SUMMARY--Specifies permissible payees on checks intended as payment to local government. (BDR 31-382)
FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.
Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.
EXPLANATION - Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is material to be omitted.
AN ACT relating to local governmental administration; specifying the permissible payees on checks and other negotiable instruments intended as payment to a local government; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1 Chapter 354 of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to read as follows:
1. All checks and other negotiable instruments which are intended by the maker to constitute payment to a local government must name as payee:
(a) The local government; or
(b) The title of the governmental official charged by law with the collection of such payments.
In no event may such a negotiable instrument name a natural person as payee.
2. As used in this section, "local government" means every political subdivision or other entity which has the right to levy or receive money from ad valorem taxes or other taxes or from any mandatory assessments, including, without limitation, counties, cities, towns, boards, authorities, school districts and other districts organized pursuant to chapters 244, 244A, 309, 318, 379, 439, 450, 473, 474, 539, 541, 543 and 555 of NRS.