Amendment No. 632

Senate Amendment to Senate Bill No. 337 (BDR 43-860)

Proposed by: Committee on Transportation

Amendment Box: Replaces Amendment No. 285.

Resolves Conflicts with: N/A

Amends: Summary: Title: Preamble: Joint Sponsorship:

ASSEMBLY ACTION Initial and Date | SENATE ACTION Initial and Date

Adopted Lost | Adopted Lost

Concurred In Not | Concurred In Not

Receded Not | Receded Not

Amend the bill as a whole by renumbering section 1 as sec. 2 and adding a new section designated section 1, following the enacting clause, to read as follows:

"Section 1. NRS 484.261 is hereby amended to read as follows:

484.261 1. The driver of an authorized emergency vehicle or an official vehicle of a regulatory agency, when responding to an emergency call or when in pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law or when responding to but not upon returning from a fire alarm, or a vehicle escorting a funeral procession, may:

(a) Proceed past a red or stop signal or stop sign, but only after slowing down as may be necessary for safe operation.

(b) Exceed any speed limits so long as he does not endanger life or property, except that a vehicle escorting a funeral procession may not exceed the speed limit by more than 15 miles per hour to overtake the procession and direct traffic at the next intersection.

(c) Disregard regulations governing direction of movement or turning in specified directions. The driver of a vehicle escorting a funeral procession may direct the movements of the vehicles in the procession in a similar manner and may direct the movements of other vehicles.

2. The privileges granted in subsection 1 apply only when the vehicle is making use of [audible] :

(a) Audible and visual signals ; or

(b) Visual signals only,

as required by law.

3. The driver of an authorized emergency vehicle or an official vehicle of a regulatory agency may park or stand without regard to the provisions of this chapter if he makes use of a warning lamp.

4. The provisions of this section do not relieve the driver from the duty to drive with due regard for the safety of all persons and do not protect the driver from the consequences of his reckless disregard for the safety of others.".

Amend section 1, page 2, by deleting lines 2 through 5 and inserting:

"the immediate pursuit of an actual or suspected violator of the law, in which event the driver of the vehicle [shall] may sound the siren [when necessary] to warn pedestrians and other drivers of his approach. A".

Amend the title of the bill by deleting the first and second lines and inserting:

"AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; making optional the use of a siren by an emergency vehicle; specifically authorizing an emergency vehicle to operate warning".