Nevada Revised Statutes Section 484.173 - Public Safety - Vehicles - Watercraft

“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.

Last modified: February 25, 2006