Title 18

NRS 227.060 Salary. 1. Until the first Monday in January 2007, the State Controller is entitled to receive an annual salary of $80,000. From the first Monday in January 2007, until the first Monday in January 2011, the State Controller is entitled to receive an annual salary of $…

NRS 227.090 Use of facsimile signature; combination of facsimile signature with facsimile signature of State Treasurer. 1. The State Controller may use a facsimile signature produced through a mechanical device in place of his or her handwritten signature whenever the necessity m…

NRS 227.100 Deputy State Controller: Appointment; classification; duties; restrictions on other employment. 1. The State Controller may appoint a Deputy in the unclassified service of the State, who may, in the absence of the State Controller, do all acts devolving upon and neces…

NRS 227.110 Annual report; recommendations. 1. The State Controller shall annually digest, prepare and report to the Governor and the Legislature: (a) A complete statement of the change from the immediately preceding fiscal year in: (1) The assets, liabilities and resources of th…

NRS 227.120 Services and equipment for accounting; fees for services. The State Controller is authorized and directed: 1. To secure and install accounting machine services and equipment in the Office of the State Controller. 2. To contract for the necessary rental or purchase of …

NRS 227.130 Withholding for federal income taxes; warrant; Agency Fund for the Payroll of the State. 1. The State Controller shall withhold from each claimant’s pay the amounts specified in the revenue act of the United States and such amounts as may be further specified by addit…

NRS 227.140 Duties as ex officio State Fiscal Officer; regulations. 1. The State Controller is ex officio State Fiscal Officer. In addition to the duties now prescribed for the ex officio office, and as a part thereof, the State Controller shall serve as a State Fiscal Officer fo…

NRS 227.150 Opening, keeping, stating and settling accounts; collection of money and cancellation of debts due State; withholding compensation of state employee for past overpayment of salary; regulations. 1. The State Controller shall: (a) Open and keep an account with each coun…

NRS 227.160 Auditing and allowance of claims; examination of witnesses and documentary evidence. 1. The State Controller shall: (a) Audit all claims against the State, for the payment of which an appropriation or authorization has been made but of which the amount has not been de…

NRS 227.170 Warrants: Drawing; account; record of appropriations and authorizations. The State Controller shall: 1. Draw all warrants upon the treasury for money, and each warrant shall express, in the body thereof, the particular fund out of which it is to be paid, the appropria…

NRS 227.180 Funds. The State Controller shall: 1. Keep accounts with the funds heretofore created and such other funds as may hereafter be created, or as the State Controller may deem advantageous to keep. 2. Credit the funds with the amount of money received, and shall charge th…

NRS 227.185 Accounts payable to be paid electronically; exception; fee for certain payees; regulations. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, the State Controller shall pay an account payable electronically. 2. Upon application of a payee or the payee’s representative,…

NRS 227.190 Transactions with State Treasurer. The State Controller shall: 1. Keep a record of all receipts of money by the State Treasurer in a book provided for that purpose, in which book the State Controller shall show in detail the nature of the receipt and the apportionment…

NRS 227.200 Delivery of warrant to State Treasurer for electronic payment, deposit or delivery; register of warrants. The State Controller shall: 1. Draw a warrant in favor of any person or governmental payee certified by an agency of State Government to receive money from the Tr…

NRS 227.205 Salaries and wages of state officers and employees to be paid electronically through use of direct deposit; waivers; regulations. 1. The State Controller shall establish an electronic payment system to pay the salaries and wages of state officers and employees through…

NRS 227.230 Directing Attorney General to prosecute suits for recovery of money due State; directing and superintending collection of money due State; exception. Except as otherwise provided in chapter 353C of NRS, the State Controller shall: 1. Direct the Attorney General to ins…

NRS 227.240 Directing prosecution of suits for indebtedness to State. Whenever any officer, or other person or persons, or corporation, shall be indebted to the state, and fail or refuse to make settlement with the State Controller, as required by law, and shall fail to pay over …

NRS 227.250 Copy of account prima facie evidence in suit for collection. A copy of the account, in an action instituted under NRS 227.240, made out and certified by the State Controller, with his or her official seal affixed thereto, shall be sufficient evidence to support an act…

NRS 227.260 Costs of suit to collect money due State. The party sued shall be subject to the costs and charges of suit, whether the ultimate decision be against or in favor of the party sued, except in cases in which the party sued shall have rendered a true account, and shall al…

NRS 227.270 Costs of suit, irrespective of decision, when failure to disclose evidence to State Controller. If any defendant in any suit prosecuted at the instance of the State Controller, under the provisions of this chapter, shall, at the trial, give any evidence which existed …

NRS 227.280 Safekeeping of public records and securities. The State Controller shall keep and preserve all public books, records, papers, documents, vouchers, and all conveyances, leases, mortgages, bonds, and all securities for debts, moneys, or property, and accounts and proper…

NRS 227.290 Books and papers to be open for inspection. All the books, papers, files, letters and transactions pertaining to the Office of State Controller shall be open to the inspection of the Governor, to the inspection of committees and members of the Legislature, or either b…

NRS 227.295 Certain data concerning expenditures and revenues of the State to be made available on Internet website. In addition to any record required to be open to inspection pursuant to NRS 227.290 or 239.010, the State Controller shall, on an Internet website established and …

NRS 227.300 Information to be provided to Legislature. The State Controller shall give information to either house of the Legislature, whenever required, upon any subject relating to the fiscal affairs of the State, or touching any duty of his or her office. [Part 14:43:1866; B §…

NRS 227.310 Performance of other duties. The State Controller shall perform all such other duties not enumerated in this chapter as may be required by law. [Part 14:43:1866; B § 2821; BH § 1820; C § 1968; RL § 4167; NCL § 7359]

NRS 227.330 Penalties. If the State Controller shall willfully neglect or refuse to perform any duty enjoined by law, or, by color of his or her office, shall knowingly do any act not authorized by law, or in any other manner than is authorized by law, the State Controller shall …