1. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, the boards of county commissioners in their respective counties may establish by ordinance central receiving and disbursing systems for the handling of county money and money held in trust by the county or by any of its elected or appointed officers. Such systems may include, but are not limited to, the following:
(a) The commingling of all the money from any source if the accounting system employed supplies full information concerning the sources of the money.
(b) The elimination of departmental accounts in an insured bank, credit union, savings and loan association or savings bank by commingling the money in an account or accounts maintained by the county treasurer.
(c) The elimination of trust accounts in a bank or credit union, created for any reason as long as adequate records are maintained to identify fully all trust money. The money previously held in such trust accounts may be commingled with other money held in accounts maintained in a bank or credit union by the county treasurer.
(d) The centralization of all disbursing of all money, including trust money, if the accounting system employed supplies full information concerning the disposition of the money.
(e) The centralization of part or all of billing and collection aspects of business licenses, personal property and any other activity of any of the offices of the county that involves billing for services, taxes or fees imposed by statute or ordinance, or the collection of money in payment of such billings.
(f) In a county whose population is 100,000 or more, the centralization of part or all of the billing and collection aspects of any fine, fee, bail or forfeiture imposed by a court and any payment ordered by a court pursuant to NRS 178.3975.
2. Investment income from the commingled money must be credited to the general fund of the county if other provisions of law or contract do not require other allocation of the investment income.
3. This section does not:
(a) Eliminate the reporting requirements of various elected and appointed officials relating to the receipt and disposition of money.
(b) Limit the right of a local government as defined in NRS 354.474, but not including a county, whose money is held in trust by the county to direct the receipt, disbursement and investment of its money independently of the system provided for in this section, where the independent direction is otherwise authorized by law.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 1676; A 1975, 278, 1796; 1979, 1882; 1991, 449; 1999, 1463)
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