NRS597.816. Additional exceptions to prohibition of use.

  The provisions of NRS 597.814 do not prohibit the use of a device for automatic dialing and announcing by any person exclusively on behalf of:

      1.  A school or school district to contact the parents or guardians of a pupil regarding the attendance of the pupil or regarding other business of the school or school district.

      2.  A nonprofit organization.

      3.  A video service provider that provides cable television or other video services to contact its customers regarding a previously arranged installation of such services at the premises of the customer.

      4.  A public utility to contact its customers regarding a previously arranged installation of utility services at the premises of the customer.

      5.  A facility that processes or stores petroleum, volatile petroleum products, natural gas, liquefied petroleum gas, combustible chemicals, explosives, high-level radioactive waste or other dangerous substances to advise local residents, public service agencies and news media of an actual or potential life-threatening emergency.

      6.  A state or local governmental agency, or a private entity operating under contract with and at the direction of such an agency, to provide:

      (a) Information relating to public safety;

      (b) Information relating to a police or fire emergency; or

      (c) A warning of an impending or threatening emergency.

      7.  A candidate for public office, committee advocating the passage or defeat of a ballot question, political party, committee sponsored by a political party or a committee for political action.

      (Added to NRS by 1999, 3331; A 2007, 1392)