NevadaSB42683rd Regular Session (2025)SenateWALLET

AN ACT relating to public safety; creating the Lake Tahoe Basin Scenic Byway Corridor Recreation Safety Zone; authorizing certain entities to establish certain parking restrictions and prohibitions and enter into agreements with other governmental entities to provide parking enforcement and collect parking fees within the Safety Zone; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: Senate Committee on Natural Resources

Signed by Governor

BDR 43-374

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Tahoe parking enforcement safeguards and limits

Under agreements, state or local agencies or the Tahoe transportation district can appoint their own employees to issue parking citations or notices in the Safety Zone. These citations count the same as ones from a peace officer and must be filed as required by law. Appointing agencies must set minimum qualifications, train staff, and provide uniforms and devices for issuing tickets. Agreements must bar ticketing in areas where public parking lacks transit or walking‑path access to the recreation site. Agencies that appoint these employees are usually not liable for negligence by them, except when the employee made a relied‑upon promise or affirmatively caused the harm.

Tahoe parking fees fund local access

The Department of Transportation can charge fees for public parking on DOT‑owned land in the Safety Zone. DOT and local partners, including the Tahoe transportation district, can agree to build public parking and walking paths on state land and to collect and enforce fees. All parking fee money must manage parking in the Region, including operations, enforcement, signs, restrooms, and trash cans. Any fine money must be used in the Region to enforce parking rules. If the Tahoe transportation district collects fees or fines, it must use them in the Lake Tahoe Region for parking management.

Tahoe road safety zone and rules

The law creates a Safety Zone on parts of US‑50, NV‑28, NV‑431, and NV‑207 in the Lake Tahoe Region tied to recreation sites or the Scenic Byway. Transportation officials and local police can post traffic control signs and use traffic‑calming tools, but they cannot remove travel lanes. They can ban or limit parking on shoulders and stopping or standing where it is dangerous or blocks traffic. It is unlawful to stop or park where posted signs or rules ban it.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsor

  • Senate Committee on Natural Resources

    Affiliation unavailable

Cosponsors

There are no cosponsors for this bill.

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 63 • No: 0

House vote • 5/23/2025

Final Passage - Assembly (2nd Reprint)

Yes: 42 • No: 0

Senate vote • 4/22/2025

Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)

Yes: 21 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Approved by the Governor. Chapter 452.

    6/9/2025legislature
  2. Enrolled and delivered to Governor.

    6/5/2025legislature
  3. To enrollment.

    6/4/2025Senate
  4. Assembly Amendment Nos. 576 and 742 concurred in.

    6/2/2025Senate
  5. In Senate.

    5/23/2025Senate
  6. To Senate.

    5/23/2025House
  7. From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Third reprint.

    5/23/2025House
  8. To printer.

    5/23/2025House
  9. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved. (Yeas: 42, Nays: None.)

    5/23/2025House
  10. Dispensed with reprinting.

    5/23/2025House
  11. Read third time. Amended. (Amend. No. 742.)

    5/23/2025House
  12. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    5/22/2025House
  13. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    5/21/2025House
  14. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    5/20/2025House
  15. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    5/19/2025House
  16. Taken from General File. Placed on General File for next legislative day.

    5/16/2025House
  17. From printer. To reengrossment. Reengrossed. Second reprint.

    5/16/2025House
  18. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 576.) To printer.

    5/15/2025House
  19. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    5/14/2025House
  20. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Growth and Infrastructure. To committee.

    4/28/2025House
  21. In Assembly.

    4/28/2025House
  22. To Assembly.

    4/28/2025Senate
  23. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.

    4/25/2025Senate
  24. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 21, Nays: None.) To printer.

    4/22/2025Senate
  25. Reprinting dispensed with.

    4/21/2025Senate

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