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STATE v. KOONTZ

Nos. 5486 and 5487.

437 P.2d 72 (1968)

STATE ex rel. STATE GENERAL OBLIGATION BOND COMMISSION, Relator, v. John KOONTZ, Secretary of State, Respondent. COLORADO RIVER COMMISSION OF NEVADA, Petitioner, v. Thomas R. RICE, Secretary of the Colorado River Commission of Nevada, Respondent.

Supreme Court of Nevada.

February 8, 1968.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Russell W. McDonald, Reno, and Frank W. Daykin, Carson City, for State General Obligation Bond Commission.

Harvey Dickerson, Atty. Gen., and Robert A. Groves, Deputy Atty. Gen., Carson City, for John Koontz, Secretary of State. Robert E. Jones, Las Vegas, for Colorado River Commission.

Toy R. Gregory, Jr., Las Vegas, for Thomas R. Rice, Secretary of the Colorado River Commission.

MOWBRAY, Justice:

OPINION

These cases concern the effect of the state debt limit upon the financing of a facility for the treatment of water from the Colorado River for use in the metropolitan area of Las Vegas.

Since its adoption, the Constitution of this State has imposed a limit upon the amount of debt which the Legislature may contract. The general limitation, originally $300,000, was amended to its present form in 1916, and appears as the first...

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