484D.855 - Regulations: Loading and securing loads; safety chains and cables for combinations of vehicles.

484D.855  Regulations: Loading and securing loads; safety chains and cables for combinations of vehicles.  The Department shall adopt reasonable regulations providing for:

      1.  Minimum requirements for binders to secure loads on vehicles against dangerous displacement and governing the loading and securement of loads for transportation over public highways by vehicles, except loads containing radioactive waste.

      2.  Safety chains and cables for combinations of vehicles.

      [20.2:166:1925; added 1955, 186]—(NRS A 1957, 616; 1969, 1220; 1979, 836; 1981, 234; 1985, 1956)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 484.773)

      NRS 484D.860  Display of red lights or flag on load.  The driver of every vehicle operating a half hour after sunset to a half hour before sunrise and carrying a load extending 4 feet or more beyond the end of the vehicle shall attach at the extreme end of the load two red lights plainly visible under normal atmospheric conditions from a distance of not less than 500 feet from the rear and sides. At any other time the driver shall attach at the extreme end of such load a red flag or cloth at least 16 inches square.

      [19:166:1925; NCL § 4368] + [Part 19 1/2:166:1925; added 1927, 78; NCL § 4369]—(NRS A 1963, 746; 1969, 1221)—(Substituted in revision for NRS 484.775)