Opinion ID: 2602046
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Heading: Review of revocation

Text: Respondents each requested an administrative hearing to review the 1-year revocation of their driving privileges. The DMV hearing officers upheld the 1-year revocations and concluded that the period of revocation under NRS 483.460(1) is based upon the number of DUI convictions within a 7-year period. Therefore, according to the hearing officers, respondents were subject to a 1-year revocation of their driving privileges because they had received two DUI convictions within a 7-year period. Respondents then filed petitions for judicial review with the district court, arguing that the hearing officers improperly interpreted NRS 483.460(1). The district court granted respondents' petitions for judicial review and reduced the 1-year period of revocation to 90 days. In its orders, the district court concluded that NRS 483.460(1), as amended, bases the period of revocation not upon the number of DUI convictions within a 7-year period but upon the level of punishment prescribed by NRS 484.3792. Following their second DUI offenses, respondents were convicted as first-time DUI offenders under NRS 484.3792(1)(a). Under the amended version of NRS 483.460(1)(c), if the offense is punishable pursuant to NRS 484.3792(1)(a), the period of revocation is 90 days. Therefore, the district court found that respondents were subject to a 90-day revocation of their driving privileges and granted these petitions for judicial review. These appeals followed.