(Reprinted with amendments adopted on March 4, 2003)

 

Assembly Bill No. 42–Committee on Judiciary

 

February 4, 2003

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Referred to Committee on Judiciary

 

SUMMARY—Requires drivers of motor vehicles to stop in obedience to direction or traffic-control signal of school crossing guard and not proceed until highway is clear of all persons. (BDR 43‑109)

 

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 motor vehicles; requiring a driver of a motor vehicle to stop in obedience to the direction or traffic control signal of a school crossing guard; prohibiting the driver from proceeding until the highway is clear of all persons; authorizing portable signs designating a school zone to be placed on a roadway during certain hours; providing a penalty; 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 484 of NRS is hereby amended by adding

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

1-3  1.  The driver of a vehicle:

1-4  (a) Shall stop in obedience to the direction or traffic-control

1-5  signal of a school crossing guard; and

1-6  (b) Shall not proceed until the highway is clear of all persons,

1-7  including, without limitation, the school crossing guard.

1-8  2.  A person who violates any of the provisions of this section

1-9  is guilty of a misdemeanor.

1-10      3.  As used in this section, “school crossing guard” means a

1-11  volunteer or paid employee of a local authority, local law

2-1  enforcement agency or school district whose duties include

2-2  assisting pupils to cross a highway.

2-3  Sec. 2.  NRS 484.325 is hereby amended to read as follows:

2-4  484.325  Except as otherwise provided in NRS 484.327 and

2-5  484.328 [:] and section 1 of this act:

2-6  1.  When official traffic-control devices are not in place or not

2-7  in operation the driver of a vehicle shall yield the right-of-way,

2-8  slowing down or stopping if need be so to yield, to a pedestrian

2-9  crossing the highway within a crosswalk when the pedestrian is

2-10  upon the half of the highway upon which the vehicle is traveling, or

2-11  when the pedestrian is approaching so closely from the opposite half

2-12  of the highway as to be in danger.

2-13      2.  A pedestrian shall not suddenly leave a curb or other place

2-14  of safety and walk or run into the path of a vehicle which is so close

2-15  that it is impossible for the driver to yield.

2-16      3.  Whenever a vehicle is stopped at a marked crosswalk or at

2-17  an unmarked crosswalk at an intersection, the driver of any other

2-18  vehicle approaching from the rear shall not overtake and pass the

2-19  stopped vehicle until the driver has determined that the vehicle

2-20  being overtaken was not stopped for the purpose of permitting a

2-21  pedestrian to cross the highway.

2-22      4.  Whenever signals exhibiting the words “Walk” or “Don’t

2-23  Walk” are in place, such signals indicate as follows:

2-24      (a) While the “Walk” indication is illuminated, pedestrians

2-25  facing the signal may proceed across the highway in the direction of

2-26  the signal and must be given the right-of-way by the drivers of all

2-27  vehicles.

2-28      (b) While the “Don’t Walk” indication is illuminated, either

2-29  steady or flashing, a pedestrian shall not start to cross the highway

2-30  in the direction of the signal, but any pedestrian who has partially

2-31  completed his crossing during the “Walk” indication shall proceed

2-32  to a sidewalk, or to a safety zone if one is provided.

2-33      (c) Whenever the word “Wait” still appears in a signal, the

2-34  indication has the same meaning as assigned in this section to

2-35  the “Don’t Walk” indication.

2-36      (d) Whenever a signal system provides a signal phase for the

2-37  stopping of all vehicular traffic and the exclusive movement of

2-38  pedestrians, and “Walk” and “Don’t Walk” indications control

2-39  pedestrian movement, pedestrians may cross in any direction

2-40  between corners of the intersection offering the shortest route within

2-41  the boundaries of the intersection when the “Walk” indication is

2-42  exhibited, and when signals and other official traffic-control devices

2-43  direct pedestrian movement in the manner provided in this section

2-44  and in NRS 484.283.

 

3-1  Sec. 3.  NRS 484.3665 is hereby amended to read as follows:

3-2  484.3665  1.  Each permanent sign which designates a school

3-3  zone or school crossing zone and the speed limit in that zone must

3-4  be uniform in size and color and must clearly designate the hours

3-5  during which the speed limit applies.

3-6  2.  Each portable sign designating a school zone or school

3-7  crossing zone and the speed limit in the zone must be uniform in

3-8  size and color. A portable sign may be placed on or beside a

3-9  roadway only during those hours when pupils are arriving at and

3-10  leaving regularly scheduled school sessions.

3-11      Sec. 4.  This act becomes effective on July 1, 2003.

 

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