NRS 267.450 – Definitions.
Except where the context otherwise requires, the definitions in NRS 267.455 to 267.500, inclusive, govern the construction of NRS 267.450 to 267.530, inclusive. (Added to NRS by 1969, 248)
NRS 267.455 – “Acquisition” and “acquire” defined.
“Acquisition” or “acquire” means the opening, laying out, establishment, purchase, construction, securing, installation, reconstruction, lease, gift, grant from the Federal Government, this state, any public body therein, or any person, the endowment, bequest, devise, condemnation, transfer, assignment, option to purchase, other contract, or other acquirement (or any combination thereof) of any properties pertaining to a […]
NRS 267.460 – “Drainage project” defined.
“Drainage project” means any natural and artificial water facilities for the collection, channeling, impoundment and disposal of rainfall, other surface and subsurface drainage waters and storm and floodwaters, including without limitation ditches, ponds, dams, spillways, retarding basins, detention basins, lakes, reservoirs, canals, channels, levees, revetments, dikes, walls, embankments, bridges, inlets, outlets, connections, laterals, other collection […]
NRS 267.465 – “Federal Government” defined.
“Federal Government” means the United States of America, or any agency, instrumentality or corporation thereof. (Added to NRS by 1969, 249)
NRS 267.470 – “Governing body” defined.
“Governing body” means the city council, city commission, board of supervisors, town council, town board or other local legislative or governing body of the municipality. (Added to NRS by 1969, 249)
NRS 267.475 – “Improvement” and “improve” defined.
“Improvement” or “improve” means the extension, widening, lengthening, betterment, alteration, reconstruction or other major improvement (or any combination thereof) of any properties pertaining to a project or an interest therein, but does not mean renovation, reconditioning, patching, general maintenance or other minor repair. (Added to NRS by 1969, 249)
NRS 267.480 – “Municipal” defined.
“Municipal” means pertaining to a municipality as defined in NRS 267.485. (Added to NRS by 1969, 249)
NRS 267.485 – “Municipality” defined.
“Municipality” means any incorporated city organized pursuant to NRS 267.010 to 267.140, inclusive, which has a population of 4,000 or more. (Added to NRS by 1969, 249; A 1979, 526; 1987, 1711)
NRS 267.490 – “Project” defined.
“Project” means the acquisition, improvement and equipment (or any combination thereof) of a drainage project, sewerage project or water project (or any combination thereof). (Added to NRS by 1969, 249)
NRS 267.495 – “Sewerage project” defined.
“Sewerage project” means facilities pertaining to a municipal sanitary sewerage system for the collection, interception, transportation, treatment, purification and disposal of sewage, liquid wastes, solid wastes, night soil and industrial wastes, including without limitation a sewerage treatment plant, sewerage purification and treatment works and disposal facilities, drying beds, pumping plant and station, connections, laterals, other […]
NRS 267.500 – “Water project” defined.
“Water project” means facilities pertaining to a municipal water system for the collection, transportation, treatment, purification and distribution of water, including without limitation springs, wells, ponds, lakes, other raw water sources, basin cribs, dams, spillways, retarding basins, detention basins, reservoirs, towers, other storage facilities, pumping plants, infiltration galleries, filtration plants, purification systems, other water treatment […]
NRS 267.505 – Request by municipality for Federal Government to undertake project; approval by electors of incurrence of indebtedness.
The governing body of any municipality, on its behalf and in its name, is authorized: 1. To request the Federal Government to undertake any project for the municipality; and 2. To negotiate for, to obtain and enter into, and to cause to be executed such contracts, documents and other instruments as are necessary or appropriate […]
NRS 267.510 – Repayment contracts: Powers of municipality.
In the contracts, documents and other instruments designated in NRS 267.505, the governing body may: 1. Obligate the municipality to repay to the Federal Government the cost of the project undertaken by it for the municipality, including without limitation all incidental costs pertaining thereto, over a term of not exceeding 40 years commencing on any […]
NRS 267.515 – Cooperation with Federal Government.
Any municipality may cooperate with the Federal Government in connection with any project undertaken by the Federal Government, including, without limitation, in the manner provided in the Federal Reclamation Law approved June 17, 1902 (32 Stat. 388), all acts amendatory thereof or supplemental thereto, and any other act of Congress enacted before, on or after […]
NRS 267.520 – Validation and ratification of contracts outstanding on March 28, 1969.
All outstanding contracts, documents and other instruments pertaining to any project, and all acts and proceedings had or taken prior to March 28, 1969, or purportedly had or taken, by or on behalf of a municipality preliminary to or in the authorization, execution and otherwise making of such contracts, documents and other instruments or preliminary […]
NRS 267.525 – Legislative authority for validation of contracts and projects.
1. This section and NRS 267.520 shall operate to supply such legislative authority as may be necessary to validate any such contracts, documents and other instruments pertaining to any project, to validate any such project, and to validate all acts and proceedings preliminary thereto and prior to March 28, 1969, had or taken which the […]
NRS 267.530 – Liberal construction.
NRS 267.450 to 267.525, inclusive, being necessary to secure the public health, safety, convenience and welfare, they shall be liberally construed to effect their purposes. (Added to NRS by 1969, 252)