Nevada Code § 704.020

Public utility or utility defined
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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,
whether or not they are owned by the railroad.
(b) Any person, other than a provider of
commercial mobile radio service, that provides a telecommunication service to
the public, but only with regard to those operations which consist of providing
a telecommunication service to the public.
(c) Any provider of commercial mobile radio
service, but such providers:
(1) Must be regulated in a manner
consistent with federal law; and
(2) Must not be regulated as
telecommunication providers for the purposes of this chapter.
2. Public utility or utility also
includes:
(a) Any plant or equipment, or any part of a
plant or equipment, within this State for the production, delivery or
furnishing for or to other persons, including private or municipal
corporations, heat, gas, coal slurry, light, power in any form or by any
agency, water for business, manufacturing, agricultural or household use, or
sewerage service, whether or not within the limits of municipalities.
(b) Any system for the distribution of liquefied
petroleum gas to 10 or more users.
The
Commission may supervise, regulate and control all such utilities, subject to
the provisions of this chapter and to the exclusion of the jurisdiction,
regulation and control of such utilities by any municipality, town or village,
unless otherwise provided by law.
3. The provisions of this chapter and the
term public utility apply to all railroads, express companies, car companies
and all associations of persons, whether or not incorporated, that do any
business as a common carrier upon or over any line of railroad within this
State.

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