Senate Bill No. 354–Committee on Transportation

 

March 17, 2003

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Referred to Committee on Government Affairs

 

SUMMARY—Revises provisions relating to approval of subdivision maps and granting of easements for use by community antenna television companies. (BDR 22‑598)

 

FISCAL NOTE:  Effect on Local Government: No.

                           Effect on the State: No.

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

AN ACT relating to property; providing that a final map for a subdivision must not be approved unless the subdivider grants certain easements for use by community antenna television companies; providing exceptions; 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. Chapter 278 of NRS is hereby amended by adding

1-2  thereto a new section to read as follows:

1-3  1.  Except as otherwise provided in this section, the governing

1-4  body, the planning commission, the director of planning or any

1-5  other authorized person or agency shall not approve any final map

1-6  for a subdivision located within the franchise area of one or more

1-7  community antenna television companies, unless the subdivider:

1-8  (a) Grants in favor of each such company permanent

1-9  easements that are sufficient to permit each such company to

1-10  install its facilities and to access all lots, parcels, units or plots

1-11  within the subdivision; and

1-12      (b) Files a statement with the final map certifying that each

1-13  such company will be notified not less than 30 days before any

1-14  trench is excavated within the subdivision for the purpose of

1-15  installing any utility facilities.

2-1  2.  A subdivider is not required to grant any permanent

2-2  easements in favor of one or more community antenna television

2-3  companies pursuant to this section, unless the owners of the land

2-4  who signed and acknowledged the certificate filed pursuant to

2-5  NRS 278.374 are paid just compensation for the granting of the

2-6  permanent easements.

2-7  3.  As used in this section, “community antenna television

2-8  company” has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 711.030.

2-9  Sec. 2.  NRS 278.010 is hereby amended to read as follows:

2-10      278.010  As used in NRS 278.010 to 278.630, inclusive, and

2-11  section 1 of this act, unless the context otherwise requires, the

2-12  words and terms defined in NRS 278.0105 to 278.0195, inclusive,

2-13  have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.

 

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