Nevada Code § 387.551

Joint operation and maintenance: Powers of districts
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1. Subject to any contractual provisions
between the county school districts, including, without limitation, a compact
entered into pursuant to NRS 387.563 , if
applicable, such county school districts hereby are jointly and severally
authorized and empowered to:
(a) Operate and maintain the facility or project
upon its completion;
(b) Extend, better, alter, reconstruct, repair
and otherwise improve the facility or project;
(c) Equip and reequip the facility or project;
(d) Sell, lease, exchange, transfer, assign or
otherwise dispose of property pertaining to the facility or project which no
longer is necessary or desirable for use in connection therewith;
(e) Insure or provide for public liability
insurance, property damage insurance and other insurance for the facility or
project, or any part thereof, or any activity in connection therewith, against
such risks and hazards as either or both county school districts may deem
advisable;
(f) Receive, control, invest and order the
expenditure of any money pertaining to the facility or project;
(g) Arrange or contract for the furnishing by any
person or agency, public or private, of services, privileges, works or facilities
for, or in connection with, the facility, and to assign, reassign and transfer
any personnel of either county school district for the performance of duties in
connection with the facility or project;
(h) Make available for temporary use or otherwise
dispose of any machinery, equipment, facilities and other property for the
facility or project;
(i) Make and keep records in connection with the
facility or project;
(j) Arbitrate any differences arising in
connection with the facility or project;
(k) Commence, defend, conduct, terminate by
settlement or otherwise, and otherwise participate in any litigation or other
court, judicial or quasi-judicial action, by suit, action, mandamus or other
proceedings, concerning the facility or project;
(l) Use for or in connection with the facility or
project money, land and other real and personal property legally available
therefor of either county school district not originally acquired therefor;
(m) Levy and collect from year to year for use
for or in connection with the facility or project general (ad valorem) property
taxes in the manner provided by law, including, without limitation, the payment
of indebtedness incurred therefor;
(n) Budget and appropriate, and each county
school district is hereby required and directed to budget and appropriate, from
time to time, general (ad valorem) tax proceeds and other revenues legally
available therefor to pay all obligations arising from the exercise of any
powers herein granted as such obligations shall accrue and become due;
(o) Make contracts and execute all instruments
necessary or convenient, including, without limitation, contracts with the
Federal Government and the State;
(p) Acquire any construction work, improvement or
improvements of any nature in connection with the facility or project in the
manner provided by law;
(q) Prescribe and enforce reasonable rules and
regulations for the use of the facility or project;
(r) Provide for an agency, by any agreement
authorized in NRS 387.531 to 387.591 , inclusive, to administer or
execute that or any collateral agreement, which agency may be one of the
parties to the agreement, or an advisory council, a commission or a board
constituted pursuant to the agreement;
(s) Provide that any such agency shall possess
the common power specified in the agreement, and may exercise it in the manner
or according to the method provided in the agreement, but such power is subject
to the restrictions upon the manner of exercising the power of any one of the
contracting parties as designated by the agreement;
(t) Continue any agreement herein authorized for
a definite term not exceeding 50 years, or until rescinded or terminated, which
agreement may provide for the method by which it may be rescinded or terminated
by any party;
(u) Exercise all or any part or combination of
the powers herein granted; and
(v) Do and perform any and all other acts and
things necessary, convenient, desirable or appropriate to carry out the
provisions of NRS 387.531 to 387.591 , inclusive, and to have and
exercise all rights and powers necessary or incidental to or implied from the
specific powers granted in NRS 387.531 to 387.591 , inclusive.
2. The specific powers in subsection 1
must not be considered as a limitation upon any power necessary, convenient,
desirable or appropriate to carry out the purposes and intent of NRS 387.531 to 387.591 , inclusive.

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