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 employers to ensure that employees comply with laws governing registration of motor vehicles and obtaining drivers’ licenses. (BDR 53‑1316)

 

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 employees; requiring 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 613 of NRS is hereby amended by adding

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

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

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

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

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

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

1-8  person must provide evidence to his employer that he has:

1-9  (a) In the manner required pursuant to chapter 482 of NRS,

1-10  registered any motor vehicle that he owns and that will be used in

1-11  performing his duties of employment; and

1-12      (b) If he possesses a driver’s license, obtained a driver’s

1-13  license pursuant to chapter 483 of NRS,

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

2-2  vehicle or obtain such a license. An employer shall maintain the

2-3  evidence provided pursuant to this subsection.

2-4  3.  The Department of Motor Vehicles may, upon request,

2-5  assist an employer in confirming that its employees have complied

2-6  with the requirements of this section.

2-7  4.  As used in this section, “employer” means a private or

2-8  public employer in this state, including, without limitation, the

2-9  State of Nevada, an agency of this state or a county, city, township,

2-10  district or quasi-municipal corporation.

2-11      Sec. 2.  Each person who is employed on October 1, 2003, by

2-12  an employer, as that term is defined in section 1 of this act, shall

2-13  provide the evidence prescribed in subsection 2 of that section on or

2-14  before January 1, 2004, to his employer.

 

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