1. The person or persons, or the president or the managing agent of the company, association or corporation mentioned in NRS 707.230, shall make, sign and acknowledge, before some person authorized by law to take acknowledgments of deeds, a certificate in writing setting forth:
(a) The name or names of the person or persons, company, association or corporation (as the case may be) by whom the line is to be operated.
(b) The names of the points or places constituting the termini of the line within this state.
(c) A general description of the route of the line.
2. The certificate shall be filed and recorded in the Office of the Secretary of State, for which such person or persons, company, association or corporation shall pay the Secretary of State, for deposit in the General Fund, the sum of $5, and also 25 cents for each folio contained in the certificate.
3. The record of the certificates shall give constructive notice to all persons of the matter therein contained. The work of constructing such line, if not already commenced or completed within 30 days after the filing of the certificate aforesaid, shall be continued, with all reasonable dispatch, until completed.
[2:17:1866; B § 3491; BH § 916; C § 1046; RL § 4625; NCL § 7667] — (NRS A 1959, 222)