Existing law prohibits a governmental entity or its agents from using photographic, video or digital equipment to gather evidence in order to issue a traffic citation or civil infraction citation unless the equipment is: (1) a portable camera or event recording device worn or held by a peace officer; (2) installed within a vehicle or facility of a law enforcement agency; or (3) privately owned by a nongovernmental entity. (NRS 484A.600) Sections 2 and 3 of this bill create an exception to this prohibition, authorizing the board of trustees of a school district to allow for the installation and use of a school bus infraction detection system in school buses owned by the school district to enforce existing provisions of law prohibiting a driver of any vehicle from overtaking or passing a school bus which: (1) has stopped to receive or discharge any pupil; and (2) is displaying a flashing red light signal visible from the front and rear. (NRS 484B.353) Section 2 requires a peace officer of a traffic enforcement agency with jurisdiction over the location in which any school bus equipped with such a system operates to review the evidence of such a violation recorded by the system before a civil infraction citation is issued. Section 2 further: (1) requires a school district that has not previously installed and used a school bus infraction detection system to conduct a public awareness campaign for not less than 30 days after the system is placed into use; (2) requires the destruction of any photograph or recorded image produced by a school bus infraction detection system after a certain period of time; (3) establishes certain requirements for a hearing for a citation issued pursuant to section 2; (4) applies an existing fine structure to a citation issued pursuant to section 2; (5) requires a school district to use any fines collected pursuant to section 2 for certain purposes; and (6) requires each school district that installs such a system to prepare and submit an annual report to the Legislature relating to the school bus infraction detection system. Sections 1 and 2 of this bill provide that a violation detected by a school bus infraction detection system is not a moving traffic violation. Sections 1 and 4-6 of this bill make conforming changes to: (1) exclude traffic violations detected by a school bus infraction detection system from the assessment of demerit points; and (2) provide for the issuance of civil infraction citations for violations detected by a school bus infraction detection system.

Statutes affected:
As Introduced: 483.473, 484A.600, 484A.640, 484A.704, 484B.353
Reprint 1: 483.473, 484A.600, 484A.640, 484A.703, 484A.704, 484B.353
Reprint 2: 483.473, 484A.600, 484A.640, 484A.703, 484A.704, 484B.353
As Enrolled: 483.473, 484A.600, 484A.640, 484A.703, 484A.704, 484B.353
BDR: 483.473, 484A.600, 484A.640, 484A.704, 484B.353