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LVLWC - rates, rules, and regulations, water department

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GENERAL LAWS - Nevada Sec 6112 - Page 897 f *6112. Commission to prescribe standards for measurement of quantity, quality etc.---Water meters barred in cities of 4500 or over; exception.— Right of entry to premises.— Standards for electric utilities. * * * provided, that it shall be unlawful for any public utility, for any purpose or object whatever, in any city or town containing more than four thousand five hundred inhabi­tants, to install, operate or use, within such city or town, any mechanical water meter, or similar mechanical device, to measure the quantity of water delivered to water users; provided further, that nothing in the immediate foregoing proviso shall apply to cities and towns owning and operating municipal water works." « * * # * (Sec. 2) This act shall become effective and operative from and after its passage and approval. As amended Stats. 1931, 320. "The provision barring water meters in cities of more than 4,500 inhabitants is not unconstitutional as applied to the City of Reno. Sierra Pac.Power Co. v. City of Reno, 33 P. Supp. 878. "Complaint held to state cause of action for injunction to restrain Interference by city with installation of water meters by public utility. City of Reno v. Sierra Pao. Power Co., 44 Fed. (2d) 281. T - jam L2 vs, w Ss - B 3 1 v r t u ~ M - - v— o J * - '-‘• A ' - _ , L , w - C * . w ' u I I lilli