Assembly Bill No. 304–Assemblyman Manendo (by request)

 

March 13, 2003

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Referred to Committee on Government Affairs

 

SUMMARY—Authorizes use of remainder of certain gifts of money and personal property donated for use at veterans’ cemeteries. (BDR 37‑652)

 

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 veterans’ cemeteries; authorizing the use of the remainder of certain gifts of money and personal property donated for use at veterans’ cemeteries; 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 417.220 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-2  417.220  1.  The Account for Veterans’ Affairs is hereby

1-3  created in the State General Fund.

1-4  2.  Money received by the Executive Director or the Deputy

1-5  Executive Director from:

1-6  (a) Fees charged pursuant to NRS 417.210;

1-7  (b) Allowances for burial from the Department of Veterans

1-8  Affairs;

1-9  (c) Receipts from the sale of gifts and general merchandise; and

1-10      (d) Except as otherwise provided in subsection 6 and NRS

1-11  417.145 and 417.147, gifts of money and proceeds derived from the

1-12  sale of gifts of personal property he is authorized to accept, if the

1-13  use of such gifts has not been restricted by the donor,

1-14  must be deposited with the State Treasurer for credit to the Account

1-15  for Veterans’ Affairs and must be accounted for separately for a

1-16  veterans’ cemetery in northern Nevada or a veterans’ cemetery in

1-17  southern Nevada, whichever is appropriate.

2-1  3.  The interest and income earned on the money deposited

2-2  pursuant to subsection 2, after deducting any applicable charges,

2-3  must be accounted for separately. Interest and income must not be

2-4  computed on:

2-5  (a) Money appropriated from the State General Fund to the

2-6  Account for Veterans’ Affairs.

2-7  (b) Fees charged pursuant to NRS 417.110 that are deposited in

2-8  the Account for Veterans’ Affairs.

2-9  4.  [Except as otherwise provided in subsection 6, the] The

2-10  money deposited pursuant to subsection 2 may only be used for the

2-11  operation and maintenance of the cemetery for which the money

2-12  was collected.

2-13      5.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection [6,] 7, gifts of

2-14  personal property which the Executive Director or the Deputy

2-15  Executive Director is authorized to receive but which are not

2-16  appropriate for conversion to money may be used in kind.

2-17      6.  The Gift Account for Veterans’ Cemeteries is hereby created

2-18  in the State General Fund. [The Executive Director or the Deputy

2-19  Executive Director shall use gifts of money or personal property that

2-20  he is authorized to accept and for which the donor has restricted to

2-21  one or more uses at a veterans’ cemetery, only in the manner

2-22  designated by the donor.] Gifts of money that the Executive Director

2-23  or the Deputy Executive Director is authorized to accept and for

2-24  which the donor has restricted to one or more uses at a veterans’

2-25  cemetery must be accounted for separately in the Gift Account for

2-26  Veterans’ Cemeteries. The interest and income earned on the money

2-27  deposited pursuant to this subsection must, after deducting any

2-28  applicable charges, be accounted for separately for a veterans’

2-29  cemetery in northern Nevada or a veterans’ cemetery in southern

2-30  Nevada, as applicable. Any money remaining in the Gift Account

2-31  for Veterans’ Cemeteries at the end of each fiscal year does not

2-32  revert to the State General Fund, but must be carried over into the

2-33  next fiscal year.

2-34      7.  The Executive Director or the Deputy Executive Director

2-35  shall use gifts of money or personal property that he is authorized

2-36  to accept and for which the donor has restricted to one or more

2-37  uses at a veterans’ cemetery in the manner designated by the

2-38  donor, except that if the original purpose of the gift has been

2-39  fulfilled or the original purpose cannot be fulfilled for good cause,

2-40  any money or personal property remaining in the gift may be used

2-41  for other purposes at the veterans’ cemetery in northern Nevada

2-42  or the veterans’ cemetery in southern Nevada, as appropriate.

 

 

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

3-2  to gifts of money and of personal property donated before July 1,

3-3  2003, that are remaining after that date.

 

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