704A.190 - Summary of estimate of costs to be assessed against each lot furnished to owner; joint summary.

704A.190  Summary of estimate of costs to be assessed against each lot furnished to owner; joint summary.

      1.  A summary of the estimate of the costs to be assessed against each lot of real property located within the proposed service district for the new construction or conversion of facilities within public places and the estimated costs to be assessed to each lot of real property for placing underground the facilities of the public utility corporation located within the boundaries of each lot shall be mailed by the public utility corporation to each owner of real property located within the proposed service district to the address of such owner as contained in the petition for the cost study, if such owner and address is included in the petition, or to such owner at the address thereof as shown in the records of the county assessor.

      2.  Two or more public utility corporations with facilities in the proposed service district, except for any public utility corporation described in subsection 4 or 5 of NRS 704A.180, may:

      (a) Prepare a joint summary of such costs;

      (b) Cause the joint summary so to be mailed to each owner of real property within the proposed service district; and

      (c) Apportion the costs of so preparing and mailing the joint summary between or among such public utility corporations on an equitable basis as may be mutually agreeable thereto.

      3.  Any estimate of cost required or authorized in this chapter shall not constitute a limitation upon such cost nor a limitation upon the rights and powers of any public utility corporation, the municipality, the governing body, or any officers, agents or employees thereof.

      (Added to NRS by 1971, 1235; A 1973, 475)