Special mobile equipment defined.
Nev. Rev. Stat. § 484A.245
in effect1. Special mobile equipment means every motor vehicle not designed or used primarily for the transportation of persons or property and only incidentally operated or moved upon a highway, including, but not limited to, scoopmobiles, forklifts, ditch-digging apparatus, well-boring apparatus and road construction and maintenance machinery such as asphalt graders, bituminous mixers, bucket loaders, tractors other than truck-tractors, leveling graders, finishing machines, motor graders, road rollers, scarifiers, earth-moving carryalls and scrapers, power shovels and draglines, and earth-moving equipment.
2. Special mobile equipment does not include house trailers, dump trucks, truck-mounted transit mixers, concrete pumpers, cranes or drill rigs with highway-rated tires or other vehicles designed for the transportation of persons or property to which machinery has been attached.
3. The Director may make the final determination as to whether a vehicle not specifically enumerated in subsection 1 or 2 falls within this definition.
4. The Department shall, by regulation, define incidentally operated or moved upon a highway for purposes of this section.
Source: NV Statutes (Official Site)URL: https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/NRS-484A.htmlFetched: 10/4/2026