Authority of Commission to prescribe standards for emissions from mobile internal combustion engines; trimobiles; standards pertaining to motor vehicles to be approved by Department of Motor Vehicles.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 445B.760
in effect1. The Commission may by regulation prescribe standards for exhaust emissions, fuel evaporative emissions and visible emissions of smoke from mobile internal combustion engines on the ground or in the air, including, but not limited to, aircraft, motor vehicles, snowmobiles and railroad locomotives. The regulations must provide for the exemption from such standards of:
(a) A moped registered pursuant to NRS 482.2155 ; and
(b) A vehicle for which special license plates have been issued pursuant to NRS 482.381 , 482.3812 , 482.3814 or 482.3816 if the owner of such a vehicle certifies to the Department of Motor Vehicles, on a form provided by the Department of Motor Vehicles, that the vehicle was not driven more than 5,000 miles during the immediately preceding year.
2. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, standards for exhaust emissions which apply to a:
(a) Reconstructed vehicle, as defined in NRS 482.100 ; and
(b) Trimobile, as defined in NRS 482.129 ,
Ê must be based on standards which were in effect in the year in which the engine of the vehicle was built.
3. A trimobile that meets the definition of a motorcycle in 40 C.F.R. § 86.402-78 or 86.402-98, as applicable, is not subject to emissions standards under this chapter.
4. Any such standards which pertain to motor vehicles must be approved by the Department of Motor Vehicles before they are adopted by the Commission.
Source: NV Statutes (Official Site)URL: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/NRS-445B.htmlFetched: 10/4/2026