The provisions of NRS 455.220 and 455.230 are not applicable to:
1. An employee of a public utility which produces, transmits or delivers electricity, or a public utility which provides communication services, while the employee, in the course of his or her employment, constructs, modifies, operates or maintains:
(a) Electrical systems;
(b) Communication systems; or
(c) Overhead electrical or communication circuits or conductors, or the structures supporting them.
2. An employee of a video service provider operating pursuant to chapter 711 of NRS or a business which provides communication services, while the employee, acting within the scope of his or her employment, is making service attachments to the structure supporting an overhead line carrying high voltage, if authorized to do so by the public utility operating the overhead line.
(Added to NRS by 1993, 878; A 2007, 1392)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 455 - Excavations and High-Voltage Lines
NRS 455.010 - Erection of fence or other safeguard around excavation, hole or shaft required.
NRS 455.020 - Filing of notice of violation; contents of notice.
NRS 455.040 - Contents of notice; judgment; criminal penalty.
NRS 455.050 - Suits to be commenced in name of State of Nevada; disposition of judgments and fines.
NRS 455.082 - "Approximate location of a subsurface installation" defined.
NRS 455.084 - "Association for operators" defined.
NRS 455.086 - "Damage" defined.
NRS 455.088 - "Demolition" defined.
NRS 455.090 - "Emergency" defined.
NRS 455.092 - "Excavation" defined.
NRS 455.093 - High consequence subsurface installation" defined.
NRS 455.094 - "Mechanical equipment" defined.
NRS 455.096 - "Operator" defined.
NRS 455.098 - "Person" defined.
NRS 455.099 - "Sewer main" defined.
NRS 455.0995 - "Sewer service lateral" defined.
NRS 455.101 - "Subsurface installation" defined.
NRS 455.103 - "Unexpected occurrence" defined.
NRS 455.105 - "Working day" defined.
NRS 455.107 - Exemption from compliance with statutory provisions.
NRS 455.150 - Release from liability for cost of repairs to subsurface installation.
NRS 455.160 - Injunctive relief.
NRS 455.180 - Civil remedies preserved; additional civil remedy not created.
NRS 455.210 - Applicability of provisions.
NRS 455.220 - Conducting of activities near line: Prohibition; exception.
NRS 455.240 - Liability for violation causing contact with line.