445B.760 - Authority of Commission to prescribe standards for emissions from mobile internal combustion engines; trimobiles; standards pertaining to motor vehicles to be approved by Department of Moto
445B.760 Authority of Commission to prescribe standards for emissions from mobile internal combustion engines; trimobiles; standards pertaining to motor vehicles to be approved by Department of Motor Vehicles.
1. The Commission may by regulation prescribe standards for exhaust emissions, fuel evaporative emissions and visible emissions of smoke from mobile internal combustion engines on the ground or in the air, including, but not limited to, aircraft, motor vehicles, snowmobiles and railroad locomotives. The regulations must:
(a) Provide for the exemption from such standards of restored vehicles for which special license plates have been issued pursuant to NRS 482.381, 482.3812, 482.3814 or 482.3816.
(b) Establish criteria for the condition and functioning of a restored vehicle to qualify for the exemption, and provide that the evaluation of the condition and functioning of such a vehicle may be conducted at an authorized inspection station or authorized station as defined in NRS 445B.710 and 445B.720, respectively.
(c) Define “restored vehicle” for the purposes of the regulations.
2. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, standards for exhaust emissions which apply to a:
(a) Reconstructed vehicle, as defined in NRS 482.100; and
(b) Trimobile, as defined in NRS 482.129,
Ê must be based on standards which were in effect in the year in which the engine of the vehicle was built.
3. A trimobile that meets the definition of a motorcycle in 40 C.F.R. § 86.402-78 or 86.402-98, as applicable, is not subject to emissions standards under this chapter.
4. Any such standards which pertain to motor vehicles must be approved by the Department of Motor Vehicles before they are adopted by the Commission.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 1702; A 1979, 857; 1985, 803; 1997, 2650; 2001, 2617; 2009, 1326)