Assembly Bill No. 153–Committee on Government Affairs

 

(On Behalf of the Department of Administration)

 

February 18, 2003

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Referred to Committee on Government Affairs

 

SUMMARY—Revises provisions regarding petty cash accounts of state agencies and Emergency Account in State General Fund. (BDR 31‑509)

 

FISCAL NOTE:  Effect on Local Government: No.

                           Effect on the State: No.

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

AN ACT relating to the administration of public agencies; eliminating the limit on the maximum amount that may be maintained in a petty cash account of a state agency; allowing the State Board of Examiners to authorize its clerk to determine whether an emergency exists and approve an expenditure from the Emergency Account in the State General Fund; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

1-1  Section 1. NRS 353.252 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-2  353.252  1.  The State Board of Examiners may authorize its

1-3  clerk, under such circumstances as it deems appropriate, to authorize

1-4  a state agency to establish a petty cash account [of not more than

1-5  $250] out of the agency’s budgeted resources.

1-6  2.  If a petty cash account is authorized for any state agency

1-7  pursuant to this section, the clerk shall:

1-8  (a) Define the purposes for which the petty cash account may be

1-9  used; and

2-1  (b) Provide that replenishment claims must be paid from the

2-2  agency’s budgeted resources and processed as other claims against

2-3  the State are paid.

2-4  Sec. 2.  NRS 353.263 is hereby amended to read as follows:

2-5  353.263  1.  As used in this section, “emergency” means

2-6  invasion, disaster, insurrection, riot, breach of the peace, substantial

2-7  threat to life or property, epidemic or the imminent danger thereof.

2-8  The term includes damage to or the disintegration of a building

2-9  owned by this state or of the mechanical or electrical system of such

2-10  a building when immediate repairs are necessary to maintain the

2-11  integrity of the structure or its mechanical or electrical system.

2-12      2.  The Emergency Account is hereby created in the State

2-13  General Fund. Money for the Account must be provided by direct

2-14  legislative appropriation.

2-15      3.  When the State Board of Examiners finds that an emergency

2-16  exists which requires an expenditure for which no appropriation has

2-17  been made, or in excess of an appropriation made, the Board may

2-18  authorize an expenditure from the Emergency Account to meet the

2-19  emergency.

2-20      4.  The State Board of Examiners may, under such

2-21  circumstances as it deems appropriate, authorize its clerk to

2-22  determine whether an emergency exists and approve, on behalf of

2-23  the Board, an expenditure from the Emergency Account.

2-24      5.  The Chief shall enumerate expenditures from the Account

2-25  made in the preceding biennium in each executive budget report.

2-26      Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective on July 1, 2003.

 

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