"Service area" means any specified area within the boundaries of a local government in which new development necessitates capital improvements or facility expansions and within which new development is served directly and benefited by the capital improvement or facility expansion as set forth in the capital improvements plan. The term does not include any area that makes up the entire area of a local government, unless the local government is a city whose population is less than 15,000 or a county whose population is less than 15,000.
(Added to NRS by 1989, 840; A 2007, 677; 2011, 1202)