(REPRINTED WITH ADOPTED AMENDMENTS)

 

Senate Bill No. 288–Committee on Transportation

 

(On Behalf of District Attorneys Association)

 

March 7, 2001

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Referred to Committee on Transportation

 

SUMMARY—Makes various changes to provisions concerning reckless driving so that those provisions apply to person who drives on premises to which public has access. (BDR 43‑468)

 

FISCAL NOTE:            Effect on Local Government: Yes.

                                    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 traffic laws; revising provisions concerning reckless driving to make those provisions applicable when a person drives on premises to which the public has access; increasing the maximum penalty for a person convicted of reckless driving that proximately causes death or substantial bodily harm; 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 484.377 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-2    484.377  1.  It is unlawful for a person to[:

1-3    (a) Drive a vehicle in] drive a vehicle on a highway or on premises to

1-4  which the public has access:

1-5    (a) In willful or wanton disregard of the safety of persons or property.

1-6    (b) [Drive a vehicle in] In an unauthorized speed contest . [on a public

1-7  highway.]

1-8  A violation of this subsection or subsection 1 of NRS 484.348 constitutes

1-9  reckless driving.

1-10    2.  A person who does any act or neglects any duty imposed by law

1-11  while driving or in actual physical control of any vehicle in willful or

1-12  wanton disregard of the safety of persons or property, if the act or neglect

1-13  of duty proximately causes the death of or substantial bodily harm to a

1-14  person other than himself, is guilty of a category B felony and shall be

1-15  punished by imprisonment in the state prison for a minimum term of not

1-16  less than 1 year and a maximum term of not more than [6] 15 years, or by a

1-17  fine of not more than $5,000, or by both fine and imprisonment.

 

2-1    Sec. 2.  NRS 484.791 is hereby amended to read as follows:

2-2    484.791  1.  Any peace officer may, without a warrant, arrest a person

2-3  if the officer has reasonable cause for believing that the person has

2-4  committed any of the following offenses:

2-5    (a) Homicide by vehicle;

2-6    (b) A violation of NRS 484.379;

2-7    (c) A violation of NRS 484.3795;

2-8    (d) Failure to stop, give information or render reasonable assistance in

2-9  the event of an accident resulting in death or personal injuries in violation

2-10  of NRS 484.219 or 484.223;

2-11    (e) Failure to stop or give information in the event of an accident

2-12  resulting in damage to a vehicle or to other property [legally upon or

2-13  adjacent to a highway] in violation of NRS 484.221 or 484.225;

2-14    (f) Reckless driving;

2-15    (g) Driving a motor vehicle on a highway or on premises to which the

2-16  public has access at a time when his driver’s license has been canceled,

2-17  revoked or suspended; or

2-18    (h) Driving a motor vehicle in any manner in violation of the

2-19  restrictions imposed in a restricted license issued to him pursuant to NRS

2-20  483.490.

2-21    2.  Whenever any person is arrested as authorized in this section, he

2-22  must be taken without unnecessary delay before the proper magistrate as

2-23  specified in NRS 484.803, except that in the case of either of the offenses

2-24  designated in paragraphs (e) and (f) of subsection 1 , a peace officer has the

2-25  same discretion as is provided in other cases in NRS 484.795.

2-26    Sec. 3.  The amendatory provisions of this act do not apply to offenses

2-27  committed before October 1, 2001.

 

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