(REPRINTED WITH ADOPTED AMENDMENTS)

 

Assembly Bill No. 6–Assemblyman Hettrick

 

Prefiled January 11, 2001

 

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Referred to Committee on Transportation

 

SUMMARY—Revises provisions governing driving of certain combinations of vehicles. (BDR 43‑292)

 

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 vehicles; requiring the department of motor vehicles and public safety to adopt regulations governing the driving of certain combinations of vehicles by persons who hold certain noncommercial driver’s licenses; temporarily authorizing the driving of such combinations of vehicles by such persons; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

   Section 1. Chapter 483 of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto a new section to read as follows:

1-1    The department shall adopt regulations authorizing the holder of a

1-2  class A noncommercial driver’s license to drive any combination of

1-3  vehicles not exceeding 70 feet in length with a gross combination weight

1-4  rating of 26,000 pounds or less so long as the gross combination weight

1-5  rating of the towed vehicles does not exceed the gross vehicle weight

1-6  rating of the towing vehicle.

1-7    Sec. 2.  NRS 483.010 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-8    483.010  The provisions of NRS 483.010 to 483.630, inclusive, and

1-9  section 1 of this act, may be cited as the Uniform Motor Vehicle Drivers’

1-10  License Act.

1-11  Sec. 3.  NRS 483.015 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-12  483.015  Except as otherwise provided in NRS 483.330, the provisions

1-13  of NRS 483.010 to 483.630, inclusive, and section 1 of this act apply only

1-14  with respect to noncommercial drivers’ licenses.

1-15  Sec. 4.  1.  The department shall adopt the regulations, required by

1-16  section 1 of this act on or before July 1, 2002.

1-17  2.  Before the effective date of the regulations, the holder of a class A

1-18  noncommercial driver’s license may drive any combination of vehicles not

2-1  exceeding 70 feet in length with a gross combination weight rating of

2-2  26,000 pounds or less so long as the gross combination weight rating of the

2-3  towed vehicles does not exceed the gross vehicle weight rating of the

2-4  towing vehicle.

2-5    Sec. 5.  This act becomes effective upon passage and approval.

 

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