Source: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-707.html
Timestamp: 2019-04-26 12:17:59+00:00

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NRS 707.015 “Basic network service” defined.
NRS 707.025 “Telecommunication provider” and “telephone company” defined.
NRS 707.035 “Telecommunication service” and “telephone service” defined.
NRS 707.240 Certificate required to be filed with and recorded by Secretary of State; contents; fees.
NRS 707.250 Construction, operation and maintenance of lines over public and private lands.
NRS 707.280 Right-of-way for line: Procedure for appraisal and compensation for private land; appeal.
NRS 707.300 Applicability of NRS 707.230 to 707.280, inclusive.
NRS 707.340 Public utility furnishing telephone service required to assist peace officers in tracing certain callers; immunity for good faith reliance; limitations concerning wiretapping.
NRS 707.355 Public utility furnishing telephone service and other providers required to disconnect telephone number pursuant to court order or order of Public Utilities Commission of Nevada; such providers prohibited from forwarding calls or providing recorded message with new number for disconnected telephone number.
NRS 707.370 Provider of cellular or other portable service required to provide access at no charge to telephone number to be used in emergency.
NRS 707.375 State and local entities prohibited from regulating use of certain telephonic devices by persons operating motor vehicles.
NRS 707.430 “Eligible customer” defined.
NRS 707.440 “Eligible provider” defined.
NRS 707.460 “Tribal link up” defined.
NRS 707.485 Eligible provider, independent administrator or National Lifeline Eligibility Verifier authorized to access certain databases to determine or verify status of eligible customers.
NRS 707.490 Reduction in telephone rates provided by lifeline or tribal link up services: Methods for determining; applicability; reimbursement.
NRS 707.500 Enhanced 911 service: Immunity from liability for certain entities providing service through public safety answering point in certain circumstances.
NRS 707.555 “Facility for personal wireless service” defined.
NRS 707.560 “Land use authority” defined.
NRS 707.565 “Personal wireless service” defined.
NRS 707.570 “Telecommunications tower” defined.
NRS 707.575 Procedures and standards for review and approval of application to construct facility; requirements following denial of application; limitations on power of land use authority.
NRS 707.580 Assessment of costs incurred to process application.
NRS 707.585 Written decision required upon denial of application; contents of decision; filing of decision and record with court upon bringing action against land use authority.
NRS 707.620 “Provider of wireless telecommunications” defined.
NRS 707.630 Provider of wireless telecommunications required to provide call location information to law enforcement in certain circumstances; immunity for good faith action.
NRS 707.640 Provider of wireless telecommunications required to submit emergency contact information to Department to facilitate requests from law enforcement for call location information.
NRS 707.900 Penalty for interception, interruption or delay of message sent over telephone line.
NRS 707.910 Penalty for damaging or interfering with use of telephone line.
NRS 707.920 Civil liability for violation of NRS 707.910.
NRS 707.005 Definitions. As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 707.015, 707.025 and 707.035 have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
NRS 707.015 “Basic network service” defined. “Basic network service” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 704.006.
NRS 707.025 “Telecommunication provider” and “telephone company” defined. “Telecommunication provider” or “telephone company” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 704.027.
NRS 707.035 “Telecommunication service” and “telephone service” defined. “Telecommunication service” or “telephone service” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 704.028.
NRS 707.230 Authorization. Any person or persons, company, association or corporation, desiring to do so, may construct and maintain, or, if already constructed, may maintain, or, if partially constructed, may complete and maintain, within this state, a telephone line or lines by complying with NRS 707.240.
NRS 707.240 Certificate required to be filed with and recorded by Secretary of State; contents; fees.
(a) The name or names of the person or persons, company, association or corporation (as the case may be) by whom the line is to be operated.
(b) The names of the points or places constituting the termini of the line within this state.
(c) A general description of the route of the line.
2. The certificate shall be filed and recorded in the Office of the Secretary of State, for which such person or persons, company, association or corporation shall pay the Secretary of State, for deposit in the General Fund, the sum of $5, and also 25 cents for each folio contained in the certificate.
3. The record of the certificates shall give constructive notice to all persons of the matter therein contained. The work of constructing such line, if not already commenced or completed within 30 days after the filing of the certificate aforesaid, shall be continued, with all reasonable dispatch, until completed.
NRS 707.250 Construction, operation and maintenance of lines over public and private lands. The person or persons, company, association or corporation named in the certificate (provided for in NRS 707.240), and their assigns may construct, or if constructed, maintain, or if partially constructed, complete and maintain, their telephone line described in their certificate, filed as provided in NRS 707.240, over and through any public or private lands, and along or across any streets, alleys, roads, highways or streams within this state, provided they do not obstruct the same.
NRS 707.280 Right-of-way for line: Procedure for appraisal and compensation for private land; appeal.
1. Any person or the person’s assigns, who are constructing, or who have already constructed, or who may propose to construct, a telephone line as provided in NRS 707.230 to 707.280, inclusive, have the right-of-way for the line and so much land as may be necessary to construct and maintain the line, and for this purpose may enter upon private lands along the line described in the certificate for the purpose of examining and surveying them.
2. Where the lands cannot be obtained by the consent of the owner or possessor thereof, so much of the land as may be necessary for the construction of the line may be appropriated by the person or the person’s assigns (as the case may be), after making compensation therefor, as follows. The person or the person’s agent shall select one appraiser, and the owner or possessor shall select one, and the two so selected shall select a third. The three shall appraise the lands sought to be appropriated, after having been first sworn, before a person authorized by law to administer oaths, to make a true appraisement thereof, according to the best of their knowledge and belief.
3. If the person or the person’s agent tenders to the owner or possessor the appraised value of the lands, appraised as provided in subsection 2, the person or agent may proceed in the construction, or, if constructed, in the use of the line over the land so appraised, and may maintain the line over and upon the land, and at all times enter upon the land and pass over all adjoining lands for the purpose of constructing, maintaining and repairing the telephone line, notwithstanding the tender may be refused. The tender must always be kept good by the person or the person’s agent.
4. An appeal may be taken by either party, from the finding of the appraisers, to the district court of the county within which the land so appraised is situated at any time within 3 months after the appraisement.
NRS 707.300 Applicability of NRS 707.230 to 707.280, inclusive. All persons or corporations owning and operating telephone lines in this state are entitled to all the rights and privileges and are subject to all the restrictions and responsibilities provided in NRS 707.230 to 707.280, inclusive.
NRS 707.340 Public utility furnishing telephone service required to assist peace officers in tracing certain callers; immunity for good faith reliance; limitations concerning wiretapping.
(a) The 911 emergency telephone number or other emergency telephone service.
(b) Obscene language, representations or suggestions in addressing a person by telephone, or addresses to the person any threat to inflict injury to the person or property of the person addressed, when the request is made in writing to the public utility.
2. Good faith reliance by the public utility on such a request constitutes a complete defense to any civil or criminal suit against the public utility on account of assistance rendered by the utility in responding to the request.
3. The provisions of subsection 1 do not permit wiretapping, which may be engaged in only pursuant to the provisions of NRS 179.410 to 179.515, inclusive, and 704.195.
NRS 707.355 Public utility furnishing telephone service and other providers required to disconnect telephone number pursuant to court order or order of Public Utilities Commission of Nevada; such providers prohibited from forwarding calls or providing recorded message with new number for disconnected telephone number.
Ê take such action as is necessary to carry out the order of the court or the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada.
(b) Provide or offer to provide a recorded message that includes the new telephone number for a business whose telephone number was disconnected from service pursuant to the provisions of this section.
(a) A public utility furnishing telephone service.
(b) A provider of cellular or other service to a telephone that is installed in a vehicle or is otherwise portable.
NRS 707.370 Provider of cellular or other portable service required to provide access at no charge to telephone number to be used in emergency. A person authorized by the Federal Communications Commission to provide cellular or other service to a telephone installed in a vehicle or otherwise portable shall provide access at no charge for each customer to a telephone number to be used in an emergency if the supplier operates within the boundaries of a system to provide such a number.
NRS 707.375 State and local entities prohibited from regulating use of certain telephonic devices by persons operating motor vehicles.
1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 484B.165, an agency, board, commission or political subdivision of this State, including, without limitation, any agency, board, commission or governing body of a local government, shall not regulate the use of a telephonic device by a person who is operating a motor vehicle.
2. As used in subsection 1, “telephonic device” means a cellular phone, satellite phone, portable phone or any other similar electronic device that is handheld and designed or used to communicate with another person.
NRS 707.400 Definitions. As used in NRS 707.400 to 707.500, inclusive, the words and terms defined in NRS 707.410 to 707.460, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
NRS 707.410 “Commission” defined. “Commission” means the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada.
NRS 707.420 “Department” defined. “Department” means the Department of Health and Human Services.
NRS 707.430 “Eligible customer” defined. “Eligible customer” means a customer who is eligible to receive lifeline or tribal link up services.
NRS 707.440 “Eligible provider” defined. “Eligible provider” means a telecommunication provider that has been designated as an eligible telecommunications carrier by the Commission to receive universal service support pursuant to 47 U.S.C. § 214, as that section existed on January 1, 1999.
NRS 707.450 “Lifeline” defined. “Lifeline” has the meaning ascribed to it in 47 C.F.R. § 54.401(a), as that section existed on April 2, 2012.
NRS 707.460 “Tribal link up” defined. “Tribal link up” has the meaning ascribed to it in 47 C.F.R. § 54.413, as that section existed on April 1, 2012.
NRS 707.485 Eligible provider, independent administrator or National Lifeline Eligibility Verifier authorized to access certain databases to determine or verify status of eligible customers.
(b) After an independent administrator is selected pursuant to NRS 704.040 and the independent administrator is able to inform eligible providers of the status of their customers’ eligibility to receive lifeline service or the National Lifeline Eligibility Verifier is able to certify and recertify the eligibility of customers in this State for lifeline service.
2. An independent administrator selected pursuant to NRS 704.040 or the National Lifeline Eligibility Verifier, as applicable, may access any database described in subsection 1 and, to the extent authorized by state and federal law, access any other database, if one exists, that is created and maintained by any other state agency for the exclusive purpose of determining or verifying the status of an eligible customer.
3. As used in this section, “National Lifeline Eligibility Verifier” has the meaning ascribed to it in 47 C.F.R. § 54.400.
NRS 707.490 Reduction in telephone rates provided by lifeline or tribal link up services: Methods for determining; applicability; reimbursement.
(b) Establishing a formula pursuant to which the amount of the reduction may be determined.
(a) Basic network service or the voice telephony service included in any bundled service offering that includes voice telephony service and any other services specified in 47 C.F.R. § 54.401(b), as that section existed on April 2, 2012.
(b) Residential service connection charges for such service.
3. If the amount of the reduction in rates provided by an eligible provider to an eligible customer for lifeline services is greater than the amount which the eligible provider receives as universal service support pursuant to 47 U.S.C. § 254, the eligible provider is entitled to reimbursement from the fund to maintain the availability of telephone service established by the Commission pursuant to NRS 704.040 for the difference between the amount of the reduction and the amount received as universal service support pursuant to 47 U.S.C. § 254.
NRS 707.500 Enhanced 911 service: Immunity from liability for certain entities providing service through public safety answering point in certain circumstances.
Ê while providing, or while in training to provide, services through a public safety answering point.
(a) “Enhanced 911 service” means a service consisting of telephone network features and public safety answering points provided for persons using the public telephone system to reach the appropriate public service answering point by dialing the digits 9-1-1, by using selective routing, if required, based on the location from which the call originated, and providing at the public safety answering point automatic number identification and automatic location identification.
(b) “Public safety answering point” means a facility, operated 24 hours a day, 7 days a week, that is responsible for receiving 911 telephone calls and directly dispatching emergency response services, or transferring or relaying 911 telephone calls to other public safety agencies. A public safety answering point is the first point of reception by a public safety agency of 911 telephone calls and serves the jurisdiction in which it is located and other participating jurisdictions.
NRS 707.550 Definitions. As used in NRS 707.550 to 707.585, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 707.555 to 707.570, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
NRS 707.555 “Facility for personal wireless service” defined. “Facility for personal wireless service” includes any building, structure, antenna and other equipment used to provide personal wireless service. The term includes a telecommunications tower.
NRS 707.560 “Land use authority” defined. “Land use authority” means an agency, bureau, board, commission, department, division, officer or employee of the State or of a local government authorized by law to take action on an application to construct a facility for personal wire service.
NRS 707.565 “Personal wireless service” defined. “Personal wireless service” has the meaning ascribed to it in 47 U.S.C. § 332(c)(7)(C), as that provision existed on July 1, 2003.
NRS 707.570 “Telecommunications tower” defined. “Telecommunications tower” means any freestanding tower, monopole or similar structure used to provide personal wireless services.
NRS 707.575 Procedures and standards for review and approval of application to construct facility; requirements following denial of application; limitations on power of land use authority.
(b) Authorize administrative staff to review and approve such an application pursuant to this section.
(4) If constructed on an existing building or structure not owned by a public utility, architecturally compatible with the building or structure.
3. If the administrative staff authorized pursuant to this section to review and approve an application to construct a facility for personal wireless service denies such an application, the administrative staff shall provide to the applicant and the land use authority a written explanation that identifies each procedure and standard that the applicant, application or facility for personal wireless service failed to meet.
(a) Consider the environmental effects of radio frequency emissions from a facility for personal wireless service if the facility complies with the regulations of the Federal Communications Commission concerning such emissions.
(2) Does not endanger the public health or safety.
NRS 707.580 Assessment of costs incurred to process application. A land use authority, in connection with an application to construct a facility for personal wireless service, may assess the applicant for the actual costs incurred by the land use authority to process the application.
NRS 707.585 Written decision required upon denial of application; contents of decision; filing of decision and record with court upon bringing action against land use authority.
(b) Describe the documents relied upon by the land use authority in making its decision.
2. A person who brings an action against a land use authority pursuant to NRS 278.0233 shall file a copy of the decision and record with the court.
NRS 707.600 Definitions. As used in NRS 707.600 to 707.650, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 707.610 and 707.620 have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
NRS 707.610 “Department” defined. “Department” means the Department of Public Safety.
NRS 707.620 “Provider of wireless telecommunications” defined. “Provider of wireless telecommunications” means a person that is licensed by the Federal Communications Commission to provide wireless telecommunications services over a designated radio frequency and is authorized to do business in or submits to the jurisdiction of this State. The term includes a reseller of wireless telecommunications services.
NRS 707.630 Provider of wireless telecommunications required to provide call location information to law enforcement in certain circumstances; immunity for good faith action.
1. Upon the request of a law enforcement agency, a provider of wireless telecommunications shall provide call location information concerning the telecommunications device of a user to assist the law enforcement agency in responding to a call for emergency services or in an emergency situation that involves the immediate risk of death or serious physical harm. The provider of wireless telecommunications shall provide the most accurate call location information readily available, given any technical or other limitations that may affect the accuracy of the call location information in the relevant area.
2. Notwithstanding any other provision of law, nothing in this section prohibits a provider of wireless telecommunications from establishing any protocols which enable the provider to disclose call location information voluntarily in an emergency situation that involves the immediate risk of death or serious physical harm.
3. No cause of action may be brought against any provider of wireless telecommunications, its officers, employees or agents for providing call location information while acting in good faith and in accordance with the provisions of NRS 707.600 to 707.650, inclusive.
NRS 707.640 Provider of wireless telecommunications required to submit emergency contact information to Department to facilitate requests from law enforcement for call location information.
(b) As soon as practicable following any change in emergency contact information.
2. The Department shall maintain a database which contains all emergency contact information received pursuant to subsection 1 and shall make such information available to a law enforcement agency immediately upon request.
NRS 707.650 Regulations. The Department may adopt such regulations as are necessary to carry out the provisions of NRS 707.600 to 707.650, inclusive.
NRS 707.900 Penalty for interception, interruption or delay of message sent over telephone line. Every person who shall intercept, read or in any manner interrupt or delay the sending of a message over any telephone line shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
Ê is guilty of a public offense, as prescribed in NRS 193.155, proportionate to the value of any property damaged, altered, removed or destroyed and in no event less than a misdemeanor.
NRS 707.920 Civil liability for violation of NRS 707.910. Any person found to be in violation of the provisions of NRS 707.910 is, in addition to the penalties therein prescribed, liable to the person damaged in a civil suit for all damages occasioned thereby.

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