The city council may:
1. License, regulate or prohibit the location, construction or laying of tracks of any railroad in any public right-of-way.
2. Grant franchises to any person or corporation to operate a railroad upon public rights-of-way and adjacent property.
3. Declare a nuisance and take up and remove, or cause to be taken up and removed, the tracks of any railway which have been laid upon, in, along, through or across any of the streets, alleys, avenues or public places of the city and which have not been operated with cars for public use for 1 year after the laying thereof.
4. Subject to the provisions of NRS 704.300, condemn rights-of-way for any public purpose across any railroad right-of-way.
5. Prescribe the length of time any public right-of-way may be obstructed by trains standing thereon.
6. Require railroad companies to fence their tracks and to construct cattle guards and crossings and to keep them in repair.
7. Require railroad companies to provide protection against injury to persons or property.
8. Compel railroad companies to raise or lower their tracks to conform to any grade established by the city, so that tracks may be crossed at any place on any street, alley or avenue.
9. Compel railroad companies to provide that drainage from property adjacent to their tracks not be impaired.
[Part 28:125:1907; RL § 794; NCL § 1128] — (NRS A 1971, 302; 1985, 1241)
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