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2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 707 - Telecommunications › 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.

1. Each provider of telephone service in this State shall, when notified that:
(a) A court has ordered the disconnection of a telephone number pursuant to NRS 706.2855; or
(b) The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada has ordered the disconnection of a telephone number pursuant to NRS 703.175, after receiving a request to disconnect the telephone number from the State Contractors’ Board pursuant to NRS 624.720, the Board of Massage Therapy pursuant to NRS 640C.930 or the Nevada Transportation Authority pursuant to NRS 706.758,
take such action as is necessary to carry out the order of the court or the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada.
2. A provider of telephone service shall not:
(a) Forward or offer to forward the telephone calls of a telephone number disconnected from service pursuant to the provisions of this section; or
(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.
3. As used in this section, "provider of telephone service" includes, but is not limited to:
(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.
(Added to NRS by 1997, 1544; A 1999, 2858; 2009, 2585; 2017, 1476)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 707 - Telecommunications › 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.
(Added to NRS by 1993, 873)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 707 - Telecommunications › 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.
(Added to NRS by 2003, 1251; A 2011, 3649)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 707 - Telecommunications › 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.
(Added to NRS by 1999, 738; A 2013, 1809)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 707 - Telecommunications › 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.
(Added to NRS by 1999, 739; A 2007, 709)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 707 - Telecommunications › 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.

1. Until an independent administrator is selected pursuant to NRS 704.040 or the National Lifeline Eligibility Verifier is able to certify and recertify the eligibility of customers in this State for lifeline service, an eligible provider may access any database, if one exists, that is created and maintained by the Department for the exclusive purpose of determining or verifying the status of an eligible customer. Such access by an eligible provider is subject to the rules and regulations of the Department and is prohibited:
(a) For any purpose other than the purpose described in this subsection; and
(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.
(Added to NRS by 2013, 1809; A 2017, 514)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 707 - Telecommunications › NRS 707.490 - Reduction in telephone rates provided by lifeline or tribal link up services: Methods for determining; applicability; reimbursement.

1. The reduction in the telephone rates provided by lifeline or tribal link up services must be based on the methods for determining reductions which are adopted by the Commission by regulation. The Commission may provide different methods for determining reductions to allow for differences between eligible providers. The methods may include, without limitation:
(a) Basing the reduction on the tariff filed by the eligible provider with the Commission; or
(b) Establishing a formula pursuant to which the amount of the reduction may be determined.
2. The reduction in such telephone rates applies only to:
(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.
(Added to NRS by 1999, 740; A 2007, 709; 2013, 204)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 707 - Telecommunications › NRS 707.500 - Enhanced 911 service: Immunity from liability for certain entities providing service through public safety answering point in certain circumstances.

1. A telephone company, person providing wireless or commercial mobile radio service, public safety answering point, or manufacturer supplying equipment to a telephone company or public safety answering point, or any agent thereof, is not liable to any person who uses an enhanced 911 service for:
(a) The release of the telephone number and street address of the telephone used to place the 911 telephone call, including telephone numbers which are not published, if the release was made in good faith;
(b) The failure of any equipment or procedure in connection with the provision of an enhanced 911 service; or
(c) Any act, or the omission of any act, committed in good faith,
while providing, or while in training to provide, services through a public safety answering point.
2. As used in this section:
(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.
(Added to NRS by 1999, 740)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 707 - Telecommunications › 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.
(Added to NRS by 2003, 1860)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 707 - Telecommunications › 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.

1. A land use authority that denies the approval of an application to construct a facility for personal wireless service shall issue a written decision. The decision must:
(a) Set forth with specificity each ground on which the authority denied the approval of the application; and
(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.
(Added to NRS by 2003, 1861)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 707 - Telecommunications › 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.
(Added to NRS by 2013, 306)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 707 - Telecommunications › NRS 707.630 - Provider of wireless telecommunications required to provide call location information to law enforcement in certain circumstances; establishment of protocols for voluntary disclosure of such information allowed; 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.
(Added to NRS by 2013, 306)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 707 - Telecommunications › 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.

1. Any provider of wireless telecommunications shall submit its emergency contact information to the Department to facilitate requests from law enforcement agencies for call location information in accordance with NRS 707.630. Such emergency contact information must be submitted:
(a) Annually; and
(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.
(Added to NRS by 2013, 306)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 707 - Telecommunications › 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.
[Part 1911 C&P § 487; RL § 6752; NCL § 10434]—(NRS A 1967, 666)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 707 - Telecommunications › NRS 707.910 - Penalty for damaging or interfering with use of telephone line.

Any person who:
1. By the attachment of a ground wire, or by any other contrivance, willfully destroys the insulation of a telephone line, or interrupts the transmission of the electric current through the line;
2. Willfully interferes with the use of any telephone line, or obstructs or postpones the transmission of any message over the line; or
3. Procures or advises any such injury, interference or obstruction,
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.
[8:86:1864; B § 3504; BH § 929; C § 1059; RL § 4610; NCL § 7652]—(NRS A 1967, 665; 1979, 1495; 1999, 809; 2013, 1953)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 707 - Telecommunications › 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.
[9:86:1864; B § 3505; BH § 930; C § 1060; RL § 4611; NCL § 7653]—(NRS A 1999, 809)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 708 - Oil Pipelines › NRS 708.020 - Owner, operator or manager of oil pipeline declared to be common carrier.

Every person, firm, corporation, partnership, joint-stock association or association of any kind whatever:
1. Owning, operating or managing any pipeline or any part of any pipeline within the State of Nevada for the transportation of crude oil or petroleum to or for the public for hire, or engaged in the business of transporting crude oil or petroleum by pipeline;
2. Owning, operating or managing any pipeline or any part of any pipeline for the transportation of crude oil or petroleum to or for the public for hire, which pipeline is constructed or maintained upon, along, over or under any public road or highway, or in favor of whom the right of eminent domain exists;
3. Owning, operating or managing any pipeline or any part of any pipeline or pipelines for transportation to or for the public for hire, of crude oil or petroleum, which pipeline or pipelines is or may be constructed, operated or maintained across, upon, along, over or under the right-of-way of any railroad corporation or other common carrier required by law to transport crude oil or petroleum as a common carrier; or
4. Owning, operating or managing or participating in ownership, operation or management, under lease, contract of purchase, agreement to buy or sell, or other agreement or arrangement of any kind whatever, any pipeline or pipelines, or part of any pipeline, for the transportation from any oil field or place of production within the State of Nevada to any distributing, refining or marketing center, or reshipping point thereof, within this state, of crude oil or petroleum bought of others or owned by others,
is hereby declared to be a common carrier and subject to the provisions of this chapter.
[Part 1:227:1921; NCL § 4945]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 708 - Oil Pipelines › NRS 708.035 - Certificate of public convenience and necessity: Hearing; considerations; terms and conditions.

1. Upon the filing of an application for a certificate of public convenience and necessity, the Commission shall fix a time and place for hearing thereon, and shall proceed in the manner according to the provisions of the laws of this state made applicable thereto.
2. Before granting a certificate of public convenience and necessity to an applicant, the Commission shall take into consideration:
(a) Other authorized facilities in the territory for which a certificate is sought;
(b) The public necessity and convenience to be accorded by the service offered by such applicant; and
(c) Whether the applicant is fit, willing and able to perform the services of a common carrier.
3. The Commission may, under such rules of procedure governing the application therefor as it may prescribe, issue a certificate of public convenience and necessity to an oil pipeline carrier, or issue it for the partial exercise only of the privilege sought, and may attach to the exercise of the rights granted by such certificate such terms and conditions as, in its judgment, the public convenience and necessity may require.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 877)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 708 - Oil Pipelines › NRS 708.050 - Right to construct and maintain pipeline along, on or under public stream or road: Conditions; compensation for damage to public road.

1. The right to lay, maintain and operate pipelines, together with telephone and telegraph lines incidental to and designated for use only in connection with the operations of those pipelines, along, across or under any public stream or highway in this state, is hereby conferred upon all persons coming within any of the definitions of common carrier pipelines contained in NRS 708.020, who have obtained a certificate of public convenience and necessity as provided in NRS 708.025 and 708.035.
2. In the exercise of the privileges herein conferred, such pipelines shall compensate the county or counties for any damage done to the public road or highway in the laying of pipelines, telegraph or telephone lines, along or across the same.
3. This section does not:
(a) Grant any pipeline company the right to use any public street or alley of any incorporated city except by express permission from the city or governing authority thereof.
(b) Allow any company to use any street or alley of an unincorporated town, except by express permission of the board of county commissioners of the county in which the town is situated.
[3:227:1921; NCL § 4947]—(NRS A 1969, 878; 1987, 1730)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 708 - Oil Pipelines › NRS 708.060 - Power of Commission to establish and enforce rates and regulations; procedure; reimbursement of excessive charges.

1. The Commission shall have the power:
(a) To establish and enforce rates of charges and regulations for gathering, transporting, loading and delivering crude oil or petroleum by such common carriers in this state, and for the use of storage facilities necessarily incident to such transportation; and
(b) To prescribe and enforce rules and regulations for the government and control of such common carriers in respect to their pipelines and receiving, transferring and loading facilities.
2. The Commission shall exercise such power upon petition by any person showing a substantial interest in the subject.
3. No order establishing or prescribing rates, rules and regulations shall be made except after a hearing and at least 10 days’ and not more than 30 days’ notice to the person, firm, corporation, partnership, joint-stock association, or association owning or controlling and operating or managing the pipeline or pipelines affected.
4. If any rate shall be filed by any pipeline, and a complaint against the same or a petition to reduce the same shall be filed by any shipper, and such complaint is sustained, in whole or in part, all shippers who shall have paid the rates so filed by the pipeline company shall have the right to reparation reimbursement of all excess in transportation charges so paid over and above the proper rate as finally determined on all shipments made after the date of the filing of such complaint.
[4:227:1921; NCL § 4948]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 708 - Oil Pipelines › NRS 708.070 - Exchange of tonnage of crude petroleum; installation of connections and facilities; regulations of Commission pertaining to marketable oil, temperature, leakage and evaporation.

1. Every common carrier as defined in NRS 708.020 shall exchange crude petroleum tonnage with each like common carrier, and the Commission shall have the power to require such connections and facilities for the interchange of such tonnage to be made at every locality reached by both pipelines whenever a necessity therefor exists, subject to such rates and regulations as may be made by the Commission. Any such common carrier under like rules and regulations shall be required to install and maintain facilities for the receipt and delivery of crude oil and petroleum of patrons at all points on such pipeline.
2. No carrier shall be required to receive or transport any crude oil or petroleum except such as may be marketable under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Commission, which the Commission is hereby empowered and required to prescribe.
3. The Commission is also empowered and required to make rules for the ascertainment of the amount of water and other foreign matter in oil tendered for transportation, and for deduction therefor and for the amount of deduction to be made for temperature, leakage and evaporation.
4. The recital herein of particular powers of the Commission shall not be construed to limit the general powers conferred upon the Commission by this chapter.
5. Until set aside or vacated by some decree or order of a court of competent jurisdiction, all orders of the Commission as to any matter within its jurisdiction shall be accepted as prima facie evidence of their validity.
[5:227:1921; NCL § 4949]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 708 - Oil Pipelines › NRS 708.080 - Publication of tariffs; reports; investigation of books; limitation on disclosure of reports by Commission; hearings and enforcement of orders.

1. Such common carriers of crude oil or petroleum shall make and publish their tariffs under such rules and regulations as may be prescribed by the Commission.
2. The Commission shall require such common carriers to make reports, and may investigate their books and records kept in connection with such business, but no publicity shall be given by the Commission to the reports as to the stock of crude oil or petroleum on hand of any particular pipeline. In its discretion, the Commission may make public the aggregate amounts held by all the pipelines making such reports, and of their aggregate storage capacity.
3. The Commission shall have the power and authority:
(a) To hear and determine complaints.
(b) To require attendance of witnesses and pay their expenses.
(c) To institute suits and sue out such writs and process as may be necessary for the enforcement of its orders.
[6:227:1921; NCL § 4950]—(NRS A 1971, 225)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 708 - Oil Pipelines › NRS 708.090 - Discrimination between shippers or in charging for services prohibited; ratable transportation when production exceeds capacity of pipeline.

1. No such common carrier in its operations as such shall discriminate against or between shippers in regard to facilities furnished or service rendered or rates charged under the same or similar circumstances in the transportation of crude oil or petroleum; nor shall there be any discrimination in the transportation of crude oil or petroleum produced or purchased by itself, directly or indirectly. In this connection, the pipeline shall be considered as a shipper of the crude oil or petroleum produced or purchased by itself, directly or indirectly, and handled through its facilities.
2. No such carrier in its operations shall directly or indirectly charge, demand, collect or receive from anyone a greater or less compensation for any service rendered than from another for a like and contemporaneous service; but this shall not limit the right of the Commission to prescribe rates and regulations different from or to some places from other rates or regulations for transportation from or to other places, as it may determine; nor shall any carrier be guilty of discrimination when obeying any order of the Commission.
3. When there shall be offered for transportation more crude oil or petroleum than can be immediately transported, the common carrier shall transport oil from each person and producer ratably, in proportion to the average daily production; but no such common carrier shall be required to receive for shipment from any person, firm, corporation or association of persons more than 3,000 barrels of crude oil or petroleum in any 1 day.
[7:227:1921; NCL § 4951]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 708 - Oil Pipelines › NRS 708.100 - Common purchaser: Duties; discrimination prohibited.

1. Every person, firm, corporation, joint-stock association or other association which is engaged in the business of purchasing crude oil or petroleum produced in the State of Nevada, using in connection with such purchase a pipeline or pipelines within this state, shall be deemed a common purchaser thereof, and shall purchase all of the oil or petroleum in the vicinity thereof which may be reasonably reached by its pipelines and gathering branches, without discrimination in favor of one person as against another, and shall fully perform all the duties of a common purchaser. If it shall be unable to purchase and transport all of the oil and petroleum produced and offered to it for sale, then it shall purchase and transport oil from each person and producer offering to sell the person’s or producer’s oil to the common purchaser ratably, in proportion to the average daily production.
2. Such common purchasers are hereby expressly prohibited from discriminating in price or amount for like grades of oil as between producers or persons; and if such purchaser is likewise a producer, it is hereby prohibited from discriminating in favor of its own production or storage, or production or storage in which it may be interested, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, and its own production and storage shall be treated as that of any other person or producer.
[8:227:1921; NCL § 4952]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 708 - Oil Pipelines › NRS 708.110 - Discrimination in receipt and transportation of crude oil or petroleum prohibited.

Subject to the provisions of this chapter and the rules and regulations which may be prescribed by the Commission, every such common carrier shall receive and transport crude oil or petroleum offered to it for transportation and shall receive and transport the same and perform its other duties with respect thereto without discrimination.
[11:227:1921; NCL § 4955]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 708 - Oil Pipelines › NRS 708.120 - Regulations of Commission to prevent waste of oil or dangerous operations.

The Commission, when necessary, shall make and enforce rules and regulations either general in their nature or applicable to particular oil fields for the prevention of:
1. Actual waste of oil; or
2. Operations in the field dangerous to life or property.
[9:227:1921; NCL § 4953]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 708 - Oil Pipelines › NRS 708.130 - Applicability of chapter.

The provisions of this chapter shall not apply to:
1. Those pipelines which are limited in their use to the wells, stations, plants and refineries of their owner and which are not a part of the pipeline transportation system of any common carrier as defined in NRS 708.020.
2. Any property of such a common carrier which is not a part of or necessarily incident to its pipeline transportation system.
[Part 1:227:1921; NCL § 4945]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 708 - Oil Pipelines › NRS 708.140 - Penalties.

1. Any common carrier as defined in NRS 708.020 which violates any provision of this chapter or fails to perform any duty imposed by this chapter or any valid order of the Commission, when not stayed or suspended by an order of a court, is subject to a penalty of not more than $1,000 for each offense.
2. Any officer of a common carrier or common purchaser who willfully violates any of the provisions of this chapter forbidding discrimination on the part of common carriers is guilty of a gross misdemeanor. Each violation of the provisions of this chapter shall be deemed a separate offense.
[10:227:1921; NCL § 4954]—(NRS A 1967, 666; 1979, 202)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 709 - Franchises by Local Governments › NRS 709.010 - Conditions; payment of percentage of net profits.

1. Any person, company, corporation or association engaged in supplying electric light, heat or power to the inhabitants of any county or to the inhabitants of any town or city in any county in this State, which filed its acceptance of the terms of the provisions of chapter 25, Statutes of Nevada 1901, with the county recorder of the county, or which complied with the procedure authorized by chapter 190, Statutes of Nevada 1907, or which applied for and received a formal permit or franchise from the board of county commissioners of such county before March 20, 1909, and has, since the filing of such an acceptance, or the receipt of such a franchise, or such compliance, been actually engaged in supplying electric light, heat or power to the inhabitants of any county or of any town or city therein is hereby granted the franchise, rights and privilege to supply electric light, heat and power to the inhabitants of the county, and to the inhabitants of any town or city therein.
2. To carry out that purpose, the right, privilege and franchise is hereby granted to that person, association or corporation to construct and maintain poles and wires on the county roads and highways, and in the streets of those cities and towns, together with all the necessary appurtenances, and to conduct electricity over those wires and appurtenances to any part of the county, and to the towns and cities therein, for the purpose of furnishing electric heat, power and light, to the same extent as if the terms and provisions of NRS 709.010 to 709.040, inclusive, had originally been fully complied with.
3. No person may have the benefits of the provisions of NRS 709.010 to 709.040, inclusive, until there has been paid to such town, city or county 2 percent of the net profits made in furnishing or supplying such electric light, heat or power, since the filing of its acceptance of the terms and provisions of chapter 25, Statutes of Nevada 1901, or since the permit or franchise was received from the board of county commissioners, or since compliance with the procedure authorized by chapter 190, Statutes of Nevada 1907.
4. This section does not enlarge the powers or extend the term granted by any existing franchise.
5. Any person, company, association or corporation accepting the benefits of the provisions of NRS 709.010 to 709.040, inclusive, shall pay 2 percent of its net profits, made in furnishing such electric light, heat and power, to the county or counties in which the person, company, association or corporation is engaged in business.
6. NRS 709.010 to 709.040, inclusive, do not relieve any such person, company, corporation, or association which has received a franchise from any board of county commissioners in this State before March 20, 1909, from the full performance of the terms and conditions imposed by the franchise, and compliance with the terms and provisions of NRS 709.010 to 709.040, inclusive, is required in addition thereto.
[1:132:1909; RL § 1261; NCL § 6163]—(NRS A 1995, 2191)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 709 - Franchises by Local Governments › NRS 709.020 - Maintenance and repair of equipment; specifications for poles and wires.

1. Such persons or corporations shall keep their plants, poles, wires and necessary appurtenances in good repair, so as not to interfere with the passage of persons or vehicles or the safety of persons or property.
2. Such poles shall be not less than 30 feet in height, and the wires strung thereon shall be not less than 25 feet above the ground.
3. Such persons or corporations with all due diligence shall provide a competent electrician at their own expense to cut and repair such wires as are necessary for the removal of buildings or other property through the streets of counties, cities or towns.
[2:132:1909; RL § 1262; NCL § 6164]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 709 - Franchises by Local Governments › NRS 709.040 - Length of franchise; annual affidavit of gross receipts and expenditures filed with county recorder; acceptance of provisions of NRS 709.010 to 709.040, inclusive.

1. The franchise and privilege granted by NRS 709.010 to 709.040, inclusive, shall continue for a period of 25 years from and after the date of the filing of the notice of intention and agreement as required by chapter 25, Statutes of Nevada 1901, or from and after the receipt of such formal permit or franchise, or from and after compliance with the procedure authorized by chapter 190, Statutes of Nevada 1907.
2. Such person, company, association or corporation shall file annually with the county recorder an affidavit showing the gross receipts and expenditures derived from and expended in the furnishing of such electric light, heat and power.
3. No person or persons, company or corporations shall be entitled to any of the benefits or be included within the provisions of NRS 709.010 to 709.040, inclusive, unless and until such person or persons, company or corporation shall, within 90 days after March 20, 1909, file in the Office of the Secretary of State and in the office of the county recorder of the county in which such person or persons, company or corporation maintains its principal office or place of business a duly executed and acknowledged acceptance of the terms, conditions and provisions of NRS 709.010 to 709.040, inclusive, which acceptance, in the case of a corporation, shall be evidence by a duly attested or certified copy of a resolution of its board of directors.
[4:132:1909; RL § 1264; NCL § 6166]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 709 - Franchises by Local Governments › NRS 709.060 - Application for franchise: Contents; franchise limited to 25 years.

Any person, company, corporation or association desiring a franchise, right or privilege for any purpose specified in NRS 709.050 must file with the board of county commissioners of the county wherein the franchise, right or privilege is to be exercised an application in writing, which contains:
1. The name of the applicant and the time for which the franchise, right or privilege is desired, not exceeding 25 years.
2. The places where the franchise, right or privilege is to be exercised and, if in any unincorporated town, the streets, avenues, alleys and other places through, over, under or along which the franchise, right or privilege is sought.
3. If the application is for a street railway, it must designate the route of the proposed line in the county, and specify the width of ground desired to be included in its right-of-way.
4. A map or plat correctly showing and delineating, so far as practicable, the proposed route or right-of-way of any street railway, light, heat, power or telephone lines, and the places where gas or water mains are to be laid or installed.
[2:168:1909; RL § 2130; NCL § 3184]—(NRS A 1985, 319; 2013, 1954)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 709 - Franchises by Local Governments › NRS 709.070 - Notice of filing of application; contents; publication and posting.

1. Upon the filing of the application, the board of county commissioners shall, at its next regular meeting, cause notice of the application to be given. Before notice is given, the applicant must deposit with the clerk of the board the cost of publication of the notice, the amount to be fixed by the board of county commissioners.
2. The notice must contain:
(a) The name of the person or persons making the application.
(b) The nature, in general terms, of the franchise, right or privilege applied for.
(c) The day when the hearing upon the application will be held.
(d) A statement that all persons who have any objections to the granting of the franchise, right or privilege must file their objections, in writing, with the clerk of the board before the date of the hearing, or must appear at the meeting and present their objections at that time.
3. The notice must be published once each week for 4 consecutive weeks in a newspaper of general circulation published in the county. If no newspaper is published in the county, notice must be given by the posting of notices as provided in this section.
4. The clerk shall also cause three copies of the notice to be posted in three public places nearest where the application will take effect, and if more than one unincorporated town is affected, the notice must be posted in three public places in each of the unincorporated towns.
5. The publication or posting of the notice must be completed:
(a) Before the next regular meeting of the board of county commissioners at which the application is considered; or
(b) At least 10 days before a hearing on the application is held.
6. Proof of the notice must be made by the clerk of the board before the hearing in the matter proceeds, and the proof must become a part of the record of the proceedings.
[3:168:1909; A 1915, 78; 1919 RL § 2131; NCL § 3185]—(NRS A 1985, 319; 1987, 2236)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 709 - Franchises by Local Governments › NRS 709.080 - Hearing: Presentation of objections; adjournment.

1. On the day specified in the notice for the hearing thereof, or at the next regular meeting of the board of county commissioners thereafter, all objections to the granting of such franchise shall be presented to the board of the county commissioners.
2. The board shall proceed at once with the consideration of the application, but may adjourn the hearing from time to time, not exceeding in all 30 days, until a final decision is reached.
[4:168:1909; RL § 2132; NCL § 3186]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 709 - Franchises by Local Governments › NRS 709.090 - Granting of franchise: Terms and conditions.

If, upon full consideration of all the facts, the board of county commissioners determines that the granting of the franchise is in the best interests of the residents of the county, the board shall, except as otherwise provided in subsection 2 of NRS 709.050, fix the terms and prescribe the conditions pursuant to which the franchise is to be granted, the character or kinds of service to be rendered, the maximum rates to be charged for the service, and such other matters as may be properly connected therewith, and shall thereupon grant the franchise subject to such terms and conditions.
[5:168:1909; RL § 2133; NCL § 3187]—(NRS A 1987, 2237; 1997, 2747)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 709 - Franchises by Local Governments › NRS 709.100 - Undertaking by holder of franchise guaranteeing commencement of construction within 60 days from date of granting of franchise.

The board of the county commissioners, at the time of granting any such authority, franchise and right-of-way, shall require the applicant to enter into an undertaking to the county in a sum to be determined by the board of county commissioners, with surety or sureties approved by the board, conditioned that the applicant shall commence active construction of such telephone, light, heat or power lines, the laying of gas or water mains, or such streetcar system, for which such franchise, right or privilege is granted, within 60 days from the date of the granting of the franchise, right or privilege, and prosecute the construction thereof to completion with due diligence; and, failing to comply with the conditions of such undertaking, shall pay into the treasury of the county to which such undertaking is given the sum of money mentioned therein and forfeit all rights to such franchise, right or privilege.
[6:168:1909; RL § 2134; NCL § 3188]—(NRS A 2013, 1954)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 709 - Franchises by Local Governments › NRS 709.110 - Agreement to pay annually 2 percent of net profits for deposit in State Education Fund for benefit of public schools.

Every applicant for a franchise for any of the purposes mentioned in NRS 709.050 shall, within 10 days after such franchise is granted, file with the county recorder of such county an agreement properly executed by the grantee of such franchise, right or privilege to pay annually on the first Monday of July of each year to the State Treasurer for deposit in the State Education Fund for the benefit of the public schools in this State, 2 percent of the net profits made by such grantee in the operation of any public utility for which such franchise is granted. No power, function, right or privilege shall be exercised until such agreement shall be filed.
[7:168:1909; RL § 2135; NCL § 3189]—(NRS A 2019, 4251)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 709 - Franchises by Local Governments › NRS 709.120 - Affidavit filed annually with county treasurer concerning gross receipts, expenses and net profits.

The grantee of any franchise, right or privilege secured under the terms and provisions of NRS 709.050 to 709.170, inclusive, shall file annually, on or before the first Monday of March, with the county treasurer of the county wherein it is engaged in business under such franchise, right or privilege, an affidavit made by its president and secretary setting forth the gross receipts and expenses for the preceding year, and the net profits, if any, for the same period.
[8:168:1909; RL § 2136; NCL § 3190]—(NRS A 1997, 1589)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 709 - Franchises by Local Governments › NRS 709.130 - Specifications of plant, poles and wires; maintenance and repair of equipment; location of poles, wires and other appurtenances; exclusive franchise prohibited.

1. Every person, company, corporation or association receiving a franchise pursuant to the provisions of NRS 709.050 to 709.170, inclusive, shall:
(a) Provide a plant with all necessary appurtenances of approved construction for the full performance of the franchise duties, rights and obligations, and for the needs, comfort and convenience of the inhabitants of the various unincorporated towns and cities, county or place to which the franchise relates.
(b) Keep the plants and appurtenances, including all tracks, cars, poles, wires, pipes, mains and other attachments, in good repair, so as not to interfere with the passage of persons or vehicles, or the safety of persons or property.
2. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, the board of county commissioners may when granting such franchise, fix and direct the location of all tracks, poles, wires, mains, pipes and other appurtenances upon the public streets, alleys, avenues and highways as best to serve the convenience of the public. The board may change the location of any appurtenances and permit, upon proper showing, all necessary extensions thereof when the interest or convenience of the public requires. The board shall not require a company that provides telecommunication service or interactive computer service to place its facilities in ducts or conduits or on poles owned or leased by the county.
3. All poles, except poles from which trolley wires are suspended for streetcar lines, from which wires are suspended for electric railroads, power, light or heating purposes within the boundaries of unincorporated towns and over public highways must not be less than 30 feet in height, and the wires strung thereon must not be less than 25 feet above the ground.
4. Every person, company, association or corporation operating a telephone, electric light, heat or power line, or any electric railway line, shall, with due diligence, provide itself, at its own expense, a competent electrician to cut, repair and replace wires in all cases where cutting or repairing or replacing is made necessary by the removal of buildings or other property through the public streets or highways.
5. No person, company, corporation or association may receive an exclusive franchise nor may any board of county commissioners grant a franchise in such manner or under such terms or conditions as to hinder or obstruct the granting of franchises to other grantees, or in such manner as to obstruct or impede reasonable competition in any business or public service to which NRS 709.050 to 709.170, inclusive, apply.
[9:168:1909; RL § 2137; NCL § 3191]—(NRS A 1997, 2747; 2007, 710; 2013, 1955)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 709 - Franchises by Local Governments › NRS 709.140 - Condemnation of property; liability of holder of franchise for damage to property.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, if the owner of any real property upon or over which the proposed line of the grantee of the franchise is to run objects to the use of the owner’s property for that purpose, the land reasonably necessary therefor may be condemned in the manner prescribed by law for the condemnation of land for public use, in a proceeding brought for the purpose by the grantee of the franchise.
2. Real property reasonably necessary for the proposed line of a grantee of a franchise for a street railway may be condemned in the manner prescribed by law for the condemnation of land for public use in a proceeding brought for that purpose by the grantor of the franchise.
3. If any property, real or personal, abutting or adjacent to the line of the right-of-way of the franchise is injured or damaged by the running or operation of the line under the franchise, the grantee of the franchise is liable in an action at law for all such injuries and damages caused by the negligence of the grantee.
[10:168:1909; RL § 2138; NCL § 3192]—(NRS A 1991, 1140)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 709 - Franchises by Local Governments › NRS 709.145 - Public Utilities Commission of Nevada may contract to provide services for certain water companies exempt from regulation by Commission.

1. Any political subdivision of the State of Nevada which operates or controls a water company, or the board of county commissioners of any county from which a franchise has been obtained, pursuant to NRS 709.050 to 709.170, inclusive, by a water company exempt from regulation by the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada, may contract with the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada for rate determination assistance, engineering services or financing advice concerning that water company.
2. Any such contract does not divest a political subdivision or a board of county commissioners of any of its jurisdiction over that water company.
3. The Public Utilities Commission of Nevada may charge a reasonable fee for those services.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 1133; A 1987, 737; 1997, 1958)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 709 - Franchises by Local Governments › NRS 709.146 - Inspection of books and records of water company holding franchise and exempt from regulation by Public Utilities Commission of Nevada.

Any water company exempt from regulation by the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada and franchised pursuant to NRS 709.050 to 709.170, inclusive, shall, upon request by the board of county commissioners of the county from which such water company obtained its franchise, produce its books and records for inspection by such board of county commissioners, or the Public Utilities Commission.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 1134; A 1997, 1958)