewers, transmission lines, conduits, syphons, sluices, flumes, canals, ditches, natural and artificial watercourses, ponds, dams, retarding basins, and other water diversion and storage facilities, pumping stations, stream gauges, rain gauges, meters, flood warning service and appurtenant telephone, telegraph, radio and television service, engines, valves, pumps, apparatus, fixtures, structures and buildings, or any combination thereof, and all appurtenances and incidentals necessary, useful or desirable for any such facilities, including, without limitation, all types of property therefor. The term includes a flood management project.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 638; A 2009, 2737)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.029 - "Equipment" and "equip" defined.

"Equipment" or "equip" means the furnishing of all necessary or desirable, related or appurtenant, facilities, or any combination thereof, appertaining to any project, or interest therein, herein authorized.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 638)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.0293 - "Flood management authority" defined.

"Flood management authority" means any entity that is created by cooperative agreement pursuant to chapter 277 of NRS, the functions of which include the acquisition, construction, improvement, operation and maintenance of a flood management project.
(Added to NRS by 2009, 2736)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.0297 - "Flood management project" defined.

"Flood management project" or any phrase of similar import, means a project or improvement that is located within or without a county whose population is 100,000 or more but less than 700,000 and is established for the control or management of any flood or storm waters of the county or any flood or storm waters of a stream of which the source is located outside of the county. The term includes, without limitation:
1. A drainage and flood control project;
2. A project to construct, repair or restore an ecosystem;
3. A project to mitigate any adverse effect of flooding or flood management activity or improvement;
4. A project to conserve any flood or storm waters for any beneficial and useful purpose by spreading, storing, reusing or retaining those waters or causing those waters to percolate into the ground to improve water quality;
5. A project that alters or diverts or proposes to alter or divert a natural watercourse, including any improvement for the passage of fish;
6. A park project that is related to a flood management project;
7. Any landscaping or similar amenity that is constructed:
(a) To increase the usefulness of a flood management project to any community or to provide aesthetic compatibility with any surrounding community; or
(b) To mitigate any adverse effect on the environment relating to a flood management project;
8. A project to relocate or replace a utility, transmission line, conduit, bridge or similar feature or structure that exacerbates any flooding or is located in an area that is susceptible to flooding;
9. A project to protect and manage a floodplain;
10. A project that is designed to improve the quality of any flood or storm waters or the operation of any flood management system, including, without limitation, any monitoring, measurement or assessment of that system; and
11. Any real property or interest in real property that is acquired to support the carrying out of a flood management project, including, without limitation, any property that may become flooded because of any improvement for flood management,
or any combination thereof and any other structure, fixture, equipment or property required for a flood management project.
(Added to NRS by 2009, 2736; A 2011, 1117)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.031 - "Hereby," "herein," "hereinabove," "hereinafter," "hereinbefore," "hereof," "hereto" and "hereunder" defined.

"Hereby," "herein," "hereinabove," "hereinafter," "hereinbefore," "hereof," "hereto" and "hereunder" refer to the County Bond Law and not solely to the particular portion thereof in which such word is used.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 638)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.033 - "Improvement" and "improve" defined.

"Improvement" or "improve" means the extension, widening, lengthening, betterment, alteration, reconstruction, repair or other improvement, or any combination thereof, of any project, or an interest therein, herein authorized.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 638)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.034 - "Infrastructure project" defined.

"Infrastructure project" means:
1. A capital improvement for fire protection, a library, a building, a park or police protection that a municipality is authorized to improve, acquire or equip pursuant to a law other than the County Bond Law; or
2. For a water authority, wastewater authority, flood management authority or any municipality whose governing body is composed of only the members of the board, a capital improvement for:
(a) A water system;
(b) A water reclamation system;
(c) A flood management project; or
(d) A sanitary sewer,
that the municipality is authorized to improve, acquire or equip pursuant to a law other than the County Bond Law.
(Added to NRS by 1999, 834; A 2005, 183; 2009, 2737)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.0343 - "Lending project" defined.

"Lending project" means:
1. In a county whose population is 100,000 or more but less than 700,000, the acquisition of municipal securities issued by a water authority located wholly or partially within the county acquiring the municipal securities for one or more infrastructure projects which consist of capital improvements for a water system or for the refunding of municipal securities issued on or after October 1, 1999, for one or more infrastructure projects which consist of capital improvements for a water system or any combination thereof.
2. In all other counties, the acquisition of municipal securities issued by a municipality located wholly or partially within the county acquiring the municipal securities for one or more infrastructure projects or for the refunding of municipal securities previously acquired as part of a lending project by a county for one or more infrastructure projects or any combination thereof.
(Added to NRS by 1999, 834; A 2011, 1397)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.0344 - "Minor league baseball stadium project" defined.

"Minor league baseball stadium project" means a baseball stadium which can be used for the home games of an AA or AAA minor league professional baseball team and for other purposes, including structures, buildings and other improvements and equipment therefor, parking facilities, and all other appurtenances necessary, useful or desirable for a minor league baseball stadium, including, without limitation, all types of property therefor.
(Added to NRS by 2003, 2929)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.0345 - "Municipal securities" defined.

"Municipal securities" means notes, warrants, interim debentures, bonds and temporary bonds issued by a municipality pursuant to a law other than the County Bond Law which are:
1. General obligations payable from ad valorem taxes that are approved by the voters of the municipality issued for a capital improvement of a library or park;
2. General obligations payable from ad valorem taxes that are approved by the voters of the municipality or are approved pursuant to subsection 3 of NRS 350.020 issued for a capital improvement of an infrastructure project other than a library or park;
3. Revenue obligations of a water authority that are payable from revenues of:
(a) The water system of the water authority;
(b) One or more of the municipalities that are members of the water authority; or
(c) Any combination of the entities described in paragraphs (a) and (b);
4. Revenue obligations of a wastewater authority that are payable from revenues of:
(a) The water reclamation system of the wastewater authority;
(b) One or more of the municipalities that are members of the wastewater authority; or
(c) Any combination of the entities described in paragraphs (a) and (b); or
5. Revenue obligations of a flood management authority that are payable from the revenues of:
(a) A flood management project of the flood management authority;
(b) One or more of the municipalities that are members of the flood management authority; or
(c) Any combination of the entities described in paragraphs (a) and (b).
(Added to NRS by 1999, 835; A 2005, 183; 2009, 2737)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.0347 - "Municipality" defined.

"Municipality" means any city, town, school district, library district, consolidated library district, fire protection district, district for a fire department, park district, general improvement district organized pursuant to chapter 318 of NRS, wastewater authority, flood management authority, water district organized pursuant to a special act or water authority organized as a political subdivision created by cooperative agreement.
(Added to NRS by 1999, 835; A 2003, 821; 2005, 184; 2009, 2738)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.035 - "Offstreet parking project" defined.

"Offstreet parking project" means parking facilities for the parking of motor vehicles off the public streets, including, without limitation, graded, regraded, graveled, oiled, surfaced, macadamized, paved, curbed, guttered, drained and sidewalked sites therefor, driveways, ramps, structures, buildings, elevators and traffic control equipment, or any combination thereof, and all appurtenances and incidentals necessary, useful or desirable for any such facilities, including, without limitation, all types of property therefor.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 638)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.037 - "Overpass project" defined.

"Overpass project" means any bridge, viaduct or other structure or facilities for the transportation of pedestrians, motor and other vehicles, and utility lines, over any street, stream, railroad tracks, and any other way or place, including, without limitation, approaches, ramps, structures, crosswalks, sidewalks, driveways, culverts, drains, sewers, manholes, inlets, outlets, retaining walls, artificial lights, pumping equipment and ventilating equipment, or any combination thereof, and all appurtenances and incidentals necessary, useful or desirable for any such facilities, including, without limitation, all types of property therefor.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 638)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.039 - "Park project" defined.

"Park project" means real property, facilities and equipment for parks, including, without limitation, graded, regraded, graveled, surfaced, drained, cultivated and otherwise improved sites therefor, greenhouses, bandstand and orchestra facilities, auditoriums, arenas, zoo facilities, golf course facilities, clubhouses, tennis courts, swimming pools, bathhouses, horseshoe pits, ball fields, boating facilities, swings, slides, other playground equipment, and other recreational facilities, or any combination thereof, and all appurtenances and incidentals necessary, useful or desirable for any such facilities, including, without limitation, all types of property therefor.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 638)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.048 - "Revenues of a lending project" defined.

"Revenues of a lending project" means any money, except the proceeds of taxes levied by the county, received by the county pursuant to any lending project, including, without limitation:
1. Money derived from any source of revenue connected with a lending project, including, without limitation, payments by a municipality of the principal, interest or redemption premium of any municipal security, and any other income derived from the operation or administration of a lending project or the sale or other disposal of municipal securities or other assets acquired in connection with a lending project;
2. Loans, grants or contributions to the county from the Federal Government for the payment of the principal, interest and redemption premiums of county securities;
3. Fees or charges paid by a municipality in connection with a lending project; and
4. Money derived from the investment and reinvestment of the money described in subsection 1, 2 or 3.
(Added to NRS by 1999, 835)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.049 - "Real property" defined.

"Real property" means:
1. Land, including land under water.
2. Buildings, structures, fixtures and improvements on land.
3. Any property appurtenant to or used in connection with land.
4. Every estate, interest, privilege, easement, franchise and right in land, legal or equitable, including without limiting the generality of the foregoing, rights-of-way, terms for years, and liens, charges or encumbrances by way of judgment, mortgage or otherwise, and the indebtedness secured by such liens.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 639)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.0505 - "Sewerage project" defined.

"Sewerage project" means facilities pertaining to a county sanitary sewerage system for the collection, interception, transportation, treatment, purification and disposal of sewage, liquid wastes, solid wastes, night soil and industrial wastes, including, without limitation, a sewerage treatment plant, sewerage purification and treatment works and disposal facilities, drying beds, pumping plant and station, connections, laterals, other collection lines, outfalls, outfall sewers, trunk sewers, intercepting sewers, force mains, water lines, sewer lines, conduits, ditches, pipes, transmission lines, pumping plants, filter plants, power plants, pumping stations, gauging stations, ventilating facilities, incinerators, engines, valves, pumps, meters, apparatus, fixtures, structures, buildings and other facilities for the collection, interception, transportation, treatment, purification and disposal of sewage, liquid wastes, solid wastes, night soil and industrial wastes, or any combination thereof. A sewerage project may include as a part thereof a drainage and flood control project. A sewerage project in a county whose population is 100,000 or more but less than 700,000 may include as a part thereof a program established by the county pursuant to NRS 244.3651 to provide financial assistance to persons to connect to the sewerage system.
(Added to NRS by 1993, 48; A 2011, 658)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.053 - "Street project" defined.

"Street project" means any street, avenue, boulevard, alley, highway or other public right-of-way used for any vehicular traffic, and including a sidewalk designed primarily for use by pedestrians, including, without limitation, grades, regrades, gravel, oiling, surfacing, macadamizing, paving, crosswalks, sidewalks, pedestrian rights-of-way, driveway approaches, curb cuts, curbs, gutters, culverts, catch basins, drains, sewers, manholes, inlets, outlets, retaining walls, bridges, overpasses, tunnels, underpasses, approaches, sprinkling facilities, artificial lights and lighting equipment, parkways, grade separators, traffic separators and traffic control equipment, and all appurtenances and incidentals, or any combination thereof, including, without limitation, all types of property therefor.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 639)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.055 - "Underpass project" defined.

"Underpass project" means any tunnel, tube or other structure or facilities for the transportation of pedestrians, motor and other vehicles, and utility lines, under any street, stream, railroad tracks, and any other way or place, including, without limitation, approaches, ramps, structures, crosswalks, sidewalks, driveways, culverts, drains, sewers, manholes, inlets, outlets, retaining walls, artificial lights, pumping equipment and ventilating equipment, or any combination thereof, and all appurtenances and incidentals necessary, useful or desirable for any such facilities, including, without limitation, all types of property therefor.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 639)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.0555 - "Wastewater authority" defined.

"Wastewater authority" means an entity that is created by cooperative agreement pursuant to chapter 277 of NRS, the functions of which include sanitation and sewerage, the treatment and disposal of wastewater, or the development and reclamation of water resources.
(Added to NRS by 2005, 183)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.056 - "Water project" defined.

"Water project" means facilities pertaining to a county water system for the collection, transportation, treatment, purification and distribution of water, including, without limitation, springs, wells, ponds, lakes, water rights, other raw water sources, basin cribs, dams, spillways, retarding basins, detention basins, reservoirs, towers, and other storage facilities, pumping plants, infiltration galleries, filtration plants, purification systems, other water treatment facilities, waterworks plants, pumping stations, gauging stations, ventilating facilities, stream gauges, rain gauges, valves, standpipes, connections, hydrants, conduits, flumes, sluices, canals, channels, ditches, pipes, lines, laterals, service pipes, force mains, submains, syphons, other water transmission and distribution mains, engines, boilers, pumps, meters, apparatus, tools, equipment, fixtures, structures, buildings and other facilities for the acquisition, transportation, treatment, purification and distribution of untreated water or potable water for domestic, commercial and industrial use and irrigation, or any combination thereof. A water project in a county whose population is 100,000 or more but less than 700,000 may include as a part thereof a program established by the county pursuant to NRS 244.3651 to provide financial assistance to persons to connect to the water system.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 1724; A 2011, 659)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.057 - General powers of board of county commissioners.

Any board, upon behalf of the county and in its name, may acquire, improve, equip, operate and maintain, within the county:
1. A building project;
2. A drainage and flood control project;
3. A flood management project;
4. A lending project if the county has adopted an ordinance pursuant to subsection 3 of NRS 244A.064;
5. An off-street parking project;
6. An overpass project;
7. A park project;
8. A sewerage project;
9. A street project;
10. An underpass project; and
11. A water project.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 640; A 1981, 949; 1991, 1724; 1993, 49; 1999, 836; 2009, 2738)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.058 - Power of board of county commissioners of county whose population is 100,000 or more but less than 700,000 to acquire, lease, improve, equip, operate and maintain minor league baseball stadium project; issuance of revenue bonds.

1. A board that has adopted an ordinance imposing a fee pursuant to NRS 244A.810 may, on behalf of the county and in its name:
(a) Acquire, lease, improve, equip, operate and maintain within the county a minor league baseball stadium project.
(b) Subject to the provisions of chapter 350 of NRS, issue revenue bonds of the county to acquire, lease, improve or equip, or any combination thereof, within the county a minor league baseball stadium project.
2. Bonds issued pursuant to this section must be payable from the proceeds of the fee imposed by the county pursuant to NRS 244A.810 and may be additionally secured by and payable from the gross or net revenues of the minor league baseball stadium project, including, without limitation, amounts received from any minor league baseball team pursuant to a contract with that team, fees, rates and charges for the use of the stadium by a minor league baseball team or any other uses of the stadium, and related uses, including, without limitation, parking and concessions, surcharges on tickets in an amount approved by the board, grants, whether conditional or unconditional, made for the payment of debt service or otherwise for the purposes of the minor league baseball stadium project, and any and all other sources of revenue attributable to the minor league baseball stadium project as provided by the board in the ordinance authorizing the issuance of bonds or any instrument supplemental or appertaining thereto.
3. The provisions of chapters 332, 338 and 339 of NRS do not apply to a contract entered into by a county and a private developer pursuant to which the private developer constructs a minor league baseball stadium project, except that the contract must include a provision stating that the requirements of NRS 338.013 to 338.090, inclusive, apply to any construction work to be performed under the contract. The board, the private developer and any contractor and subcontractor on the minor league baseball stadium project shall comply with the provisions of NRS 338.013 to 338.090, inclusive, in the same manner as if the board had undertaken the minor league baseball stadium project or had awarded the contract.
(Added to NRS by 2003, 2929; A 2007, 1294; 2019, 705)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.0585 - Power of board of county commissioners of county whose population is more than 700,000 to acquire, improve, equip, operate and maintain performing arts center; issuance of revenue bonds.

1. A board that has adopted an ordinance imposing a fee pursuant to NRS 244A.860 may, on behalf of the county and in its name:
(a) Acquire, improve, equip, operate and maintain within the county a performing arts center.
(b) Pursuant to the provisions of chapter 350 of NRS, issue revenue bonds of the county to acquire, improve or equip, or any combination thereof, within the county a performing arts center.
2. Bonds issued pursuant to this section for a performing arts center must be payable from the proceeds of the fee imposed by the county pursuant to NRS 244A.860 that are and may be additionally secured by and payable from the gross or net revenues of the performing arts center.
(Added to NRS by 2003, 20th Special Session, 295)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.0587 - Power of board of county commissioners of county to acquire, improve and equip sewerage project or water project; issuance of special obligation bonds.

1. Subject to the provisions of chapter 350 of NRS, any board, upon behalf of the county and in its name, may issue the county’s special obligation bonds to acquire, improve and equip, or any combination thereof, any sewerage project or water project herein authorized, or any part thereof, and thereby to defray the cost of the sewerage project or water project wholly or in part.
2. Special obligation bonds issued pursuant to this section may be payable from and secured by the revenues of the sewerage project or water project for which the bonds are issued or the system of which the sewerage project or water project is a part or, except as otherwise provided in this section, by any other revenues that the county is authorized to pledge for the payment of special obligations. The special obligation bonds may not be payable from or secured by revenue from general ad valorem taxes.
3. Special obligation bonds issued by a county pursuant to this section do not constitute indebtedness of the county for the purposes of the debt limitations set forth in NRS 244A.059.
(Added to NRS by 2011, 658)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.059 - County’s general obligation bonds; county’s debt limit.

1. Subject to the provisions of chapter 350 of NRS, any board, upon behalf of the county and in its name, may issue the county’s general obligation bonds to acquire, improve and equip, or any combination thereof, any project herein authorized, or any part thereof, and thereby to defray the cost of the project wholly or in part.
2. A county shall not become indebted by the issuance of bonds or other securities constituting an indebtedness, whether the bonds are issued hereunder or under a special or local law, to an amount in the aggregate, including existing indebtedness of the county, but excluding any outstanding revenue bonds, any outstanding special assessment bonds, or any other outstanding special obligation securities, any short-term securities issued in anticipation of and payable from general ad valorem taxes levied for the current fiscal year, any general obligation indebtedness of the county issued to pay the cost of any lending project, and any indebtedness not evidenced by notes, bonds or other securities, exceeding 10 percent of the total last assessed valuation of the taxable property of the county.
3. A county shall not become indebted by the issuance of general obligation indebtedness to fund the cost of lending projects in an amount exceeding 15 percent of the total last assessed valuation of the taxable property of the county.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 640; A 1967, 61; 1969, 1580; 1985, 258; 1999, 836)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.061 - Payment of bonds additionally secured by pledge of certain revenues.

The payment of any bonds issued hereunder may be additionally secured by a pledge of all or part of any revenues derived from:
1. The operation of any project herein authorized and from any other income-producing project of the county;
2. A flood management project; or
3. Any license or other excise taxes levied for revenue and available for such a pledge,
or any combination thereof.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 640; A 2009, 2738)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.063 - Fees, rates and charges: Establishment, maintenance and revision of schedules.

In order to acquire, improve, equip, operate and maintain a project specified in NRS 244A.057 and to ensure the payment, wholly or in part, of the general obligation bonds or revenue bonds of the county the payment of which bonds is additionally secured by a pledge of the revenues derived from any such income-producing project, flood management project or excise taxes, or any combination thereof, the board may establish and maintain, and the board may from time to time revise, a schedule or schedules of fees, rates and charges for services or facilities, or both services and facilities, rendered by or through the income-producing project or flood management project, within the corporate limits of the county, and a schedule or schedules of license or other excise taxes, in an amount sufficient for that purpose and also sufficient to discharge any covenant in the proceedings of the board authorizing the issuance of any of such bonds, including any covenant for the establishment of reasonable reserve funds.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 640; A 2003, 2930; 2003, 20th Special Session, 295; 2009, 2738)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.064 - Lending projects: Powers of county.

In connection with any lending project, a county may:
1. Require additional security or credit enhancement for payment of municipal securities acquired as it deems prudent.
2. Make contracts and execute all necessary or desirable instruments or documents not in conflict with the requirements of the County Bond Law.
3. Provide by ordinance for its standards, policies and procedures for financing lending projects.
4. Acquire and hold municipal securities and execute the rights of the holder of those municipal securities.
5. Sell or otherwise dispose of municipal securities unless the county is limited by any agreement that is related to those securities.
6. If the county and the municipality agree to the disposition of any savings resulting from the refunding:
(a) In a county whose population is 100,000 or more but less than 700,000, refund:
(1) Any county general obligations issued for a lending project;
(2) Any municipal securities issued on or after October 1, 1999, for one or more infrastructure projects which consist of capital improvements for a water system; or
(3) Any combination of subparagraphs (1) and (2).
(b) In all other counties, refund any county general obligations issued for a lending project.
7. Require payment by a municipality that participates in a lending project of the fees and expenses of the county in connection with the lending project.
8. Secure the payment of county general obligations issued for a lending project with a pledge of revenues of the lending project. If the revenues of a lending project are formally pledged to the county bonds issued to finance a lending project, the board may treat the revenues of the lending project financed by an issue of county general obligation bonds as pledged revenues pursuant to subsection 3 of NRS 350.020.
(Added to NRS by 1999, 835; A 2011, 1397)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.065 - Construction and effect of County Bond Law.

1. No other act or law with regard to the authorization or issuance of bonds that requires an approval, or in any way impedes or restricts the carrying out of the acts herein authorized to be done, shall be construed as applying to any proceedings taken hereunder or acts done pursuant hereto, except as herein otherwise provided.
2. The powers conferred by NRS 244A.011 to 244A.065, inclusive, are in addition and supplemental to, and not in substitution for, and the limitations imposed by NRS 244A.011 to 244A.065, inclusive, do not affect the powers conferred by, any other law.
3. No part of NRS 244A.011 to 244A.065, inclusive, repeals or affects any other law or part thereof, it being intended that NRS 244A.011 to 244A.065, inclusive, must provide a separate method of accomplishing its objectives, and not an exclusive one, and NRS 244A.011 to 244A.065, inclusive, must not be construed as repealing, amending or changing any such other law.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 643; A 2009, 2739)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.252 - Transportation districts: Powers of board of county commissioners; limitations on special elections; budget; employees.

1. A board of county commissioners may by ordinance, but not as in a case of emergency, create one or more transportation districts in the unincorporated area of the county. The board of county commissioners is ex officio the governing body of any district created pursuant to this section and may:
(a) Organize and maintain the district.
(b) Establish, by ordinance, regulations:
(1) For the administration of its internal affairs.
(2) For the employment of professional, technical, clerical and other personnel necessary to carry out its duties.
(3) For the establishment and alteration of the boundaries of the district.
(4) Providing for the use of revenue received by the district.
(c) Hold meetings as the governing body of a district in conjunction with its meetings as the board of county commissioners without posting a separate agenda or posting additional notices of the meetings within the district.
(d) Cause a special or general district election to be held in the same manner as provided for other such elections in title 24 of NRS for the purpose of submitting a question pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 1 of NRS 244.3351 or paragraph (b) of subsection 1 of NRS 278.710, or both, or cause the question or questions to be submitted at a primary or general state election.
2. A special election may be held only if the board of county commissioners determines, by a unanimous vote, that an emergency exists. The determination made by the board is conclusive unless it is shown that the board acted with fraud or a gross abuse of discretion. An action to challenge the determination made by the board must be commenced within 15 days after the board’s determination is final. As used in this subsection, "emergency" means any unexpected occurrence or combination of occurrences which requires immediate action by the board of county commissioners to prevent or mitigate a substantial financial loss to the district or county or to enable the board to provide an essential service to the residents of the county.
3. The budget of a district created pursuant to this section must comply with the provisions of NRS 354.470 to 354.626, inclusive.
4. All persons employed to perform the functions of a district are employees of the county for all purposes.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 29; A 1993, 1037; 2011, 2723)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.254 - Boundaries of transportation district.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a board of county commissioners which establishes a transportation district shall establish the boundaries of the district and may alter those boundaries by ordinance.
2. The boundaries of a transportation district must not be established or altered to include any territory within the boundaries of any incorporated city, except that annexations or incorporations occurring after the effective date of the ordinance creating or altering the boundaries of a district do not affect the boundaries of the district.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 29)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.256 - Pledge of money for payment of obligations issued for certain projects.

1. A county may pledge any money received from the proceeds of taxes imposed pursuant to paragraph (a) of subsection 1 of NRS 244.3351 or paragraph (a) of subsection 1 of NRS 278.710 or pursuant to NRS 371.043 or 371.045 or, with the consent of the regional transportation commission, received from the proceeds of the tax imposed pursuant to NRS 377A.020, or any combination of money from those sources with revenue derived from the project financed with the proceeds of the obligations for whose payment those taxes are pledged, including any existing or future extensions or enlargements thereof, for the payment of general or special obligations issued for projects described in paragraph (a) of subsection 2 of NRS 244.33512, if the project for which the securities are issued could be directly funded with the taxes whose proceeds are pledged for the payment of the securities.
2. A county may pledge any money received from the proceeds of taxes imposed pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 1 of NRS 244.3351 or paragraph (b) of subsection 1 of NRS 278.710, or any combination of money from those taxes with revenue derived from the project financed with the proceeds of the obligations for whose payment those taxes are pledged, including any existing or future extensions or enlargements thereof, for the payment of general or special obligations issued for projects described in subsection 1 of NRS 244.33514, if the project for which the securities are issued could be directly funded with the taxes whose proceeds are pledged for the payment of the securities.
3. Any money pledged by the county pursuant to subsection 1 or 2 may be treated as pledged revenues of the project for the purposes of subsection 3 of NRS 350.020.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 29; A 1993, 1037; 2009, 2076)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.291 - Legislative declaration.

It is hereby declared as a matter of legislative determination that the acquisition, improvement, equipment, operation and maintenance of any street beautification project is in the public interest and is of special benefit to the property assessed to defray the cost thereof.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 1024; A 1981, 949)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.333 - "Street beautification project" defined.

As used in NRS 244A.291 to 244A.343, inclusive, "street beautification project" means the beautification of any street, avenue, boulevard, alley, parkway, highway or other public right-of-way used primarily for vehicular traffic, including, without limitation, paving, median strips, crosswalks, street dividers, sidewalks, curbs, gutters, storm sewers, sanitary sewers, drains, covered walkways or areas, street-lighting facilities, water-distribution and irrigation systems, vehicular parking areas, retaining walls, landscaping, tree planting, shrubbery, foliage, fountains, waterfalls, decorative structures, benches, information booths, restrooms, signs, and other structures, works, and any other project or facility authorized by the Consolidated Local Improvements Law pertaining thereto, including the reconstruction and relocation of existing municipally owned works, improvements or facilities on such streets.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 1027; A 1981, 949)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.343 - General powers of board of county commissioners.

The board of county commissioners of each county, upon behalf of the county and in its name, without any election, may from time to time:
1. Acquire, improve, equip, operate and maintain one or more street beautification projects;
2. Levy assessments against assessable property within the county to defray all or any portion of the cost thereof which is not to be defrayed with money available therefor from the general fund, any special fund, or otherwise; and
3. Cause the assessments so levied to be collected.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 1027; A 1981, 950)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.441 - Power of board of county commissioners.

In addition to powers elsewhere conferred upon the board of county commissioners, the board of county commissioners of any county is authorized and empowered:
1. To establish, construct, purchase, otherwise acquire, improve and extend swimming pools, facilities and buildings therefor;
2. To equip and furnish the same;
3. To acquire a suitable site or ground for any of the facilities; and
4. To issue bonds therefor (or any combination thereof), at one time, or from time to time.
[1:342:1955]—(NRS A 1969, 1573)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.445 - Issuance of general obligation or revenue bonds.

For any such purpose, the board, at any time or from time to time, in the name and on the behalf of the county may:
1. Issue:
(a) General obligation bonds, payable from taxes; and
(b) General obligation bonds, payable from taxes, which payment is additionally secured by a pledge of gross or net revenues derived from the operation of such recreational facilities, and, if so determined by the board, further secured by a pledge of such other gross or net revenues as may be derived from any other income-producing project of the county or from any license or other excise taxes levied for revenue, as may be legally made available for their payment;
2. Issue revenue bonds payable solely from the gross or net revenues to be derived from the operation of such recreational facilities, as the board may decide; and
3. Make a contract creating an indebtedness with the United States of America, or any agency or instrumentality thereof, or any other person or agency, public or private, if a question authorizing such contract is submitted to and approved by the electors of the county in the manner provided for a question in NRS 350.020 to 350.070, inclusive.
[3:342:1955]—(NRS A 1969, 1574; 1981, 950)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.447 - Applicability of Local Government Securities Law.

Subject to the provisions of NRS 244A.445, for any recreational facilities authorized in NRS 244A.441 to 244A.453, inclusive, the board of any county 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 recreational facilities, the board may otherwise proceed as provided in the Local Government Securities Law.
[4:342:1955]—(NRS A 1969, 1575; 1985, 258)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.449 - Sale of bonds; employment of expert services.

The board is authorized to sell such bonds from time to time at public or private sale, as the board may determine. The board may employ legal, fiscal, engineering, or other expert services in connection with the acquisition of such improvements or facilities and with the authorization, issuance and sale of such bonds.
[7:342:1955]—(NRS A 1967, 221)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.451 - Revenue or general obligation bonds secured by pledge of revenues: Establishment, maintenance and revision of schedules of rates and fees.

In order to insure the payment of the revenue bonds of the county or of the general obligation bonds of the county, the payment of which is secured or is additionally secured, as the case may be, by a pledge of the revenues of such recreational facilities, of any such other income-producing project and of any such excise taxes, as provided in NRS 244A.445 or other such special obligation securities so secured or other such additionally secured general obligation securities of the county, the board may establish and maintain, and from time to time revise, a schedule or schedules of fees, rates and charges for services, facilities and commodities rendered by or through the recreational facilities and any such other income-producing project and a schedule or schedules of any such excise taxes, as the case may be, in an amount sufficient for that purpose and also sufficient to discharge any covenant in the proceedings of the board of county commissioners authorizing the issuance of any of the bonds or other securities, including any covenant for the establishment of reasonable reserve funds.
[12:342:1955]—(NRS A 1969, 1575)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.453 - Bonding limit.

No county shall ever become indebted for such county recreational purposes under the provisions of NRS 244A.441 to 244A.453, inclusive, by the issuance of such general obligation bonds and other general obligation securities (other than any notes or warrants maturing within 1 year from the respective dates of their issuance), but excluding any outstanding revenue bonds, special assessment bonds, or other special obligation securities, and excluding any such outstanding general obligation notes and warrants, exceeding 3 percent of the total last assessed valuation of the taxable property in the county; and no county shall ever become indebted in an amount exceeding 10 percent of such valuation by the issuance of any such general obligation securities (other than any such notes or warrants), but excluding any such outstanding special obligation securities and excluding any such outstanding general obligation notes and warrants.
[14:342:1955]—(NRS A 1969, 1575)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.457 - Applicability to county whose population is 700,000 or more.

NRS 244A.455 to 244A.573, inclusive, applies to any county whose population is 700,000 or more.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 1726; A 1975, 1336; 1979, 520; 1989, 1902; 2011, 1117)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.461 - Definitions.

1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 244A.455 to 244A.573, inclusive, the definitions provided in the Local Government Securities Law apply to county securities issued hereunder and the definitions provided in the State Securities Law apply to state securities issued hereunder.
2. The definitions provided in NRS 244A.463 to 244A.493, inclusive, apply specifically to NRS 244A.455 to 244A.573, inclusive.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 1727; A 1975, 1337; 1977, 20)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.471 - "County securities" defined.

"County securities" means the securities authorized to be issued by the county pursuant to NRS 244A.455 to 244A.573, inclusive.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 1728; A 1975, 1338; 1977, 21)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.475 - "Facilities" defined.

"Facilities" means the facilities of the State, county or other designated public body used or suitable for use for the control, collection, disposal and treatment of all sources of pollution, whether or not they are point sources, including, but not limited to, sewage, wastewater and in place or accumulated pollution sources and consisting of all properties, real, personal, mixed or otherwise, acquired by the State, the county or the public body, as the case may be, by one or more projects through purchase, condemnation, subject to the provisions of NRS 244A.521, construction or otherwise, and used in connection with such purposes and related services or in any way pertaining thereto and situated within the county, whether within or without or both within and without the territorial limits of the public body.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 1728; A 1975, 1338; 1977, 21)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.477 - "Hereby," "herein," "hereinabove," "hereinafter," "hereof," "hereunder," "herewith," "heretofore" and "hereafter" defined.

1. "Hereby," "herein," "hereinabove," "hereinafter," "hereof," "hereunder," "herewith," or any term of similar import, refers to NRS 244A.455 to 244A.573, inclusive, and not solely to the particular portion thereof in which such word is used.
2. "Heretofore" means before February 24, 1977.
3. "Hereafter" means after February 24, 1977.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 1728; A 1975, 1338; 1977, 21)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 244A - Counties: Financing of Public Improvements › NRS 244A.481 - "Point source" defined.

"Point source" means any discernible, confined and discrete conveyance, including but not limited to any pipe, ditch, channel, tunnel, conduit, well, discrete fissure, container, rolling stock, concentrated animal feeding operation, or vessel or other floating craft, from which pollutants are or may be discharged.
(Added to NRS by 1975, 1334)