482.135 - “Vehicle” defined.

482.135  “Vehicle” defined.  Except as otherwise provided in NRS 482.36348, “vehicle” means every device in, upon or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a public highway. The term does not include:

      1.  Devices moved by human power or used exclusively upon stationary rails or tracks;

      2.  Mobile homes or commercial coaches as defined in chapter 489 of NRS; or

      3.  Electric personal assistive mobility devices.

      [Part 1:202:1931; A 1951, 165; 1953, 280]—(NRS A 1979, 1222; 2003, 1205; 2003, 20th Special Session, 299)

      NRS 482.137  “Vehicle transporter” defined.  “Vehicle transporter” means a person who engages in the business of transporting motor vehicles in which he or she has no ownership interest and which are otherwise required to be registered pursuant to this chapter by operating them, singly or in combination, upon the highway under their own motive power.

      (Added to NRS by 1987, 2077)