1. A person who uses special fuel in a motor vehicle operated or intended to operate interstate and who pays any tax imposed on:

(a) Special fuels pursuant to NRS 373.066 or 373.0663; or

(b) Special fuel that consists of diesel fuel pursuant to NRS 373.062 in a county in which the total number of gallons of diesel fuel sold in the county during the immediately preceding fiscal year, as determined by the Department, is 10,000,000 gallons or more,

may file with the Department a request for reimbursement of any amounts owed to the person as a result of the Department entering into an agreement pursuant to NRS 366.175 and the imposition, pursuant to NRS 373.062, 373.066 or 373.0663, of any tax on special fuels which are consumed outside this State.

2. The Department shall adopt regulations establishing a system to provide for the reimbursement and the auditing of the records of a person who files a request for reimbursement pursuant to subsection 1. The system established by the Department:

(a) Must authorize a person who uses special fuel in motor vehicles operated or intended to operate interstate to file a request for reimbursement as provided in subsection 1;

(b) Must provide that the Department will determine the eligibility for reimbursement of a person who files a request for reimbursement pursuant to subsection 1 before the Department will authorize the reimbursement;

(c) Must provide that any reimbursement authorized by the Department be paid from only money received by a county pursuant to any tax imposed on special fuels pursuant to NRS 373.062, 373.066 or 373.0663;

(d) Must provide that the total amount of money which must be paid by any county in any fiscal year to reimburse any amounts owed to persons who use special fuel in motor vehicles operated or intended to operate interstate must not exceed 20 percent of the total amount of money collected by that county from any tax imposed on special fuels pursuant to NRS 373.062, 373.066 or 373.0663; and

(e) Must not apply to any tax imposed pursuant to NRS 373.066 during the term of any bonds outstanding on June 12, 2013, secured by those taxes or of any bonds that refund such bonds provided that the term of the refunding bonds is not longer than the term of the refunded bonds.

3. The Department shall charge and collect a fee in an amount not to exceed $100 for each request for reimbursement filed by a person pursuant to subsection 1. All money from the fees collected by the Department pursuant to this subsection must be deposited in the Local Fuel Tax Fund created by NRS 373.087.

4. The Department and a commission which has been created in a county whose population is 700,000 or more and in which a tax is imposed pursuant to NRS 373.0663 may enter into an intergovernmental agreement or contract pursuant to which:

(a) The commission agrees to pay for the costs incurred by the Department to establish the system pursuant to subsection 2 and administer the system until the amount of money received by the Department from the fees collected by the Department pursuant to subsection 3 is sufficient to pay the costs incurred by the Department to administer the system; and

(b) The Department agrees to reimburse the commission for any money paid by the commission pursuant to paragraph (a) from a portion of the money received by the Department from the fees collected by the Department pursuant to subsection 3.

5. For each county in which a tax is imposed pursuant to NRS 373.062 and in which the total number of gallons of diesel fuel sold in the county during the immediately preceding fiscal year, as determined by the Department, is 10,000,000 gallons or more, the Department shall use the system established by the regulations adopted pursuant to subsection 2 to pay requests for reimbursement of the tax imposed in the county pursuant to NRS 373.062 which are filed with the Department pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 1. The Department shall, at the end of each fiscal year, distribute the remaining balance of any money retained by the Department to pay requests for reimbursement of the tax imposed in a county described in this subsection which are filed with the Department pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 1 and are approved by the Department, including the amount of any accrued interest, to the county and provide the county with an accounting of the total amount of the tax imposed pursuant to NRS 373.062 which was collected for the county during the fiscal year, the amount of money retained by the Department to pay requests for reimbursement filed with the Department pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 1, the amount of interest accrued on such money retained by the Department and the amount of reimbursements of the tax paid. Using the accounting provided by the Department, the county shall, within 45 days after receiving the accounting and the distribution of money from the Department:

(a) Deposit in the regional street and highway fund in the county treasury an amount equal to:

(1) Fifty percent of the total amount of money retained by the Department to pay requests for reimbursement filed with the Department pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 1 during the fiscal year, plus any accrued interest; or

(2) The entire amount of money distributed to the county pursuant to this paragraph, if that amount is less than 50 percent of the total amount of money retained by the Department to pay requests for reimbursement filed with the Department pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 1 during the fiscal year.

(b) Transmit to the Department of Transportation the remaining amount of the distribution received from the Department of Motor Vehicles after making the deposit required by paragraph (a), which amount must be used by the Department of Transportation only to construct, maintain or repair, or any combination thereof, highway truck parking in the county.

6. As used in this section, “special fuel” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 366.060.

(Added to NRS by 2013, 3546; A 2013, 3547, 3549; 2015, 48, 2065, 2067; 2019, 1264)