NRS704.920. Applicability of provisions to company towns; examination of lines and equipment; costs; consequences of refusal to allow examination; repair of unsafe lines or equipment.

      1.  The provisions of NRS 704.920 to 704.960, inclusive, apply to company towns, utilities and alternative sellers which provide utility services to company towns, and persons who own and operate company towns.

      2.  The Commission shall require a public utility or an alternative seller, as appropriate, which provides utility services to a mobile home park or to a company town, or an independent person who is qualified, to conduct examinations to examine and test the lines and equipment for distributing electricity and gas within the park or town at the request of the Manufactured Housing Division of the Department of Business and Industry or a city or county which has responsibility for the enforcement of the provisions of chapter 461A of NRS. The utility or alternative seller, the person selected to conduct the examination and the Commission may enter a mobile home park or company town at reasonable times to examine and test the lines and equipment, whether or not they are owned by a utility or an alternative seller.

      3.  The utility or alternative seller, as appropriate, or the person selected to conduct the examination, shall conduct the examination and testing to determine whether any line or equipment is unsafe for service under the safety standards adopted by the Commission for the maintenance, use and operation of lines and equipment for distributing electricity and gas, and shall report the results of the examination and testing to the Commission.

      4.  The owner of the mobile home park or company town shall pay for the costs of the examination and testing.

      5.  If the landlord of a mobile home park or owner of a company town refuses to allow the examination and testing to be made as provided in this section, the Commission shall deem the unexamined lines and equipment to be unsafe for service.

      6.  If the Commission finds:

      (a) Or deems any lines or equipment within a mobile home park or company town to be unsafe for service, it shall take appropriate action to protect the safety of the residents of the park or town.

      (b) Such lines or equipment to be unsafe for service or otherwise not in compliance with its safety standards, it may, after a hearing, order the landlord or owner to repair or replace such lines and equipment. For this purpose, the landlord or owner may expend some or all of the money in the landlord’s or owner’s account for service charges for utilities, which the landlord or owner is required to keep under NRS 704.940.

      (Added to NRS by 1983, 2032; A 1989, 1867; 1991, 1984; 1993, 1925; 2001, 1767)