1.  The Department of Transportation may erect advisory signs at reasonable intervals on any controlled-access facility within its jurisdiction which has three or more lanes for traffic traveling in one direction to advise operators of vehicles with a declared gross weight in excess of 26,000 pounds in which lanes they should travel.

Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 484B.590

  • Department: means the Department of Motor Vehicles. See Nevada Revised Statutes 481.015
  • Jurisdiction: (1) The legal authority of a court to hear and decide a case. Concurrent jurisdiction exists when two courts have simultaneous responsibility for the same case. (2) The geographic area over which the court has authority to decide cases.

2.  As used in this section, ‘controlled-access facility’ means a highway or street especially designed for through traffic, and over, from or to which owners or occupants of abutting land or other persons have no right or easement, or only a controlled right or easement of access, light, air or view, by reason of the fact that their property abuts upon the controlled-access facility or for any other reason.

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