1. Assembly Bill No. 441–Committee on Natural Resources,


  1. Agriculture, and Mining

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AN ACT relating to state parks; revising the provisions governing the expenditure of money

from the account for the repair and maintenance of state parks, monuments and

recreational areas; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

Section 1. NRS 407.0762 is hereby amended to read as follows:

  1. 407.0762 1. The account for maintenance of state parks within the
  1. division of state parks is hereby created in the state general fund. Except as
  1. otherwise provided in NRS 407.0765, any amount of fees collected
  1. pursuant to subsection 4 of NRS 407.065 in a calendar year, which is in
  1. excess of the amounts authorized for expenditure from that revenue source
  1. in the division’s budget for the fiscal year beginning in that calendar year,
  1. must be deposited in the account. The interest and income earned on the
  1. money in the account, after deducting any applicable charges, must be
  1. credited to the account.
  1. 2. The money in the account does not lapse to the state general fund at
  1. the end of any fiscal year.
  1. 3. The money deposited in the account pursuant to subsection 1 must
  1. only be used to repair and maintain state parks, monuments and
  1. recreational areas.
  1. 4. Before the administrator may expend money pursuant to subsection
  1. 3:
  1. (a) For emergency repairs [,] and projects with a cost of less than
  1. $25,000, he must first receive the approval of the director.
  1. (b) For [purposes] projects with a cost of $25,000 or more, other than
  1. emergency repairs, he must first receive the approval of the director and of
  1. the interim finance committee.

Sec. 2. This act becomes effective on July 1, 1999.

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