(REPRINTED WITH ADOPTED AMENDMENTS)

 

Senate Bill No. 119–Senator Shaffer

 

February 13, 2001

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Referred to Committee on Transportation

 

SUMMARY—Requires taxicab authority to establish program for transportation by taxicab of elderly persons and permanently handicapped persons in certain counties. (BDR 58‑692)

 

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 taxicabs; requiring the taxicab authority to establish a program for the transportation by taxicab of elderly persons and permanently handicapped persons in certain counties; 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. Chapter 706 of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto a

1-2  new section to read as follows:

1-3    1.  The taxicab authority shall adopt regulations establishing a

1-4  program for the transportation by taxicab of elderly persons and

1-5  permanently handicapped persons.

1-6    2.  The program must require the administrator to establish, maintain

1-7  and make known a telephone number for elderly persons and

1-8  permanently handicapped persons to register complaints regarding

1-9  transportation by taxicab.

1-10    3.  The program must require a certificate holder to inform a person

1-11  who requests transportation by taxicab within the area allocated to the

1-12  certificate holder and who identifies himself as an elderly person or a

1-13  permanently handicapped person of the:

1-14    (a) Estimated time of arrival of the requested taxicab; and

1-15    (b) Telephone number maintained by the administrator pursuant to

1-16  subsection 2.

1-17    Sec. 2.  NRS 706.881 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-18    706.881  1.  The provisions of NRS 706.8811 to 706.885, inclusive,

1-19  and section 1 of this act apply to any county:

1-20    (a) Whose population is 400,000 or more; or

1-21    (b) For whom regulation by the taxicab authority is not required , if [its]

1-22  the board of county commissioners of the county has enacted an ordinance

2-1  approving the inclusion of the county within the jurisdiction of the taxicab

2-2  authority.

2-3    2.  Upon receipt of a certified copy of such an ordinance from a county

2-4  for whom regulation by the taxicab authority is not required, the taxicab

2-5  authority shall exercise its regulatory authority pursuant to NRS 706.8811

2-6  to 706.885, inclusive, within that county.

2-7    3.  Within any such county, the provisions of this chapter which confer

2-8  regulatory authority over taxicab motor carriers upon the transportation

2-9  services authority do not apply.

2-10    Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective on July 1, 2001.

 

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