353.097 - Stale claims: Stale Claims Account; approval and payment. - Nevada Statutes

353.097  Stale claims: Stale Claims Account; approval and payment.

      1.  As used in this section, “stale claim” means a claim which is presented by a state agency to the State Board of Examiners after the date on which it is provided by law that money appropriated to that state agency for the previous fiscal year reverts to the fund from which appropriated.

      2.  There is hereby created a Stale Claims Account in the State General Fund. Money for the Account must be provided by direct legislative appropriation.

      3.  Upon the approval of a stale claim as provided in this section, the claim must be paid from the Stale Claims Account. Payments of stale claims for a state agency must not exceed the amount of money reverted to the fund from which appropriated by the state agency for the fiscal year in which the obligations represented by the stale claims were incurred.

      4.  A stale claim must be approved for payment from the Stale Claims Account by the State Board of Examiners, except that the State Board of Examiners may authorize its Clerk, under such circumstances as it deems appropriate, to approve stale claims on behalf of the Board. A state agency that is aggrieved by a determination of the Clerk to deny all or any part of a stale claim may appeal that determination to the State Board of Examiners.

      5.  A stale claim may be approved and paid at any time, despite the age of the claim, if payable from available federal grants or from a permanent fund in the State Treasury other than the State General Fund.

      (Added to NRS by 1969, 1108; A 1983, 180; 2001, 1077)