Nevada Revised Statutes Section 484.3947 - Public Safety - Vehicles - Watercraft

Device to prevent person who has consumed alcohol from starting vehicle: Regulations.

1. The Committee on Testing for Intoxication shall on or before January 1, 1990, adopt regulations which:

(a) Provide for the certification of each model of those devices, described by manufacturer and model, which it approves as designed and manufactured to be accurate and reliable to test a person’s breath to determine the concentration of alcohol in the person’s breath and, if the results of the test indicate that the person has a concentration of alcohol of 0.02 or more in his breath, prevent the motor vehicle in which it is installed from starting.

(b) Prescribe the form and content of records respecting the calibration of devices, which must be kept by the Director or his agent, and other records respecting the maintenance and operation of the devices which it finds should be kept by the Director or his agent.

2. The Committee shall establish its own standards and procedures for evaluating the models of the devices and obtain evaluations of those models from the Director or his agent.

3. If a model of a device has been certified by the Committee to be accurate and reliable pursuant to subsection 1, it is presumed that, as designed and manufactured, each device of that model is accurate and reliable to test a person’s breath to determine the concentration of alcohol in the person’s breath and, if the results of the test indicate that the person has a concentration of alcohol of 0.02 or more in his breath, will prevent the motor vehicle in which it is installed from starting.

Last modified: February 25, 2006