Nevada Revised Statutes Title 58. Energy; Public Utilities and Similar Entities § 704.370. Issuance or refusal of certificate:  Terms and conditions;  hearing required for certain applications;  power of Commission to dispense with hearing for certain applications

1. The Commission shall have the power, after hearing, to issue or refuse such certificate of public convenience, or to issue it for the construction of a portion only of the contemplated line, plant or systems, or extension thereof, and may attach thereto such terms and conditions as, in its judgment, the public convenience and necessity may require.

2. Except as otherwise provide in subsection 3, the Commission, in its discretion and after investigation, may dispense with the hearing on the application if, upon the expiration of the time fixed in the notice thereof, no protest against the granting of the application has been filed by or on behalf of any interested person.

3. The Commission shall not dispense with the hearing on the application of an electric utility.