Senate Bill No. 77–Senator Wiener

 

February 11, 2003

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Referred to Committee on Transportation

 

SUMMARY—Requires driver of vehicle entering or exiting controlled-access highway to yield to vehicles traveling on highway. (BDR 43‑647)

 

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 public safety; requiring the driver of a vehicle entering or exiting a controlled-access highway to yield to vehicles traveling on the highway; 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 484.322 is hereby amended to read as follows:

1-2  484.322  [1.] The driver of a vehicle about to enter or exit a

1-3  controlled-access highway shall yield the right-of-way to all

1-4  vehicles approaching on the highway whose proximity constitutes

1-5  an immediate hazard and shall continue to yield the right-of-way to

1-6  that traffic until the driver may proceed with reasonable safety.

1-7  [2.  A driver of a vehicle who has yielded the right-of-way as

1-8  required by subsection 1 may proceed to enter or exit the highway

1-9  and the drivers of all other vehicles approaching on the highway

1-10  shall yield the right-of-way to vehicles entering or exiting the

1-11  highway.]

 

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