(Reprinted with amendments adopted on April 21, 2003)

 

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

 

March 13, 2003

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Referred to Committee on Government Affairs

 

SUMMARY—Makes various changes to provisions governing 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; revising the provisions governing financial support for 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[;] or other money provided by the Federal Government for

1-9  the support of veterans’ cemeteries;

1-10      (c) Receipts from the sale of gifts and general merchandise;

1-11  [and]

1-12      (d) Grants obtained by the Executive Director or the Deputy

1-13  Executive Director for the support of veterans’ cemeteries; and

1-14      (e) Except as otherwise provided in subsection 6 and NRS

1-15  417.145 and 417.147, gifts of money and proceeds derived from the

2-1  sale of gifts of personal property that he is authorized to accept, if

2-2  the use of such gifts has not been restricted by the donor,

2-3  must be deposited with the State Treasurer for credit to the Account

2-4  for Veterans’ Affairs and must be accounted for separately for a

2-5  veterans’ cemetery in northern Nevada or a veterans’ cemetery in

2-6  southern Nevada, whichever is appropriate.

2-7  3.  The interest and income earned on the money deposited

2-8  pursuant to subsection 2, after deducting any applicable charges,

2-9  must be accounted for separately. Interest and income must not be

2-10  computed on:

2-11      (a) Money appropriated from the State General Fund to the

2-12  Account for Veterans’ Affairs.

2-13      (b) Fees charged pursuant to NRS 417.110 that are deposited in

2-14  the Account for Veterans’ Affairs.

2-15      4.  [Except as otherwise provided in subsection 6, the] The

2-16  money deposited pursuant to subsection 2 may only be used for the

2-17  operation and maintenance of the cemetery for which the money

2-18  was collected.

2-19      5.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection [6,] 7, gifts of

2-20  personal property which the Executive Director or the Deputy

2-21  Executive Director is authorized to receive but which are not

2-22  appropriate for conversion to money may be used in kind.

2-23      6.  The Gift Account for Veterans’ Cemeteries is hereby created

2-24  in the State General Fund. [The Executive Director or the Deputy

2-25  Executive Director shall use gifts of money or personal property that

2-26  he is authorized to accept and for which the donor has restricted to

2-27  one or more uses at a veterans’ cemetery, only in the manner

2-28  designated by the donor.] Gifts of money that the Executive Director

2-29  or the Deputy Executive Director is authorized to accept and [for]

2-30  which the donor has restricted to one or more uses at a veterans’

2-31  cemetery must be accounted for separately in the Gift Account for

2-32  Veterans’ Cemeteries. The interest and income earned on the money

2-33  deposited pursuant to this subsection must, after deducting any

2-34  applicable charges, be accounted for separately for a veterans’

2-35  cemetery in northern Nevada or a veterans’ cemetery in southern

2-36  Nevada, as applicable. Any money remaining in the Gift Account

2-37  for Veterans’ Cemeteries at the end of each fiscal year does not

2-38  revert to the State General Fund, but must be carried over into the

2-39  next fiscal year.

2-40      7.  The Executive Director or the Deputy Executive Director

2-41  shall use gifts of money or personal property that he is authorized

2-42  to accept and for which the donor has restricted to one or more

2-43  uses at a veterans’ cemetery in the manner designated by the

2-44  donor, except that if the original purpose of the gift has been

2-45  fulfilled or the original purpose cannot be fulfilled for good cause,

3-1  any money or personal property remaining in the gift may be used

3-2  for other purposes at the veterans’ cemetery in northern Nevada

3-3  or the veterans’ cemetery in southern Nevada, as appropriate.

3-4  Sec. 2.  Subsection 7 of NRS 417.220 applies to gifts of money

3-5  and of personal property donated:

3-6  1.  On or after July 1, 2003; and

3-7  2.  Before July 1, 2003, that are remaining after that date.

3-8  Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective on July 1, 2003.

 

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