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traffic through a point on the highway whereby all vehicles may be slowed or stopped for a lawful purpose other than identifying the occupants of the vehicles or an emergency. (Added to NRS by 1987, 1072) NRS 484.015 “Alley” defined. “Alley” means a highway: 1. Within a city block set apart for public use, vehicular traffic and local convenience. 2. Which primarily services access to the rear entrance of abutting property. 3. Designed for the special accommodation of abutting property, but not a cul-de-sac. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1476) NRS 484.017 “Authorized emergency vehicle” defined. “Authorized emergency vehicle” means a vehicle permitted to depart from certain traffic laws when equipped and operated in the manner provided by law. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1476) NRS 484.019 “Bicycle” defined. “Bicycle” means a device propelled by human power upon which a person may ride, having two tandem wheels either of which is over 14 inches in diameter, or every such device generally recognized as a bicycle though equipped with two front or two rear wheels except a moped. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1476; A 1975, 1077) NRS 484.021 “Bus” defined. “Bus” means a vehicle owned by the State, a political subdivision or a private school or nursery, designed for carrying more than 10 passengers and used for the transportation of persons, or a vehicle, other than a taxicab, designed and used for the transportation of persons for compensation. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1476) NRS 484.023 “Bus stand” defined. “Bus stand” means a fixed area in or adjacent to the highway to be occupied exclusively by buses for layover and operating schedules or in receiving or discharging passengers. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1476) NRS 484.027 “Business district” defined. “Business district” means the territory contiguous to and including a highway when within any 600 feet along such highway there are buildings in use for business or industrial purposes, including but not limited to hotels, banks or office buildings, railroad stations and public buildings which occupy at least 300 feet of frontage on one side or 300 feet collectively on both sides of the highway. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1476) NRS 484.029 “Center” and “centerline” defined. “Center” or “centerline” means a continuous or broken line marked upon the surface of a highway by paint or otherwise to indicate each portion of a highway allocated to traffic proceeding in the two opposite directions, and, if a line is not marked, it is an imaginary line in the highway equally distant from the edges or curbs of the highway. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1477) NRS 484.031 “Central business district” defined. “Central business district” means all highways within the area described as such by an ordinance of an incorporated city. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1477) NRS 484.033 “City” defined. “City” means any incorporated city, whether incorporated under general or special law. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1477; A 1987, 1725) NRS 484.035 “Combination of vehicles” defined. “Combination of vehicles” means two or more vehicles coupled together. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1477) NRS 484.037 “Commercial vehicle” defined. “Commercial vehicle” means every vehicle designed, maintained or used primarily for the transportation of property in furtherance of commercial enterprise. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1477; A 1973, 448) NRS 484.038 “Concentration of alcohol of 0.08 or more in his blood or breath” defined. [Effective until the date of the repeal of the federal law requiring each state to make it unlawful for a person to operate a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 percent or greater as a condition to receiving federal funding for the construction of highways in this State.] The phrase “concentration of alcohol of 0.08 or more in his blood or breath” means 0.08 gram or more of alcohol per 100 milliliters of the blood of a person or per 210 liters of his breath. (Added to NRS by 1989, 291; A 1999, 2451; 2003, 2559) NRS 484.038 “Concentration of alcohol of 0.10 or more in his blood or breath” defined. [Effective on the date of the repeal of the federal law requiring each state to make it unlawful for a person to operate a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 percent or greater as a condition to receiving federal funding for the construction of highways in this State.] The phrase “concentration of alcohol of 0.10 or more in his blood or breath” means 0.10 gram or more of alcohol per 100 milliliters of the blood of a person or per 210 liters of his breath. (Added to NRS by 1989, 291; A 1999, 2451; 2003, 2559, effective on the date of the repeal of the federal law requiring each state to make it unlawful for a person to operate a motor vehicle with a blood alcohol concentration of 0.08 percent or greater as a condition to receiving federal funding for the construction of highways in this State) NRS 484.041 “Controlled-access highway” defined. “Controlled-access highway” means every highway to or from which owners or occupants of abutting lands and other persons have no legal right of access except at such points only and in such manner as may be determined by a public authority. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1477) NRS 484.043 “Crosswalk” defined. “Crosswalk” means: 1. That part of a highway at an intersection included within the connections of the lateral lines of the sidewalks on opposite sides of the highway measured from the curbs or, in the absence of curbs, from the edges of the traveled portions of highways; or 2. Any portion of a highway at an intersection or elsewhere distinctly indicated for pedestrian crossing by lines or other markings on the surface. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1477) NRS 484.045 “Curb loading zone” defined. “Curb loading zone” means a space adjacent to a curb reserved for the exclusive use of vehicles during the loading or unloading of passengers or materials. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1477) NRS 484.048 “Divided highway” defined. “Divided highway” means a highway divided into two or more roadways by means of a physical barrier or dividing section, constructed so as to impede the conflict of vehicular traffic traveling in opposite directions. (Added to NRS by 1973, 447) NRS 484.051 “Driveaway-towaway operation” defined. “Driveaway-towaway operation” means any operation in which any motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer, singly or in combination, new or used, constitutes the commodity being transported, when one set or more of wheels of any such vehicle are on the highway during the course of transportation, whether or not any such vehicle furnishes the motive power. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1203) NRS 484.053 “Driver” defined. “Driver” means every person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1477) NRS 484.057 “Explosives” defined. “Explosives” means any chemical compound or mechanical mixture that is commonly used or intended for the purpose of producing an explosion and which contains any oxidizing and combustive units or other ingredients in such proportions, quantities or packing that an ignition by fire, by friction, by concussion, by percussion or by detonator of any part of the compound or mixture may cause such a sudden generation of highly heated gases that the resultant gaseous pressures are capable of producing destructive effects on contiguous objects or of destroying life or limb. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1477) NRS 484.059 “Farm tractor” defined. “Farm tractor” means every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement for drawing plows, mowing machines and other implements of husbandry. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1477) NRS 484.061 “Flammable liquid” defined. “Flammable liquid” means a

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