2013 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 486 - Motorcycles and Similar Vehicles
NRS 486.161 - Expiration and renewal of license; regulations. [Effective until the date of the repeal of 42 U.S.C. 666, the federal law requiring each state to establish procedures for withholding, suspending and restricting the professional, occupational and recreational licenses for child support arrearages and for noncompliance with certain processes relating to paternity or child support proceedings.]

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 5, every motorcycle driver s license expires as prescribed by regulation.

2. The Department shall adopt regulations prescribing when a motorcycle driver s license expires.

3. Every license is renewable at any time before its expiration upon application, submission of the statement required pursuant to NRS 486.084 and payment of the required fee. Every motorcycle endorsement to a driver s license issued on or after January 1, 1972, expires simultaneously with the expiration of the driver s license.

4. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 1 of NRS 483.384, each applicant for renewal must appear before an examiner for a driver s license and successfully pass a test of the applicant s eyesight.

5. Any person who has been issued a driver s license without having the authority to drive a motorcycle endorsed thereon must, before driving a motorcycle, successfully pass:

(a) A driving test conducted by the Department; or

(b) A course of motorcycle safety approved by the Department,

and have the authority endorsed upon the license.

(Added to NRS by 1971, 1468; A 1973, 1446; 1981, 1590; 1983, 503; 1987, 1310; 1993, 2847; 1995, 88, 2579; 1997, 2078; 2007, 2809)

NRS 486.161 Expiration and renewal of license; regulations. [Effective on the date of the repeal of 42 U.S.C. 666, the federal law requiring each state to establish procedures for withholding, suspending and restricting the professional, occupational and recreational licenses for child support arrearages and for noncompliance with certain processes relating to paternity or child support proceedings.]

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 5, every motorcycle driver s license expires as prescribed by regulation.

2. The Department shall adopt regulations prescribing when a motorcycle driver s license expires.

3. Every license is renewable at any time before its expiration upon application and payment of the required fee. Every motorcycle endorsement to a driver s license issued on or after January 1, 1972, expires simultaneously with the expiration of the driver s license.

4. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 1 of NRS 483.384, each applicant for renewal must appear before an examiner for a driver s license and successfully pass a test of the applicant s eyesight.

5. Any person who has been issued a driver s license without having the authority to drive a motorcycle endorsed thereon must, before driving a motorcycle, successfully pass:

(a) A driving test conducted by the Department; or

(b) A course of motorcycle safety approved by the Department,

and have the authority endorsed upon the license.

(Added to NRS by 1971, 1468; A 1973, 1446; 1981, 1590; 1983, 503; 1987, 1310; 1993, 2847; 1995, 88, 2579; 1997, 2078; 2007, 2809, 2810, effective on the date of the repeal of 42 U.S.C. 666, the federal law requiring each state to establish procedures for withholding, suspending and restricting the professional, occupational and recreational licenses for child support arrearages and for noncompliance with certain processes relating to paternity or child support proceedings)