NRS377B.190. Money for payment of cost of project for which tax was imposed: Issuance of bonds or other obligations; direct distribution from infrastructure fund; authority of board of county commissioners or water authority.

      1.  Money for the payment of the cost of one or more projects for which the board of county commissioners has imposed all or a portion of the tax authorized pursuant to this chapter may be obtained by the issuance of bonds and other securities as provided in this section, or, subject to any pledges, liens and other contractual limitations made pursuant to this chapter, may be obtained by direct distribution from the infrastructure fund, or may be obtained both by the issuance of such securities and by such direct distribution as determined by the board of county commissioners or, in a county whose population is 700,000 or more and in which a water authority exists, by the water authority.

      2.  The board of county commissioners of a county whose population is less than 700,000 or of a county whose population is 700,000 or more and in which no water authority exists may, after the enactment of an ordinance imposing a tax for infrastructure as authorized by NRS 377B.100, from time to time issue bonds and other securities, which are general or special obligations of the county and which may be secured as to principal and interest by a pledge authorized by this chapter of the receipts from the taxes imposed by this chapter. The ordinance authorizing the issuance of any bond or other security must describe the purpose for which it was issued.

      3.  After the enactment of an ordinance imposing a tax for infrastructure by the board of county commissioners of a county whose population is 700,000 or more and in which a water authority exists, the water authority or, if so provided in an interlocal agreement to which the water authority is a party, one or more of the members of the water authority, may from time to time issue bonds and other securities, which are general or special obligations and which may be secured as to principal and interest by a pledge authorized by this chapter of the receipts from the taxes imposed by this chapter.

      4.  In a county whose population is 700,000 or more, no bonds or other securities may be issued pursuant to this section which are payable from or secured by, in whole or in part, any revenue from a tax enacted pursuant to this chapter to be collected after:

      (a) The last day of the month in which the Department determines that the total sum collected since the tax was first imposed, exclusive of any penalties and interest, exceeds $2.3 billion; or

      (b) June 30, 2025,

Ê whichever occurs earlier, unless the board of county commissioners pursuant to subsection 4 of NRS 377B.100 has determined by an affirmative vote of at least two-thirds of its members that the cessation of the tax is not advisable.

      (Added to NRS by 1997, 2400; A 2011, 1244, 3326)