Assembly Bill No. 153–Committee on Government Affairs

 

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AN ACT relating to the administration of public agencies; increasing the maximum amount that may be maintained in a petty cash account of a state agency; allowing the State Board of Examiners to authorize its clerk to determine whether an emergency exists and approve an expenditure from the Emergency Account in the State General Fund; 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. NRS 353.252 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    353.252  1.  The State Board of Examiners may authorize its

clerk, under such circumstances as it deems appropriate, to authorize

a state agency to establish a petty cash account of not more than

[$250] $500 out of the agency’s budgeted resources.

    2.  If a petty cash account is authorized for any state agency

pursuant to this section, the clerk shall:

    (a) Define the purposes for which the petty cash account may be

used; and

    (b) Provide that replenishment claims must be paid from the

agency’s budgeted resources and processed as other claims against

the State are paid.

    Sec. 2.  NRS 353.263 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    353.263  1.  As used in this section, “emergency” means

invasion, disaster, insurrection, riot, breach of the peace, substantial

threat to life or property, epidemic or the imminent danger thereof.

The term includes damage to or the disintegration of a building

owned by this state or of the mechanical or electrical system of such

a building when immediate repairs are necessary to maintain the

integrity of the structure or its mechanical or electrical system.

    2.  The Emergency Account is hereby created in the State

General Fund. Money for the Account must be provided by direct

legislative appropriation.

    3.  When the State Board of Examiners finds that an emergency

exists which requires an expenditure for which no appropriation has

been made, or in excess of an appropriation made, the Board may

authorize an expenditure from the Emergency Account to meet the

emergency.

    4.  The State Board of Examiners may, under such

circumstances as it deems appropriate, authorize its clerk to

determine whether an emergency exists and approve, on behalf of

the Board, an expenditure from the Emergency Account.

    5.  The Chief shall enumerate expenditures from the Account

made in the preceding biennium in each executive budget report.

    Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective on July 1, 2003.

 

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