(REPRINTED WITH ADOPTED AMENDMENTS)

 

Assembly Bill No. 242–Assemblymen Marvel and Chowning

 

February 26, 2001

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Referred to Committee on Transportation

 

SUMMARY—Provides that certain instructors for schools for training drivers are not required to complete requirements for continuing education. (BDR 43‑1173)

 

FISCAL NOTE:            Effect on Local Government: No.

                                    Effect on the State: No.

 

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EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.

 

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; providing that an instructor for a school for training drivers who provides instruction solely to applicants for commercial drivers’ licenses is not required to complete requirements for continuing education; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

1-1    Section 1.  NRS 483.730 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-2    483.730  1.  The department shall issue a license to operate a school

1-3  for training drivers or to act as an instructor for such a school, if it is

1-4  satisfied that the applicant has met the qualifications required by NRS

1-5  483.700 to 483.780, inclusive, and section 11 of Senate Bill No. 523 of

1-6  this [act.] session.

1-7    2.  The license is valid for 5 years after the date of issuance, unless

1-8  canceled, suspended or revoked by the department and, except as otherwise

1-9  provided in subsection 3, may be renewed subject to the same conditions as

1-10  the original license, except that an operator of or instructor for a school for

1-11  training drivers is not required to comply with the provisions of section 11

1-12  of Senate Bill No. 523 of this [act] session for the renewal of his license.

1-13    3.  [The] Except as otherwise provided in subsection 5, the department

1-14  may renew the license of an instructor of a school for training drivers if,

1-15  when he submits his application for the renewal of his license, he provides

1-16  evidence satisfactory to the department that, during the period of the

1-17  license, he completed at least six credits of continuing education by

1-18  attending:

1-19    (a) A course of instruction relating to the training of drivers approved

1-20  by the department; or

2-1    (b) A state or national conference approved by the department of

2-2  education for credit for continuing education.

2-3    4.  In determining whether an instructor has complied with the

2-4  provisions of subsection 3, the department shall award one credit of

2-5  continuing education for the completion of each 15 hours of:

2-6    (a) Classroom instruction in a course specified in paragraph (a) of

2-7  subsection 3; or

2-8    (b) Attendance at a conference specified in paragraph (b) of

2-9  subsection 3.

2-10    5.  The provisions of subsection 3 do not apply to an instructor who

2-11  provides instruction solely to applicants for commercial drivers’ licenses.

2-12    Sec. 2.  This act becomes effective:

2-13    1.  Upon passage and approval for the purpose of revising regulations

2-14  by the department of motor vehicles and public safety to comply with the

2-15  provisions of section 1 of this act; and

2-16    2.  On July 1, 2001, for all other purposes.

 

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