Title 31

NRS 353.229 Economic Forum: Technical Advisory Committee on Future State Revenues. 1. The Technical Advisory Committee on Future State Revenues, consisting of seven members, is hereby created. 2. The members of the Committee are the persons serving in the following positions or t…

NRS 353.230 Review of estimates; preparation and submission of proposed budget; submission by Governor of separate document and recommendations; appearance of Governor or representative before legislative committees. 1. The Chief shall review the estimates, altering, revising, in…

NRS 353.235 Appropriation and authorization by Legislature. 1. Every appropriation in addition to that provided for in the proposed budget must be embodied in a separate bill and must be limited to some single work, object or purpose stated in the bill. 2. A supplementary appropr…

NRS 353.240 Governor to submit fiscal details to successor. 1. The Governor shall submit to his or her successor in office: (a) A detailed record of all expenditures made in the preceding fiscal year by each of the departments of the State Government supported by public funds. (b…

NRS 353.245 Submission and resubmission of budgets of state executive departments and agencies requesting federal money. In addition to the requirements of NRS 353.335, every department, institution and agency of the Executive Department of the State Government, when making reque…

NRS 353.246 Budgets of Public Employees’ Retirement System, Legislative and Judicial Departments and Tahoe Regional Planning Agency. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2 of this section and subsections 6 and 7 of NRS 353.210, the provisions of NRS 353.150 to 353.245, i…

NRS 353.249 State money to be deposited in State Treasury and credited to State General Fund; exception. Except as otherwise expressly provided in a particular statute: 1. All money which belongs to the State must be deposited in the State Treasury. 2. All money which is deposite…

NRS 353.250 Designation of financial institutions for deposit of state money; requirements for deposit of state money; criminal penalty. 1. The State Treasurer shall designate the financial institutions into which money received by a state officer, department or commission must b…

NRS 353.251 State Agency Fund for Bonds. The State Agency Fund for Bonds is hereby created as an agency fund. The Fund is a continuing fund without reversion. The State Controller may establish such accounts in the State Agency Fund for Bonds as are necessary to account properly …

NRS 353.252 Petty cash accounts: State Board of Examiners may authorize Clerk to authorize establishment by state agency; duties of Clerk. 1. The State Board of Examiners may authorize its Clerk, under such circumstances as it deems appropriate, to authorize a state agency to est…

NRS 353.253 Deposits to work program accounts or other budget accounts; reversions; exceptions. 1. Every agency, department and institution of the State of Nevada shall deposit all money received from the Federal Government, the counties or other sources, in the State Treasury as…

NRS 353.254 Intergovernmental Fund. The State Controller shall account for all amounts received by the State for distribution to local governments and all amounts received from local governments for distribution to state funds through the Intergovernmental Fund which is hereby cr…

NRS 353.255 Appropriations to be applied specifically; penalty. 1. The sums appropriated for the various branches of expenditure in the public service of the State shall be applied solely to the objects for which they are respectively made, and for no others. 2. Any person violat…

NRS 353.257 Transfer of balance of appropriated money from specific fund to State General Fund by State Controller where no provision for reversion was made; consent of state agency and recommendation from State Board of Examiners required. Whenever moneys have been appropriated …

NRS 353.260 Spending in excess of amount appropriated prohibited; claim void; penalties. 1. It is unlawful for any state officer, commissioner, head of any state department or other employee, whether elected or appointed, to expend more money than the sum specifically appropriate…

NRS 353.262 Payment from Reserve for Statutory Contingency Account of salary of person replacing state officer or employee if sufficient appropriated money is not available after leave payments. When the State Board of Examiners finds, after diligent inquiry and examination, that…

NRS 353.263 Emergency Account. 1. As used in this section, “emergency” means invasion, disaster, insurrection, riot, breach of the peace, substantial threat to life or property, epidemic or the imminent danger thereof. The term includes damage to or the disintegration of a buildi…

NRS 353.264 Reserve for Statutory Contingency Account. 1. The Reserve for Statutory Contingency Account is hereby created in the State General Fund. 2. The State Board of Examiners shall administer the Reserve for Statutory Contingency Account. The money in the Account must be ex…

NRS 353.2655 Nevada Protection Account. 1. There is hereby created the Nevada Protection Account in the State General Fund. 2. The money in the Account must be used to protect the State of Nevada and its residents through funding activities to prevent the location of a federal nu…

NRS 353.266 Creation; source; use. 1. The Contingency Account is hereby created in the State General Fund. Money for the Account must be provided by direct legislative appropriation. 2. Money in the Contingency Account may be allocated and expended within the limitations and in t…

NRS 353.268 Recommendation by State Board of Examiners for allocation from Contingency Account. 1. When any state agency or officer, at a time when the Legislature is not in session, finds that circumstances for which the Legislature has made no other provision require an expendi…

NRS 353.269 Action by Interim Finance Committee; transfer by State Controller. 1. The recommendation of the State Board of Examiners for an allocation from the Contingency Account shall be transmitted to the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau, who shall notify the Chair o…

NRS 353.2705 Definitions. As used in NRS 353.2705 to 353.2771, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 353.2707 to 353.2733, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. (Added to NRS by 1997, 2538; A 1999, 3129; 20…

NRS 353.2707 “Account” defined. “Account” means the Disaster Relief Account created by NRS 353.2735. (Added to NRS by 2003, 20th Special Session, 195)

NRS 353.271 “Disaster” defined. “Disaster” means a fire, flood, earthquake, drought, explosion, civil disturbance, crisis involving violence on school property, at a school activity or on a school bus, or any other occurrence or threatened occurrence that, regardless of cause: 1.…

NRS 353.2712 “Division” defined. Repealed. (See chapter 279, Statutes of Nevada 2025, at page 1885.)

NRS 353.2715 “Eligible project” defined. “Eligible project” means a project that: 1. Is related to a disaster; and 2. Is proposed, coordinated or conducted by a public or nonprofit private entity that has been designated and approved as qualifying and eligible to receive federal …

NRS 353.2725 “Grant match” defined. “Grant match” means the share of a grant provided by a federal agency that must be matched by a state or local government. (Added to NRS by 1997, 2538; A 2013, 3438)

NRS 353.2731 “Local government” defined. “Local government” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 354.474. The term includes, without limitation, a tribal government that has entered into an agreement pursuant to NRS 353.2739. (Added to NRS by 1997, 2538; A 2019, 3631)

NRS 353.2733 “Office” defined. “Office” means the Office of Emergency Management within the Office of the Governor. (Added to NRS by 2025, 1855)

NRS 353.2735 Creation; administration; deposits; grants and loans. 1. The Disaster Relief Account is hereby created in the State General Fund. The Interim Finance Committee shall administer the Disaster Relief Account. 2. The Office may accept grants, gifts or donations for depos…

NRS 353.2737 Revolving account for awarding grants to persons who own and occupy homes damaged by a disaster: Establishment; transfers of money from Disaster Relief Account; regulations. 1. The Office shall establish a revolving account within the State General Fund for the award…

NRS 353.2739 Authorized grants and loans to tribal governments. 1. The Attorney General may enter into an agreement with a tribal government to provide for the distribution of money from the Account as a grant or loan to the tribal government because of a disaster. The provisions…

NRS 353.274 Authorized grants to state agencies. Money in the Account may be distributed as a grant to a state agency because of a disaster for the payment of expenses incurred by the state agency for: 1. The repair or replacement of public roads, public streets, bridges, water c…

NRS 353.2745 Authorized grants to local governments. Money in the Account may be distributed as a grant to a local government because of a disaster for: 1. The payment of not more than 50 percent of the expenses incurred by the local government for: (a) The repair or replacement …

NRS 353.2751 Authorized loans to local governments. Money in the Account may be distributed as a loan to a local government because of a disaster for: 1. The payment of expenses incurred by the local government for: (a) The repair or replacement of public roads, public streets, b…

NRS 353.2753 Requests for grants and loans: Assessment of damages by Office; report of damages; determination of whether event constitutes disaster; regulations. 1. A state agency or local government may request the Office to provide technical assistance to the state agency or lo…

NRS 353.2754 Requests for grants and loans: Determination that event constitutes disaster required as condition for local governments. A local government may request a grant or loan from the Account if: 1. Pursuant to NRS 414.090 or an agreement entered into pursuant to NRS 353.2…

NRS 353.2755 Requests for grants and loans: Conditions; contents; procedure for review of requests; recommendation of State Board of Examiners. 1. Not later than 60 days after the Governor, in the case of a notice by a state agency, or the governing body of a local government det…

NRS 353.276 Requests for grants and loans: Action by Interim Finance Committee; limitation. 1. The State Board of Examiners shall submit a recommendation for each request for a grant or loan made pursuant to NRS 353.2755 to the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau. Upon rec…

NRS 353.2765 Repayment of loans by local governments: Schedule; use of money received from Federal Government. 1. In addition to any applicable requirements set forth in NRS 353.2751, if the Interim Finance Committee approves a loan to a local government pursuant to the provision…

NRS 353.2771 Provision of resources of agencies and local governments required for grant or loan. 1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, no grant or loan may be made from the Account to a state agency or local government unless, as a condition of making the grant or loa…

NRS 353.280 Authorized investments; interest; investment in reverse-repurchase agreement prohibited. 1. When state money is placed in escrow, the escrow agent is authorized to invest that money in: (a) United States Government securities. (b) United States Postal Service obligati…

NRS 353.285 Cash flow of money belonging to State; allocation between deposits and investments; duties of State Board of Finance. The State Board of Finance shall, in addition to its other duties prescribed by law: 1. Study the cash flow of moneys belonging to the State, and reco…

NRS 353.288 Creation; annual deposit of state revenue required; annual transfer of percentage of total anticipated revenue required; limitation on balance; transfer of percentage of balance to Disaster Relief Account; uses. 1. The Account to Stabilize the Operation of the State G…

NRS 353.291 Short title. NRS 353.291 to 353.3245, inclusive, may be cited as the State Accounting Procedures Law. (Added to NRS by 1969, 506; A 1977, 41; 1987, 622; 1997, 69; 1999, 1420)