Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 708 - Oil Pipelines
NRS 708.050 - Right to construct and maintain pipeline along, on or under public stream or road: Conditions; compensation for damage to public road.


1. The right to lay, maintain and operate pipelines, together with telephone and telegraph lines incidental to and designated for use only in connection with the operations of those pipelines, along, across or under any public stream or highway in this state, is hereby conferred upon all persons coming within any of the definitions of common carrier pipelines contained in NRS 708.020, who have obtained a certificate of public convenience and necessity as provided in NRS 708.025 and 708.035.
2. In the exercise of the privileges herein conferred, such pipelines shall compensate the county or counties for any damage done to the public road or highway in the laying of pipelines, telegraph or telephone lines, along or across the same.
3. This section does not:
(a) Grant any pipeline company the right to use any public street or alley of any incorporated city except by express permission from the city or governing authority thereof.
(b) Allow any company to use any street or alley of an unincorporated town, except by express permission of the board of county commissioners of the county in which the town is situated.
[3:227:1921; NCL § 4947]—(NRS A 1969, 878; 1987, 1730)

Structure Nevada Revised Statutes

Nevada Revised Statutes

Chapter 708 - Oil Pipelines

NRS 708.010 - "Commission" defined.

NRS 708.020 - Owner, operator or manager of oil pipeline declared to be common carrier.

NRS 708.025 - Operation as intrastate carrier without certificate of public convenience and necessity prohibited.

NRS 708.035 - Certificate of public convenience and necessity: Hearing; considerations; terms and conditions.

NRS 708.050 - Right to construct and maintain pipeline along, on or under public stream or road: Conditions; compensation for damage to public road.

NRS 708.060 - Power of Commission to establish and enforce rates and regulations; procedure; reimbursement of excessive charges.

NRS 708.070 - Exchange of tonnage of crude petroleum; installation of connections and facilities; regulations of Commission pertaining to marketable oil, temperature, leakage and evaporation.

NRS 708.080 - Publication of tariffs; reports; investigation of books; limitation on disclosure of reports by Commission; hearings and enforcement of orders.

NRS 708.090 - Discrimination between shippers or in charging for services prohibited; ratable transportation when production exceeds capacity of pipeline.

NRS 708.100 - Common purchaser: Duties; discrimination prohibited.

NRS 708.110 - Discrimination in receipt and transportation of crude oil or petroleum prohibited.

NRS 708.120 - Regulations of Commission to prevent waste of oil or dangerous operations.

NRS 708.130 - Applicability of chapter.

NRS 708.140 - Penalties.