NRS350.370. Additional powers of municipality under NRS 350.350 to 350.490, inclusive.

  In addition to the powers which it may now have, any municipality shall, subject to the limitation stated in this section, have power under NRS 350.350 to 350.490, inclusive:

      1.  To acquire by gift, purchase or the exercise of the right of eminent domain, to construct, to reconstruct, to improve, to better and to extend any undertaking, wholly within or wholly without the municipality, or partially within and partially without the municipality, and to acquire by gift, purchase or the exercise of the right of eminent domain, lands, easements, rights in lands and water rights in connection therewith.

      2.  To operate and maintain any undertaking for its own use and for the use of public and private consumers, and users within and without the territorial boundaries of the municipality.

      3.  To prescribe, revise and collect rates, fees, tolls or charges for the services, facilities or commodities furnished by such undertaking, and, in anticipation of the collection of the revenues of such undertaking, to issue revenue bonds to finance in whole or in part the cost of the acquisition, construction, reconstruction, improvement, betterment or extension of any undertaking.

      4.  To pledge to the punctual payment of the bonds and interest thereon all or any part of the revenues of such undertaking (including the revenues of improvements, betterments or extension thereto thereafter constructed or acquired, as well as the revenues of existing systems, plants, works, instrumentalities and properties of the undertaking so improved, bettered or extended) or of any part of such undertaking.

      5.  When determined by its governing body to be in the public interest and necessary for the protection of the public health, to enter into and perform contracts, whether long-term or short-term, with any industrial or mining establishment for the provision and operation by the municipality of sewage facilities to abate or reduce the pollution of water caused by discharges of industrial or mining waste by the industrial or mining establishment and the payment periodically by the industrial or mining establishment to the municipality of amounts at least sufficient, in the determination of such governing body, to compensate the municipality for the cost of providing (including payment of principal and interest charges, if any) and of operating and maintaining the sewerage facilities serving such industrial or mining establishment.

      6.  Notwithstanding any provision of NRS 350.350 to 350.490, inclusive, to the contrary or in conflict herewith, to accept contributions or loans from the United States of America or any department, instrumentality or agency thereof, for the purpose of financing or aiding in financing the cost of preliminary investigations and studies, surveys, plans and specifications, procedures and other action preliminary to construction, and the construction, maintenance and operation of any undertaking.

      7.  To make all contracts, execute all instruments and do all things necessary or convenient in the exercise of the powers herein granted or in the performance of its covenants or duties or in order to secure the payment of its bonds; provided:

      (a) No encumbrance, mortgage or other pledge of property of the municipality is created thereby;

      (b) No property of the municipality is liable to be forfeited or taken in payment of the bonds; and

      (c) No debt on the credit of the municipality is thereby incurred in any manner for any purpose.

      [3:109:1937; A 1949, 205; 1943 NCL § 1397.03]