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NRS 280.150 Quorum; voting. 1. A majority of the committee is a quorum for the transaction of business if it includes at least one representative from each participating political subdivision. 2. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, when a vote of the committee is requir…

NRS 280.160 Oaths and affirmations. Members of the committee may administer all oaths or affirmations necessary in discharging the duties of their office. (Added to NRS by 1973, 917; A 1981, 637)

NRS 280.170 Secretary and clerical personnel. The committee shall employ a clerk and may employ other clerical personnel necessary to the discharge of its duties. The clerk is secretary for the committee. (Added to NRS by 1973, 917; A 1975, 1283; 1977, 365; 1981, 637)

NRS 280.180 Meetings; notice. 1. The committee shall meet at least once each quarter on a regularly scheduled day and may meet more often upon the call of the chair, either on the chair’s own motion or at the request of any two members of the committee. 2. The clerk of the commit…

NRS 280.190 Budget and plan for apportionment of expense: Preparation; approval; arbitration. 1. The committee shall: (a) Direct the department to prepare and shall approve an annual operating budget for the department. (b) Submit the budget to the governing bodies of the partici…

NRS 280.201 Plan for apportionment of expenses: Exclusions; formula for apportionment; tax ad valorem; statistics and records. [Effective through June 30, 2027, and after June 30, 2057.] 1. The funding apportionment plan must exclude the cost of: (a) Operating and maintaining a c…

NRS 280.220 Duties of county auditor or county comptroller upon merger, withdrawal or dissolution. 1. Upon merger, the county auditor or county comptroller of a county which has a department shall: (a) Create in the county treasury one or more funds and accounts within those fund…

NRS 280.230 Examination and audit of accounts. The committee may examine and audit the accounts of all officers responsible for the care, management, collection or disbursement of any money belonging to the department or appropriated by law or otherwise, for its use and benefit. …

NRS 280.240 Allowance of accounts. The committee shall examine, settle and allow all accounts legally chargeable against the department. (Added to NRS by 1973, 918; A 1981, 641)

NRS 280.250 Approval and payment of claims. 1. Every demand against a department, except a demand for the sheriff’s salary, a contested claim or demand or a demand required by the committee to be submitted to it, after the demand is approved and signed by the sheriff or a designe…

NRS 280.260 Issuance of warrants. 1. If the county auditor or comptroller refuses to allow the payment of any demand, the demand must be presented to the committee with the refusal of the county auditor or comptroller endorsed thereupon and his or her reasons for the refusal. 2. …

NRS 280.262 Taxing district: Creation; restriction on use; restriction on alteration or abolishment of boundary. 1. In each county in which a metropolitan police department is established, there is hereby created a taxing district consisting of: (a) The area within the boundaries…

NRS 280.264 Issuance of general obligations to finance capital improvements; levy of tax on property within taxing district; proportionality of obligations for purposes of debt limitation; liability for indebtedness upon withdrawal or dissolution. 1. The committee may, with the c…

NRS 280.2645 Taxing district: Levy of tax to employ additional police officers; rate of assessed valuation; collection; use of proceeds. [Effective July 1, 2027, through June 30, 2057.] 1. For each fiscal year beginning on or after July 1, 2027, and ending before July 1, 2057, th…

NRS 280.265 Taxing district: Proposal to voters of question to levy additional ad valorem tax to employ additional police officers. 1. The committee may, with the consent of the governing body of each participating political subdivision and the debt management commission in the p…

NRS 280.2655 Imposition of additional ad valorem tax approved by voters to employ additional police officers; rate; collection; use of proceeds. If the voters of the taxing district approve the levy of an additional ad valorem tax pursuant to NRS 280.265: 1. The board of county c…

NRS 280.266 Issuance of medium-term obligation or entry into lease-purchase agreement to acquire capital equipment; liability for indebtedness upon withdrawal or dissolution. 1. Upon the adoption of a resolution pursuant to NRS 350.087, the committee may issue a medium-term oblig…

NRS 280.270 Payment of premiums for industrial insurance. The county auditor or comptroller of a county in which a department is located shall comply with the provisions of NRS 616B.224 on behalf of the department. (Added to NRS by 1973, 919; A 1999, 1734) ADMINISTRATION AND POWE…

NRS 280.280 Transfer of powers and duties to department; contracts; suits; insurance. 1. Upon the formation of a department, every power and duty conferred or imposed by law upon a county sheriff which relates to law enforcement, and upon a chief of police or police department of…

NRS 280.284 Contract for operation or maintenance of jail. A department may enter into a contract with a county or any participating city for the operation or maintenance, or both, by the department with its own employees of a jail established by the other contracting party. (Add…

NRS 280.287 Contract for provision and supervision of police services in public schools and charter schools; qualifications and training for officers assigned to school police unit. 1. The department may enter into a contract with the board of trustees of the school district loca…

NRS 280.305 Pension or insurance for disability. 1. The committee may establish, by contract or otherwise, and administer a disability pension plan or disability insurance program for the benefit of any police officer of the department who is disabled, to any degree, by an injury…

NRS 280.307 Sheriff of county authorized to adopt administrative policies, procedures, rules and regulations without approval of board or committee; limitation. The sheriff of the county in which a department is located may adopt such policies, procedures, rules and regulations f…

NRS 280.310 Civil service system: Applicability; civil service board; oaths; subpoenas; regulations; personnel officer; representation of employee before board. 1. Each department shall have a system of civil service, applicable to and governing all employees of the department ex…

NRS 280.320 Applicability of Government Employee-Management Relations Act and Public Employees’ Retirement Act; representation in negotiations. 1. A department is a local government employer for the purpose of the Government Employee-Management Relations Act and a public employer…

NRS 280.330 Department to succeed to rights of participating political subdivisions; pending claims and actions unaffected. 1. All bonds, contracts, franchises and agreements to which the participating political subdivisions are parties and which relate to law enforcement activit…

NRS 280.340 Personal property. 1. Upon merger, the title to and possession of all personal property which is: (a) Owned or held by, or in trust for, any of the participating political subdivisions, or by their officers or agencies in trust for public use; and (b) Exclusively devo…

NRS 280.350 Real property. 1. Upon merger, the department may possess all real property owned or held by any of the participating political subdivisions for the purposes of law enforcement at the time of adoption of the ordinance providing for the merger. 2. Upon a showing of goo…

NRS 280.400 Crash reports and related materials: Provision upon receipt of reasonable fee. A metropolitan police department shall, within 7 days after receipt of a written request of a person who claims to have sustained damages as a result of a crash, or his or her legal represe…