NAC704A.220. Easements.

     1. Within the applicant’s development, the utility owns and shall operate and maintain all underground distribution lines along public streets, roads and highways which it has the legal right to occupy, and the applicant shall provide the utility with easements across public lands and private property satisfactory for the construction of the underground facilities.

     2. Within a reasonable time to meet the requirements for the service, the applicant shall furnish easements across public lands and private property to the extent they are necessary for placing the facilities underground, and such easements must be furnished by the applicant at no cost to the utility.

     3. Within a new residential development, all main ( primary and secondary) lines, whether installed by direct burial or in a conduit, must be placed in a joint trench which is to be located in the public way or street and follow a route designated by the appropriate local governmental body or bodies. All service lines and equipment from the secondary distribution or street main to the premises served must be placed in a joint trench, and this joint trench, while crossing the public way or street, must be located therein, but in all other cases the joint trench must be located in an easement on private property. Those main ( primary and secondary) lines which fall within the 100-foot allowance provided for in NAC 704A.240 and which lead to a new residential development must be installed underground, either by direct burial or in a conduit in the public way or street or in an easement on private property, whichever provides the most direct but economically feasible route from the nearest line or source of sufficient capacity.

     [Pub. Service Comm’n, Gen. Order 9 Rule C, eff. 11-1-69]—(NAC A 3-15-84)