Senate Bill No. 481–Committee on Transportation

 

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AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; establishing provisions relating to the maximum load weights per tire and the minimum number of tires per axle for vehicles allowed to operate on public highways of this state; 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. NRS 484.745 is hereby amended to read as follows:

    484.745  1.  Except as otherwise provided in NRS 484.737,

484.743, 484.746, 484.748 [and 484.7485,] , 484.7485 and 484.752,

a vehicle may be operated or moved upon any public highway if:

    (a) The maximum weight on any single axle does not exceed

20,000 pounds.

    (b) The maximum weight on any tandem axle does not exceed

34,000 pounds.

    (c) The maximum weight per tire, measured by pounds per

inch of tire width, does not exceed 600 pounds per inch for a

steering axle and 500 pounds per inch for all other axles.

    (d) Except for a steering axle and axles that weigh less than

10,000 pounds, each axle has at least four tires if the tire width of

each tire on the axle is less than or equal to 14 inches. If the

maximum weight per tire does not exceed 500 pounds per inch of

tire width, an axle may be equipped with tires that have a width of

more than 14 inches.

    (e) Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, the maximum

overall gross weight on any group of two or more consecutive axles

does not exceed the values set forth in the following formula:

W=500 [LN/(N‑1) + 12N + 36] wherein:

        (1) W equals the maximum load in pounds carried on any

group of two or more consecutive axles;

        (2) L equals the distance in feet between the extremes of any

group of two or more consecutive axles; and

        (3) N equals the number of axles in the group under

consideration.

    2.  Two consecutive sets of tandem axles may carry a gross load

of 34,000 pounds each if the distance between the first and last axles

of the consecutive sets of axles is 36 feet or more.

    3.  As used in this section, “tire width” means the width set by

the manufacturer of the tire and inscribed on the sidewall of the

tire.

 

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