Assembly Bill No. 292–Committee on Commerce and Labor

February 22, 1999

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Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor

 

SUMMARY—Revises provisions governing filling of containers and repair of appliances for use of liquefied petroleum gas. (BDR 51-44)

FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.

Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: Yes.

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted. Green numbers along left margin indicate location on the printed bill (e.g., 5-15 indicates page 5, line 15).

 

AN ACT relating to liquefied petroleum gas; imposing certain responsibilities upon the owners of containers; requiring the licensing of certain repairmen; requiring a notice of work performed to be provided a supplier under certain circumstances; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

1-1 Section 1. NRS 590.535 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-2 590.535 1. [No person, firm or corporation,] A person other than the

1-3 owner [and those] or another person authorized by the owner to do so [to

1-4 do,] shall not sell, fill, refill, deliver or permit to be delivered, or use in any

1-5 manner any liquefied petroleum gas container or receptacle for any other

1-6 gas [,] or compound, or for any other purpose . [whatsoever.] The owner

1-7 of the container or receptacle is responsible for its suitability for

1-8 continued service.

1-9 2. [No person, firm or corporation shall hereafter] A person shall not

1-10 engage in this state in the business of manufacturing, fabricating,

1-11 assembling, selling , [or] installing or repairing any systems, containers,

1-12 apparatuses or appliances used, or to be used, in this state for the

1-13 transportation, storage, dispensation or utilization of LPG, [nor shall any]

1-14 and a transporter, distributor or retailer of LPG shall not engage in storing,

1-15 dispensing or utilizing [, nor shall any transporter, distributor or retailer] or

1-16 dispense or transport over the highways of this state , any LPG intended

1-17 for use in this state in any system, container, apparatus or appliance

2-1 without having first applied for and obtained from the board a license to do

2-2 so.

2-3 3. A person who authorizes anyone other than his own supplier of

2-4 LPG to install, repair, maintain or adjust any LPG appliance shall notify

2-5 his supplier of the work performed within 5 days after its performance or

2-6 before the system is next filled with LPG, whichever is sooner.

2-7 4. The licenses required by this section [shall] do not apply to the

2-8 following types of businesses or operations:

2-9 (a) Those engaged in the production or manufacture of LPG.

2-10 (b) Those engaged in the wholesale selling or reselling of LPG to

2-11 transporters, industrial consumers, processors, distributors or retailers,

2-12 except wholesalers selling to ultimate consumers in this state.

2-13 (c) Those selling or delivering motor vehicles or tractors, or supplying

2-14 the same, which are factory-equipped with an LP-Gas system, container,

2-15 apparatus or appliance for the utilization therein of LPG as motor fuel.

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