Every purchaser of a franchise, according to the provisions of NRS 709.290 to 709.360, inclusive, and every person, persons, company, association or corporation, operating the street railway under a franchise, shall maintain and keep in repair, equally as good as the adjoining portions of the street immediately surrounding or including the track, that portion of the street included between the rails of the track and also for a distance of 2 feet outside of the track, on each side thereof.
[5:63:1901; RL § 2125; NCL § 3179]