Las Vegas Sun

March 28, 2024

Transportation Authority taking comments on ride-hailing regulations

CARSON CITY — Supporters and critics will have the chance to speak out Thursday about proposed regulations governing ride-hailing companies such as Uber and Lyft.

The Nevada Transportation Authority will hold workshops at 9 a.m. in Las Vegas and Carson City to let the public comment on the proposed rules. The hearings will be at the Grant Sawyer State Office Building, 555 E. Washington Ave., in Las Vegas and at the legislative building in Carson City.

Under the regulations being considered, customers would summon rides through a cell phone app or computer. Drivers would be prohibited from picking up riders by shouting, waving signs, flashing lights, ringing bells or blowing horns.

Drivers could not park within 50 feet of a taxi stand.

The proposed regulations also would require the ride-hailing companies to hire investigators to check the background of drivers, who must be at least 19 years old and not have had a moving traffic violation in the last three years.

Drivers would have to have a clean record going back seven years for offenses involving terrorism, sexual crimes, fraud or drunk driving.

The law was one of the most heavily lobbied during the 2015 Legislature, with taxi and limousine owners and drivers opposed.

The proposed regulations set up the rules ride-hailing companies must abide by and establishes a system for hearing complaints against any firm.

The authority also has set another hearing for July 23.

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