Nevada · statute · Nev. Rev. Stat. ch. 704 · 414 active provisions
It is hereby declared to be the purpose and policy of the Legislature in enacting this chapter: 1. To confer upon the Commission the power, and to make it the duty of the Commission, to regulate public utilities to the extent of its jurisdiction; 2. To provide for fair and impartial regulation of public utilities; 3. T…
As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 704.006 to 704.028, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
“Basic network service” means the provision of stand-alone telephone service furnished to a residential customer that: 1. Is not: (a) Part of a package of services; (b) Sold in a promotion; (c) Purchased pursuant to a contract; or (d) Otherwise offered at a discounted price; and 2. Provides to the customer: (a) Voice-g…
“Biomass” means any organic matter that is available on a renewable basis, including, without limitation: 1. Agricultural crops and agricultural wastes and residues; 2. Wood and wood wastes and residues; 3. Animal wastes; 4. Municipal wastes; and 5. Aquatic plants.
“Business line service” means flat or measured rate service for business lines or business trunk lines.
“Commission” means the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada.
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 authorized by the Commission pursuant to NRS 704.68869 to be regulated as a competitive suppl…
“Consumer’s Advocate” means the Consumer’s Advocate of the Bureau of Consumer Protection in the Office of the Attorney General.
“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.
“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.
“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 carrier pursuant to that section.
“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 technology used to deliver the service.
“Interexchange carrier” means any person providing either or both intrastate and interstate telecommunication service for a fee between two or more exchanges.
“Local exchange carrier” has the meaning ascribed to it in 47 U.S.C. § 153(26), as that section existed on December 1, 2006.
“Person” is limited to a person engaged in or intending to engage in the operation of a public utility.
“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 service in a particular service territory.
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, terminals, or sidetracks, or any docks or wharves or storage elevators used in connection therewith…
“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 transmission or distribution line or system. 2. Persons engaged in the business of furnishing, for co…
“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.
“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, equipment or technology used.
“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 telecommunication service.
“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, regardless of the equipment, facilities or technology used.
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 scope, nature and conduct of the person’s business.
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 natural gas to advocate the accommodation of the State Plan for Economic Development developed by the Executive Director of the Offic…
1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 6, the Commission shall levy and collect an annual assessment from all public utilities, providers of new electric resources, providers of discretionary natural gas service and alternative sellers subject to the jurisdiction of the Commission. 2. Except as otherwise provide…