Existing law sets forth the Tahoe Regional Planning Compact, an interstate agreement between the States of California and Nevada pursuant to which the bistate Tahoe Regional Planning Agency regulates environmental and land-use matters within the Lake Tahoe Basin. (NRS 277.190-277.220) The Tahoe Regional Planning Compact provides for the creation of the Tahoe transportation district as a special purpose district managed by a board of directors which develops and implements transportation plans and programs for the Lake Tahoe Basin. Existing law also establishes the State Route 159 Safety Speed Zone and authorizes: (1) the Director of the Department of Transportation to set the maximum speed in the Speed Zone; and (2) the Department to ensure that adequate signage and other forms of notice are installed. (NRS 484B.621) Section 1 of this bill creates the Lake Tahoe Basin Scenic Byway Corridor Recreation Safety Zone, consisting of any portion of U.S. Highway 50, Nevada State Route 28, Nevada State Route 431 and Nevada State Route 207 that is located in the Lake Tahoe Region and directly connected to a recreational destination or that has otherwise been designated as a scenic byway. Section 1 authorizes the Department and certain local law enforcement agencies to: (1) establish certain traffic control measures and parking restrictions and prohibitions within the Safety Zone; and (2) enter into an agreement with one or more state agencies, local governments, local governmental agencies in the Region or the Tahoe transportation district to develop public parking, provide parking enforcement and issue parking citations or notices of noncompliance within the Safety Zone. Section 1 further authorizes the Department to: (1) establish and collect fees for public parking on certain land within the Safety Zone; and (2) enter into agreements with certain governmental entities to enforce and collect fees for parking within the Safety Zone. The proceeds of: (1) such fees must be used to manage parking in the Lake Tahoe Region; and (2) any fines imposed for violations of a parking restriction or prohibition, with certain exceptions, must be used for parking enforcement within the Safety Zone.

Statutes affected:
As Introduced: 277.200
BDR: 277.200