USA Statutes : nevada
Title : Title 49 - AGRICULTURE
Chapter : CHAPTER 549 - EXTENSION WORK IN AGRICULTURE, HOME ECONOMICS AND RURAL WELFARE
To provide for
continued educational, research, outreach and service programs pertaining
to agriculture, community development, health and nutrition,
horticulture, personal and family development, and natural resources in
the rural and urban communities in the State of Nevada, the Director of
the Agricultural Extension Department of the Public Service Division of
the Nevada System of Higher Education and the boards of county
commissioners of any or all of the respective counties of the State of
Nevada may enter into cooperative agreements and activities subject to
the provisions of this chapter.
[1:94:1947; 1943 NCL § 356.1]—(NRS A 1969, 1444; 1993, 413; 1999,
2550 )
1. The Director of the Agricultural Extension Department of the
Public Service Division of the Nevada System of Higher Education shall
prepare and submit to the board of county commissioners, for each county
participating, an annual financial budget covering the county, state and
federal funds cooperating in the cost of educational, research, outreach
and service programs pertaining to agriculture, community development,
health and nutrition, horticulture, personal and family development, and
natural resources in the rural and urban communities in the State of
Nevada.
2. The budget must be adopted by the board of county commissioners
and certified as a part of the annual county budget, and the county tax
levy provided for agricultural extension work in the annual county budget
must include a levy of not less than 1 cent on each $100 of taxable
property. If the proceeds of the county tax levy of 1 cent are
insufficient to meet the county’s share of the cooperative agricultural
extension work, as provided in the combined annual financial budget, the
board of county commissioners may, by unanimous vote, levy an additional
tax so that the total in no instance exceeds 5 cents on each $100 of the
county tax rate.
3. The proceeds of such a tax must be placed in the agricultural
extension fund in each county treasury and must be paid out on claims
drawn by the agricultural extension agent of the county as designated by
the Director of the Agricultural Extension Department of the Public
Service Division of the Nevada System of Higher Education, when approved
by the Director and countersigned by the Treasurer of the Nevada System
of Higher Education.
4. A record of all such claims approved and paid, segregated by
counties, must be kept by the Treasurer of the Nevada System of Higher
Education. The cost of maintaining the record must be paid from state
funds provided for by this chapter.
5. The state’s cooperative share of the cost of such agricultural
extension work, as entered in the budget described in this section, must
not be more than a sum equal to the proceeds of 1 cent of such county tax
rate; but when the proceeds of a 1-cent tax rate are insufficient to
carry out the provisions of the budget previously adopted, the Director
of the Agricultural Extension Department of the Public Service Division
of the Nevada System of Higher Education is authorized to supplement the
state’s cooperative share from the funds as may be made available in the
Public Service Division Fund of the Nevada System of Higher Education.
[2:94:1947; 1943 NCL § 356.2]—(NRS A 1969, 1444; 1993, 413; 1999,
2550 )
1. A certified copy of the county extension work budget as adopted
and approved pursuant to NRS 549.020
must be filed with the Treasurer of the Nevada System of Higher Education
within 10 days after its approval by the board of county commissioners.
2. Necessary modifications thereof, involving county and state
funds, resulting from leaves of absence without pay, resignations,
changes in salary, dismissals or employment of any cooperative agent,
variations in expense accounts or otherwise, not involving an increase in
the total expenditures provided to be paid from the funds and consistent
with the purposes of this chapter, may be made by filing with the
Treasurer of the Nevada System of Higher Education and the board of
county commissioners a revised budget, approved by the Director of the
Agricultural Extension Department of the Public Service Division of the
Nevada System of Higher Education and countersigned by the Treasurer of
the Nevada System of Higher Education.
[3:94:1947; 1943 NCL § 356.3]—(NRS A 1969, 1444; 1993, 414)
Funds to carry out the
provisions of this chapter shall be provided by direct legislative
appropriation from the General Fund.
[4:94:1947; 1943 NCL § 356.4]—(NRS A 1961, 513)
All moneys
appropriated pursuant to NRS 549.040
must be expended under the direction of the Director of the Agricultural
Extension Department of the Public Service Division of the Nevada System
of Higher Education to the extent of the financial budget for cooperation
between the State and the respective counties provided for in NRS 549.020
.
[5:94:1947; 1943 NCL § 356.5]—(NRS A 1969, 1445; 1993, 414)
Any
county in the state which has agreed or shall agree to participate in
cooperative work in agricultural extension under the provisions of this
chapter or acts previously passed by the Legislature and approved by the
Governor shall, by the provisions hereof, come under this chapter.
[6:94:1947; 1943 NCL § 356.6]
1. All supplies, materials, equipment, property or land acquired
for the use of county agricultural extension offices under the provisions
of chapter 213, Statutes of Nevada 1919, shall remain the property of the
county extension offices set up under the provisions of this chapter.
2. Any and all contracts for the purchase of equipment, property
or land of any type or description made under the provisions of chapter
213, Statutes of Nevada 1919, shall remain in full force and effect until
the completion of such contracts.
[7:94:1947; 1943 NCL § 356.7]
