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Current as of January 01, 2025 | Updated by Findlaw Staff
Every person, firm, corporation, partnership, joint-stock association or association of any kind whatever:
1. Owning, operating or managing any pipeline or any part of any pipeline within the State of Nevada for the transportation of crude oil or petroleum to or for the public for hire, or engaged in the business of transporting crude oil or petroleum by pipeline;
2. Owning, operating or managing any pipeline or any part of any pipeline for the transportation of crude oil or petroleum to or for the public for hire, which pipeline is constructed or maintained upon, along, over or under any public road or highway, or in favor of whom the right of eminent domain exists;
3. Owning, operating or managing any pipeline or any part of any pipeline or pipelines for transportation to or for the public for hire, of crude oil or petroleum, which pipeline or pipelines is or may be constructed, operated or maintained across, upon, along, over or under the right-of-way of any railroad corporation or other common carrier required by law to transport crude oil or petroleum as a common carrier; or
4. Owning, operating or managing or participating in ownership, operation or management, under lease, contract of purchase, agreement to buy or sell, or other agreement or arrangement of any kind whatever, any pipeline or pipelines, or part of any pipeline, for the transportation from any oil field or place of production within the State of Nevada to any distributing, refining or marketing center, or reshipping point thereof, within this state, of crude oil or petroleum bought of others or owned by others,
is hereby declared to be a common carrier and subject to the provisions of this chapter.
Cite this article: FindLaw.com - Nevada Revised Statutes Title 58. Energy; Public Utilities and Similar Entities § 708.020. Owner, operator or manager of oil pipeline declared to be common carrier - last updated January 01, 2025 | https://codes.findlaw.com/nv/title-58-energy-public-utilities-and-similar-entities/nv-rev-st-708-020/
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