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NRS 244A.011 to 244A.065, inclusive, may be cited as the County Bond Law.
Nevada · statute · Nev. Rev. Stat. ch. 244A · 226 active provisions
NRS 244A.011 to 244A.065, inclusive, may be cited as the County Bond Law.
Except where the context otherwise requires, the definitions in NRS 244A.015 to 244A.056, inclusive, govern the construction hereof.
“Acquisition” or “acquire” means the opening, laying out, establishment, purchase, construction, securing, installation, reconstruction, lease, gift, grant from the United States of America, any agency, instrumentality or corporation thereof, any public body or any person, endowment, bequest, devise, condemnation, tran…
“Board” means the board of county commissioners and includes the Board of Supervisors of Carson City.
“Building project” means any public building or complex of buildings to accommodate or house lawful county activities, including, without limitation, courts, records, county personnel, administrative offices, welfare facilities, hospital facilities, detention home facilities, jail facilities, facilities for the detenti…
“Condemnation” or “condemn” means the acquisition by the exercise of the power of eminent domain of property for any project, or an interest therein, herein authorized. A county may exercise in the State the power of eminent domain and in the manner provided by law for the condemnation of private property for public us…
“Cost of the project,” or words of similar import, means all or any part designated by the board of the cost of any project, or interest therein, being acquired, which cost, at the option of the board may include all or any part of the incidental costs pertaining to the project, including, without limitation: 1. Prelim…
“County” means any county in this State. For the purposes of NRS 244A.011 to 244A.065, inclusive, Carson City is considered as a county.
“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, sew…
“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.
“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.
“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 st…
“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.
“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.
“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…
“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 improve…
“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,…
“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…
“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 organize…
“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 t…
“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, dri…
“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…
“Project” means any structure, facility, undertaking or system which a county is herein authorized to acquire, improve, equip, operate and maintain. A project may consist of any kinds of personal and real property.
“Property” means real property and personal property.
“Public body” means the State, or any agency, instrumentality or corporation thereof, or any municipality, county, school district, other type district, or any other political subdivision or body corporate and politic of the State.