Title 20

NRS 244A.019 “Building project” defined. “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 f…

NRS 244A.021 “Condemnation” and “condemn” defined. “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 doma…

NRS 244A.023 “Cost of the project” defined. “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 …

NRS 244A.025 “County” defined. “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. (Added to NRS by 1965, 637; A 1969, 323; 2009, 2737)

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 …

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…

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 flo…

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 …

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 parti…

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. (Ad…

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 B…

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 se…

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…

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…

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 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, drain…

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, includi…

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 facili…

NRS 244A.043 “Project” defined. “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. (Added to NRS by 1965, 639)

NRS 244A.045 “Property” defined. “Property” means real property and personal property. (Added to NRS by 1965, 639)

NRS 244A.047 “Public body” defined. “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. (Added to NR…

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 rev…

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…

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 w…

NRS 244A.051 “State” defined. “State” means the State of Nevada, or any agency, instrumentality or corporation thereof; and where the context so indicates, “State” means the geographical area comprising the State of Nevada. (Added to NRS by 1965, 639)

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, regr…

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, includi…

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 r…

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 w…

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;…

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 ordinan…

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.86…

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 issu…

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…

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 in…

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…

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 i…

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 app…

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 unincorp…

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 boun…

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 …

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 as…

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 traff…

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 beautificati…

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…

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 …