704.143 - Persons with physical or mental disabilities entitled to full and equal enjoyment of facilities for public transportation; unlawful denial of services and facilities.

704.143  Persons with physical or mental disabilities entitled to full and equal enjoyment of facilities for public transportation; unlawful denial of services and facilities.

      1.  All persons with physical or mental disabilities are entitled to the full and equal enjoyment of the facilities of any common carrier or other means of public conveyance and transportation operating within this State.

      2.  It is unlawful for any person, firm, partnership or corporation to deny any of the privileges granted by subsection 1.

      3.  It is unlawful for any common carrier or other means of public conveyance or transportation operating within this State, to deny the equal enjoyment of its services and facilities to a person with a physical disability by the arbitrary, capricious or unreasonable interference, direct or indirect, with the use of aids and appliances used by such person with a physical disability for purposes of mobility.

      (Added to NRS by 1969, 587; A 1971, 1058; 1979, 204)