NRS408.250. Federal acts: State highways; contracts; pledge to match federal money.

      1.  The Department is authorized:

      (a) To enter into all contracts and agreements with the United States Government relating to the engineering, planning, surveying and preparing of plans, acquiring of property, constructing and maintaining of highways under the provisions of the Acts of Congress described in NRS 408.245, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder by the Secretary of Commerce and the Federal Highway Administrator.

      (b) To submit such schemes, plans and programs of construction and maintenance as may be required by the Secretary of Commerce and the Federal Highway Administrator.

      (c) To do all other things necessary to carry out the cooperation and programs contemplated and provided for by such federal acts.

      2.  For the engineering, planning, constructing and improving of highways and roads provided under the Federal Aid Road Act, the good faith of the State is hereby pledged to make funds available sufficient to match in the proportion designated in the Federal Aid Road Act the sums of money apportioned to the State by or under the United States Government, and to maintain at its own expense the highways so constructed with the aid of funds so designated, and to make adequate provisions for carrying out such maintenance.

      (Added to NRS by 1957, 671; A 1965, 1075)