Assembly Bill No. 65

Assembly Bill No. 65-Committee on Government Affairs

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AN ACT relating to county employees; making various changes concerning the payment of travel expenses and subsistence allowances to county employees; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

[Approved July 16, 1997]

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

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Section 1. NRS 245.060 is hereby amended to read as follows:
245.060 [1. When any] If a county or township officer or [any] an employee of the county [shall be] is entitled to receive reimbursement for his necessary traveling expenses for the transaction of public business, such [expenses shall] reimbursement must include actual living expenses, but the amount allowed for traveling by private conveyance [shall] must not exceed the amount charged by public conveyance. Where it appears to the satisfaction of the board of county commissioners that travel by private conveyance is more economical, or where it appears that, owing to train, airplane or bus schedules or for other reasons, travel by public conveyance is impractical, or in case a part of the route traveled is not covered by public conveyance, the board of county commissioners, in its discretion, [is authorized to] may allow for traveling by private conveyance an amount not to exceed the maximum per-mile allowance for travel by private conveyance of state officers and employees specified in subsection 3 of NRS 281.160.
[2. All claims for traveling expenses and subsistence allowances shall be approved by the board of county commissioners before payment.]
Sec. 2. NRS 245.062 is hereby amended to read as follows:
245.062 1. The board of county commissioners of [any county may, by resolution of the board, create a county travel revolving fund to provide advances of money to county officers and employees for authorized subsistence allowances and] a county shall, by ordinance, establish procedures for the payment of authorized travel expenses of county officers and employees arising out of their official duties or employment [, in the amounts] as provided in NRS 245.060.
2. The [resolution must set forth:
(a) The maximum amount of money that may be held in the fund;
(b) The source of the money to be used to establish and maintain the fund; and
(c) The method of controlling advances from the fund and reimbursing the fund for amounts advanced.] ordinance must require that each department of the county set forth in its annual budget the maximum amount of money that it estimates will be necessary to pay for necessary travel expenses for the fiscal year. The ordinance may contain procedures by which the amount budgeted by a department during the fiscal year may be increased if the estimated amount of money is insufficient to pay for actual travel expenses.
3. The [resolution] ordinance may authorize certain officers or employees to disburse money [from the fund] to pay an advance or claim for travel expenses to an employee without obtaining the approval of the board of county commissioners [. The resolution must require reimbursement of the fund upon return of the officer or employee by proper documentation for the money advanced which must be approved by the board of county commissioners before the reimbursement is made.] if the amount of such an advance or claim was included in the annual budget of the employing department.
4. All money advanced [from the fund] to a county officer or employee to pay for his travel expenses constitutes a lien in favor of the county upon the accrued wages of the officer or employee to whom the advance was made. The county may advance more money [from the fund] to an officer or employee than the amount of his currently accrued wages.
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