Senate Bill No. 363–Senator Titus

 

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AN ACT relating to regulation of motor vehicles; exempting electric personal assistive mobility devices from regulation as motor vehicles; including persons on such devices or in wheelchairs within the definition of “pedestrian” for the purposes of traffic laws; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

    Section 1. Chapter 482 of NRS is hereby amended by adding

thereto a new section to read as follows:

    “Electric personal assistive mobility device” means a self-

balancing, two nontandem wheeled device, designed to transport

only one person, with an electric propulsion system that limits the

maximum speed of the device to 15 miles per hour or less.

    Sec. 2.  NRS 482.135 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    482.135  [1.] “Vehicle” means every device in, upon or by

which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn

upon a public highway, [excepting devices] except:

    1.  Devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon

stationary rails or tracks[.

    2.  The term does not include mobile] ;

    2.  Mobile homes or commercial coaches as defined in chapter

489 of NRS[.] ; and

    3.  Electric personal assistive mobility devices.

    Sec. 3.  NRS 483.190 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    483.190  “Vehicle” means every device in, upon[,] or by which

any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a

public highway, [excepting devices] except:

    1.  Devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon

stationary rails or tracks[.] ; and

    2.  Electric personal assistive mobility devices as defined in

section 1 of this act.

    Sec. 4.  NRS 484.111 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    484.111  “Pedestrian” means [any] a person afoot[.] , a person

in a manual or motorized wheelchair, or a person on an electric

personal assistive mobility device as defined in section 1 of this

act.

    Sec. 5.  NRS 484.217 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    484.217  “Vehicle” means every device in, upon or by which

any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a

highway, except [devices] :

    1.  Devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon

stationary rails[.] ; and

    2.  Electric personal assistive mobility devices as defined in

section 1 of this act.

    Sec. 6.  NRS 485.050 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    485.050  “Motor vehicle” means every self-propelled vehicle

which is designed for use upon a highway, including [trailers] :

    1.  Trailers and semitrailers designed for use with such vehicles

, [(]except traction engines, road rollers, farm tractors, tractor

cranes, power shovels and well drillers[), and every] ; and

    2.  Every vehicle which is propelled by electric power obtained

from overhead wires but not operated upon rails.

The term does not include electric personal assistive mobility

devices as defined in section 1 of this act.

    Sec. 7.  NRS 100.095 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    100.095  As used in NRS 100.095 to 100.175, inclusive:

    1.  “Commercial vehicle lease” means a bailment or lease of a

single vehicle by a person for a period of more than 4 months for a

total contractual obligation not exceeding $25,000, primarily for

business or commercial purposes, whether or not the lessee has the

option to purchase or otherwise become the owner of the vehicle at

the termination or expiration of the lease. The term includes a

bailment or lease where the lessee becomes or may become owner

of the vehicle by payment to the lessor of an amount which is

substantially equal to the residual value or the unamortized

capitalized cost, if the payment is not nominal. The term does not

include a bailment or lease where the lessee contracts to pay as

compensation for use of the vehicle a sum substantially equivalent

to or in excess of the capitalized cost of the vehicle and it is agreed

that the lessee may become the owner for no other consideration or

for a nominal consideration.

    2.  “Person” includes any governmental entity.

    3.  “Vehicle” means every device in, upon or by which any

person or property is or may be transported upon a public highway,

except devices:

    (a) Moved by human power;

    (b) Used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks; or

    (c) Having a gross vehicle weight of more than 10,000 pounds,

exclusive of the weight of any slide-in camper as defined in NRS

482.113 which may be on it.

The term does not include electric personal assistive mobility

devices as defined in section 1 of this act.

    4.  “Vehicle lease” means a bailment or lease of a single vehicle

by a person for a period of more than 4 months where the lessee’s

obligation upon termination or expiration of the lease is based on the

excess of the unamortized capitalized cost of the vehicle over its

residual value as established pursuant to the provisions of NRS

100.145. The term includes a bailment or lease where the lessee

becomes or may become owner of the vehicle by payment to the

lessor of an amount which is substantially equal to the residual value

or the unamortized capitalized cost, if the payment is not nominal.

    Sec. 8.  NRS 444A.017 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    444A.017  “Vehicle” means any device in, upon or by which

any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon land.

The term does not include:

    1.  Devices moved by human or electrical power;

    2.  Commercial coaches as defined in NRS 489.062;

    3.  Electric personal assistive mobility devices as defined in

section 1 of this act; and

    [3.] 4.  Mobile homes as defined in NRS 489.120.

    Sec. 9.  NRS 445B.745 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    445B.745  “Motor vehicle” means every self-propelled vehicle

in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be

transported or drawn upon a public highway except [devices] :

    1.  Devices moved by human or animal power or used

exclusively on stationary rails[.] ; and

    2.  Electric personal assistive mobility devices as defined in

section 1 of this act.

    Sec. 10.  NRS 646.006 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    646.006  “Motor vehicle” means any self-propelled vehicle that

is used upon a highway, but not operated on rails, for the purpose of

transporting persons or property. The term does not include electric

personal assistive mobility devices as defined in section 1 of this

act.

    Sec. 11.  NRS 647.0191 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    647.0191  1.  A junk dealer or secondhand dealer may not, as

part of his business as a junk dealer or secondhand dealer, buy a

motor vehicle from a person and sell the motor vehicle to the same

person.

    2.  As used in this section, “motor vehicle” means any self-

propelled vehicle that is used upon a highway, but not operated on

rails, for the purpose of transporting persons or property. The term

does not include electric personal assistive mobility devices as

defined in section 1 of this act.

    Sec. 12.  NRS 706.146 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    706.146  “Vehicle” means every device in, upon or by which

any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a

highway, except devices moved by human power or used

exclusively upon stationary rails. The term does not include electric

personal assistive mobility devices as defined in section 1 of this

act.

 

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