Nevada Code § 271.515

Bonds: Form; terms; execution; facsimile signature
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1. Any assessment bonds:
(a) Must bear such date or dates;
(b) Must mature in such denomination or
denominations at such time or times, but in no event commencing later than 3
years nor exceeding 30 years after their date;
(c) Must bear interest payable at such intervals,
but not less often than annually;
(d) Must be payable in such medium of payment at
such place or places within and without the State, including, but not limited
to, the office of the county treasurer; and
(e) At the option of the governing body, may be
made subject to prior redemption in advance of maturity, in such order or by
lot or otherwise, at such time or times, without or with the payment of a premium
or premiums not exceeding 5 percent of the principal amount of each bond so
redeemed,
as provided
by ordinance.
2. Bonds may be issued with privileges for
registration for payment as to principal, or both principal and interest, and
the bonds may provide for the endorsing of payments of interest thereon. The
bonds generally must be issued in such manner, in such form, with such
recitals, terms, covenants and conditions, with such provisions for conversion
into bonds of other denominations, and with such other details, as may be
provided by the governing body in the ordinance or ordinances authorizing the
bonds, except as herein otherwise provided.
3. Pending preparations of the definitive
bonds, interim or temporary bonds, in such form and with such provisions as the
governing body may determine, may be issued.
4. Except for payment provisions herein
expressly provided, the bonds and such interim or temporary bonds must be fully
negotiable within the meaning of and for all the purposes of the Uniform
Commercial Code—Negotiable Instruments and the Uniform Commercial
Code—Investment Securities.
5. Notwithstanding any other provisions of
law, the governing body, in any proceedings authorizing bonds hereunder, may:
(a) Provide for the initial issuance of one or
more bonds, in this subsection called bond, aggregating the amount of the
entire issue or any portion thereof.
(b) Make such provision for installment payments
of the principal amount of any such bond as it may consider desirable.
(c) Provide for the making of any such bond
payable to bearer or otherwise, registrable as to principal, or as to both
principal and interest, and for the endorsing of payments of interest on such
bond.
(d) Make provision in any such proceedings for
the manner and circumstances in and under which any such bond may in the
future, at the request of the holder thereof, be converted into bonds of larger
or smaller denominations.
6. Any bonds may be issued hereunder with
provisions for their reissuance, and the terms and conditions thereof, whether
lost, apparently destroyed, wrongfully taken, or for any other reason, as
provided in the Uniform Commercial Code—Investment Securities, or otherwise.
7. Any bond must be executed in the name
of and on behalf of the municipality and signed by the mayor, chair or other
presiding officer of the governing body, countersigned by the treasurer of the
municipality, with the seal of the municipality affixed thereto and attested by
the clerk.
8. Any bond may be executed as provided in
the Uniform Facsimile Signatures of Public Officials Act.
9. The bonds bearing the signatures of the
officers in office at the time of the signing thereof are the valid and binding
obligations of the municipality, notwithstanding that before the delivery
thereof and payment therefor, any or all of the persons whose signatures appear
thereon have ceased to fill their respective offices.
10. Any officer herein authorized or
permitted to sign any bond, at the time of its execution and of the execution
of a signature certificate, may adopt as and for the officers own facsimile
signature the facsimile signature of his or her predecessor in office in the
event that such facsimile signature appears upon the bond.

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