1. The Administrator shall secure, warehouse and distribute throughout the state federal donable surplus property to tax-supported or nonprofit schools and other health and educational institutions, to organizations for emergency management, to volunteer fire departments, and to such other institutions or activities as are eligible pursuant to federal law to acquire such property. The Administrator may make such certifications, develop and sign such plans of operation, take such action and enter into such contracts and undertakings for and in the name of the State as are authorized or required by federal law or regulations in connection with the receipt, warehousing and distribution of federal donable surplus property received by him or her. The Administrator may adopt regulations, prescribe requirements and take the necessary action to ensure maximum utilization by and benefit to eligible institutions and organizations from the federal donable surplus property. The Administrator shall charge the schools and institutions receiving donable surplus property secured through the Purchasing Division, the charge to be a percentage of the cost of acquisition or of the fair value of the item requested that is sufficient to repay part or all of the cost of transportation and other costs incurred in acquisition of the property.

2. All money received by the Administrator pursuant to this section must be deposited in the State Treasury for credit to the Surplus Property Administration Account, which is hereby created in the State Purchasing Fund. The interest and income earned on the money in the Account must be credited to the Account. All expenses for the distribution of federal surplus property must be paid from the Account as other claims against the State are paid.

3. The Administrator may discontinue temporarily or terminate entirely the operation of purchasing and distributing donable surplus property at any time if there is not a sufficient flow of property to make continued employment of personnel for this purpose beneficial to the State.

[43:333:1951; A 1953, 585] — (NRS A 1957, 151; 1963, 50, 1062; 1979, 105; 1983, 176; 1985, 46; 1991, 1766; 1995, 368; 2001, 691)