Assembly Bill No. 304–Assemblyman Manendo (by request)

 

CHAPTER..........

 

AN ACT relating to veterans’ cemeteries; revising the provisions governing financial support for veterans’ cemeteries; authorizing the use of the remainder of certain gifts of money and personal property donated for use at veterans’ cemeteries; 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 417.220 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    417.220  1.  The Account for Veterans’ Affairs is hereby

created in the State General Fund.

    2.  Money received by the Executive Director or the Deputy

Executive Director from:

    (a) Fees charged pursuant to NRS 417.210;

    (b) Allowances for burial from the Department of Veterans

Affairs[;] or other money provided by the Federal Government for

the support of veterans’ cemeteries;

    (c) Receipts from the sale of gifts and general merchandise;

[and]

    (d) Grants obtained by the Executive Director or the Deputy

Executive Director for the support of veterans’ cemeteries; and

    (e) Except as otherwise provided in subsection 6 and NRS

417.145 and 417.147, gifts of money and proceeds derived from the

sale of gifts of personal property that he is authorized to accept, if

the use of such gifts has not been restricted by the donor,

must be deposited with the State Treasurer for credit to the Account

for Veterans’ Affairs and must be accounted for separately for a

veterans’ cemetery in northern Nevada or a veterans’ cemetery in

southern Nevada, whichever is appropriate.

    3.  The interest and income earned on the money deposited

pursuant to subsection 2, after deducting any applicable charges,

must be accounted for separately. Interest and income must not be

computed on:

    (a) Money appropriated from the State General Fund to the

Account for Veterans’ Affairs.

    (b) Fees charged pursuant to NRS 417.110 that are deposited in

the Account for Veterans’ Affairs.

    4.  [Except as otherwise provided in subsection 6, the] The

money deposited pursuant to subsection 2 may only be used for the

operation and maintenance of the cemetery for which the money

was collected.

    5.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection [6,] 7, gifts of

personal property which the Executive Director or the Deputy

Executive Director is authorized to receive but which are not

appropriate for conversion to money may be used in kind.

    6.  The Gift Account for Veterans’ Cemeteries is hereby created

in the State General Fund. [The Executive Director or the Deputy

Executive Director shall use gifts of money or personal property that

he is authorized to accept and for which the donor has restricted to

one or more uses at a veterans’ cemetery, only in the manner

designated by the donor.] Gifts of money that the Executive Director

or the Deputy Executive Director is authorized to accept and [for]

which the donor has restricted to one or more uses at a veterans’

cemetery must be accounted for separately in the Gift Account for

Veterans’ Cemeteries. The interest and income earned on the money

deposited pursuant to this subsection must, after deducting any

applicable charges, be accounted for separately for a veterans’

cemetery in northern Nevada or a veterans’ cemetery in southern

Nevada, as applicable. Any money remaining in the Gift Account

for Veterans’ Cemeteries at the end of each fiscal year does not

revert to the State General Fund, but must be carried over into the

next fiscal year.

    7.  The Executive Director or the Deputy Executive Director

shall use gifts of money or personal property that he is authorized

to accept and for which the donor has restricted to one or more

uses at a veterans’ cemetery in the manner designated by the

donor, except that if the original purpose of the gift has been

fulfilled or the original purpose cannot be fulfilled for good cause,

any money or personal property remaining in the gift may be used

for other purposes at the veterans’ cemetery in northern Nevada

or the veterans’ cemetery in southern Nevada, as appropriate.

    Sec. 2.  Subsection 7 of NRS 417.220 applies to gifts of money

and of personal property donated:

    1.  On or after July 1, 2003; and

    2.  Before July 1, 2003, that are remaining after that date.

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

 

²⁰~~~~~⁰³