NRS268.045. Capital improvement fund: Accumulation; purpose; repayment from general fund.

      1.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, every incorporated city in this state, whether incorporated under the provisions of chapter 266 or 267 of NRS or under the provisions of a special act, may accumulate a fund for a period of time not to exceed 10 years for the purpose of making future municipal capital improvements, but no special tax may be levied for this purpose. The fund must not exceed the amount of 25 cents per year on each $100 of assessed value of real and personal property in such city.

      2.  Every incorporated city in this state, whether incorporated under the provisions of chapter 266 or 267 of NRS or under the provisions of a special act, may accumulate any money received from the sale or lease of real and personal property, which property was transferred to the city by the Federal Government or one of its agencies without consideration, for the purpose of making future municipal capital improvements, without regard to the limitations of time and amount contained in subsection 1.

      3.  All money so accumulated from whatever source must be placed in a fund to be designated as the ........ capital improvement fund.

      4.  A city may, by payments from the general fund of the city scheduled over a period of years, return to a fund accumulated pursuant to subsection 2 money withdrawn from that fund to finance a specific municipal capital improvement.

      5.  No money in the capital improvement fund at the end of the fiscal year may revert to the general fund of the city, nor may the money be a surplus.

      (Added to NRS by 1957, 574; A 1960, 15; 1961, 236; 1993, 110)