Assembly Bill No. 308-Committee on Commerce

March 26, 1997
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Referred to Committee on Commerce

SUMMARY--Revises provisions governing exemption of certain employees of public utility company from requirements of registration as professional engineer or land surveyor. (BDR 54-1201)

FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.
Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.

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

AN ACT relating to employees of public utility companies; revising the provisions governing the exemption of certain employees of a public utility company from the requirements of registration as a professional engineer or land surveyor; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

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

Section 1 NRS 625.500 is hereby amended to read as follows:
625.500 The registration requirements of this chapter do not apply to [the employees] any:
1. Employee of an interstate or intrastate public utility [companies while they are] company while he is engaged in [work for such companies or to any architect] :
(a) The practice of engineering; or
(b) Establishing rights of way or locations for utility easements,
on facilities owned or to be owned by the public utility company by which he is employed.
2. Architect who is registered under the provisions of chapter 623 of NRS and who practices architecture as permitted by chapter 623 of NRS.

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