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2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 704A - Facilities Placed Underground › NRS 704A.310 - Interim warrants.

1. For the purpose of paying any contractor or otherwise defraying any costs as they become due from time to time until money is available therefor from the levy and collection of assessments and any issuance of bonds, the governing body may issue interim warrants.
2. Any interim warrants must:
(a) Bear such date or dates;
(b) Mature in such a denomination or denominations at such time or times, or at any time upon call;
(c) Bear interest at such a rate or rates, which must not exceed by more than 3 percent the Index of Twenty Bonds which was most recently published before the bids are received or a negotiated offer is accepted; and
(d) Be payable in such medium of payment at such place or places within and without the State, including but not limited to the office of the county treasurer,
as the governing body may determine.
3. Any interim warrants may be issued with privileges for registration for payment as to principal only, or as to both principal and interest, may be negotiable or nonnegotiable, may be special obligations payable from designated special assessments, any bond proceeds, and any other money designated to be available for the redemption of the interim warrants, and generally must be issued in such manner, in such form, with such recitals, terms, covenants and conditions, and with such other details, as may be provided by the governing body by ordinance.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1239; A 1981, 1422; 1983, 589)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 704A - Facilities Placed Underground › NRS 704A.312 - Resolution determining total cost of construction or conversion and ordering preparation of assessment roll; validity of assessment; limitations on amount of assessment.

1. At any time after there occur the conditions stated in subsection 1 or in subsections 2 and 3 of NRS 704A.290, the governing body, by resolution, shall:
(a) Determine the total cost of the construction or conversion pertaining to the service district, including, without limitation, interest on any interim warrants relating thereto and all other incidental costs, based upon the actual costs known at the time of such determination of cost and otherwise upon the estimated costs stated in the joint report prepared under NRS 704A.180, as modified, if modified by the occurrence thereafter of factors affecting such costs and permitting their revision;
(b) Determine the net cost of the construction or conversion to be defrayed by special assessments;
(c) Order the municipal engineer to make out or to cause to be made out an assessment roll containing, among other matters:
(1) The name of each last known owner of each lot to be assessed, or if not known, a statement that the name is "unknown"; and
(2) A description of each tract to be assessed, and the amount of the proposed assessment thereon, apportioned upon the basis for assessments stated in the resolution of the governing body adopted pursuant to subsection 2 of NRS 704A.180, but subject to the provisions of subsections 5 and 6 of NRS 704A.240; and
(d) Cause a copy of the resolution to be furnished by the municipal clerk to the municipal engineer.
2. If by mistake or otherwise any person is improperly designated in the assessment roll as the owner of any lot, or if the same is assessed without the name of the owner or each owner, as the case may be, or in the name of a person other than the owner, such assessment shall not for that reason be vitiated but shall, in all respects, be as valid upon and against such lot as though assessed in the name of the owner or each owner thereof, as the case may be; and when the assessment roll has been confirmed, such assessment shall become a lien on such lot and be collected as provided by law.
3. No assessment shall exceed the amount of the special benefits to the lot assessed nor exceed the amount of the reasonable market value of such lot for any one project for the construction or conversion of any one type of service facilities of a public utility corporation, as determined by the governing body.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 478)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 704B - Providers of New Electric Resources › NRS 704B.010 - Definitions.

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 704B.020 to 704B.140, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
(Added to NRS by 2001, 3223; A 2003, 1260; 2019, 3522)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 704B - Providers of New Electric Resources › NRS 704B.020 - "Ancillary services" defined.

"Ancillary services" means those generation services that:
1. Are necessary to support the transmission of energy and capacity from resources to loads while maintaining reliable operation of the transmission system of the electric utility; and
2. Are defined and established in applicable transmission tariffs on file with the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission.
(Added to NRS by 2001, 3223)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 704B - Providers of New Electric Resources › NRS 704B.050 - "Electric utility" defined.

1. "Electric utility" means any public utility or successor in interest that:
(a) Is in the business of providing electric service to customers;
(b) Holds a certificate of public convenience and necessity issued or transferred pursuant to chapter 704 of NRS; and
(c) In the most recently completed calendar year or in any other calendar year within the 7 calendar years immediately preceding the most recently completed calendar year, had a gross operating revenue of $250,000,000 or more in this state.
2. The term does not include a cooperative association, nonprofit corporation, nonprofit association or provider of electric service which is declared to be a public utility pursuant to NRS 704.673 and which provides service only to its members.
(Added to NRS by 2001, 3223)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 704B - Providers of New Electric Resources › NRS 704B.080 - "Eligible customer" defined.

"Eligible customer" means an end-use customer which is:
1. A nongovernmental commercial or industrial end-use customer that:
(a) Was an end-use customer of an electric utility at any time before June 12, 2019; and
(b) Has an average annual load of 1 megawatt or more in the service territory of an electric utility.
2. A governmental entity, including, without limitation, a governmental entity providing educational or health care services, that:
(a) Was an end-use customer of an electric utility at any time before June 12, 2019;
(b) Performs its functions using one or more facilities which are operated under a common budget and common control; and
(c) Has an average annual load of 1 megawatt or more in the service territory of an electric utility.
3. A governmental entity, including, without limitation, a governmental entity providing educational or health care services, that:
(a) Was not an end-use customer of an electric utility at any time before June 12, 2019;
(b) Performs its functions using one or more facilities which are operated under a common budget and common control; and
(c) Would have an average annual load of 1 megawatt or more in the service territory of an electric utility.
4. A nongovernmental commercial or industrial end-use customer that:
(a) Was not an end-use customer of an electric utility at any time before June 12, 2019; and
(b) Would have an average annual load of 1 megawatt or more in the service territory of an electric utility.
(Added to NRS by 2001, 3224; A 2019, 3522)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 704B - Providers of New Electric Resources › NRS 704B.110 - "New electric resource" defined.

"New electric resource" means the energy, capacity or ancillary services and any increased or additional energy, capacity or ancillary services which are able to be delivered to an eligible customer and are made available:
1. From an identifiable generation asset that is not owned by an electric utility or is not subject to contractual commitments to an electric utility that make the energy, capacity or ancillary services from the generation asset unavailable for purchase by an eligible customer; or
2. By way of market purchases through a provider of new electric resources.
(Added to NRS by 2001, 3224; A 2019, 3522)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 704B - Providers of New Electric Resources › NRS 704B.120 - "Person" defined.

"Person" means:
1. A natural person.
2. Any form of business or social organization and any other nongovernmental legal entity, including, without limitation, a corporation, partnership, association, trust or unincorporated organization.
3. A governmental entity other than:
(a) This state or an agency or instrumentality of this state; or
(b) A political subdivision of this state or an agency or instrumentality of a political subdivision of this state.
(Added to NRS by 2001, 3224)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 704B - Providers of New Electric Resources › NRS 704B.140 - "Time-of-use meter" defined.

"Time-of-use meter" means a meter that:
1. Measures and records the electric demand, energy and power factor on 15-minute intervals; and
2. Is suitable for use with an electric demand of 1 megawatt or more.
(Added to NRS by 2001, 3225)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 704B - Providers of New Electric Resources › NRS 704B.170 - Effect of chapter on certain contracts; duties of electric utilities and assignees concerning certain contracts.

1. The provisions of this chapter do not alter, diminish or otherwise affect any rights or obligations arising under any contract which requires an electric utility to purchase energy, capacity or ancillary services from another party.
2. Each electric utility or its assignee shall comply with the terms of any contract which requires the electric utility or its assignee to purchase energy, capacity or ancillary services from another party.
(Added to NRS by 2001, 3225; A 2019, 3523)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 704B - Providers of New Electric Resources › NRS 704B.210 - Submission of report to Legislative Commission.

The Commission shall, not later than 2 business days after receiving a request in writing from the Legislative Commission, submit to the Legislative Commission a written report which summarizes for the period requested by the Legislative Commission:
1. Each application which was filed with the Commission pursuant to the provisions of this chapter and which requested approval of a proposed transaction between an eligible customer and a provider of new electric resources;
2. The public information that the eligible customer included with the application;
3. The findings of the Commission concerning the effect of the proposed transaction on the public interest; and
4. Whether the Commission approved the application and, if so, the effective date of the proposed transaction, the terms and conditions of the proposed transaction, and the terms, conditions and payments ordered by the Commission.
(Added to NRS by 2001, 3230; A 2007, 549; 2019, 3523)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 704B - Providers of New Electric Resources › NRS 704B.300 - Authority of provider to sell energy, capacity or ancillary services; limitations; provider is not public utility because of transaction; jurisdiction of Commission; prohibition.

1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a provider of new electric resources may sell energy, capacity or ancillary services to one or more eligible customers if the provider holds a valid license and:
(a) The eligible customers have been approved to purchase energy, capacity and ancillary services from the provider pursuant to the provisions of NRS 704B.310; or
(b) The transaction complies with the provisions of NRS 704B.325.
2. A provider of new electric resources shall not sell energy, capacity or ancillary services to an eligible customer if the transaction violates the provisions of this chapter.
3. A provider of new electric resources that sells energy, capacity or ancillary services to an eligible customer pursuant to the provisions of this chapter:
(a) Does not become and shall not be deemed to be a public utility solely because of that transaction; and
(b) Becomes subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission only for the purposes of this chapter and NRS 704.033, 704.035 and 704.7801 to 704.7828, inclusive.
4. If a provider of new electric resources is not a public utility in this state and is not otherwise authorized by the provisions of a specific statute to sell energy, capacity or ancillary services at retail in this state, the provider shall not sell energy, capacity or ancillary services at retail in this state to a person or entity that is not an eligible customer.
(Added to NRS by 2001, 3226; A 2003, 1260; 2019, 3523)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 704B - Providers of New Electric Resources › NRS 704B.325 - Purchase of energy, capacity or ancillary services from alternative provider after approval of original transaction: Rights and obligations of eligible customers; expedited review by Commission; limited disclosure of certain information.

1. An eligible customer that is purchasing energy, capacity or ancillary services from a provider of new electric resources may purchase energy, capacity or ancillary services from an alternative provider without obtaining the approval of the Commission if:
(a) The terms and conditions of the transaction with the alternative provider, other than the price of the energy, capacity or ancillary services, conform to the terms and conditions of the transaction that was originally approved by the Commission with respect to the eligible customer, including, without limitation, any terms and conditions, other than the price of the energy, capacity or ancillary services, that were approved by the Commission to address the factors considered by the Commission pursuant to subsection 6 of NRS 704B.310; and
(b) The alternative provider holds a license.
2. If any terms and conditions of the transaction with the alternative provider, other than the price of the energy, capacity or ancillary services, do not conform to the terms and conditions of the transaction that was originally approved by the Commission with respect to the eligible customer, the eligible customer must obtain approval from the Commission before those nonconforming terms and conditions are enforceable.
3. If the eligible customer files a request with the Commission for approval of any nonconforming terms and conditions, the Commission shall review and make a determination concerning the request on an expedited basis.
4. Notwithstanding any specific statute to the contrary, information concerning any terms and conditions of the transaction with the alternative provider that the Commission determines are commercially sensitive:
(a) Must not be disclosed by the Commission except to the Regulatory Operations Staff of the Commission, the Consumer’s Advocate, the staff of the Consumer’s Advocate and the affected electric utility for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this section; and
(b) Except as otherwise provided in NRS 239.0115, shall be deemed to be confidential for all other purposes, and the Commission shall take such actions as are necessary to protect the confidentiality of such information.
(Added to NRS by 2003, 1260; A 2007, 2162; 2019, 3526)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 704B - Providers of New Electric Resources › NRS 704B.330 - Replacement of energy, capacity or ancillary services purchased from provider with energy, capacity or ancillary services purchased from electric utility; tariffs.

1. If an eligible customer is purchasing energy, capacity or ancillary services from a provider of new electric resources, the eligible customer may, pursuant to tariffs approved by the Commission, replace some or all, but not less than all at a single time-of-use meter, of the energy, capacity or ancillary services purchased from the provider of new electric resources with energy, capacity or ancillary services purchased from an electric utility.
2. The tariffs approved by the Commission pursuant to this section must include, without limitation:
(a) Provisions requiring the eligible customer to pay any incremental costs that are incurred by the electric utility to provide energy to the eligible customer;
(b) Provisions requiring the eligible customer to provide reasonable and adequate notice to the electric utility;
(c) Provisions establishing minimum terms during which the eligible customer must continue to purchase energy from the electric utility; and
(d) Any other provisions that the Commission determines are necessary and reasonable to carry out and enforce the provisions of this section.
(Added to NRS by 2001, 3229)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 704B - Providers of New Electric Resources › NRS 704B.335 - Commission required to establish procedures to apply for replacement of energy, capacity or ancillary services purchased from provider with bundled service purchased from electric utility; limitations; terms and conditions after approval of application.

1. The Commission shall by regulation establish a procedure for an eligible customer who is purchasing energy, capacity or ancillary services from a provider of new electric resources to apply to the Commission to purchase bundled electric service from an electric utility. The Commission may, as it deems necessary and appropriate to prevent harm to the customers of an electric utility:
(a) Establish a limit on the number of times an eligible customer may be approved to purchase energy, capacity or ancillary services from a provider of new electric resources; and
(b) Establish limitations on the use of the tariffs approved by the Commission pursuant to NRS 704B.330.
2. If the Commission approves an application submitted pursuant to the regulations required to be adopted by subsection 1, the Commission shall order such terms and conditions as the Commission deems necessary and appropriate to ensure that the purchase of bundled electric service from an electric utility does not harm the existing customers of the electric utility.
(Added to NRS by 2019, 3521)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 704B - Providers of New Electric Resources › NRS 704B.340 - Time-of-use meters: Requirements; installation; costs; limitations; number; use of other meters or equipment.

1. A provider of new electric resources shall not sell energy, capacity or ancillary services to an eligible customer unless the customer has a time-of-use meter installed at the point of delivery of energy to the eligible customer.
2. The Commission shall establish the date by which an electric utility must ensure that metering equipment is installed and operational at the point of delivery of energy to the eligible customer.
3. An electric utility shall install a time-of-use meter at each point of delivery of energy to the eligible customer if the eligible customer does not have a time-of-use meter at that point of delivery. If the eligible customer is:
(a) A nongovernmental commercial or industrial end-use customer, the eligible customer or the provider shall pay all costs for the time-of-use meter and for installation of the time-of-use meter by the electric utility.
(b) A governmental entity, the provider shall pay all costs for the time-of-use meter and for installation of the time-of-use meter by the electric utility.
4. Not more than one person or entity may sell the energy that is delivered to an eligible customer through any one time-of-use meter.
5. The provisions of this section do not prohibit:
(a) An eligible customer from having more than one time-of-use meter installed for the same service location; or
(b) An eligible customer from installing any other meter or equipment that is necessary or appropriate to the transaction with the provider, if such a meter or equipment is otherwise consistent with system reliability.
(Added to NRS by 2001, 3229; A 2019, 3527)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 704B - Providers of New Electric Resources › NRS 704B.350 - Duty of electric utility to provide certain components of electric service; duty of Commission to establish just, reasonable and nondiscriminatory rates; effect of chapter on existing rights and requirements under federal and state law.

1. An electric utility shall provide all transmission, distribution, metering and other components of electric service that are necessary for a provider of new electric resources to sell energy, capacity and ancillary services to an eligible customer pursuant to the provisions of this chapter. An electric utility shall provide each such component of electric service pursuant to the tariffs and service agreements filed with and approved by the appropriate regulatory authorities having jurisdiction over each such component of electric service.
2. For each such component of electric service that is within the jurisdiction of the Commission, the Commission shall establish just, reasonable and nondiscriminatory rates.
3. The provisions of this chapter do not enlarge or expand any existing rights under federal law or create any other rights with regard to the transmission system of the electric utility.
4. When providing service pursuant to this chapter, an electric utility is subject to all applicable statutes and regulations of this State and the United States.
(Added to NRS by 2001, 3230)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 704B - Providers of New Electric Resources › NRS 704B.360 - Payment of taxes, fees and assessments by eligible customers or providers; billing requirements; disciplinary action for failure to comply.

1. If the Commission approves an application that is filed pursuant to NRS 704B.310 or a request that is filed pursuant to NRS 704B.325, the eligible customer or the provider of new electric resources, as applicable, shall:
(a) Pay its share of the annual assessment levied pursuant to NRS 704.033 to the Commission and the Bureau of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney General;
(b) Pay any other tax, fee or assessment that would be due a governmental entity had the eligible customer continued to purchase energy, capacity or ancillary services from the electric utility; and
(c) Remit any tax, fee or assessment collected pursuant to paragraph (b) to the applicable governmental entity.
2. Each person or entity that is responsible for billing an eligible customer shall ensure that the amount which the eligible customer must pay pursuant to paragraph (b) of subsection 1 is set forth as a separate item or entry on each bill submitted to the eligible customer.
3. If an eligible customer to whom an order is issued pursuant to subsection 1 thereafter purchases energy, capacity or ancillary services from an alternative provider pursuant to NRS 704B.325 without obtaining the approval of the Commission, the order issued pursuant to subsection 1 continues to apply to the eligible customer.
4. Upon petition by a governmental entity to which a tax, fee or assessment must be remitted pursuant to this section or the Regulatory Operations Staff of the Commission, the Commission may limit, suspend or revoke any order issued to an eligible customer by the Commission pursuant to NRS 704B.310, limit, suspend or revoke any license issued to a provider of new electric resources pursuant to NRS 704B.315, or impose an administrative fine pursuant to NRS 703.380, or both limit, suspend or revoke any order or license and impose an administrative fine pursuant to NRS 703.380, if the Commission, after providing an appropriate notice and hearing, determines that the eligible customer or provider of new electric resources, as applicable, has failed to pay any tax, fee, assessment cost or rate required to be paid or remitted pursuant to subsection 1.
(Added to NRS by 2003, 3031; A 2019, 3527)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 705 - Railroads and Monorails › NRS 705.005 - Effect of federal preemption.

1. The provisions of this chapter do not apply to an individual, company or corporation operating a railroad in this State to the extent that such a provision is:
(a) Preempted, either expressly or by implication, by a federal law or an administrative regulation, rule, decision, opinion or order having the force of a federal law; or
(b) Declared to be preempted by a court of competent jurisdiction interpreting a federal law or an administrative regulation, rule, decision, opinion or order having the force of a federal law.
2. If a provision of this chapter is preempted, the provision is suspended and must not be enforced against the individual, company or corporation operating the railroad only for the period during which the preemption is valid and effective.
3. This section is intended only to codify the rules of construction applicable to the federal doctrine of preemption and must not be interpreted in a manner that is inconsistent with those rules.
(Added to NRS by 2005, 305)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 705 - Railroads and Monorails › NRS 705.010 - Construction and operation of railroad by foreign corporation; qualification to do business.

1. Subject to the provisions of subsection 2, any railroad corporation organized under the laws of any other state or territory, or under any Act of Congress, may construct, own and operate a line of railroad and extensions and branches thereof in this state, and for that purpose may exercise the power of eminent domain, and do any other business in connection therewith, as fully and effectually, to all intents and purposes, as if such corporation were organized under the laws of this state.
2. Before any corporation, incorporated or organized otherwise than under the laws of this state, shall acquire or construct any railroad in this state by virtue of this section, it shall comply with the provisions of chapter 80 of NRS.
[Part 1:67:1933; 1931 NCL § 6356]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 705 - Railroads and Monorails › NRS 705.020 - County, city or town may grant use of street by railroad to reach depot or pass through; limitations.

1. Any county, city or town in this State shall have, and is hereby fully empowered, by and through a two-thirds vote of the board of county commissioners, the city council, or any other officers having a supervisory or other control of such county, city or town, respectively, to give, grant or donate to any railroad company now organized or that may be hereafter organized under the laws of this State the use of any of the streets or highways which may be absolutely necessary in order to enable any such company to reach an accessible point for a depot in any such county, city and county, city or town, or to pass through the same on as direct a route as possible, and accommodate the traveling and commercial interests thereof.
2. The provisions of this section shall not apply to any street railroad now constructed, or hereafter to be constructed, in any of the incorporated cities of this State; nor shall any railroad company which may avail itself of the provisions of this section ever use its road for street railroad purposes or for the purpose of carrying passengers for a consideration from one point to another in the same city; nor shall any city or town donate any public square or any land set apart to the use of any one company.
[9(c):177:1925; added 1945, 196; 1943 NCL § 1608.03]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 705 - Railroads and Monorails › NRS 705.030 - Contract reserving title or lien as security for full payment.

In any contract for the sale of railroad or street railway equipment or rolling stock, it shall be lawful to agree that title to the property sold or contracted to be sold, although possession thereof may be delivered immediately or at any time or times subsequently, shall not vest in the purchaser until the purchase price shall be fully paid, or that the seller shall have and retain a lien thereon for the unpaid purchase money.
[Part 1:278:1913; 1919 RL p. 2982; NCL § 6300]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 705 - Railroads and Monorails › NRS 705.040 - Lease containing stipulation for conditional sale of equipment at termination of lease.

In any contract for the leasing or hiring of railroad or street railway equipment or rolling stock, it shall be lawful to stipulate for a conditional sale thereof at the termination of such contract, and that the rentals or amounts to be received under such contract may, as paid, be applied and treated as purchase money, and that the title to the property shall not vest in the lessee or bailee until the purchase price shall have been paid in full and until the terms of the contract shall have been fully performed, notwithstanding delivery to and possession by the lessee or bailee.
[Part 1:278:1913; 1919 RL p. 2982; NCL § 6300]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 705 - Railroads and Monorails › NRS 705.050 - Validity of contract for conditional sale.

No contract of the type provided for in NRS 705.030 to 705.070, inclusive, shall be valid as against any subsequent judgment creditor or any subsequent bona fide purchaser for value and without notice, unless:
1. The contract is evidenced by an instrument executed by the parties and duly acknowledged by the vendee, lessee or bailee, as the case may be, or duly proved before some person authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, and in the same manner as deeds are acknowledged or proved;
2. The instrument is filed for record in the Office of the Secretary of State of this state; and
3. Each car or locomotive engine so sold, leased or hired, or contracted to be sold, leased or hired, has the name of the vendor, lessor or bailor plainly marked in letters not less than 1 inch in size on each side thereof, followed by the word "owner" or "lessor" or "bailor," as the case may be.
[Part 1:278:1913; 1919 RL p. 2982; NCL § 6300]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 705 - Railroads and Monorails › NRS 705.060 - Contract recorded with Secretary of State; recording of declaration of full payment; fees.

1. The contracts authorized by NRS 705.030 to 705.070, inclusive, shall be filed with the Secretary of State and recorded by the Secretary of State in a book of records to be kept for that purpose. On payment in full of the purchase money and the performance of the terms and conditions stipulated in any such contract, a declaration in writing to that effect shall be made by the vendor, lessor or bailor, or the assignee of the vendor, lessor or bailor, by a separate instrument, to be acknowledged by the vendor, lessor or bailor, or assignee, and recorded as aforesaid.
2. The Secretary of State shall collect and pay into the State Treasury $5 for filing each of such contracts or declarations and 20 cents per folio for recording the same.
[2:278:1913; 1919 RL p. 2983; NCL § 6301]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 705 - Railroads and Monorails › NRS 705.070 - NRS 705.030 to 705.060, inclusive, not to invalidate contracts made before March 27, 1913.

NRS 705.030 to 705.060, inclusive, shall not be held to invalidate or affect in any way any contract of the kind referred to in NRS 705.030 to 705.050, inclusive, made prior to March 27, 1913, and any such contract made prior to March 27, 1913, may, upon compliance with the provisions of NRS 705.030 to 705.060, inclusive, be recorded as provided in NRS 705.060.
[3:278:1913; 1919 RL p. 2983; NCL § 6302]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 705 - Railroads and Monorails › NRS 705.080 - Sale, transfer or lease of property and franchises to corporation: Consent of stockholders; operation by buyer or lessee.

1. Any railroad corporation owning a railroad in this state may sell, convey and transfer, or lease its property and franchises, or any part thereof, to any other railroad corporation, whether organized under the laws of this state or of any other state or territory, or under any Act of Congress, upon such terms and conditions as its board of directors deem expedient and for the best interests of the corporation, when and as authorized by the affirmative vote of stockholders holding stock in the corporation entitling them to exercise not less than 66 2/3 percent of the voting power, given at a stockholders’ meeting called for that purpose, or when authorized by the written consent of stockholders holding stock in the corporation entitling them to exercise not less than 66 2/3 percent of the voting power; but the articles of association may require the vote or written consent of a larger proportion of the stockholders and the separate vote or consent of any class of stockholders.
2. Any other railroad corporation receiving the conveyance or lease may hold and operate the railroad franchise and property within this state, build and operate extensions or branches thereof, and for that purpose exercise the power of eminent domain, and do any other business in connection therewith, as fully and effectually to all intents and purposes as if such corporation were organized under the laws of this state.
[Part 1:67:1933; 1931 NCL § 6356]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 705 - Railroads and Monorails › NRS 705.090 - Confinement of livestock in car for longer than 28 hours in intrastate shipment prohibited; extension of time.

1. No railway corporation engaged in the transportation of horses, sheep, cattle, swine or other animals between points situated within this state shall confine or cause the same to be confined in cars or other vehicles of any description for a period longer than 28 consecutive hours without unloading the same for rest, water and feeding during 5 consecutive hours, unless prevented by storm, motor vehicle crash or inevitable accident.
2. In estimating such confinement, the time during which the animals have been confined without rest on connecting roads from which they are received must be computed.
3. The time of confinement prescribed in this section may be extended to 36 hours upon the written request of the owner or the person in custody of a particular shipment of livestock, which written request shall be separate and apart from any printed bill of lading or other railroad form. The request for extension of time shall be made to the conductor of the train, the agent or other authorized agent of the railroad company over which the livestock is being transported.
[1:94:1903; RL § 3585; NCL § 6315] + [14:178:1919; 1919 RL p. 3396; NCL § 10582]—(NRS A 2015, 1700)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 705 - Railroads and Monorails › NRS 705.100 - Animals to be fed and watered when unloaded; duties of custodian or company; lien of company.

Animals so unloaded shall be properly fed and watered during such rest by the owner or person having the custody thereof or, in case of such owner’s or person’s default in so doing, then by the railroad company transporting the same, at the expense of the owner or person in custody thereof; and such company shall, in such case, have a lien upon such animals for food, care and custody furnished, and shall not be liable for any detention of such animals.
[2:94:1903; RL § 3586; NCL § 6316]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 705 - Railroads and Monorails › NRS 705.110 - Penalty.

Any company, owner or custodian of such animals who knowingly and willingly fails to comply with the provisions of NRS 705.090 and 705.100 shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
[3:94:1903; RL § 3587; NCL § 6317]—(NRS A 1967, 657)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 705 - Railroads and Monorails › NRS 705.120 - Duty of maintaining fences; liability for killing livestock.

1. Railroad corporations must make and maintain a good and sufficient fence on both sides of their track and right-of-way. In case they do not make and maintain such fence, if their engines or cars shall kill or maim any cattle or other domestic animals upon their line of road, they must pay to the owner of such cattle or other domestic animals a fair market price for the same, unless it occurred through the neglect or fault of the owner of the animal so killed or maimed.
2. Nothing in this section shall require any railroad company to fence its right-of-way through any town or city.
[1:195:1917; 1919 RL p. 2981; NCL § 6341] + [2:195:1917; 1919 RL p. 2981; NCL § 6342]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 705 - Railroads and Monorails › NRS 705.130 - Duty of constructing barriers or guards where public road crosses fenced-in right-of-way; liability for killing or injuring livestock.

1. Every person, lessee, receiver, firm, copartnership or corporation owning, leasing or operating any railroad in, or through any part of, the State of Nevada shall, wherever a public road or highway crosses the fenced-in right-of-way of such railroad, construct such barriers, guards or other devices as will effectually prevent the entrance from such public road or highway onto the right-of-way of cattle, horses, mules and burros. Such barriers, guards, or other devices shall not be placed across, or in any wise obstruct, such public road or highway.
2. If any person, lessee, receiver, firm, copartnership or corporation owning, leasing or operating any railroad in, or through any part of, the State of Nevada shall fail to construct such barriers, guards or other devices specified in subsection 1, and any cattle, horses, mules or burros shall be killed, maimed or injured on any part of such unprotected right-of-way, the person, lessee, receiver, firm, copartnership or corporation so offending shall pay to the owner, or agent of the owner, of any such cattle, horses, mules or burros the full market value of such animals as it was before such injury occurred.
[1:211:1917; 1919 RL p. 2982; NCL § 6343] + [2:211:1917; 1919 RL p. 2982; NCL § 6344]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 705 - Railroads and Monorails › NRS 705.140 - Penalty for allowing animal to stray on enclosed right-of-way.

Every person who shall willfully and maliciously suffer any animal to go upon the enclosed right-of-way of any railway company, or leave open any gate or bars so that an animal might stray upon such right-of-way, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
[Part 1911 C&P § 488; RL § 6753; NCL § 10435]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 705 - Railroads and Monorails › NRS 705.150 - Liability for negligent killing or injuring livestock; prima facie evidence of negligence.

Every railroad corporation or company, operating any railroad or branch thereof within the limits of this state, which negligently injures or kills any animal of the equine, bovine, ovine or porcine species, or the goat kind, by running any engine or engines, car or cars, over or against any such animal shall be liable to the owner of such animal for the damages sustained by such owner by reason thereof, unless it be shown on the trial of any action instituted for the recovery of such damages as provided in NRS 705.160 that the owner of such animal or animals immediately contributed to such killing or injury; provided:
1. That the mere straying of such animal or animals upon or along the railroad track or tracks concerned shall not be held upon such trial to be any evidence of contributory negligence on the part of the owner of such animal or animals, nor shall the grazing of the same unattended by a herder be so considered; and
2. That the killing or injury in such actions shall be prima facie evidence of negligence on the part of such railroad corporation or company.
[1:88:1923; NCL § 6345]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 705 - Railroads and Monorails › NRS 705.160 - Settlement of claim within 90 days; action for recovery; assignment of claim.

1. If any railway company or corporation, or owner or operator of a railroad in this state, fails, within 90 days after receipt of the same, to effect settlement of claims received for damages arising from the injury or killing of livestock upon its track or right-of-way by the running of engines or cars over or against such animals in this state as provided in NRS 705.150 to 705.200, inclusive, then the owner of such injured or killed animals may sue and recover damages for such injury or killing from any such railway company or corporation or the owner or operator of such railroad in any court of competent jurisdiction in the county in which such animal or animals was or were killed or injured, together with 7 percent interest per annum on the value of the animal or animals so injured or killed as established in such action, from the date such animal or animals was or were killed or injured until paid.
2. Any person having a claim arising under the provisions of NRS 705.150 to 705.200, inclusive, may assign the same in writing to any other claimant or person for value, or for the purpose of suit, who shall thereupon have all the rights and remedies of the assignor.
3. In case it becomes necessary on the part of the owner or owners to establish a claim for any animal or animals so killed or injured in any such action, the owner or owners shall have the right to establish the actual and market value of such animal or animals or the actual damage so sustained.
[2:88:1923; NCL § 6346]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 705 - Railroads and Monorails › NRS 705.170 - Fenced right-of-way to be equipped with passageways and gates; responsibility of railroad.

1. Every railroad corporation or company, in fencing its right-of-way, shall provide and maintain suitable passageways equipped with gates, except at watering holes, where openings with proper safeguards will be maintained.
2. Responsibility for measures toward prevention of unnecessary loss or injury to livestock upon railroad tracks or rights-of-way through construction and proper maintenance of suitable barriers, such as right-of-way fences and livestock guards or cattle guards at all openings or crossings through the right-of-way or track fences, or at each end of open cuts, shall lie with the owners of such railroads.
[5:88:1923; NCL § 6349]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 705 - Railroads and Monorails › NRS 705.180 - Employee to report killing or injuring of livestock.

Every conductor, engineer, section foreman, or other employee of any owner of a railroad in this state, who has personal knowledge of the injury or killing of any livestock of any description by the running of any engine or engines, car or cars over or against any such livestock on the track or tracks or right-of-way of such railroad shall immediately report the same by notice in writing to the general superintendent or division superintendent of the railroad by which the employee is employed, unless the employee has personal knowledge that such notice as herein provided for has already been given by some other employee of such railroad.
[6:88:1923; NCL § 6350]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 705 - Railroads and Monorails › NRS 705.190 - Owner or operator of railroad to provide notice upon injuring or killing livestock; notice to be posted at stations and forwarded to State Department of Agriculture; contents of notice.

1. Every owner or operator of a railroad in this state who injures or kills any livestock of any description by running an engine or car over or against the livestock shall:
(a) Within 5 days thereafter post for at least 30 days, at the first railroad station in each direction from the place of the injury or killing, notices in writing in a conspicuous place on the outside of the stations; and
(b) Within 10 days after injuring or killing the livestock, forward by registered or certified mail a duplicate of each notice to the State Department of Agriculture.
2. The notice must:
(a) Contain the number and kind of the animals injured or killed, with a full description of the animals, including brands and marks and sex.
(b) Give the time and place, as near as possible, of the injury or killing.
(c) Be dated and signed by an officer or agent of the owner or operator of the railroad concerned.
[8:88:1923; NCL § 6352]—(NRS A 1969, 95; 1993, 1925; 1999, 3740)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 705 - Railroads and Monorails › NRS 705.200 - Penalties.

1. Any person falsely making an affidavit of ownership of any animal killed or injured under the terms of NRS 705.150 to 705.200, inclusive, is guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
2. Every person described in NRS 705.180 who fails or neglects to comply with the provisions of NRS 705.180 is guilty of a misdemeanor.
3. Every corporation, company, receiver, association or person who fails, neglects or refuses to comply with the provisions of NRS 705.190 is guilty of a misdemeanor.
4. Any person who attempts in any manner to conceal the evidence of the killing or injury of any animal or animals described in NRS 705.150 by any railroad train, engine or cars on any railroad in this state, or who in any way destroys or covers up the evidence that may lead to the identification of any animal or animals so killed or injured, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
[3:88:1923; NCL § 6347] + [4:88:1923; NCL § 6348] + [7:88:1923; NCL § 6351] + [9:88:1923; NCL § 6353] + [10:88:1923; NCL § 6354]—(NRS A 1967, 658; 1979, 1494)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 705 - Railroads and Monorails › NRS 705.220 - Railroad police: Appointment; responsibility for actions; wearing of badge.

1. The Governor may, upon the application of any railroad company, appoint and commission one or more persons, designated by the company, to serve as railroad police officers. The persons so appointed must serve at the sole expense of the company. The company designating such persons is responsible civilly for any abuse of their authority.
2. Every such police officer shall, when on duty, wear in plain view a star bearing the words "Railroad Police," and the name of the company for which the police officer is commissioned.
[1:163:1921; NCL § 6327] + [2:163:1921; NCL § 6328]—(NRS A 1973, 225; 1993, 2541)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 705 - Railroads and Monorails › NRS 705.230 - Unlawful compulsion or requirement of purchase of uniform or apparel as condition of continued employment; penalty.

1. It shall be unlawful for any railroad doing business in the State of Nevada, or any officer, agent or servant of such railroad, to require any conductor, engineer, brakeman, fireman or any other employee, as a condition of the employee’s continued employment, or otherwise to require or compel or attempt to require or compel any such employee to purchase of any such railroad, or of any particular person, firm or corporation, or at any particular place or places, any uniform or other clothing or apparel, required by any such railroad to be used by any such employee in the performance of the employee’s duty. Any such railroad, or any officer, agent or servant thereof, who shall order or require any conductor, engineer, brakeman, fireman, or any other person in its employ to purchase any uniform or other clothing or apparel as aforesaid shall be deemed to have required such purchase as a condition of such employee’s continued employment.
2. Any railroad doing business in the State of Nevada, or any officer, agent or servant thereof, violating any of the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor.
[Part 1:132:1913; 1919 RL p. 2983; NCL § 6330] + [Part 2:132:1913; 1919 RL p. 2983; NCL § 6331]—(NRS A 1967, 659)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 705 - Railroads and Monorails › NRS 705.240 - Engineer required to be able to read timetables and ordinary handwriting; penalty.

1. It shall be unlawful for any person, as an officer of a corporation or otherwise, knowingly to employ an engineer or engine driver to run a locomotive or train on any railway if such engineer or engine driver cannot read timetables and ordinary handwriting.
2. It shall be unlawful for any person who cannot read timetables and ordinary handwriting to act as an engineer or run a locomotive or train on any railway.
3. Any person who violates any provision of this section shall be guilty of a gross misdemeanor.
[1911 C&P § 317; RL § 6582; NCL § 10265]