NRS704.390. Discontinuance, modification or restriction of service: Authorization of Commission required; hearing required for certain applications; power of Commission to dispense with hearing for certain applications.

      1.  Except as otherwise provided in NRS 704.68861 to 704.68887, inclusive, it is unlawful for any public utility to discontinue, modify or restrict service to any city, town, municipality, community or territory theretofore serviced by it, except upon 30 days’ notice filed with the Commission, specifying in detail the character and nature of the discontinuance or restriction of the service intended, and upon order of the Commission, made after hearing, permitting such discontinuance, modification or restriction of service.

      2.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, the Commission, in its discretion and after investigation, may dispense with the hearing on the application for discontinuance, modification or restriction of service if, upon the expiration of the time fixed in the notice thereof, no protest against the granting of the application has been filed by or on behalf of any interested person.

      3.  The Commission shall not dispense with the hearing on the application of an electric utility.

      [Part 36 1/2:109:1919; A 1925, 243; 1947, 743; 1955, 407]—(NRS A 1963, 815; 1969, 1159; 2001, 350; 2007, 704)