USA Statutes : nevada
Title : Title 58 - ENERGY; PUBLIC UTILITIES AND SIMILAR ENTITIES
Chapter : CHAPTER 704A - FACILITIES PLACED UNDERGROUND
1. The Legislature finds that in many areas of this state owners
of real property, counties, cities and public utility corporations desire
to construct new underground electric and communication services and to
convert existing overhead electric and communication facilities to
underground locations by establishing underground service districts for
the purpose of effecting such construction or conversion.
2. The Legislature declares that a public purpose will be served
and that the public welfare will be promoted by providing a procedure to
accomplish such construction or conversion and that it is in the public
interest to provide for such construction or conversion as provided in
this chapter.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1232)
As used in this chapter, unless the
context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 704A.030
to 704A.150 , inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to
them in such sections.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1232)
“Clerk” means the de facto or de
jure county clerk or city clerk, or his successor in functions, if any.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1232)
“Convert” or
“conversion” means the removal of existing overhead electric and
communication facilities and the replacement thereof with underground
electric and communication facilities constructed at the same or
different locations.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1232)
“Electric and communication facilities” means any works or improvements
used or useful in providing electric or communication service, including
but not limited to poles, supports, tunnels, manholes, vaults, conduits,
pipes, wires, conductors, guys, stubs, platforms, crossarms, braces,
transformers, insulators, cutouts, switches, capacitors, meters,
communication circuits, appliances, attachments and appurtenances, but:
1. “Communication facilities” does not include facilities used or
intended to be used for the transmission of intelligence by microwave or
radio, apparatus cabinets or outdoor public telephones.
2. “Electric facilities” does not include any facilities used or
intended to be used for the transmission of electric energy at nominal
voltages in excess of 25,000 volts or having a circuit capacity in excess
of 12,000 kilovolt amperes.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1232)
“Engineer” means the de facto or
de jure engineer of the municipality, or his successor in functions, if
any.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 472; A 1975, 878)
“Governing body” means:
1. The city council, city commission, board of supervisors or
other local legislative or governing body of an incorporated city if all
or any part of the service district is located within the limits of such
incorporated city.
2. The board of county commissioners if the service district is
located entirely within the unincorporated area of the county.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1233)
“Lot” includes any portion, piece or
parcel of land, but not property owned or controlled by any person as a
right-of-way.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1233)
1. “Mailed notice,” “notice by mail” or any phrase of similar
import, except as otherwise qualified, means the giving by the municipal
clerk, engineer, treasurer or other designated person, or any deputy
thereof, as provided in this chapter or otherwise as determined by the
governing body, of any designated written or printed notice addressed to
the last known owner or owners of each lot being assessed or other
designated person at his or their last known address or addresses by
deposit, at least 20 days prior to the designated hearing or other
designated time or event, in the United States mails, postage prepaid, as
first-class mail.
2. The names and addresses of such property owners, unless
otherwise provided, shall be obtained from the records of the county
assessor or from such other source as the official giving such notice
deems reliable.
3. Any list of such names and addresses pertaining to any service
district or assessment roll may be revised from time to time, but such a
list need not be revised more frequently than at 12-month intervals.
4. Any mailing of any notice required in this chapter shall be
verified by the affidavit or certificate of the official mailing the
notice, which verification shall be retained in the records of the
municipality at least until all assessments and bonds and any other
securities pertaining thereto have been paid in full, or each claim
relating thereto is barred by a statute of limitations.
5. Such affidavit or certificate of mailing shall be prima facie
evidence of the mailing of such notice in accordance with the
requirements of this chapter.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 473)
1. “Municipality” means an incorporated city, including, without
limitation, Carson City, in which is located wholly or in part the
service district, or means the county in the unincorporated area of which
is wholly located the service district, as the case may be.
2. “Municipal” pertains to a municipality.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 473; A 1981, 965)
“New underground electric and communication service
district” means an area in which no existing electric and communication
facilities are in place.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1233)
“Overhead electric or communication facilities” means electric
or communication facilities located above the surface of the ground
except as provided in NRS 704A.050
and 704A.150 .
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1233)
“Owner” means:
1. The person in whom legal title appears by recorded deed;
2. The person in possession under claim of title; or
3. The person exercising acts of ownership for himself or as the
personal representative of the owner, including boards of trustees of
school districts owning property within the service district.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1233)
“Public place” includes
streets, alleys, roadways, sidewalks, rights-of-way, easements and
similar properties as to which an incorporated city, an unincorporated
town, a county, the State of Nevada or a public utility corporation may
have a right.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1233)
“Public
utility corporation” means:
1. Any person or corporation subject to the jurisdiction of the
Public Utilities Commission of Nevada which provides electric or
communication service to the public by means of electric or communication
facilities.
2. An incorporated city or a county which provides electric or
communication service to the public by means of electric or communication
facilities.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1233)
1. “Publication,” “publish” or any term of similar import, except
as otherwise qualified, means publication in at least one newspaper of
general circulation in the municipality and the service district
pertaining thereto, for at least once a week for 3 consecutive weeks by 3
weekly insertions, the first publication being at least 15 days prior to
the designated hearing or other designated time or event.
2. The publication need not be made on the same day of the week in
each of the 3 calendar weeks, but not less than 14 days shall intervene
between the first and the last publication.
3. Any publication herein required shall be verified by the
affidavit of the publisher which affidavit shall be filed with the
municipal clerk.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 473)—(Substituted in revision by NRS
704A.108)
“Real property” means real
estate owned in fee, but not inclusive of any property owned or
controlled as a railroad or street right-of-way.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1233)
“Service district” means
a new underground electric and communication service district as defined
by NRS 704A.080 , or an underground
service district as defined by NRS 704A.150 , as the case may be.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1233; A 1997, 2550)
“Underground
service district” means an area in which electric and communication
facilities are to be placed underground, exclusive of:
1. Any lines or facilities used or intended to be used for the
transmission of electric energy at nominal voltages in excess of 300,000
volts or having a circuit capacity in excess of 12,000 kilovolt amperes.
2. Facilities used or intended to be used for the transmission of
intelligence by microwave or radio.
3. Facilities such as transformers, pull boxes, service terminals,
pedestal terminals, splice closures, apparatus cabinets and similar
facilities which normally are above the surface in areas where service
lines are underground in accordance with standard underground practices.
4. On-the-ground facilities attached to overhead facilities which
are used to connect an underground system to overhead facilities.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1233; A 1997, 2550)
1. If not less than 60 percent of the owners of contiguous real
property within a reasonably compact area of reasonable size, who own not
less than 60 percent on a square foot basis of the real property within
such area, seek to establish a service district, they shall petition each
public utility corporation serving such area to make a study of the costs
related to the establishment of such area as a service district.
2. The petition shall set forth:
(a) The necessity for the proposed service district.
(b) That the public convenience, necessity or welfare will be
promoted by the establishment of the service district and that the
property to be included therein will be benefited.
(c) The name and address of the owner of each parcel or lot within
the proposed service district as reflected on the records of the county
assessor.
(d) Such other matters as may be reasonably required by the public
utility corporation.
3. Each copy of the petition shall be:
(a) Verified by one of the petitioners.
(b) Accompanied by a plat or sketch indicating the boundaries of
the proposed service district and size in square feet of each parcel or
lot within the proposed service district.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1234)
1. Within 15 days after the receipt of a petition to establish a
service district, each public utility corporation other than the
municipality shall notify the municipality of the receipt of the petition
and shall request the municipality to notify the public utility
corporation of the basis to be used by the municipality in the
apportionment of the costs related to the installation of the facility
underground to be defrayed by special assessments levied against the
specially benefited lots within the proposed service district if the
facilities of the public utility corporation therein are to be placed
underground pursuant to this chapter.
2. Within 30 days of the receipt by the municipality of each such
request, or, if the public utility corporation is the municipality, the
petition, the local governing body shall state, by resolution, the basis
for the apportionment of those costs by assessments against the specially
benefited lots, subject to the provisions of subsections 5 and 6 of NRS
704A.240 , and shall forthwith cause a
certified true copy of the resolution pertaining to each public utility
corporation requesting the basis of assessments to be furnished thereto.
3. Within 120 days after receipt of the basis for assessments, or,
if the public utility corporation is the municipality, after the adoption
of the resolution, each public utility corporation serving the area shall:
(a) Make a study of the cost of providing new underground electric
and communication facilities or conversion of its facilities in the area
to underground service.
(b) Make available in its office to the petitioners and to all
owners of real property within the proposed service district a joint
report of the results of the study of the public utility corporations
affected.
4. If a public utility corporation subject to the jurisdiction of
the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada determines as a result of the
study that installation of the proposed service is not economically or
technically feasible, it may, with the concurrence of the Public
Utilities Commission of Nevada, so state in the joint report and proceed
no further toward installation of the proposed service. This chapter does
not require the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada to participate in
preparation of the joint report referred to in this section.
5. If a public utility corporation is a city or county and if it
determines as a result of the study that installation of the proposed
service is not economically or technically feasible, it may, with the
concurrence of its governing body, as provided by resolution, so state in
the joint report and proceed no further toward installation of the
proposed service.
6. Except for the facilities of each public utility corporation
described in subsection 4 or 5, if any, the joint report must:
(a) Contain an estimate of the costs to be assessed to each lot of
real property located within the proposed service district for the
construction of new facilities or conversion of facilities within public
places.
(b) Indicate the estimated cost to be assessed to each lot of real
property for placing underground the facilities of the public utility
corporation located within the boundaries of each lot.
(c) Indicate the estimated cost, if any, to be borne by the public
utility corporation for any facilities to be provided by it and which
remain its property rather than becoming property of owners of individual
lots, as provided by regulations of the Public Utilities Commission of
Nevada in the case of a public utility corporation other than a city or
county, and, in the case of any public utility corporation, by any other
applicable laws, ordinances, rules or regulations.
7. The costs of preparing the joint report must be borne by the
public utility corporation or corporations whose electric or
communication facilities are to be included in the proposed service
district unless the governing body orders the establishment of the
service district, in which event the costs must be included in the costs
of the service district.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1234; A 1973, 473; 1979, 712; 1997, 1918,
2550; 1999, 572 , 575 )
1. A summary of the estimate of the costs to be assessed against
each lot of real property located within the proposed service district
for the new construction or conversion of facilities within public places
and the estimated costs to be assessed to each lot of real property for
placing underground the facilities of the public utility corporation
located within the boundaries of each lot shall be mailed by the public
utility corporation to each owner of real property located within the
proposed service district to the address of such owner as contained in
the petition for the cost study, if such owner and address is included in
the petition, or to such owner at the address thereof as shown in the
records of the county assessor.
2. Two or more public utility corporations with facilities in the
proposed service district, except for any public utility corporation
described in subsection 4 or 5 of NRS 704A.180 , may:
(a) Prepare a joint summary of such costs;
(b) Cause the joint summary so to be mailed to each owner of real
property within the proposed service district; and
(c) Apportion the costs of so preparing and mailing the joint
summary between or among such public utility corporations on an equitable
basis as may be mutually agreeable thereto.
3. Any estimate of cost required or authorized in this chapter
shall not constitute a limitation upon such cost nor a limitation upon
the rights and powers of any public utility corporation, the
municipality, the governing body, or any officers, agents or employees
thereof.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1235; A 1973, 475)
1. Within 90 days after the joint report referred to in NRS
704A.180 is made available to the
petitioners, not less than 60 percent of the owners of real property
within the area who own not less than 60 percent of the real property on
a square foot basis within the area, excluding public places, may
petition the governing body for establishment of a service district in
the same area described in the original petition or petitions.
2. The petition shall be filed with the clerk of the municipality.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1235; A 1973, 475)
1. Upon receipt of a petition to establish a service district, the
governing body shall set a date for a hearing on the petition, which date
shall not be later than 60 days after the filing of the petition with the
clerk.
2. The clerk shall:
(a) Cause a notice of the hearing to be posted in not less than
three public places within the proposed service district for not less
than 30 days prior to the date of the hearing.
(b) Cause a notice of the hearing to be published once not less
than 10 days preceding the date of the hearing in some newspaper having a
general circulation in the proposed service district.
(c) Mail a notice of the hearing at least 15 days preceding the
date of the hearing to:
(1) Each owner of a lot of real property within the
boundaries of the proposed service district as reflected on the records
of the county assessor.
(2) Each governmental agency having rights in public places
within the proposed service district.
3. The costs of posting, publication and mailing required in this
section shall be assessed by the governing body on a pro rata basis to
each public utility corporation whose electric or communication
facilities are to be included in the proposed service area, and if a
service district is established such costs shall be included in the costs
of the district.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1235; A 1973, 475)
The notice of the hearing shall:
1. State the time and place where the hearing will be held.
2. Describe the boundaries of the proposed service district.
3. State that the joint report of estimated costs for each lot or
parcel included within the proposed service district are available for
public inspection at the office of the clerk.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1236)
1. Any person owning real property within the proposed service
district who wishes to object to the establishment of the proposed
service district or to the costs thereof as contained in the joint report
pertaining to his lot or parcel included within the proposed service
district shall, before the date set for the hearing, file written
objections with the clerk.
2. In considering objections, the governing body shall be governed
by the following:
(a) Each paper containing signatures shall have attached thereto an
affidavit of an owner of real property within the proposed service
district stating that each signature was affixed in his presence and is
the signer’s genuine signature.
(b) An objection shall be counted only for the real property
described as belonging to the signer. An objection without a description
shall not be counted.
(c) The signature of one cotenant, or if community property, the
signature of either spouse, is sufficient for an objection.
(d) An objection signed by a guardian, executor, administrator or
trustee is valid without an order of court therefor.
(e) An objection by a person in possession under a contract of
purchase is valid.
(f) When several persons have a claim to or an interest in real
property, the signature of any of them is sufficient unless questioned by
another having a claim or interest, whereupon the wishes of the person
legally entitled to possession of the real property at the date of the
objection controls.
(g) An objection signed by an agent or attorney-in-fact shall be
disregarded unless the authority of the agent has been recorded with the
county recorder or written or telegraphic authority is attached to the
objection before expiration of the time for filing the objection.
(h) An objection may be withdrawn by filing a withdrawal with the
clerk before 5 p.m. of the last day for the filing of objections.
(i) The signature of a cotenant, spouse, claimant or person
interested may be questioned, and the authority of an agent or
attorney-in-fact may be questioned, at any time before the governing body
finally passes upon the sufficiency of the objection, but the authority
of an agent or attorney-in-fact may not be revoked as to a signature
after the expiration of the period in which objections may be filed.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1236)
1. At the place, date and hour specified for the hearing in the
notice or at any subsequent time to which the hearing may be adjourned,
the governing body shall give full consideration to all written
objections which have been filed and shall hear all owners of real
property within the proposed service district desiring to be heard.
2. If the governing body determines after the hearing that an
existing or a new electric facility must be placed underground and that:
(a) The requirements for the establishment of a service district
have been satisfied;
(b) Objections have not been filed in writing by more than 40
percent of the owners of real property within the proposed service
district, or by owners of more than 40 percent of the real property on a
square foot basis in the proposed service district;
(c) Considering all objections, the cost of construction or
conversion as contained in the joint report prepared pursuant to NRS
704A.180 is economically and
technically feasible for the public utility corporations involved and the
owners of real property affected; and
(d) The proposed service district is a reasonably compact area
which encompasses areas that will benefit from the installation of the
facility underground,
Ê the governing body shall enact an ordinance establishing the area as a
service district.
3. The ordinance must:
(a) State the costs to be assessed to each lot in the service
district, including the appropriate share of all costs referred to in NRS
704A.180 and 704A.210 .
(b) Direct the public utility corporation owning overhead electric
or communication facilities within the service district to construct or
convert such facilities to underground facilities and, in the case of a
public utility corporation other than a city or county, to construct or
convert such facilities in accordance with standard underground practices
and procedures approved by the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada.
(c) State the method of levying assessments, the number of
installments, and the times when the costs assessed will be payable.
4. Before enacting an ordinance establishing a service district,
the governing body shall exclude by resolution or ordinance any territory
described in the petition which the governing body finds will not be
benefited by inclusion in the service district or for which underground
construction or conversion is not economically or technically feasible.
5. The basis for apportioning the assessments:
(a) Must be in proportion to the special benefits derived to each
of the several lots comprising the assessable property within the service
district; and
(b) Must be on a front foot, area, zone or other equitable basis as
determined by the governing body.
6. Regardless of the basis used for the apportionment of
assessments, in cases of wedge or V or any other irregularly shaped lots,
an amount apportioned thereto must be in proportion to the special
benefits thereby derived.
7. The assessable property in the service districts consists of
the lots specially benefited by the construction or conversion of service
facilities, except:
(a) Any lot owned by the Federal Government in the absence of
consent of Congress to its assessment; and
(b) Any lot owned by the municipality.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1236; A 1973, 476; 1997, 1919, 2551; 1999,
572 , 575 )
1. If the governing body determines at the hearing that territory
not included in the petition should be included within the service
district the owners of real property within such territory shall be given
notice by mail as provided in subsection 2 of NRS 704A.210 of a subsequent hearing to be held on the
proposal to include such additional territory.
2. The provisions of NRS 704A.230 and 704A.240 apply to all such subsequent hearings.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1237)
Additions to and alterations of the boundaries of an established service
district shall be made in the manner provided for the establishment of a
service district.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1237)
1. The public utility corporation or corporations involved and all
owners of real property within the established service district shall be
deemed parties to the proceedings for the purposes of applications for
rehearings and appeals.
2. After an order is issued by the governing body establishing a
service district, any party to the proceedings may apply to the governing
body for a rehearing. The governing body may grant a rehearing if in its
judgment sufficient reason appears therefor.
3. No claim arising from an order of the governing body shall
accrue in any court to any party to the proceedings unless such party
makes application to the governing body for a rehearing within 10 days
from the date of receiving notice of the enactment of the ordinance.
4. The application for a rehearing shall state specifically the
grounds on which it is based and no party to the proceedings shall, in
any court, urge or rely on any ground not stated in the application.
5. If an application for rehearing is timely filed with the clerk
the order shall be suspended until the application is granted or denied.
At its next regular meeting following the filing of an application for
rehearing the governing body shall either deny the application or grant a
rehearing, which shall be held within 15 days from the date of an order
granting the rehearing.
6. If, after a rehearing and a consideration of all the facts,
including those arising since the enactment of the ordinance, the
governing body finds that the original ordinance or any part thereof is
in any respect unjust or unwarranted or should be changed, the governing
body may repeal or amend the ordinance.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1237)
1. Any party to the proceedings aggrieved by an ordinance of the
governing body establishing the service district, as amended, if amended,
and filing a written objection as provided in NRS 704A.240 and a written application for a rehearing as
provided in NRS 704A.270 , may
commence an appropriate action in the district court of the county in
which the service district is located to challenge the validity of the
ordinance. No such action may be commenced more than 60 days after
enactment of the ordinance, or the last amendment thereto, if any,
whichever is the later in time.
2. Any objection to the validity and correctness of the
proceedings and instruments taken, adopted or made prior to the date of
the application for rehearing shall be deemed waived in any hearing on
assessments conducted by the governing body under NRS 704A.240 unless the objection is presented in writing
at the times and in the manner specified in this chapter by a written
objection under NRS 704A.240 , if such
proceedings and instruments were theretofore taken, adopted or made, and
by a written application for rehearing under NRS 704A.270 .
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1238; A 1973, 477; 1981, 965)
If the governing body enacts an ordinance establishing a service
district, the public utility corporation is not required to commence
construction or conversion until:
1. The time for applying for a rehearing has expired and no
application has been filed; or
2. If an application for a rehearing has been filed, the governing
body has declined to repeal or amend the ordinance; and
3. Either the time for commencing an action in the district court
has expired and no action has been commenced, or if an action has been
commenced, a final judgment upholding the validity of the ordinance has
been rendered; and
4. Arrangements for financing the construction or conversion have
been completed and moneys are available therefor from the issuance of
interim warrants, or from the levy and collection of assessments and
issuance of bonds, or otherwise; and
5. The public utility corporation has been provided with or
acquired necessary easements or licenses satisfactory to it for
installation and maintenance of underground electric and communication
facilities.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1238; A 1973, 477)
1. The service facilities within the boundaries of each lot within
an underground service district must be placed underground at the same
time as or after the underground system in private easements and public
places is placed underground. The public utility corporation involved,
directly or through a contractor, shall, in accordance with the rules and
regulations of the public utility corporation, but subject to the
regulations of the Public Utilities Commission of Nevada in the case of a
public utility corporation other than a city or county, and, in the case
of any utility corporation, subject to any other applicable laws,
ordinances, rules or regulations of the municipality or any other public
agency under the police power, convert to underground its facilities on
any such lot in the case of:
(a) An electric public utility, up to the service entrance.
(b) A communication public utility, to the connection point within
the house or structure.
2. All costs or expenses of conversion must be included in the
costs on which the underground conversion cost for such property is
calculated, as provided in this chapter.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1238; A 1973, 478; 1987, 735; 1997, 1920,
2553; 1999, 572 , 575 )
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,
Ê 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)
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)
