NRS266.344. Imposition in certain cities; master plan required; amount; collection; penalties for delinquent payment.

      1.  Except as otherwise provided in this section, the city council of a city of population category two or three in a county whose population is 700,000 or more may, by ordinance, impose a surcharge on each access line or trunk line of each customer to the local exchange of any telephone company providing those lines in the city, for the enhancement of the telephone system for reporting an emergency in the city.

      2.  A city council may not impose a surcharge pursuant to this section unless the city council first adopts a 5-year master plan for the enhancement of the telephone system for reporting emergencies in the city. The master plan must include an estimate of the cost of the enhancement of the telephone system and all proposed sources of money for funding the enhancement.

      3.  The surcharge imposed by a city council pursuant to this section:

      (a) For each access line to the local exchange of a telephone company, must not exceed 25 cents each month; and

      (b) For each trunk line to the local exchange of a telephone company, must equal 10 times the amount of the surcharge imposed for each access line to the local exchange of a telephone company pursuant to paragraph (a).

      4.  A telephone company which provides access lines or trunk lines in a city that imposes a surcharge pursuant to this section shall collect the surcharge from its customers each month. The telephone company shall remit the surcharge it collects to the treasurer of the city in which the surcharge is imposed not later than the 15th day of the month after the month it receives payment of the surcharge from its customers.

      5.  An ordinance adopted pursuant to subsection 1 may include a schedule of penalties for the delinquent payment of amounts due from telephone companies pursuant to this section. Such a schedule:

      (a) Must provide for a grace period of not less than 90 days after the date on which the telephone company must otherwise remit the surcharge to the city treasurer; and

      (b) Must not provide for a penalty that exceeds 5 percent of the cumulative amount of surcharges owed by a telephone company.

      (Added to NRS by 2005, 495; A 2011, 1155)