483.926 - Commercial driver’s license: Privilege granted; general requirement; surrender of other licenses.
483.926 Commercial driver’s license: Privilege granted; general requirement; surrender of other licenses.
1. Any person to whom a valid commercial driver’s license has been issued may exercise the privilege thereby granted upon all streets and highways of this State and shall not be required to obtain any other license to exercise the privilege by any county, municipal or local board or body having authority to adopt local police regulations.
2. Except persons expressly exempted in regulations adopted by the Department pursuant to NRS 483.908, a person shall not steer or exercise any degree of physical control of a vehicle being towed by a motor vehicle upon a highway unless the person has a license to drive the type or class of vehicle being towed.
3. The Department shall not issue a commercial driver’s license to a person until the person surrenders to the Department all valid licenses in his or her possession issued to the person by this or any other jurisdiction. Surrendered licenses issued by another jurisdiction must be returned by the Department to that jurisdiction. A person shall not have more than one valid driver’s license.
(Added to NRS by 1989, 1116)