1. Upon merger, the department may possess all real property owned or held by any of the participating political subdivisions for the purposes of law enforcement at the time of adoption of the ordinance providing for the merger.

2. Upon a showing of good cause and a majority vote of the committee, the political subdivision which holds title to property:

(a) Owned or held for the purposes of law enforcement at the time of adoption of the ordinance providing for the merger; or

(b) Acquired for the use and benefit of or in trust for the department after the merger,

may repossess the property for public use if the department no longer needs it for the purposes of law enforcement.

3. The maintenance costs for any real property held for the use and benefit of or in trust for a department must be paid by the department.

4. The department may, upon the approval of the committee, lease or rent real property for the purposes of law enforcement.

5. If the withdrawal of a participating political subdivision from the department is approved pursuant to NRS 280.126:

(a) The right to possess any real property, the possession of which passed to the department by operation of this section and the title to which remains in the withdrawing political subdivision, reverts to the withdrawing political subdivision upon the effective date of the withdrawal.

(b) Real property which was acquired for the use and benefit of or in trust for the department after the merger must immediately be inventoried and appraised. The withdrawing political subdivision is entitled to receive, on the effective date of the withdrawal, its share of the value of each parcel of real property, with improvements thereon, in cash or in kind, or both, or in such other manner as determined by the committee, in the proportion that its total budgetary contribution to the department during the fiscal year or years in which the parcel was acquired and improved bears to the total budgetary contributions of all participating political subdivisions during that time.

6. If the dissolution of the department is approved pursuant to NRS 280.126:

(a) The right to possess any real property, the possession of which was passed to the department by operation of this section and the title to which remains in a participating political subdivision, reverts to that political subdivision on the effective date of the dissolution.

(b) Real property that was acquired for the use and benefit of or in trust for the department after the effective date of the merger must immediately be inventoried and appraised. Each participating political subdivision at the time of dissolution is entitled to receive, on the effective date of the dissolution, its share of the value of each such parcel of real property and any improvements on that property, in cash or in kind, or both, in the proportion that its total budgetary contribution to the department during the fiscal year or years in which the parcel was acquired and improved bears to the total budgetary contributions of all participating political subdivisions to the department during that period.

(Added to NRS by 1973, 922; A 1981, 645; 1993, 29; 2001, 1662)