2022 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 483 - Drivers’ Licenses; Driving Schools and Driving Instructors
NRS 483.9385 - Mandatory suspension of commercial driver’s license, commercial learner’s permit or privilege to drive commercial motor vehicle based upon result of test showing prohibited concentration of alcohol or presence of schedule I controlled substance. [Effective until the date of the repeal of the federal law requiring each state to make it unlawful for a person to operate a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 percent or greater as a condition to receiving federal funding for the construction of highways in this State.] Mandatory suspension of commercial driver’s license, commercial learner’s permit or privilege to drive commercial motor vehicle based upon result of test showing prohibited concentration of alcohol or presence of schedule I controlled substance. [Effective on the date of the repeal of the federal law requiring each state to make it unlawful for a person to operate a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 percent or greater as a condition to receiving federal funding for the construction of highways in this State.]
1. If the result of a test given pursuant to NRS 484C.150 or 484C.160 shows that a person 18 years of age or older had a concentration of alcohol of 0.04 or more but less than 0.08 in his or her blood or breath or any detectable amount of a substance described in 21 C.F.R. § 1308.11 in his or her blood or urine at the time of the test, the person’s commercial driver’s license, commercial learner’s permit or privilege to drive a commercial motor vehicle must be suspended for a period of 1 year.
2. This section does not preclude:
(a) The prosecution of a person for a violation of any other provision of law; or
(b) The suspension or revocation of a person’s commercial driver’s license, commercial learner’s permit or privilege to drive a commercial motor vehicle pursuant to any other provision of law.
(Added to NRS by 2021, 1458)
1. If the result of a test given pursuant to NRS 484C.150 or 484C.160 shows that a person 18 years of age or older had a concentration of alcohol of 0.04 or more but less than 0.10 in his or her blood or breath or any detectable amount of a substance described in 21 C.F.R. § 1308.11 in his or her blood or urine at the time of the test, the person’s commercial driver’s license, commercial learner’s permit or privilege to drive a commercial motor vehicle must be suspended for a period of 1 year.
2. This section does not preclude:
(a) The prosecution of a person for a violation of any other provision of law; or
(b) The suspension or revocation of a person’s commercial driver’s license, commercial learner’s permit or privilege to drive a commercial motor vehicle pursuant to any other provision of law.
(Added to NRS by 2021, 1458; A 2021, 1466, effective on the date of the repeal of the federal law requiring each state to make it unlawful for a person to operate a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 percent or greater as a condition to receiving federal funding for the construction of highways in this State)
