Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 319 - Assistance to Finance Housing
NRS 319.020 - Legislative findings and declaration; liberal construction.

The Legislature finds and declares that:
1. There exists a serious shortage of decent, safe and sanitary housing in this State available to persons and families of low and moderate income and that many other persons and families are unable to secure or afford, without assistance, decent, safe and sanitary housing.
2. This condition is conducive to disease, crime, environmental decline and poverty, impairs the economic value of large areas, which are characterized by depreciated value, impaired investments, reduced capacity to pay taxes, and lack of new development to meet the needs of area residents, and is a menace to the health, safety, morals and welfare of the residents of this State.
3. This condition results in a loss of population and further deterioration accompanied by added costs to communities for creation of new public facilities and services elsewhere.
4. It is difficult and uneconomic for individual owners independently to remedy this condition.
5. One major cause of this condition has been recurrent shortages of money from private sources, and such shortages have contributed to reductions in construction of new residential housing and have made the sale and purchase of existing residential housing a virtual impossibility in certain parts of the State. Other causes of this condition include increases in rental values and decreases in the availability of federal funding for housing.
6. The ordinary operations of private enterprise have not in the past corrected these conditions.
7. The reduction in housing construction has caused substantial unemployment and underemployment in the construction industry which, together with the shortage of affordable housing, results in hardships, wastes human resources, increases the public assistance burdens of the State, impairs the security of family life, impedes the economic and physical development of the State and adversely affects the welfare, health and prosperity of all the people of this State.
8. A stable supply of adequate money for the financing and provision of other assistance to obtain housing is required to encourage new housing in an orderly and sustained manner, to increase the availability of affordable housing, and thereby to reduce these detrimental results.
9. It is necessary to create a Housing Division in the Department of Business and Industry to encourage the investment of private capital and stimulate the financing of housing through the use of public financing to provide mortgage loans and to make loans to and purchase mortgage loans from mortgage lenders, and to perform any other function authorized by this chapter.
10. It is appropriate for the Housing Division to issue obligations regardless of their characterization for the purposes of federal income taxation by the United States Department of the Treasury.
11. All of the purposes set forth in this chapter are public purposes and uses for which public money may be borrowed, expended, advanced, loaned or granted.
This chapter must be liberally construed to accomplish the public purposes and alleviate the detrimental conditions set forth in this section.
(Added to NRS by 1975, 625; A 1987, 1353; 1989, 1213; 1993, 1554)

Structure Nevada Revised Statutes

Nevada Revised Statutes

Chapter 319 - Assistance to Finance Housing

NRS 319.020 - Legislative findings and declaration; liberal construction.

NRS 319.030 - Definitions.

NRS 319.040 - "Administrator" defined.

NRS 319.042 - "Affordable housing" defined.

NRS 319.045 - "Collateralized mortgage obligation" defined.

NRS 319.050 - "Division" defined.

NRS 319.060 - "Eligible family" defined.

NRS 319.070 - "Governmental agency" defined.

NRS 319.090 - "Lending institution" defined.

NRS 319.100 - "Mortgage" defined.

NRS 319.110 - "Mortgage loan" defined.

NRS 319.115 - "Person with a disability" defined.

NRS 319.120 - "Real property" defined.

NRS 319.130 - "Residential housing" defined.

NRS 319.135 - "Sponsor" defined.

NRS 319.140 - General powers and duties of Division; audit; exemption from State Purchasing Act.

NRS 319.141 - Housing Advocate: Creation of position; appointment; classification; qualifications; duties; removal.

NRS 319.143 - Division required to create and maintain statewide low-income housing database; certain owners of multifamily residential property required to submit quarterly report to Division; regulations.

NRS 319.145 - Designation as housing credit agency; authority to administer HOME Investment Partnership Act; duty to administer program to increase efficiency in use of energy in dwellings owned or occupied by persons of low income.

NRS 319.147 - Certification of assisted living facilities: Requirements; regulations.

NRS 319.167 - Division may enter into instruments, agreements and other transactions for certain purposes.

NRS 319.169 - Account for Housing Inspection and Compliance: Creation; administration; deposits; interest and income; claims; uses established by regulation.

NRS 319.170 - Funds and accounts; investments and deposits.

NRS 319.171 - Investment in collateralized mortgage obligations or trusts.

NRS 319.172 - Authority to make loans of investment securities.

NRS 319.174 - Advisory Committee on Housing: Creation; members; terms; vacancies; Chair; meetings; duties.

NRS 319.190 - Authority to make loans and issue letters of credit.

NRS 319.200 - Terms and conditions of mortgage loan.

NRS 319.210 - Investment in mortgages.

NRS 319.220 - Mortgages in default: Foreclosure; modification of terms.

NRS 319.230 - Loans to or purchase of securities from lending institutions; collateral.

NRS 319.235 - Financing rental sites for mobile homes and equipment for conservation of energy in residential dwelling units.

NRS 319.240 - Lending fees and charges.

NRS 319.250 - Insurance.

NRS 319.260 - Prerequisites to financing residential housing.

NRS 319.265 - Requirements for regulations adopted by Division that establish program for financing certain residential housing projects.

NRS 319.270 - Notes and bonds: Issuance; limitation on outstanding obligations.

NRS 319.280 - Notes and bonds: Execution; terms; chapter 349 of NRS inapplicable.

NRS 319.290 - Notes and bonds: Pledges as security.

NRS 319.300 - Bonds: Trust indentures as security.

NRS 319.310 - Notes and bonds: Guarantees of payment.

NRS 319.320 - Notes and bonds: Redemption; remarketing or refunding.

NRS 319.323 - Issuance of collateralized mortgage obligations; use of proceeds; submission of findings to State Board of Finance.

NRS 319.325 - Division may provide that bonds, notes or loans be insured or secured; payment of costs associated with insurance.

NRS 319.327 - Exemption of interest on Division’s bonds from federal income taxation: Waiver; issuance of obligations not exempt from taxation.

NRS 319.330 - Refunding obligations: Issuance, sale and exchange.

NRS 319.340 - Bond reserve funds: Establishment; use; requirements.

NRS 319.350 - Bond reserve funds: Limitations.

NRS 319.360 - Bond reserve funds: Purpose; status reports.

NRS 319.370 - Remedies of bondholders and noteholders.

NRS 319.380 - Pledge against impairment of holders’ rights and remedies; credit of State not pledged.

NRS 319.390 - Notes and bonds as legal investments.

NRS 319.410 - Definitions.

NRS 319.420 - Termination: Notice; meeting; penalties; regulations.

NRS 319.430 - Ending upon expiration: Notice; meeting; penalty for failure to provide notice; regulations.

NRS 319.440 - Maintenance after expiration: Notice; annual report; notice for subsequent ending; regulations.

NRS 319.500 - Creation; investment of money; claims.

NRS 319.510 - Use and distribution of money in Account.

NRS 319.520 - Regulations concerning distribution and use of money in Account; requirements for recipient of money.

NRS 319.530 - Pets must be allowed in housing acquired, constructed or rehabilitated with money from Account; limitations; service animals and service animals in training.

NRS 319.900 - False statements; penalty.