(Reprinted with amendments adopted on April 18, 2003)

 

Senate Bill No. 356–Committee on Transportation

 

March 17, 2003

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Referred to Committee on Transportation

 

SUMMARY—Revises penalty for certain violations concerning vehicles with loads on highways. (BDR 43‑1049)

 

FISCAL NOTE:  Effect on Local Government: Yes.

                           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 traffic laws; revising the penalty for certain violations concerning vehicles with loads on highways; 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 484.771 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-2  484.771  1.  No vehicle [shall] with a load may be driven or

1-3  moved on any highway unless [such] the vehicle is [so] constructed

1-4  or loaded so as to prevent any of its load from dropping, sifting,

1-5  leaking or otherwise escaping [therefrom,] from the vehicle, except

1-6  that sand may be dropped for the purpose of securing traction, or

1-7  water or any other substance may be sprinkled on a roadway in

1-8  cleaning or maintaining [such] the roadway.

1-9  2.  [No] A person shall not operate on [any] a highway any

1-10  vehicle with [any] a load unless the load and any covering thereon is

1-11  securely fastened so as to prevent the covering or load from

1-12  becoming loose, detached or in any manner a hazard to other users

1-13  of the highway.

1-14      3.  A person who violates this section shall be punished by a

1-15  fine of not less than $25 and not more than $1,000 per violation.

1-16  The court shall, in determining the amount of the fine, consider

1-17  the damage caused by the violation.

 

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