396.826 - “Operation and maintenance expenses”: Exclusions from definition.

396.826  “Operation and maintenance expenses”: Exclusions from definition.  The term “operation and maintenance expenses” does not include:

      1.  Any allowance for depreciation, except as otherwise provided in subsection 7 of NRS 396.825;

      2.  Any costs of reconstruction, improvements, extensions or betterments;

      3.  Any accumulation of reserves for capital replacements;

      4.  Any reserves for operation, maintenance or repair of any facilities;

      5.  Any allowance for the redemption of any bond or other security evidencing a loan or other obligation or the payment of any interest thereon;

      6.  Any liabilities incurred in the acquisition or improvement of any properties comprising any project or any existing facilities, or any combination thereof; and

      7.  Any other ground of legal liability not based on contract.

      (Added to NRS by 1967, 5)