2001 REGULAR SESSION (71st)                                                                       A AB198 R1 979

Amendment No. 979

 

Senate Amendment to Assembly Bill No. 198  First Reprint                                                (BDR 40‑176)

Proposed by: Committee on Natural Resources

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Resolves Conflicts with: N/A

Amends:         Summary:              Title:              Preamble:               Joint Sponsorship:

 

ASSEMBLY ACTION              Initial and Date              |SENATE ACTION                        Initial and Date

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       Receded        Not                                               |         Receded        Not                                           

 

     Amend the bill as a whole by renumbering sections 1 through 3 as sections 5 through 7 and adding new sections designated sections 1 through 4, following the enacting clause, to read as follows:

     “Section 1. Chapter 445B of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto the provisions set forth as sections 2 and 3 of this act.

     Sec. 2. 1.  If an authorized station or authorized inspection station is required to collect a fee pursuant to subsection 1 of NRS 445B.830, the station may charge a customer whose vehicle is inspected by the station the amount of any electronic transmission surcharge that the station incurs to obtain information which the station is required by law to obtain with respect to that customer’s vehicle.

     2.  An electronic transmission surcharge that is charged to a customer pursuant to subsection 1 must be set forth as a separate entry on the form certifying emission control compliance which the authorized station or authorized inspection station provides to the customer.

     3.  As used in this section, “electronic transmission surcharge” means the amount that an authorized station or authorized inspection station is required to pay to a contractor who owns or operates a database for the identification of vehicles for the transmission of information regarding a particular vehicle from the database to the authorized station or authorized inspection station.

     Sec. 3. 1.  If the board of county commissioners of a county is authorized to impose an additional fee for each form certifying emission control compliance, the board shall ensure that 2 percent of any such fee it imposes is retained as a commission by the authorized station or authorized inspection station that performs the inspection pursuant to which the form certifying emission control compliance is issued.

     2.  As used in this section, “additional fee” does not include any fee that is imposed pursuant to paragraph (a), (b) or (c) of subsection 1 of NRS 445B.830.

     Sec. 4. NRS 445B.700 is hereby amended to read as follows:

     445B.700  As used in NRS 445B.700 to 445B.845, inclusive, and sections 2 and 3 of this act, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 445B.705 to 445B.758, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.”.

     Amend sec. 3, page 3, by deleting line 25 and inserting:

     “Sec. 7. 1.  This section and sections 1, 3, 4 and 6 of this act become effective on July 1, 2001.

     2.  Section 5 of this act becomes effective at 12:01 a.m. on July 1, 2001.

     3.  Section 2 of this act becomes effective on January 1, 2002.”.

     Amend the title of the bill to read as follows:

AN ACT relating to air pollution; authorizing certain stations licensed to inspect motor vehicles and devices for the control of pollution to charge a customer a surcharge for the costs of obtaining certain information regarding the customer’s vehicle; authorizing certain stations licensed to inspect motor vehicles and devices for the control of pollution to retain a percentage of certain fees as a commission; revising the provisions relating to expenditures from the pollution control account for purposes relating to air quality; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.”.

     Amend the summary of the bill to read as follows:

“SUMMARY—Revises certain provisions relating to inspection of motor vehicles and devices for control of pollution and revises provisions relating to expenditures for air quality. (BDR 40‑176)”.