For the property and facilities of the Division, the Administrator:

1. Is responsible to the Director for the general administration of the Division and its institutions and for the submission of its budgets, which must include the combined budgets of its institutions.

2. Shall supervise the museum directors of its institutions in matters pertaining to the general administration of the institutions.

3. Shall coordinate the submission of requests by its institutions for assistance from governmental sources.

4. Shall oversee the public relations of its institutions.

5. Shall superintend the planning and development of any new facilities for the Division or its institutions.

6. Shall assist the efforts of its institutions in improving their services to the rural counties.

7. Shall supervise the facilities for storage which are jointly owned or used by any of its institutions.

8. Shall trade, exchange and transfer exhibits and equipment when the Administrator considers it proper and the transactions are not sales.

9. May contract with any person to provide concessions on the grounds of the property and facilities of the Division, provided that any contract permitting control of real property of the Division by a nongovernmental entity must be executed as a lease pursuant to NRS 321.003, 321.335, 322.050, 322.060 and 322.070.

10. Shall oversee the supervision, control, management and operation of any buildings or properties in this State that are under the control of the Division.

11. Shall supervise the furnishing, remodeling, repairing, alteration and erection of premises and buildings of the Division or premises and buildings that may be conveyed or made available to the Division.

(Added to NRS by 1979, 976; A 1985, 138; 1987, 1401; 1993, 1586; 2001, 930; 2005, 1468, 2680)