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83rd Session (2025)
Assembly Bill No. 111–Assemblymember Hibbetts
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AN ACT relating to public safety; changing certain traffic violations
from civil infractions to misdemeanors; providing penalties;
and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
Legislative Counsel’s Digest:
Existing law provides that a violation of any provision of existing law relating
to any traffic law or ordinance is a civil infraction unless a criminal penalty is
prescribed for the violation by a specific statute. (NRS 481.015) Existing law
prohibits certain acts involving driving a vehicle upon a divided highway and
provides that such violations are punishable as civil infractions. (NRS 484B.227)
This bill makes such violations punishable as misdemeanors.
EXPLANATION – Matter in bolded italics is new; matter between brackets [omitted material] is material to be omitted.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN
SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. NRS 484B.227 is hereby amended to read as
follows:
484B.227 1. Every vehicle driven upon a divided highway
must be driven only upon the right-hand roadway and must not be
driven over, across or within any dividing space, barrier or section
or make any left turn, semicircular turn or U-turn, except through an
opening in the barrier or dividing section or space or at a crossover
or intersection established by a public authority.
2. A person who violates any provision of this section is guilty
of a misdemeanor.
3. A person who violates any provision of this section may be
subject to any additional penalty set forth in NRS 484B.130 or
484B.135.
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