Assembly Bill No. 195–Assemblymen Collins, Chowning, Claborn, Andonov, Atkinson, Brown, Buckley, Giunchigliani, Hardy, Koivisto, Manendo, McClain, Oceguera and Pierce

 

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AN ACT relating to transportation; requiring the Director of the Department of Transportation to develop a plan in consultation with various other entities concerning the joint enforcement of certain laws and regulations governing transportation and vehicles; 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. 1.  The Director of the Department of

 Transportation, in consultation with the Department of Motor

 Vehicles, the Department of Public Safety, the Department of

 Taxation, the State Department of Agriculture, the State

 Department of Conservation and Natural Resources and any other

 state agency directed by the Governor to participate, shall develop a

 plan to jointly enforce the laws of this state and any related

 regulations within their respective jurisdictions, including, without

 limitation:

    (a) The inspection of vehicles transporting hazardous materials;

    (b) The enforcement of laws relating to the taxation of fuel used

 in motor carriers;

    (c) The enforcement of vehicle registration laws;

    (d) The enforcement of traffic safety laws;

    (e) The performance of safety inspections on commercial

 vehicles; and

    (f) The enforcement of laws restricting the importing of diseased

 animals and noxious weeds and other illegal plants.

The Governor may direct additional agencies of this state to

 participate in the planning in a manner that will benefit the State.

    2.  In addition to the requirements of subsection 1, the plan

 must include a summary of the opportunities for joint enforcement,

 a prioritized list for activities of joint enforcement and the results

 expected from joint enforcement.

    3.  On or before December 1, 2004, the Director of the

 Department of Transportation shall submit the plan to the Governor

 and to the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau for

 transmission to the 73rd Session of the Nevada Legislature.

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

 

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