NRS353.203. Committee on Local Government Finance to adopt regulations establishing procedures for transferring functions of state agencies and local governments.

      1.  The Committee on Local Government Finance created pursuant to NRS 354.105 shall, in consultation with the Director of the Department of Administration, adopt regulations to establish procedures for transferring a function from a state agency to a local government or from a local government to a state agency.

      2.  The regulations adopted by the Committee on Local Government Finance pursuant to subsection 1 must:

      (a) Be adopted in the manner prescribed for state agencies in chapter 233B of NRS.

      (b) Include provisions requiring:

             (1) That, except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, notice to the affected state agency and local government of the intent to transfer a function from a state agency to a local government or from a local government to a state agency be given not less than 30 days before September 1 of an even-numbered year, unless a different period of notification is required by a statute or by contractual agreement.

             (2) That, except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, the effective date of the transfer of a function from a state agency to a local government or from a local government to a state agency not be any earlier than July 1 of the year after the year in which notice is given, as described in subparagraph (1).

             (3) The exchange of such information between the affected state agency and local government as is necessary to complete the transfer, including, without limitation, such matters as a complete description of the function to be transferred and the mechanism to be used to pay for the performance of that function.

      3.  An affected state agency and local government may, by mutual agreement, waive the requirements set forth in subparagraphs (1) and (2) of paragraph (b) of subsection 2.

      4.  As used in this section, “local government” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 354.474.

      (Added to NRS by 2009, 430)