1.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2 or as may be limited by the terms and conditions of any grant, loan or agreement pursuant to NRS 496.180, every municipality may, by sale, lease or otherwise, dispose of any airport, air navigation facility or other property, or portion thereof or interest therein, acquired pursuant to this chapter.

Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 496.080

  • Air navigation facility: means any facility, other than one owned and operated by the United States, used in, available for use in, or designed for use in, aid of air navigation, including any structures, mechanisms, lights, beacons, markers, communicating systems, or other instrumentalities, or devices used or useful as an aid, or constituting an advantage or convenience, to the safe taking off, navigation, and landing of aircraft, or the safe and efficient operation or maintenance of an airport, and any combination of any or all of such facilities. See Nevada Revised Statutes 496.020
  • Airport: means any area of land or water which is used for the landing and takeoff of aircraft, and any appurtenant areas which are used for airport buildings or other airport facilities or rights-of-way, together with all airport buildings and facilities located thereon. See Nevada Revised Statutes 496.020
  • Appraisal: A determination of property value.
  • county: includes Carson City. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.033
  • Lease: A contract transferring the use of property or occupancy of land, space, structures, or equipment in consideration of a payment (e.g., rent). Source: OCC
  • Municipal: means pertaining to a municipality as defined in this section. See Nevada Revised Statutes 496.020
  • Municipality: means any county, city or town of this state. See Nevada Revised Statutes 496.020
  • Person: includes a government, a governmental agency and a political subdivision of a government. See Nevada Revised Statutes 496.020
  • population: means the number of people in a specified area as determined by the last preceding national decennial census conducted by the Bureau of the Census of the United States Department of Commerce pursuant to Section 2 of Article I of the Constitution of the United States and reported by the Secretary of Commerce to the Governor pursuant to 13 U. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.050

2.  The disposal by sale, lease or otherwise must be:

(a) Except as otherwise provided in subsections 3 and 4, made by public auction; and

(b) In accordance with the laws of this State, or provisions of the charter of the municipality, governing the disposition of other property of the municipality, except that in the case of disposal to another municipality or agency of the State or Federal Government for aeronautical purposes incident thereto, the sale, lease or other disposal may be effected in such manner and upon such terms as the governing body of the municipality may deem in the best interest of the municipality, and except as otherwise provided in subsections 3, 4 and 5 of NRS 496.090.

3.  A board of county commissioners of a county whose population is 55,000 or more may rent or lease to a person, or renew the rental or lease to a person of, a space for the parking or storage of aircraft, including, without limitation, a hangar, on the grounds of a municipal airport that is owned or operated by the county without conducting a public auction and at a price at least equal to the fair market rental or lease value of the space based on an independent appraisal conducted within 6 months before the rental or lease.

4.  The governing body of a city whose population is less than 25,000 may rent or lease to a person a space that is less than one-half of an acre for the parking or storage of aircraft on the grounds of a municipal airport that is owned or operated by the city without conducting or causing to be conducted an appraisal or a public auction.

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