Assembly Bill No. 83–Committee on Transportation

 

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AN ACT relating to vehicles; providing for the issuance under certain circumstances of a permit authorizing the operation or movement of certain heavier vehicles used to provide public mass transportation; 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. NRS 484.7485 is hereby amended to read as follows:

   484.7485  1.  [A] Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a

 vehicle that is used by a regional transportation commission or its

 contractor to provide public mass transportation may be operated or

 moved upon a public highway, other than a highway within the designated

 interstate system, if the maximum weight does not exceed, on a single axle

 with:

   (a) Single tires, 20,000 pounds; or

   (b) Dual tires, 25,000 pounds.

   2.  A vehicle with a maximum weight on a single axle with single tires

 of more than 20,000 pounds but not more than 29,000 pounds that is

 used by a regional transportation commission or its contractor to provide

 public mass transportation as part of a demonstration project may be

 operated or moved upon a public highway, other than a highway within

 the designated interstate system, if the tires are not less than 20 inches in

 width and the department of transportation, after conducting an

 evaluation of the vehicle:

   (a) Determines that such operation or movement of the vehicle is in

 the best interest of the department; and

   (b) In its discretion, issues a permit authorizing such operation or

 movement of the vehicle.

   3.  As used in this section:

   (a) “Contractor” means any person or governmental entity that has

 entered into a contract with a regional transportation commission to

 provide services related to the provision of public mass transportation, but

 only during the period in which the contract remains legally effective.

   (b) “Regional transportation commission” means any regional

 transportation commission created and organized in accordance with

 chapter 373 of NRS, and which provides or sponsors public mass

 transportation services.

 

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