1. The governing body of a charter school may contract with the board of trustees of the school district in which the charter school is located or in which a pupil enrolled in the charter school resides or with the Nevada System of Higher Education for the provision of facilities to operate the charter school or to perform any service relating to the operation of the charter school, including, without limitation, transportation, the provision of health services for the pupils who are enrolled in the charter school and the provision of school police officers. If the board of trustees of a school district or a college or university within the Nevada System of Higher Education is the sponsor of the charter school, the governing body and the sponsor must enter into a service agreement pursuant to NRS 388A.381 before the provision of such services other than for the provision of school police officers when the provisions of NRS 388A.384 apply. If the board of trustees of a school district provides services to a charter school pursuant to this section or NRS 388A.474, it shall not charge more than its cost for providing such services determined on a cost per pupil basis.

2. A charter school may use any public facility located within the school district in which the charter school is located. A charter school may use school buildings owned by the school district only upon approval of the board of trustees of the school district.

3. The board of trustees of a school district may donate surplus personal property of the school district to a charter school that is located within the school district.

4. A charter school may:

(a) Acquire by construction, purchase, devise, gift, exchange or lease, or any combination of those methods, and construct, reconstruct, improve, maintain, equip and furnish any building, structure or property to be used for any of its educational purposes and the related appurtenances, easements, rights-of-way, improvements, paving, utilities, landscaping, parking facilities and lands;

(b) Mortgage, pledge or otherwise encumber all or any part of its property or assets;

(c) Borrow money and otherwise incur indebtedness; and

(d) Use public money to purchase real property or buildings with the approval of the sponsor.

(Added to NRS by 1997, 1850; A 1999, 3299; 2001, 3133; 2007, 2575; 2009, 934; 2011, 2366, 3055; 2013, 1598; 2015, 1735, 3293, 3802) — (Substituted in revision for part of NRS 386.560)