AB 168 — Revises provisions relating to bicycles. (BDR 43-598)

(Reprinted with amendments adopted on April 14, 2025) FIRST REPRINT A.B.

168–A SSEMBLYMEMBERSSEMBLYMEMBERS G OULDING PREFILED; JANUARY 31, 2025 ____________ Referred to Committee on Growth and Infrastructure SUMMARY—Revises provisions relating to bicycles, electric bicycles and electric scooters.

BROWN -M AY, DICKMAN AND W ATTS PREFILED JANUARY 31, 2025 ____________ Referred to Committee on Growth and Infrastructure SUMMARY—Revises provisions relating to bicycles.

revising provisions governing the operation of a bicycle, an electric bicycle or an electric scooter on a roadway;

LegExistingLegislative lawCounsel’s grantsDigest: certain rights to a person operating a bicycle, an electric bicycle or an electric scooter upon a roadway and subjects any such person to certain duties and responsibilities while operating the bicycle, electric bicycle or electric scooter on a roadway.

(NRSExisting 484B.760-484B.785)law Sectiongrants 1certain ofrights thisto a person operating a bicycle upon a roadway and subjects any such person to certain duties and responsibilities while bill:

(1) requires a person operating a bicycle, an electric bicycle or an electric scooter to stop in obedience to a stop sign or signal displaying a steady red light;

and (2) creates an exception to the requirement to stop in obedience to a stop sign if the person can safely proceed through the intersection without stopping and certainthecertain other requirements are met.

Section 1 also authorizes a person operating a bicycle, an electric bicycle or an electric scooter to proceed cautiously through an intersection where the signal is a steady red signal or make certain turns if the personSection stops2 beforeof enteringthis thebill intersectionprovides andthat certaina otherviolation requirementsof arethe met.provisions of section 1 is a.

Sectioncivil 2infraction. of this bill provides that a violation of the provisions of section 1 is a applicability of the requirements prescribed by section 1.g change to indicate the THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

Section 3 of this bill makes a conforming change to indicate the applicability of the requirements prescribed by section 1.

- *AB168_R1* – 2 – THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, a person operating a bicycle, an electric bicycle or an electric scooter upon - *AB168* – 2 – a roadway shall stop in obedience to a stop sign or traffic-control signal displaying a steady red signal.

A person operating a bicycle, an electric bicycle or an electric scooter approaching an intersection controlled by a stop sign may proceed cautiously through the intersection without stopping if the person:

(b) Decreases the speed of the bicycle, electric bicycle or electric scooter and confirms that the intersection is clear before entering the intersection;

Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, a person operating a bicycle, an electric bicycle or an electric scooter upon a roadway may proceed cautiously through an intersection where the signal is a steady red signal or make a turn through any such intersection if the person:

A person operating a bicycle, an electric bicycle or an electric scooter upon a roadway shall not turn left through an intersection where the signal is a steady red signal unless the roadway onto which the person is turning is a one-way roadway.

It is a civil infraction punishable pursuant to NRS 484A.703 to 484A.705, inclusive, for any person to do any act forbidden or fail to perform any act required in NRS 484B.768 totot 484B.790, inclusive [.] , and section 1 of this act.

484B.763 Every person riding a bicycle, an electric bicycle or an electric scooter upon a roadway has all of the rights and is subject - *AB168_R1* – 3 – to all of the duties applicable to the driver of a vehicle except as otherwise provided in NRS 484B.767 to 484B.790, inclusive, and section 1 of this act, and except as to those provisions of chapters - *AB168* – 3 – 484A to 484E, inclusive, of NRS which by their nature can have no application.

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