2001 REGULAR SESSION (71st)                                                                             A SB522 415

Amendment No. 415

 

 

 

     Amend the bill as a whole by renumbering sec. 4 as sec. 5 and adding a new section designated sec. 4, following sec. 3, to read as follows:

     “Sec. 4. Section 30 of Senate Bill No. 59 of this session is hereby amended to read as follows:

     Sec. 30.  NRS 482.180 is hereby amended to read as follows:

     482.180  1.  The motor vehicle fund is hereby created as an agency fund. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4 or by a specific statute, all money received or collected by the department must be deposited in the state treasury for credit to the motor vehicle fund.

     2.  The interest and income on the money in the motor vehicle fund, after deducting any applicable charges, must be credited to the state highway fund.

     3.  Any check accepted by the department in payment of [vehicle privilege] the governmental services tax or any other fee required to be collected pursuant to this chapter must, if it is dishonored upon presentation for payment, be charged back against the motor vehicle fund or the county to which the payment was credited, in the proper proportion.

     4.  All money received or collected by the department for the basic [vehicle privilege] governmental services tax must be deposited in the local government tax distribution account, created by NRS 360.660, for credit to the county for which it was collected.

     5.  Money for the administration of the provisions of this chapter must be provided by direct legislative appropriation or authorization from the state highway fund, upon the presentation of budgets in the manner required by law. Out of the appropriation or authorization, the department shall pay every item of expense.

     6.  The [privilege] governmental services tax collected on vehicles subject to the provisions of chapter 706 of NRS and engaged in interstate or intercounty operation must be distributed among the counties in the following percentages:

 

Carson City................... 1.07 percent

Churchill........................ 5.21 percent

Clark........................... 22.54 percent

Douglas......................... 2.52 percent

Elko............................ 13.31 percent

Esmeralda...................... 2.52 percent

Eureka........................... 3.10 percent

Humboldt...................... 8.25 percent

Lander........................... 3.88 percent

Lincoln.......................... 3.12 percent

Lyon.............................. 2.90 percent

Mineral.......................... 2.40 percent

Nye............................... 4.09 percent

Pershing......................... 7.00 percent

Storey...........................   .19 percent

Washoe....................... 12.24 percent

White Pine..................... 5.66 percent

 

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The distributions must be allocated among local governments within the respective counties pursuant to the provisions of NRS 482.181.

     7.  The department shall withhold 6 percent from the amount of [privilege] the governmental services tax collected by the department as a commission. From the amount of [privilege] the governmental services tax collected by a county assessor, the state controller shall credit 1 percent to the department as a commission and remit 5 percent to the county for credit to its general fund as commission for the services of the county assessor.

     8.  When the requirements of this section and NRS 482.181 have been met, and when directed by the department, the state controller shall transfer monthly to the state highway fund any balance in the motor vehicle fund.

     9.  If a statute requires that any money in the motor vehicle fund be transferred to another fund or account, the department shall direct the controller to transfer the money in accordance with the statute.”.