Nebraska Administrative Code › Topic - MOTOR VEHICLES, DEPARTMENT OF › Title 247 - NEBRASKA ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES › Chapter 7 - RULES AND REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO THE VISION AND MEDICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR CLASS A AND B LICENSES, LEARNER'S AND SCHOOL PERMITS AND SCHOOL BUS DRIVER'S PERMIT › Section 247-7-001 - Definitions

Current through June 17, 2024
001.01
Applicant
-
  Any person who appears before an examiner for the purpose of acquiring or
  renewing a license or permit.
001.02
Bioptic or Telescoptic
  Lenses
- Specially constructed vision correction devices which
  include a lens system attached to or used in conjunction with a carrier
  lens.
001.03
Class A
  License
- The driver's license issued by the Nebraska Department
  of Motor Vehicles authorizing the person to whom it is issued to operate on
  public roads any motor vehicle except motorcycles, school busses, and
  tractor-trailer combinations registered for over twenty-four thousand pounds
  gross vehicle weight.
001.04
Class B License
- The driver's license or endorsement
  on a driver's license authorizing the person to whom it is issued to operate a
  motorcycle on the public roads.
001.05
Corrective
  Lens
- An ophthalmic lense made to a prescription for the purpose
  of improving or correcting the user's visual acuity or visual
  function.
001.06
Department
- The Nebraska Department of Motor
  Vehicles.
001.07
Director
- The Director of the Department of Motor
  Vehicles.
001.08
Examiner
- A person appointed by the Director to
  conduct the examination of applicants for the purpose of determining the
  qualification of such applicants for the license or permit.
001.09
LPD-Learner's
  Permit
- A permit issued by the Department to a person at least
  fifteen years of age authorizing that person to operate a motor vehicle for
  learning purposes when accompanied by a Nebraska licensed driver who is
  nineteen years of age or older.
001.10
LPE-Learner's
  Permit
- A Permit issued by the Department to a person at least
  fourteen years of age for the purpose of operating a motor vehicle while
  learning to drive in preparation for the application for a School
  Permit.
001.11
Health
  Advisory Board
- A group of health care professionals appointed by
  the Director for the purpose of advising on questions of medical qualification
  of applicants.
001.12
Motor Vehicles
- Includes all motor vehicles propelled
  by any power other than muscular power, except self-propelled invalid chairs,
  farm tractors, farm tractors used occasionally outside of general farm usage,
  road rollers, and any vehicles which run only on rails or tracks, and all
  off-road vehicles, including but not limited to golf carts, go-carts, riding
  lawnmowers, garden tractors, all terrain vehicles, and snowmobiles.
001.13
Ophthomologist
- A physician that is board certified
  in ophthomology.
001.14
Optometrist
- A person licensed by Nebraska or other
  states to practice optometry.
001.15
Peripheral
  Vision
- That portion of the field of vision that is away from a
  central fixation point (i.e., to the side or periphery).
001.16
Physician
- A
  person licensed by Nebraska or other states to practice medicine and
  surgery.
001.17
Request
  for Statement of Physician
- A form approved by the Department for
  the purpose of recording the results of a physical examination and medical
  history by a medical doctor on the condition of an applicant to assist in
  determining the qualification of the applicant for a license or
  permit.
001.18
Restriction Codes
- Instructions printed on a license
  or permit limiting the driving privilege of the licensee. The restriction codes
  used by the Department include the following:
Code 1: Must wear spectacle lenses (glasses), contact lenses, or
	 bioptic or telescopic lenses.
Code 2: Must have right and left outside mirrors on any vehicle
	 driven.
Code 3: Must have automatic turn indicators on any vehicle
	 driven.
Code 4: Must operate vehicles with automatic transmission only.
Code 5: Must operate a vehicle within a specified geographic area or
	 designated roadway only.
Code 6: Must operate a vehicle only during daylight hours; that is,
	 between sunrise and sunset.
Code 7: Must not operate a motor vehicle on any public streets marked
	 for one-way traffic or marked for more than one lane of traffic in each
	 direction.
Code 8: Must drive vehicles equipped with specified controls for
	 operating the steering, brakes and/or speed functions of the vehicle
	 only.
Code 9: Must operate a vehicle only with specified speed
	 limitations.
Code 10: Must not operate a vehicle on any divided arterial highway
	 designed primarily for through traffic with full control of access.
Code 11: Special: as specified by the Department.
001.19
School Bus
-
  Shall mean a motor vehicle with motive power, except a trailer, designed or
  modified by the manufacturer, distributor or dealer for carrying eleven (11) or
  more passengers, excluding the driver, meeting or exceeding Nebraska Student
  Vehicle Minimum Standards (92 NAC93); which at any time is used to carry school
  children and school personnel exclusively. Such transportation service must be
  sponsored and approved by the local school governing board. Vehicles that only
  carry school children along with other passengers as a part of the operation of
  a common carrier under the jurisdiction of Interstate Commerce Commission or
  Nebraska Public Services Commission are not included with the definition of
  school bus.
001.20
S.P.-School Permit
- A permit issued to a student
  between the ages of fourteen and sixteen for the purpose of driving to and from
  school in compliance with the laws of the state.
001.21
Vision
  Statement
- An optometrist's or ophthalmologist's statement
  certifying the vision reading obtained when testing the applicant within ninety
  days of the applicant's license examination.
001.22
Visual Acuity
- The level of visual ability to recognize/discern objects, forms and figures
  as expressed in the standard Snellen form.