Title 58

NRS 704.008 “Business line service” defined. “Business line service” means flat or measured rate service for business lines or business trunk lines. (Added to NRS by 2007, 685)

NRS 704.010 “Commission” defined. “Commission” means the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada. (Supplied in revision; A 1985, 1016; 1997, 1904)

NRS 704.011 “Competitive supplier” defined. 1. “Competitive supplier” means a telecommunication provider that is subject to the provisions of NRS 704.68861 to 704.68887, inclusive. 2. The term does not include a small-scale provider of last resort unless the provider is authorize…

NRS 704.012 “Consumer’s Advocate” defined. “Consumer’s Advocate” means the Consumer’s Advocate of the Bureau of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney General. (Added to NRS by 2001, 3242)

NRS 704.0125 “Correctional facility” defined. “Correctional facility” means a local detention facility, county, city or town jail, state prison, facility for the detention of juvenile offenders, reformatory or other correctional facility. (Added to NRS by 2021, 1747)

NRS 704.013 “Fund to maintain the availability of telephone service” defined. “Fund to maintain the availability of telephone service” means the fund established by the Commission pursuant to NRS 704.040 to maintain the availability of telephone service. (Added to NRS by 2007, 68…

NRS 704.0135 “Incumbent local exchange carrier” defined. “Incumbent local exchange carrier” has the meaning ascribed to it in 47 U.S.C. § 251(h)(1), as that section existed on October 1, 1999, and includes a local exchange carrier that is treated as an incumbent local exchange ca…

NRS 704.0136 “Inmate calling service” defined. “Inmate calling service” means a calling service that allows a person confined in a correctional facility to make intrastate calls to persons outside the correctional facility in which the person is being confined, regardless of the …

NRS 704.0137 “Interexchange carrier” defined. “Interexchange carrier” means any person providing either or both intrastate and interstate telecommunication service for a fee between two or more exchanges. (Added to NRS by 2007, 685)

NRS 704.014 “Local exchange carrier” defined. “Local exchange carrier” has the meaning ascribed to it in 47 U.S.C. § 153(26), as that section existed on December 1, 2006. (Added to NRS by 2007, 685)

NRS 704.015 “Person” defined. “Person” is limited to a person engaged in or intending to engage in the operation of a public utility. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1161; A 1985, 539, 1016)

NRS 704.018 “Provider of last resort” defined. “Provider of last resort” means the telecommunication provider designated by the regulations of the Commission to provide basic network service and business line service to any person requesting and eligible to receive telephone serv…

NRS 704.020 “Public utility” or “utility” defined. 1. “Public utility” or “utility” includes: (a) Any person who owns, operates, manages or controls any railroad or part of a railroad as a common carrier in this State, or cars or other equipment used thereon, or bridges, terminal…

NRS 704.021 “Public utility” or “utility” further defined. “Public utility” or “utility” does not include: 1. Persons engaged in the production and sale of natural gas, other than sales to the public, or engaged in the transmission of natural gas other than as a common carrier tr…

NRS 704.023 “Small-scale provider of last resort” defined. “Small-scale provider of last resort” means an incumbent local exchange carrier that is a provider of last resort of basic network service and business line service to customers through less than 60,000 access lines. (Add…

NRS 704.025 “Telecommunication” defined. “Telecommunication” means the transmission, between or among points specified by the user, of information of the user’s choosing, without change in the form or content of the information sent and received, regardless of the facilities, equ…

NRS 704.027 “Telecommunication provider” or “telephone company” defined. “Telecommunication provider” or “telephone company” means any person required to obtain from the Commission a certificate of public convenience and necessity pursuant to NRS 704.330 to provide telecommunicat…

NRS 704.028 “Telecommunication service” or “telephone service” defined. “Telecommunication service” or “telephone service” means the offering of telecommunication for a fee directly to the public, or such classes of users as to be effectively available directly to the public, reg…

NRS 704.031 Power to subpoena person claiming exemption. The Commission may by subpoena require any person claiming to be exempt from regulation by reason of NRS 704.021 to appear before it with all of the person’s relevant books, papers and records, and to testify concerning the…

NRS 704.032 Participation of Office of Economic Development in proceedings before Commission. The Office of Economic Development may participate in proceedings before the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada concerning a public utility in the business of supplying electricity or…

NRS 704.033 Levy and collection of and limitations on annual assessment; payment of annual licensing fee by providers of commercial mobile radio service. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 6, the Commission shall levy and collect an annual assessment from all public ut…

NRS 704.035 Annual assessment: Report on revenue; computation, payment and adjustment of assessment; fee for delinquent assessment; action for collection; transfer to Consumer’s Advocate. 1. On or before June 15 of each year, the Commission shall mail revenue report forms to all …

NRS 704.040 Public utilities required to provide reasonably adequate service and facilities; charges for services required to be just and reasonable; unjust and unreasonable charges unlawful; applicability; fair and impartial regulation of telecommunication providers; levy and co…

NRS 704.050 Special contract rates. 1. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed to prevent concentration, commodity, transit and other special contract rates, but all such rates shall be open to all shippers of a like kind of traffic under similar circumstances and conditions, …

NRS 704.060 Charge for shorter haul included within longer haul. Nothing in this chapter shall be construed: 1. To allow any railroad to charge more for a shorter than for a longer haul, either for passengers or freight, when the shorter haul is included within the longer; or 2. …

NRS 704.061 Definitions. As used in NRS 704.061 to 704.110, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 704.062, 704.065 and 704.066 have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections. (Added to NRS by 2001, 3243; A 2013, 740; 2021, 3791…

NRS 704.062 “Application to make changes in any schedule” and “application” defined. “Application to make changes in any schedule” and “application” include, without limitation: 1. A general rate application; 2. An application to recover the cost of purchased fuel, purchased powe…

NRS 704.065 “Rate” defined. “Rate” means any individual or joint rate, toll or charge imposed by a public utility for a service performed or product furnished by the public utility. (Added to NRS by 2001, 3243)

NRS 704.066 “Schedule” defined. “Schedule” means any schedule that establishes or otherwise sets the rates for a public utility and any individual or joint rule, regulation, practice, classification or measurement that in any manner affects those rates. (Added to NRS by 2001, 324…

NRS 704.068 Acts deemed to be change in schedule. For the purposes of NRS 704.061 to 704.110, inclusive, a public utility shall be deemed to make changes in a schedule if the public utility implements a new schedule or amends an existing schedule. (Added to NRS by 2001, 3243; A 2…

NRS 704.069 Commission required to conduct consumer session for certain rate cases; Commission required to conduct general consumer session annually in certain counties and to submit record from such session to Legislative Commission. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection…

NRS 704.070 Public utility required to file current schedules with Commission and to post current schedules at certain offices; public inspection of current schedules. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 704.075, 704.095, 704.097 and 704.68861 to 704.68887, inclusive: 1. Each pub…

NRS 704.075 Separate standards for rates for natural gas supplied to generating, industrial and large commercial customers; exemption from certain provisions concerning rates. 1. As used in this section, with respect to the sale of natural gas: (a) “Generating customer” means a c…

NRS 704.085 Electric utility prohibited from making change in schedule or imposing rate which requires residential customer to purchase electric service based on time of usage; exceptions. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, an electric utility shall not make changes…

NRS 704.095 Simplified procedures or methodologies for changing rates or fees for certain public utilities furnishing water or services for sewage; regulations; annual report regarding infrastructure required from certain such public utilities. 1. The Commission shall adopt regul…

NRS 704.097 Simplified procedures for obtaining certificate of public convenience and necessity and for changing rates for public utilities furnishing only liquefied petroleum gas; regulations. The Commission may adopt regulations which provide simplified procedures for obtaining…

NRS 704.100 Procedure for changing schedule: Approval of Commission required; filing application or letter of advice; quarterly rate adjustments for certain utilities; posting proposed, new and amended schedules; limitation on use of certain information to justify rate increase; …

NRS 704.102 Procedure for changing schedule: No presumption that recorded expenses, investments or other costs included in application were prudently incurred; exception; burden of proof. Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, when the Commission reviews an application to …

NRS 704.110 Procedure for changing schedule: Investigation by Commission; parties; time within which Commission must act; general rate application; other applications and rate adjustments; deferred energy accounting adjustments; recovery of costs to plan, construct, retire or eli…

NRS 704.120 Commission may substitute just and reasonable rates, regulations, practices or services after investigation and hearing; exceptions. 1. If, upon any hearing and after due investigation, the rates, tolls, charges, schedules or joint rates shall be found to be unjust, u…

NRS 704.130 Rates effective and regulations enforceable until modified by Commission or court. 1. All rates, charges, classifications and joint rates fixed by the Commission are in force, and are prima facie lawful, from the date of the order until changed or modified by the Comm…

NRS 704.140 Free or reduced rates for transportation unlawful; exceptions; penalty. 1. It is unlawful for any person engaged in business as a public utility to give or furnish to any state, district, county or municipal officer of this State, or to any person other than those nam…

NRS 704.143 Persons with physical or mental disabilities entitled to full and equal enjoyment of facilities for public transportation; unlawful denial of services and facilities. 1. All persons with physical or mental disabilities are entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of t…

NRS 704.145 Unlawful to refuse service of public transportation or charge additional fee or deposit to certain persons accompanied by service animal or service animal in training; exception; liability for damage; person subject to same conditions and limitations as others; remedi…

NRS 704.150 Duty of connecting railroad to transfer car for just and reasonable charge. All railroad corporations whose tracks connect shall transfer cars reciprocally from one railroad to the other upon demand of shippers or of the railroad concerned at just and reasonable charg…

NRS 704.160 Duty of railroad to provide and maintain depots, stations and other facilities. 1. Every railroad shall provide and maintain adequate depots and depot buildings at its regular stations and establish new stations wherever required, for the accommodation of passengers. …