Assembly Bill No. 476–Committee on Ways and Means

 

March 24, 2003

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Referred to Concurrent Committees on Transportation
and Ways and Means

 

SUMMARY—Requires public employers to ensure that employees comply with laws governing registration of motor vehicles and obtaining drivers’ licenses. (BDR 23‑1316)

 

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 public employees; requiring public employers to ensure that their employees comply with laws governing the registration of motor vehicles and obtaining drivers’ licenses; 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 281 of NRS is hereby amended by adding

1-2  thereto a new section to read as follows:

1-3  1.  Each public employer shall confirm in the manner

1-4  provided in this section that all of its employees are in compliance

1-5  with chapter 482 of NRS concerning the registration of motor

1-6  vehicles and chapter 483 of NRS concerning drivers’ licenses.

1-7  2.  Within 30 days after a person begins employment with a

1-8  public employer, as a condition of continued employment, the

1-9  person must provide evidence to the public employer that he has:

1-10      (a) Registered all motor vehicles that he owns in the manner

1-11  required in chapter 482 of NRS; and

1-12      (b) Obtained a driver’s license pursuant to chapter 483 of

1-13  NRS,

2-1  or evidence that he is not required by law to register such motor

2-2  vehicles or obtain such a license. The employment of an employee

2-3  who does not provide the evidence required by this subsection

2-4  within the prescribed time must be terminated. A public employer

2-5  shall maintain the evidence provided pursuant to this subsection.

2-6  3.  The Department of Motor Vehicles shall, upon request,

2-7  assist a public employer in confirming that its employees have

2-8  complied with the requirements of this section.

2-9  4.  As used in this section, “public employer” means an

2-10  agency of this state or a county, city, township, district or quasi-

2-11  municipal corporation.

2-12      Sec. 2.  Each person who is employed on July 1, 2003, by a

2-13  public employer, as that term is defined in section 1 of this act, shall

2-14  provide the evidence prescribed in subsection 2 of that section on or

2-15  before January 1, 2004, to his public employer. The employment of

2-16  an employee who does not provide the evidence must be terminated

2-17  on that date.

2-18      Sec. 3.  This act becomes effective on July 1, 2003.

 

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