in an urban area. (Added to NRS by 1973, 448) NRS 484.146 “Safety zone” defined. “Safety zone” means the area officially set aside within a highway for the exclusive use of pedestrians and which is so plainly marked or indicated by proper signs as to be plainly visible at all times while set apart as a safety zone. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1480) NRS 484.148 “School bus” defined. 1. “School bus” means every motor vehicle owned by or under the control of a public or governmental agency or a private school and regularly operated for the transportation of children to or from school or a school activity or privately owned and regularly operated for compensation for the transportation of children to or from school or a school activity. 2. “School bus” does not include a passenger car operated under a contract to transport children to and from school, a common carrier or commercial vehicle under the jurisdiction of the Surface Transportation Board or the Transportation Services Authority when such vehicle is operated in the regular conduct of its business in interstate or intrastate commerce within the State of Nevada. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1480; A 1997, 1619, 2007) NRS 484.1485 “School crossing zone” defined. “School crossing zone” means those sections of streets not adjacent to school property that pupils cross while following a designated walking route to school. (Added to NRS by 1993, 2586) NRS 484.149 “School zone” defined. “School zone” means those sections of streets which are adjacent to school property. (Added to NRS by 1993, 2586) NRS 484.157 “Security agreement” defined. “Security agreement” means a written agreement which reserves or creates a security interest. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1480) NRS 484.159 “Security interest” defined. “Security interest” means an interest in a vehicle reserved or created by agreement and which secures payment or performance of an obligation. The term includes the interest of a lessor under a lease intended as security. A security interest is perfected when it is valid against third parties generally, subject only to specific statutory exceptions. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1480) NRS 484.168 “Semitrailer” defined. “Semitrailer” means every vehicle so designed and used in conjunction with a motor vehicle that some part of its own weight and that of its own load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle, except a pole trailer. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1480) NRS 484.171 “Sidewalk” defined. “Sidewalk” means that portion of a highway between the curb lines or the lateral lines of a highway and the adjacent property lines intended for the use of pedestrians. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1481) NRS 484.173 “Special mobile equipment” defined. 1. “Special mobile equipment” means every vehicle not designed or used primarily for the transportation of persons or property and only incidentally operated or moved upon a highway, including but not limited to scoopmobiles, forklifts, ditch-digging apparatus, well-boring apparatus and road construction and maintenance machinery such as asphalt graders, bituminous mixers, bucket loaders, tractors other than truck-tractors, leveling graders, finishing machines, motor graders, road rollers, scarifiers, earth-moving carryalls and scrapers, power shovels and draglines, and self-propelled cranes and earth-moving equipment. 2. “Special mobile equipment” does not include house trailers, dump trucks, truck-mounted transit mixers, or other vehicles designed for the transportation of persons or property to which machinery has been attached. 3. The Director may make an individual determination as to whether any particular vehicle, not specifically enumerated in subsections 1 and 2, is special mobile equipment as defined in this section. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1203; A 1973, 448) NRS 484.183 “Stand” and “standing” defined. “Stand” or “standing” means the halting of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, otherwise than for the purpose of and while actually engaged in receiving or discharging passengers. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1481) NRS 484.185 “Stop” defined. “Stop,” when required, means complete cessation from movement. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1481) NRS 484.187 “Stop” and “stopping” defined. “Stop” or “stopping” means, when prohibited, any halting, even momentarily, of a vehicle, whether occupied or not, except when necessary to avoid conflict with other traffic or in compliance with the directions of a police officer or official traffic-control device. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1481) NRS 484.189 “Street” defined. “Street” means the entire width between the boundary lines of every highway inside the territorial limits of a city when any part of such highway is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular traffic. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1481) NRS 484.1905 “Tandem axle” defined. “Tandem axle” means any two or more consecutive axles whose centers are more than 40 inches, but not more than 96 inches apart and are individually attached to or articulated from a common attachment to the vehicle including a connecting mechanism designed to equalize the load between axles. (Added to NRS by 1993, 1414) NRS 484.191 “Taxicab” defined. “Taxicab” means a motor vehicle designed or constructed to accommodate and transport not more than six passengers, including the driver, and used to transport passengers for a charge or fee. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1481) NRS 484.193 “Taxicab stand” defined. “Taxicab stand” means a fixed area in a highway parallel and adjacent to the curb or edge of the highway and set aside for taxicabs to stand for passengers. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1481) NRS 484.194 “Temporary roadblock” defined. “Temporary roadblock” means any structure, device or means used by police officers to control traffic at a place on a highway whereby vehicles may be slowed or stopped: 1. To identify the occupants of those vehicles; or 2. Because of the existence of an emergency. (Added to NRS by 1987, 1072) NRS 484.199 “Through highway” defined. “Through highway” means every highway or portion thereof on which vehicular traffic is given the right-of-way, and at the entrances to which vehicular traffic from intersecting highways is required by law to yield right-of-way to vehicles on such through highway in obedience to either an authorized stop sign or a yield sign, or other official traffic-control device. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1481) NRS 484.201 “Tow car” defined. “Tow car” means a motor vehicle which has been altered or designed and equipped for and exclusively used in the business of towing vehicles by means of a crane, hoist, tow bar, towline or dolly, or is otherwise exclusively used to render assistance to other vehicles. (Added to NRS by 1969, 1481) NRS 484.202 “Towable tools or equipment” defined. 1. “Towable tools or equipment” means all tools or equipment: (a) Mounted on wheels; (b) Whose body does not exceed 70 inches in width; (c) Designed for towing by a motor vehicle; and (d) Which is not designed or used primarily for the transportation of persons or property, but is only incidentally operated or moved upon a highway. 2. The term includes without limitation air compressors, concrete mixers, arc welders, tarpots, engine hoists, concrete pumps, plaster mixers, mortar mixers, grout pumps, portable conveyors, generators, log splitters, brush chippers, spray rigs, tree spades, scissor lifts, light towers, pumps, steam cleaners, sand blasters, welders, stump grinders, radial arm saws, sod cutters, aerators, pavement rollers, and scaffolding. (Added to NRS by 1981, 620) NRS 484.203 “Traffic” defined. “Traffic” means pedestrians, ridden or herded animals, vehicles and oth

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