§ 484A.245 — “Special mobile equipment” defined

Nevada § 484A.245

• Jurisdiction: Nevada
• Title 43: PUBLIC SAFETY; VEHICLES; WATERCRAFT
• Ch. 484A: Traffic

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1. “Special mobile equipment” means every motor vehicle not designed or used primarily for the transportation of persons or property and only incidentally operated or moved upon a highway, including, but not limited to, scoopmobiles, forklifts, ditch-digging apparatus, well-boring apparatus and road construction and maintenance machinery such as asphalt graders, bituminous mixers, bucket loaders, tractors other than truck-tractors, leveling graders, finishing machines, motor graders, road rollers, scarifiers, earth-moving carryalls and scrapers, power shovels and draglines, and earth-moving equipment.
2. “Special mobile equipment” does not include house trailers, dump trucks, truck-mounted transit mixers, concrete pumpers, cranes or drill rigs with highway-rated tires or other vehicles designed for the transportation of persons or property to which machinery has been attached.
3. The Director may make the final determination as to whether a vehicle not specifically enumerated in subsection 1 or 2 falls within this definition.
4. The Department shall, by regulation, define “incidentally operated or moved upon a highway” for purposes of this section.

Legislative History

(Added to NRS by 1969, 1203 ; A 1973, 448 ; 2007, 230 )—(Substituted in revision for NRS 484.173)