Nevada Code § 350.660

Covenants and other provisions in municipal securities
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Any ordinance providing for the issuance of
any bonds or other municipal securities hereunder payable from pledged revenues
and any indenture or other instrument or proceedings appertaining thereto may
at the discretion of the governing body contain covenants or other provisions,
notwithstanding such covenants and provisions may limit the exercise of powers
conferred hereby, in order to secure the payment of such securities, in
agreement with the holders of such securities, including without limitation
covenants or other provisions as to any one or more of the following:
1. The pledged revenues and, in the case
of general obligations, the taxes to be fixed, charged or levied and the
collection, use and disposition thereof, including but not limited to the
foreclosure of liens for delinquencies, the discontinuance of services,
facilities or use of any properties or facilities, prohibition against free
service, the collection of penalties and collection costs, and the use and disposition
of any moneys of the municipality, derived or to be derived, from any source
herein designated;
2. The acquisition, improvement or
equipment of all or any part of properties pertaining to any project or any
facilities;
3. The creation and maintenance of
reserves or sinking funds to secure the payment of the principal of and
interest on any securities or of operation and maintenance expenses of any
facilities, or part thereof, and the source, custody, security, regulation, use
and disposition of any such reserves or funds, including but not limited to the
powers and duties of any trustee with regard thereto;
4. A fair and reasonable payment by the
municipality from its general fund or other available moneys to the account of
any designated facilities for services rendered thereby to the municipality;
5. The payment of the cost of any project
by delineating the purpose or purposes to which the proceeds of the sale of
securities may be applied, and the custody, security, use, expenditure, application
and disposition thereof;
6. The temporary investment and any
reinvestment of proceeds of bonds, other securities, any taxes or pledged
revenues, or any combination thereof, in federal securities and other
securities issued by the Federal Government;
7. The pledge of and the creation of a
lien upon pledged revenues or the proceeds of bonds or other municipal
securities pending their application to defray the cost of any project, or both
such revenues and proceeds of such securities, to secure the payment of bonds
or other such securities issued hereunder;
8. The payment of the principal of and
interest on any municipal securities, and any prior redemption premiums due in
connection therewith, and the sources and methods thereof, the rank or priority
of any securities as to any lien or security for payment, or the acceleration
of any maturity of any securities, or the issuance of other or additional
securities payable from or constituting a charge against or lien upon any
pledged revenues or other moneys pledged for the payment of securities and the
creation of future liens and encumbrances thereagainst;
9. The use, regulation, inspection,
management, operation, maintenance or disposition, or any limitation or
regulation of the use, of all or any part of the facilities or any property of
the municipality appertaining thereto;
10. The determination or definition of
pledged revenues from any facilities or of operation and maintenance expenses
of facilities, the use and disposition of such revenues and the manner of and
limitations upon paying such expenses;
11. The creation of special funds and
accounts appertaining to any pledged revenues or to the bonds or other
securities issued hereunder;
12. The insurance to be carried by the
municipality or any other person in interest and use and disposition of
insurance moneys, the acquisition of completion, performance, surety and
fidelity bonds appertaining to any project or funds, or both, and the use and
disposition of any proceeds of such bonds;
13. Books of account, the inspection and
audit thereof, and other records appertaining to any project, facilities or
pledged revenues;
14. The assumption or payment or discharge
of any obligation, lien or other claim relating to any part of any project, any
facilities or any securities having or which may have a lien on any part of any
pledged revenues or other moneys of the municipality;
15. Limitations on the powers of the
municipality to acquire or operate, or permit the acquisition or operation of,
any structures, facilities or properties which may compete or tend to compete
with any facilities;
16. The vesting in a corporate or other
trustee or trustees of such property, rights, powers and duties in trust as the
governing body may determine, which may include any or all of the rights,
powers and duties of the trustee appointed by the holders of securities, and
limiting or abrogating the right of such holders to appoint a trustee, or
limiting the rights, duties and powers of such trustee;
17. Events of default, rights and
liabilities arising therefrom, and the rights, liabilities, powers and duties
arising upon the breach by the municipality of any covenants, conditions or
obligations;
18. The terms and conditions upon which
the holders of the municipal securities or any portion, percentage or amount of
them may enforce any covenants or provisions made hereunder or duties imposed
thereby;
19. The terms and conditions upon which
the holders of the securities or of a specified portion, percentage or amount
thereof; or any trustee therefor, shall be entitled to the appointment of a
receiver, which receiver may enter and take possession of any facilities or
service, operate and maintain the same, prescribe fees, rates and charges, and
collect, receive and apply all revenues thereafter arising therefrom in the
same manner as the municipality itself might do;
20. A procedure by which the terms of any
ordinance authorizing securities, or any other contract with any holders of
municipal securities, including but not limited to an indenture of trust or
similar instrument, may be amended or abrogated, and as to the proportion,
percentage or amount of securities the holders of which must consent thereto,
and the manner in which such consent may be given;
21. The terms and conditions upon which
any or all of the securities shall become or may be declared due before
maturity, and as to the terms and conditions upon which such declaration and
its consequences may be waived; and
22. All such acts and things as may be
necessary or convenient or desirable in order to secure the securities, or in
the discretion of the governing body tend to make the securities more
marketable, notwithstanding that such covenant, act or thing may not be
enumerated herein, it being the intention hereof to give the governing body
power to do in the name and on behalf of the municipality all things in the
issuance of municipal securities and for their security except as herein
expressly limited.

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