Title 43

NRS 484D.195 Display of flashing amber warning light by vehicle of public utility. Public utility vehicles actually engaged in the construction, removal, maintenance or inspection of utility facilities may display flashing amber warning lights to the front, sides or rear when nec…

NRS 484D.200 Use and display of blue tail lamps by certain vehicles of or associated with Department of Transportation or local governmental agency; conditions. 1. An authorized vehicle used by the Department of Transportation or a local governmental agency for the construction, …

NRS 484D.205 Additional equipment for lighting. 1. Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not more than two side cowl or fender lamps which shall emit an amber or white light without glare. 2. Any motor vehicle may be equipped with not more than one running-board courtesy lamp on…

NRS 484D.210 Equipment for lighting road with multiple beams. Except as hereinafter provided, the headlamps or the auxiliary driving lamp or the auxiliary passing lamp, or combination thereof, on motor vehicles other than motorcycles or mopeds shall be so arranged that the driver…

NRS 484D.215 Use of equipment for lighting road with multiple beams. [Effective through June 30, 2028.] Whenever a motor vehicle is being operated on the traveled portion of the highway, or shoulder adjacent thereto, during the times specified in NRS 484D.100, the driver shall us…

NRS 484D.220 Number and intensity of lamps on front of vehicle; limit on correlated color temperature of high-intensity discharge lamps. [Effective through June 30, 2028.] 1. At all times specified in NRS 484D.100, a lighted headlamp or headlamps meeting the requirements of NRS 4…

NRS 484D.230 Vehicles in unsafe condition or lacking certain equipment prohibited on highway; prohibited acts related to equipment. 1. A person shall not drive, move, stop or park any vehicle, or cause or knowingly permit any vehicle to be driven, moved, stopped or parked, except…

NRS 484D.250 Equipment required. 1. Every motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, house trailer and pole trailer, and any combination of those vehicles operating upon a highway must be equipped with brakes in compliance with the requirements of this chapter. 2. Every such vehicle an…

NRS 484D.255 Requirements for performance. 1. Every motor vehicle and combination of vehicles, at all times and under all conditions of loading, upon application of the service brake, shall be capable of: (a) Developing a braking force that is not less than the percentage of its …

NRS 484D.260 Maintenance. All brakes shall be maintained in good working order and shall be so adjusted as to operate as equally as practicable with respect to the wheels on opposite sides of the vehicle. [Part 6 1/2:166:1925; added 1939, 316; A 1953, 152]—(Substituted in revisio…

NRS 484D.265 Equipment for towing vehicle. 1. Every towing vehicle, when used to tow another vehicle equipped with air-controlled brakes, in other than driveaway or towaway operations, shall be equipped with two means for emergency application of the trailer brakes. One of these …

NRS 484D.270 Arrangement of system; device for control. Every motor vehicle, trailer, semitrailer, house trailer and pole trailer, and every combination of such vehicles, except motorcycles and mopeds, equipped with brakes shall have the braking system so arranged that one contro…

NRS 484D.275 Reservoirs. 1. Every bus, truck or truck-tractor with air-operated brakes shall be equipped with at least one reservoir sufficient to insure that, when fully charged to the maximum pressure as regulated by the air compressor governor cutout setting, a full service br…

NRS 484D.280 Warning signals and devices for certain buses, trucks and truck-tractors. 1. Every bus, truck or truck-tractor using compressed air for the operation of its own brakes or the brakes on any towed vehicle shall be provided with a warning signal, other than a pressure g…

NRS 484D.285 Conditions for use of compression brakes; penalty. 1. The driver of a vehicle which is equipped with a device for braking that uses the compression of the engine of the vehicle shall not use the device at any time unless: (a) The device is equipped with an operationa…

NRS 484D.300 Definitions. As used in NRS 484D.300 to 484D.345, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Odometer” means an instrument for measuring and recording the total distance which a motor vehicle travels while in operation. The term does not include any auxili…

NRS 484D.305 Unlawful devices. 1. It is unlawful for any person to display or advertise for sale, to sell, to use, to install or to have installed any device which causes an odometer to register any mileage other than the true mileage driven. 2. For purposes of this section, the …

NRS 484D.310 Unlawful change of mileage. It is unlawful for any person or his or her agent to disconnect, reset or alter the odometer of any motor vehicle with the intent to change the number of miles indicated thereon. (Added to NRS by 1973, 373)—(Substituted in revision for NRS…

NRS 484D.315 Operation of, or causing or allowing to be operated, with intent to defraud, motor vehicle that has disconnected, nonfunctional or altered odometer. It is unlawful for any person, with the intent to defraud, to operate, or to cause or allow to be operated, a motor ve…

NRS 484D.320 Conspiracy. It is unlawful for any person to conspire with any other person to violate NRS 484D.300 to 484D.345, inclusive. (Added to NRS by 1973, 373)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 484.6064)

NRS 484D.325 Lawful service, repair or replacement; notice to be attached to vehicle when odometer adjusted to read zero. 1. NRS 484D.300 to 484D.345, inclusive, do not prevent the service, repair or replacement of an odometer, if the mileage indicated on such odometer remains th…

NRS 484D.330 Department to enforce provisions of federal law relating to disclosure of odometer reading of motor vehicle and certain other information. The Department shall enforce the provisions of 49 U.S.C. §§ 32701 et seq. and the regulations adopted pursuant thereto. (Added t…

NRS 484D.335 Criminal penalties. 1. A person is guilty of a category C felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130 if the person knowingly sells a motor vehicle whose odometer has been altered for the purpose of fraud. 2. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 1, …

NRS 484D.340 Civil penalties. Any person who, with an intent to defraud, violates any requirement imposed by NRS 484D.300 to 484D.345, inclusive, is liable to the person harmed by such act or acts, in an amount equal to the sum of: 1. Three times the amount of actual damages sust…

NRS 484D.345 Injunctive relief. The Attorney General or the district attorney of the proper county may bring an action in the district courts of this State to enjoin a violation of NRS 484D.300 to 484D.345, inclusive. (Added to NRS by 1973, 373)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 4…

NRS 484D.400 Horns and other warning devices. 1. Every motor vehicle when operated upon a highway must be equipped with a horn in good working order and capable of emitting sound audible under normal conditions from a distance of not less than 200 feet, but the horn or other warn…

NRS 484D.405 Unlawful to operate out-of-state or foreign privately owned motor vehicle equipped with red light or siren; exception; penalty. 1. It is unlawful for any person to operate or cause to be operated upon the public highways of the State of Nevada any out-of-state or for…

NRS 484D.410 Standards and regulations for noise emission; compliance. 1. Not later than January 1, 1972, the Department shall adopt rules and regulations: (a) Governing total maximum noise emissions for vehicles operating on the highways of this State. (b) Governing maximum nois…

NRS 484D.415 Mufflers: Prevention of emissions. 1. Every motor vehicle shall at all times be equipped with a muffler in good working order and in constant operation to prevent emissions greater than those allowed by rules and regulations established by the Department. No person s…

NRS 484D.420 Mudguards. Every truck, truck-tractor, trailer, semitrailer or combination of those vehicles having a manufacturer’s gross vehicle weight rating of 26,000 pounds or more, when operated upon a highway, must be equipped with mudguards suspended behind its rear wheels. …

NRS 484D.425 Mirrors on trucks. Every truck using the highways of this State, having a body of such width or height that obscures a view of the road to the rear, shall be equipped with a mirror carried in such position that the driver of the truck shall be able to see reflected i…

NRS 484D.430 Mirrors on all motor vehicles. On and after January 1, 1970, every motor vehicle, operated singly or when towing any other vehicle, shall be equipped with a mirror so located as to reflect to the driver a view of the highway for a distance of at least 200 feet to the…

NRS 484D.435 Windshield and windows must be unobstructed. 1. A person shall not drive any motor vehicle with any sign, poster or other nontransparent material upon the front windshield, side wings or side or rear windows of such vehicle which obstructs the driver’s clear view of …

NRS 484D.440 Restrictions on tinting of windshield or side or rear window. 1. As used in this section, unless the context otherwise requires, “light transmission” means the ratio of the amount of light which is allowed to pass through a product or material to the amount of light …

NRS 484D.445 Windshield wipers. 1. Every motor vehicle, except motorcycles or mopeds, equipped with a windshield shall be equipped with a self-operating windshield wiper system which shall be so constructed as to be controlled by the driver. 2. The windshield wiper system with wh…

NRS 484D.450 Safety glazing material in motor vehicles and campers. 1. It is unlawful for any person to sell, offer for sale or drive any motor vehicle manufactured after January 1, 1970, unless the vehicle is equipped with safety glazing material wherever glazing materials are u…

NRS 484D.455 Replacement of glazing materials. It is unlawful for any person to replace glazing materials used in partitions, doors, windows, windshields or wind deflectors in any motor vehicle, or in the outside windows or doors of any camper, as defined in NRS 484D.450, with an…

NRS 484D.460 Certain vehicles to carry pot torches, lanterns or reflectors; display of devices when vehicle is disabled. [Effective through June 30, 2028.] 1. Every bus, truck and truck-tractor and every combination of vehicles 80 inches or more in overall width, except implement…

NRS 484D.465 Display of warning devices by vehicle of public utility parked at site of work. When utility or public utility vehicles are parked, stopped or standing at the site of work as described in NRS 484D.195, warning devices shall be displayed as follows: 1. During daylight…

NRS 484D.470 Tow cars required to be equipped with broom, shovel and fire extinguisher; duties of driver; failure to perform duties. 1. Tow cars must be equipped with: (a) One or more brooms, and the driver of the tow car engaged to remove a disabled vehicle from the scene of a c…

NRS 484D.475 Equipment for tow car: Flashing amber warning lamp; nonflashing blue lamps; flares, lanterns, lights or reflectors. 1. Tow cars used to tow disabled vehicles must be equipped with: (a) Flashing amber warning lamps which must be displayed as may be advisable to warn a…

NRS 484D.480 Equipment for tow car: Rear and stop lamps; portable electric extension cord. 1. Tow cars used to tow vehicles shall be equipped with and carry a rear lamp, a stop lamp and a portable electric extension cord for use in displaying the lamp on the rear of the disabled …

NRS 484D.485 Event recording device: Disclosure by manufacturer of new motor vehicle in owner’s manual; downloading or retrieval of data; subscription services; penalty. 1. A manufacturer of a new motor vehicle which is sold or leased in this State and which is equipped with an e…

NRS 484D.490 Television-type receiving equipment. 1. A person shall not drive any motor vehicle equipped with television-type receiving equipment so located that the viewer or screen is visible from the driver’s seat. 2. This section does not prohibit the use of television-type r…

NRS 484D.493 Dynamic display: Management system required; exceptions. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a person shall not operate upon the highways of this State any motor vehicle that is equipped with a dynamic display unless the motor vehicle is equipped with a …

NRS 484D.495 Safety belts and shoulder harness assembly; requirements for driver, child and other passenger; penalties; exemptions. [Effective until the date the Federal Government rescinds the requirement for the installation of automatic restraints in new private passenger moto…