1. Senate Bill No. 531–Committee on Government Affairs

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AN ACT relating to the determination of population; revising the applicability of the

information obtained pursuant to a national decennial census to determinations of

population for certain purposes; 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 0.050 is hereby amended to read as follows:

  1. 0.050 1. Except as otherwise expressly provided in a particular
  1. statute or required by the context, "population" means the number of
  1. people in a specified area as determined by the last preceding national
  1. decennial census conducted by the Bureau of the Census of the United
  1. States Department of Commerce pursuant to section 2 of article I of the
  1. Constitution of the United States and reported by the Secretary of
  1. Commerce to the governor pursuant to 13 U.S.C. § 141(c). The tabulations
  1. of population reported by the Secretary of Commerce for a particular
  1. decennial census date shall be deemed to apply for the purposes of this
  1. section from July 1 of the calendar year immediately following that
  1. decennial census date until June 30 of the calendar year immediately
  1. following the next decennial census date.
  1. 2. As used in this section, "decennial census date" means the first
  1. day of April of 1980 and every 10 years thereafter on which the decennial
  1. census is taken pursuant to federal law.
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