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-  A.B. 168
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-ASSEMBLY BILL NO. 168–ASSEMBLYMEMBER GOULDING
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-PREFILED JANUARY 31, 2025
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-Referred to Committee on Growth and Infrastructure
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-SUMMARY—Revises provisions relating to bicycles, electric
-bicycles and electric scooters. (BDR 43-598)
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-FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.
- 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.
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-AN ACT relating to public safety; revising provisions governing the
-operation of a bicycle, an electric bicycle or an electric
-scooter on a roadway; providing a civil penalty; and
-providing other matters properly relating thereto.
-Legislative Counsel’s Digest:
- Existing law grants certain rights to a person operating a bicycle, an electric 1
-bicycle or an electric scooter upon a roadway and subjects any such person to 2
-certain duties and responsibilities while operating the bicycle, electric bicycle or 3
-electric scooter on a roadway. (NRS 484B.760 -484B.785) Section 1 of this bill: (1) 4
-requires a person operating a bicycle, an electric bicycle or an electric sco oter to 5
-stop in obedience to a stop sign or signal displaying a steady red light; and (2) 6
-creates an exception to the requirement to stop in obedience to a stop sign if the 7
-person can safely proceed through the intersection without stopping and certain 8
-other requirements are met. Section 1 also authorizes a person operating a bicycle, 9
-an electric bicycle or an electric scooter to proceed cautiously through an 10
-intersection where the signal is a steady red signal or make certain turns if the 11
-person stops before entering the intersection and certain other requirements are met. 12
-Section 2 of this bill provides that a violation of the provisions of section 1 is a 13
-civil infraction. Section 3 of this bill makes a confirming change to indicate the 14
-applicability of the requirements prescribed by section 1.  15
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-THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN
-SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
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- Section 1.  Chapter 484B of NRS is hereby amended by adding 1
-thereto a new section to read as follows: 2
- 1.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a  person 3
-operating a bicycle, an electric bicycle or an electric scooter  upon 4
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-a roadway shall stop in obedience to a stop sign or traffic-control 1
-signal displaying a steady red signal.  2
- 2.  A person operating a bicycle, an electric bicycle or an 3
-electric scooter approaching an intersection controlled by a stop 4
-sign may proceed cautiously through the intersection  without 5
-stopping if the person: 6
- (a) Ascertains that such movement can be made safely; 7
- (b) Decreases the speed of the bicycle, electric bicycle or 8
-electric scooter and confirms that the intersection is clear  before 9
-entering the intersection; and 10
- (c) Yields the right -of-way to pedestrian s and all vehicles 11
-whose proximity constitutes an immediate hazard.  12
- 3.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, a  person 13
-operating a bicycle, an electric bicycle or an electric scooter upon 14
-a roadway may proceed cautiously through an intersection  where 15
-the signal is a steady red signal or make a turn through any such 16
-intersection if the person: 17
- (a) Stops before entering the intersection as required by 18
-subsection 1; 19
- (b) Ascertains that such movement can be made safely; and 20
- (c) Yields the right -of-way to pedestrians and all vehicles 21
-whose proximity constitutes an immediate hazard.  22
- 4.  A person operating a bicycle, an electric bicycle or an 23
-electric scooter  upon a roadway shall not turn left through an 24
-intersection where the signal is a steady red sign al unless the 25
-roadway onto which the person is turning is a one-way roadway. 26
- Sec. 2.  NRS 484B.760 is hereby amended to read as follows: 27
- 484B.760  1.  It is a civil infraction punishable pursuant to 28
-NRS 484A.703 to 484A.705, inclusive, for any person to do any act 29
-forbidden or fail to perform any act required in NRS 484B.768 to 30
-484B.790, inclusive [.] , and section 1 of this act.  31
- 2.  The parent of any child and the guardian of any ward shall 32
-not authorize or knowingly permit the child or ward to violate any 33
-of the provisions of chapters 484A to 484E, inclusive, of NRS. 34
- 3.  The provisions applicable to  bicycles, electric bicycles  and 35
-electric scooters apply whenever a bicycle , an electric bicycle  or an 36
-electric scooter is operated upon any highway or upon any path set 37
-aside for the exclusive use of bicycles , electric bicycles and electric 38
-scooters subject to those exceptions stated herein. 39
- Sec. 3.  NRS 484B.763 is hereby amended to read as follows: 40
- 484B.763  Every person riding a bicycle , an electric bicycle or 41
-an electric scooter upon a roadway has all of the rights and is subject 42
-to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle except as 43
-otherwise provided in NRS 484 B.767 to 484 B.790, inclusive, and 44
-section 1 of this act,  and except as to those provisions of chapters 45
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-484A to 484E, inclusive, of NRS  which by their nature can have no 1
-application. 2
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