2020 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 484B - Rules of the Road
NRS 484B.463 - Special license plate or plates and special or temporary parking placards and stickers: Use; alternative use of special plate or plates issued to veteran with a disability; limitations. [Effective on the date on which the Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles notifies the Governor and the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau that sufficient resources are available to enable the Department to carry out the provisions of chapter 129, Statutes of Nevada 2015, at page 476.]
1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, an owner or operator of a motor vehicle displaying a special parking placard, a special parking sticker, a temporary parking placard, a temporary parking sticker or a special plate or plates issued pursuant to NRS 482.384, or a special plate or plates for a veteran with a disability issued pursuant to NRS 482.3765, 482.377, 482.3775, 482.378 or 482.3783, may park the motor vehicle for not more than 4 hours at any one time in a parking zone restricted as to the length of time parking is permitted, without penalty, removal or impoundment of the vehicle if the parking is otherwise consistent with public safety and is done by a person with a permanent disability, disability of moderate duration or temporary disability, a veteran with a disability or a person transporting any such person.
2. An owner or operator of a motor vehicle displaying a special plate or plates for a veteran with a disability issued pursuant to NRS 482.3765, 482.377, 482.3775, 482.378 or 482.3783 may, without displaying a special license plate, placard or sticker issued pursuant to NRS 482.384, park in a parking space designated for persons who are handicapped if:
(a) The parking is done by a veteran with a disability; or
(b) A veteran with a disability is a passenger in the motor vehicle being parked.
3. An owner or operator of a motor vehicle displaying a special license plate or plates, a special or temporary parking placard or a special or temporary parking sticker that has been issued pursuant to NRS 482.384 shall, if requested by a police officer or a volunteer appointed pursuant to NRS 484B.470, present the authorization letter issued pursuant to subsection 15 of NRS 482.384 so that the police officer or volunteer may view the photograph.
4. This section does not authorize the parking of a motor vehicle in any privately or municipally owned facility for parking off the highway without paying the required fee for the time during which the vehicle is so parked.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 1501; A 1973, 82; 1975, 821; 1981, 784; 1985, 595; 1993, 1392; 1999, 2572; 2001, 1861; 2003, 381; 2005, 987; 2015, 259, 266, 479, effective on the date on which the Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles notifies the Governor and the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau that sufficient resources are available to enable the Department to carry out the provisions of chapter 129, Statutes of Nevada 2015, at page 476) — (Substituted in revision for NRS 484.407)
