1. Prior to the initial leasing, sale or financing of any project, the board shall by resolution determine:
(a) The amount, or reasonably anticipated range of amounts, necessary in each year to pay the principal of and the interest on the first bonds proposed to be issued to finance such project and on any subsequent issues of bonds which may be permitted under the lease, sale or financing and authorizing resolutions pertinent to financings hereunder.
(b) The amount necessary to be paid each year into any reserve funds which the board may deem advisable to establish in connection with the retirement of the proposed bonds and the maintenance of the project.
(c) The estimated cost of maintaining the project in good repair and keeping it properly insured, unless the terms under which the project is to be leased, sold or financed provide that the lessee, purchaser or obligor shall maintain the project and carry all proper insurance with respect thereto.
2. The determination and findings of the board, required to be made by subsection 1, shall be set forth in the resolution under which the proposed bonds are to be issued, but the foregoing amounts need not be expressed in dollars and cents in the lease, agreement of sale or financing agreement and the resolution under which the bonds are authorized to be issued, but may be set forth in the form of a formula or formulas, or if the project is for the generation and transmission of electricity, in any other form which provides a basis for determining the required amounts.
(Added to NRS by 1967, 1749; A 1973, 970; 1975, 431; 1979, 688; 1983, 1160)