1. 1. In all cases where a town or city in any county of this state has been incorporated by an act of the Legislature thereof, or of the Territory of Nevada, or otherwise, or may be incorporated, and the same has been or may hereafter be disincorporated, and where at the time of such disincorporation there exists any funded debt or outstanding bonds, the board of county commissioners shall provide for the payment of the principal and interest of the same substantially in time, manner and form as provided by law or ordinance existent touching the same at the time of disincorporation. If there be no such law or ordinance, all such claims shall be paid out of the debt service fund of such town or city, as provided in this chapter for the payment of other indebtedness.

2. 2. The board of county commissioners of such county shall take possession of all the books, papers, documents, money, credits, claims, demands and other property of the town or city, and collect, hold or dispose of the same for the use and benefit of the inhabitants thereof; and in case the town or city shall have been at the time of disincorporation involved in debt, other than as above specified, the board of county commissioners shall ascertain the amount thereof, and cause evidences of indebtedness bearing interest on the principal sum thereof from date, at the legal rate of interest per annum, to be issued to the holder of the indebtedness, which evidences of indebtedness shall be in the following form:

   No ......... ….… (month) ……… (day) …... (year)

   $..........

   This is to certify that the (designating the town or city by its name) is indebted to ................ in the sum of ........ dollars principal, and ........ dollars interest, payable out of the debt service fund of ................; the principal sum of ........ dollars to bear interest from this date at the legal rate per annum, principal, interest, and accruing interest payable in lawful money of the United States.

   .......................................................................,

   Chair of the Board of County Commissioners

   of .......................................... County, Nevada

   ...................................................................................

   Clerk of ................ County, Nevada

   All blanks shall be appropriately filled.

3. 3. No such evidence of indebtedness shall be issued upon any account, claim, demand, bond, warrant, scrip or other instrument, unless the same be filed with the clerk of the board of county commissioners within 3 months after the disincorporation of the town or city; and simultaneously upon issuance the account, claim or demand on which the same is issued shall be receipted, and the bond, warrant, scrip or other instrument shall be cancelled.
4. 4. The county treasurer shall only use the money of the debt service fund for the payment of the preexisting bonds or funded debt not otherwise provided for, as hereinbefore mentioned, and such evidences as shall be issued as last hereinbefore mentioned, and the interest thereon as provided in this chapter.

[6:48:1881; A 1883, 51; BH § 2029; C § 2179; RL § 882; NCL § 1236]—(NRS A 1965, 739; 2001, 48)