Senate Bill No. 465–Committee on Finance

 

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AN ACT relating to the adjudication emergency account; authorizing the state board of examiners to establish the maximum balance for the account; authorizing the state engineer to request an allocation from the contingency fund if the balance of the account is below the amount established by the state board of examiners; making an appropriation; 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 532.200 is hereby amended to read as follows:

   532.200  1.  For the purpose of advancing and paying for stenographic

 work and transcripts required by law or order of court, or for the costs,

 witness fees or expenses incurred by or upon the authority of the attorney

 general and the state engineer in any litigation affecting any order of

 determination adjudicating the waters of any system of streams in this

 state, there is hereby created the adjudication emergency account in the

 state general fund. All money returned pursuant to [the provisions of

 chapter 181, Statutes of Nevada 1925,] subsection 3 and NRS 533.190

 until those returns total [$6,000,] an amount determined by the state

 board of examiners must be deposited in this account, and thereafter the

 account must be maintained for the purposes designated in this section. If

 the balance in the account exceeds the amount determined by the state

 board of examiners, that portion of the balance in the account which

 exceeds the amount determined by the state board of examiners must be

 deposited in the state general fund. If the balance in the account is

 below the amount determined by the state board of examiners, the state

 engineer may request an allocation from the contingency fund pursuant

 to NRS 353.266, 353.268 and 353.269.

   2.  No part of the account may be used in the payment of attorney’s

 fees.

   3.  The State of Nevada shall recover all costs paid or advanced

 pursuant to the provisions of this section, and the money recovered must

 be placed in the account.

   4.  All expenditures from the account must be paid as other claims

 against the state are paid.

   Sec. 2.  There is hereby appropriated from the state general fund to the

 adjudication emergency account created pursuant to NRS 532.200 the sum

 of $10,000 to restore the balance in the account.

   Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective upon passage and approval.

 

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