(REPRINTED WITH ADOPTED AMENDMENTS)

 

Assembly Bill No. 83–Committee on Transportation

 

(On Behalf of Regional Transportation Commission
of Southern Nevada)

 

February 12, 2001

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Referred to Committee on Transportation

 

SUMMARY—Makes various changes concerning vehicles used to provide public mass transportation. (BDR 43‑1020)

 

FISCAL NOTE:            Effect on Local Government: No.

                                    Effect on the State: Yes.

 

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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; 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:

 

1-1    Section 1. NRS 484.7485 is hereby amended to read as follows:

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

1-3  vehicle that is used by a regional transportation commission or its

1-4  contractor to provide public mass transportation may be operated or moved

1-5  upon a public highway, other than a highway within the designated

1-6  interstate system, if the maximum weight does not exceed, on a single axle

1-7  with:

1-8    (a) Single tires, 20,000 pounds; or

1-9    (b) Dual tires, 25,000 pounds.

1-10    2.  A vehicle with a maximum weight on a single axle with single tires

1-11  of more than 20,000 pounds but not more than 29,000 pounds that is

1-12  used by a regional transportation commission or its contractor to provide

1-13  public mass transportation as part of a demonstration project may be

1-14  operated or moved upon a public highway, other than a highway within

1-15  the designated interstate system, if the tires are not less than 20 inches in

1-16  width and the department of transportation, after conducting an

1-17  evaluation of the vehicle:

2-1    (a) Determines that such operation or movement of the vehicle is in

2-2  the best interest of the department; and

2-3    (b) In its discretion, issues a permit authorizing such operation or

2-4  movement of the vehicle.

2-5    3.  As used in this section:

2-6    (a) “Contractor” means any person or governmental entity that has

2-7  entered into a contract with a regional transportation commission to

2-8  provide services related to the provision of public mass transportation, but

2-9  only during the period in which the contract remains legally effective.

2-10    (b) “Regional transportation commission” means any regional

2-11  transportation commission created and organized in accordance with

2-12  chapter 373 of NRS, and which provides or sponsors public mass

2-13  transportation services.

 

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