Senate Bill No. 260–Senators Schneider, Titus, Care,
Carlton, Neal, Shaffer and Wiener

February 26, 1999

____________

Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor

 

SUMMARY—Limits amount that certain entities which provide water service may charge to install individual meters in certain mobile home parks. (BDR 40-1030)

FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.

Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.

~

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 mobile home parks; limiting the amount that certain entities which provide water service may charge to install individual meters in certain mobile home parks; 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 461A.230 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-2 461A.230 1. Each mobile home park constructed after July 1, 1981,

1-3 but before October 1, 1989, must provide direct electrical and gas service

1-4 from the utility to each lot if those services are available.

1-5 2. Each mobile home park constructed after October 1, 1989, must

1-6 provide direct:

1-7 (a) Electrical and gas service from a public utility or a city, county or

1-8 other governmental entity which provides electrical or gas service, to each

1-9 lot if those services are available.

1-10 (b) Water service from a public utility or a city, county or other

1-11 governmental entity which provides water service, the provisions of NRS

1-12 704.230 notwithstanding, to the park if that service is available.

1-13 3. In a county whose population is 400,000 or more, each mobile home

1-14 park constructed after October 1, 1995, must provide direct water service,

1-15 as provided in paragraph (b) of subsection 2, that is connected to individual

1-16 meters for each lot. The individual meters must be installed in compliance

1-17 with any uniform design and construction standards adopted by the public

1-18 utility or city, county or other governmental entity which provides water

2-1 service in the county. The public utility or city, county or other

2-2 governmental entity that provides water service in the county shall

2-3 charge no more for the installation of the individual meters than the cost

2-4 of installing a master-metered water system, regardless of the number of

2-5 individual meters that are installed within the mobile home park.

2-6 Sec. 2. This act becomes effective upon passage and approval.

~