Florida vs Nevada: Local Ordinance Comparison (2026)

Beekeeping

Florida law requires every beekeeper to register their honeybee colonies with the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, obtain inspection certificates, and renew annually. The state fully preempts local hive bans.

Nevada law makes it unlawful to keep bees in anything other than movable-frame hives, so inspectors can open colonies to check for disease. The State Department of Agriculture enforces Chapter 552 and can condemn and destroy non-conforming hives.

Breed Restrictions

Nevada law prohibits any local government from adopting or enforcing ordinances that declare a specific breed of dog inherently dangerous or vicious. Cities and counties cannot ban breeds like pit bulls, but may regulate dogs based on individual behavior.

Pet Limits

Florida has no standalone hoarding statute; hoarders are prosecuted under Fla. Stat. 828.13 for confining animals without enough good, wholesome food and water, and under 828.12 cruelty when deprivation causes suffering or death.

Wildlife Feeding

Florida law prohibits intentional feeding of black bears, alligators, crocodiles, sandhill cranes, foxes, raccoons, and pelicans. These FWC rules apply statewide regardless of local ordinances.

Nevada Department of Wildlife prohibits feeding big game mammals like deer, elk, bighorn sheep, mountain goats, antelope, and mountain lions. NAC 503.145 makes intentional feeding unlawful statewide to prevent habituation, disease spread, and human-wildlife conflicts.

Structure Height Limits

Florida Statutes 161.053 establishes the Coastal Construction Control Line, a state-administered seaward setback that applies to all coastal counties regardless of local zoning. Construction seaward of the CCCL requires a Florida DEP permit and meets statewide structural and elevation standards.

Tobacco Retail License

Florida Statute 569.315 expressly preempts the regulation of the marketing, sale, and delivery of nicotine products and dispensing devices to the state, voiding most municipal ordinances on electronic cigarettes and vape shops.

Nevada requires vapor and other tobacco product retailers to hold a Tobacco Retail Dealer's License from the Department of Taxation, verify buyers are 21, and remit the 30 percent other-tobacco-products wholesale tax on vapor products.

Home Cultivation

Florida prohibits home cultivation of cannabis for both recreational and medical use; only state-licensed Medical Marijuana Treatment Centers may grow cannabis.

Nevada permits adults 21 and older to cultivate up to six cannabis plants per person, capped at twelve per household, only when the residence is more than 25 miles from a licensed dispensary, under NRS 678D and the state constitution.

Juvenile Curfew

Florida Statutes 877.20 through 877.25, the Juvenile Curfew Act, set a uniform statewide framework allowing counties to impose curfews on minors under 16 with specific hours, exceptions, and parental liability provisions that apply identically across adopting jurisdictions.

Paid Leave Preemption

Nevada requires private employers with 50+ employees to provide paid leave, with statewide standards limiting local government modification of leave rules.

Worker Scheduling Preemption

Florida Statute 509.032(7) and broader employment preemption framework prevent local governments from requiring private employers to follow predictive or fair-scheduling rules beyond state and federal law.

Coastal Development

Florida regulates construction seaward of the Coastal Construction Control Line through state permits, with uniform standards administered by the Department of Environmental Protection.

Erosion Control

Florida runs its own federally approved NPDES stormwater permit program under Fla. Stat. 403.0885, requiring construction sites that disturb one or more acres to obtain FDEP coverage and install erosion and sediment controls before clearing land.

Nevada bans discharging sediment-laden stormwater or any pollutant into state waters without an NDEP permit under NRS 445A.465, the core of the state's erosion and construction-runoff controls.

Flood Zones

Florida adopts a single statewide building code that incorporates flood-resistant construction standards from FEMA and ASCE, applying uniformly to all jurisdictions.

Nevada participates in the National Flood Insurance Program through the Division of Water Resources under NRS Chapter 540, requiring participating local governments to adopt floodplain management ordinances meeting FEMA minimum standards as a condition of flood insurance availability.

Neighbor Fence Rules

Florida's one statewide fence statute, §588.011, defines a legal fence as at least 3 feet high with three strands of wire on posts no more than 20 feet apart. Residential height, setback, and neighbor cost-sharing are set by local ordinance, not state law.

Fire Pits & Backyard Fires

Florida regulates outdoor recreational fires through the Florida Fire Prevention Code (NFPA 1), which applies uniformly statewide and preempts inconsistent local fire-code provisions.

Outdoor Burning

Open burning of yard waste and land-clearing debris in Florida requires authorization from the Florida Forest Service under Section 590.125, applying universally outside municipal limits.

Propane Storage

Nevada regulates liquefied petroleum gas storage and handling statewide under NRS 590 and NAC 590, adopting NFPA 58 by reference and licensing dealers, installers, and bulk storage facilities through the Board for the Regulation of Liquefied Petroleum Gas.

Wildfire Zones

The Florida Forest Service has statewide jurisdiction over wildfire prevention and suppression on non-municipal land under Chapter 590, Florida Statutes.

Nevada Division of Forestry administers wildland-urban interface fire safety under NRS 472 and NRS 527, requiring defensible space around structures in fire hazard zones and authorizing local enforcement of state-adopted WUI codes.

Firearms in Vehicles

Florida Statute 790.25(5) allows any law-abiding person 18 or older to possess a concealed firearm in a private vehicle for self-defense, provided the firearm is securely encased or not readily accessible for immediate use, regardless of any concealed-carry license.

Local Firearms Preemption

Florida Statute 790.33 expressly preempts the entire field of firearm and ammunition regulation to the state, voiding all local ordinances and imposing personal civil penalties on local officials who knowingly enact or enforce conflicting rules.

Nevada law preempts local firearm ordinances, reserving regulation of firearms, ammunition, and components to the state legislature, with narrow exceptions.

Card Room Licensing

Florida cardrooms operate only inside licensed pari-mutuel facilities, dog tracks, horse tracks, and jai alai frontons, under a license from the Florida Gaming Control Commission. Fla. Stat. § 849.086 authorizes poker and dominoes played in a nonbanking manner, caps designated-player poker at 10 tables where slot machines are legal or 30 where they aren't, and blocks any first-time license until the host municipality or county governing body votes to approve it.

Casino Zoning Districts

Nevada law won't let the Gaming Commission license a full casino inside the Las Vegas Boulevard corridor or the rural Clark County gaming zone unless the site sits in a designated gaming enterprise district. Statewide, any county with 100,000+ residents also caps nonrestricted licenses to resort hotels, buildings with 200-300+ rooms, a 24/7 restaurant and a bar, under NRS 463.1605.

Sports Betting Law

Sports wagering is legal in Florida only through the Seminole Tribe's Hard Rock Bet platform, authorized under the state's gaming compact codified at Fla. Stat. § 285.710(13)(b)7. Mobile and online bets are legally deemed to occur on tribal land where the wagering servers sit, so anyone 21 or older can bet statewide from their phone, but no other operator can legally take a sports bet.

Nevada legalized sports wagering statewide long before other states, but you can only bet through a sports pool licensed under NRS 463.160. Operating a race book or sports pool without that license is a category B felony under NRS 463.360, punishable by up to 10 years in prison and a $50,000 fine. Mobile wagering runs through the same licensed operator's app.

Assessment & Dues

Under Fla. Stat. § 720.3085, unpaid assessments become a lien on a parcel, and the homeowners' association may foreclose like a mortgage. Before recording the lien the association must send a 45-day written notice by certified and first-class mail, and a second 45-day notice is required before foreclosure can begin.

Under the Nevada Common-Interest Ownership Act, NRS 116.3116, an association has a statutory lien for unpaid assessments. A portion is super-priority over a first mortgage, and the association may foreclose nonjudicially without going to court, following the notice procedures in NRS 116.31162 to 116.31168.

Clotheslines & Energy Devices

Florida Statute 163.04 bars homeowner association deed restrictions and local ordinances from prohibiting clotheslines, solar collectors, or other renewable-resource energy devices in owner-occupied communities, though the protection excludes patio railings in condominiums, cooperatives, and apartments. An HOA cannot deny a clothesline outright, and unlike solar panels, it holds no reserved power to dictate where a resident hangs one.

Cottage Food Operations

Florida's Cottage Food Operations Act preempts local regulation, allowing home production of non-potentially hazardous foods up to a statewide gross sales limit.

Nevada moved its cottage food rule out of NRS chapter 446 in 2025. The section in force today is NRS 580.600, which keeps a home cottage food operation outside the definition of a food establishment so long as gross sales stay at or under $100,000 per calendar year, the goods come from a closed list of shelf-stable items, every package carries the words MADE IN A COTTAGE FOOD OPERATION THAT IS NOT SUBJECT TO GOVERNMENT FOOD SAFETY INSPECTION, and every sale is an in-person transaction. Selling by telephone or over the Internet is what takes you out of the exemption, not the size of the batch. You must register with the food safety authority before your first sale, but there is no permit, no plan review and no routine inspection, and no Nevada city or county may adopt an ordinance prohibiting a person from preparing food in a cottage food operation.

Home Daycare

Florida regulates family and large family child care homes uniformly under Chapter 402, setting capacity limits, training, and inspection requirements applicable statewide.

Nevada requires state licensing through the Division of Public and Behavioral Health for any home caring for more than four unrelated children, setting uniform background-check, capacity, and safety standards under NRS 432A that override most local prohibitions.

Home Kitchen Operations

Nevada never created a microenterprise home kitchen operation. The words microenterprise and home kitchen appear nowhere in NRS chapter 580 or NAC chapter 446. What Nevada does have is more unusual: a home kitchen may be permitted as an ordinary food establishment. NRS 580.050(2)(a) pulls a private home into the definition of a food establishment the moment food prepared there is sold, NRS 580.900(4) says home-prepared food may not be sold unless the preparer holds a valid permit for that purpose, and NAC 446.576 sets the four physical conditions: full compliance with the food establishment chapter, a dedicated exterior entrance, physical separation from the living or sleeping quarters by walls or self-closing doors, and no use of those areas as thoroughfares. Once the permit issues, that part of the house legally stops being a residence and becomes an inspected food establishment.

Vehicle Search & Consent

Florida wrote the automobile exception into its statutes in 1927. Fla. Stat. § 933.19 adopts the United States Supreme Court's decision of March 2, 1925 in the Carroll case, reported at 267 U.S. 132, "as the statute law of the state" for searches of vehicles carrying contraband or illegal liquor, so a Florida officer with probable cause may search a car without a warrant. Article I, section 12 of the Florida Constitution has, since the 1982 amendment, required the state search and seizure right to be construed in conformity with the Fourth Amendment as interpreted by the United States Supreme Court, and it bars suppression of anything that would be admissible under those federal decisions. Florida has enacted no statute requiring written, recorded, or advised consent before a vehicle search, so declining consent is a matter of what you say at the roadside rather than a form you refuse to sign.

Nevada decriminalized most traffic offenses in 2021, and in doing so the Legislature wrote down exactly what a peace officer may do after pulling a driver over. NRS 484A.7033(1) lets the officer halt and detain you only "as is reasonably necessary to investigate the alleged violation and issue a civil infraction citation," and then lists the three extra powers: detain under NRS 171.123 if circumstances warrant, search you for a weapon under NRS 171.1232, and arrest you under NRS 171.1231 if probable cause exists. Nothing in the list authorizes a search of the vehicle. A companion section, NRS 484A.7037(2), tells the officer who asks for electronic proof of insurance that he "may view only the evidence of insurance and shall not intentionally view any other content on the mobile electronic device."

Rainwater Harvesting

Nevada law explicitly permits de minimis rainwater collection from single-family rooftops for nonpotable domestic use, including watering family gardens, under NRS 533.027 enacted by Assembly Bill 138 in 2017.

Tree Removal & Heritage Trees

Florida Statute 163.045 prohibits cities and counties from requiring permits, fees, or replanting when a residential homeowner removes a tree documented by a certified arborist or licensed landscape architect as posing a danger.

Water Restrictions

Florida Statutes Chapter 373 grants water management districts authority to impose mandatory landscape irrigation restrictions that apply uniformly across all counties and municipalities, overriding any conflicting local schedules during declared water shortages.

Weed Ordinances

NRS 555.150 requires every person who owns, controls, or occupies land in Nevada, along with railroads, canal and ditch companies, counties, and cities, to control weeds the State Quarantine Officer has designated as noxious. Enforcement runs through written notice, county-funded forced control if an owner ignores it, a lien for unpaid costs, and civil penalties reaching $1,000 per repeat violation.

EV Charging

Florida law protects condominium unit owners' rights to install electric vehicle charging stations in their designated parking areas under Fla. Stat. 718.113(8), while commercial installations follow uniform Florida Building Code permitting statewide.

Towing & Impound Rights

Florida caps the drop fee a tower can charge at half the posted rate if the owner shows up mid-tow, requires a signed itemized receipt, and forces storage lots within 10 to 15 highway miles of the pickup point. Redemption runs 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., the vehicle must come back within an hour of a request, and no waiver of damage claims can be a condition of release.

In Nevada a vehicle may be towed from private property without the owner's consent only if the property owner or an authorized agent signs a specific request, the area is properly posted, and the police or sheriff are notified, and a law enforcement officer can order the tow stopped. Apartment, condominium and townhome complexes must put a sticker on the vehicle at least 48 hours before towing for a parking violation or lack of registration, and no vehicle in Nevada may be towed solely because its registration has expired. The tow operator may not start charging storage until at least 48 hours after the vehicle arrives and is logged in at the storage yard, must include a specific drop-fee reduction in its filed tariff if you reach the scene before the truck leaves, and must accept cash, money orders, credit cards, debit cards and electronic transfers. If you think the tow was unlawful, you can file for expedited relief in justice court within 21 calendar days and get a hearing within 7 days.

Eviction Notice & Process

Fla. Stat. § 83.56 requires a 3-day notice to pay rent or vacate for nonpayment, excluding Saturdays, Sundays, and legal holidays from the count. For lease violations, the landlord serves a 7-day notice to cure (or a 7-day unconditional notice for repeat or non-curable violations). Only a court may order eviction through Florida's summary procedure.

For nonpayment, NRS 40.253 requires a 7-judicial-day pay-or-quit notice before summary eviction. Nevada uses a unique 'tenant-initiated' process: the tenant must file an affidavit (answer) with the justice court to contest the eviction, and a court order issues if no affidavit is filed in time.

Landlord Entry & Notice

Under Fla. Stat. § 83.53, a Florida landlord must give at least 24 hours' notice to enter for repairs and may enter only at reasonable times, defined as between 7:30 a.m. and 8:00 p.m. No notice is required in an emergency or to preserve the premises, and access may not be used to harass the tenant.

NRS 118A.330 requires a Nevada landlord to give the tenant at least 24 hours' notice before entering and to enter only at reasonable times during normal business hours, except in an emergency. The landlord may not abuse the right of access or use it to harass the tenant.

Late Fees & Grace Periods

NRS 118A.210 caps a Nevada late fee at 5 percent of the periodic rent and requires it to be set out in the rental agreement. For tenancies longer than week-to-week, no late fee may be charged until at least 3 calendar days after rent is due, and fees may not be compounded.

Lease Termination & Notice to Vacate

For a month-to-month tenancy, Fla. Stat. § 83.57 now requires 30 days' written notice (raised from 15 days by 2023's HB 1417). Breaking a fixed-term lease triggers landlord remedies under § 83.595, including a pre-agreed early-termination fee capped at two months' rent. Servicemembers may terminate early under § 83.682.

Under NRS 40.251, either party may end a month-to-month tenancy with 30 days' written notice (7 days for week-to-week). Tenants who are 60 or older or have a disability may request an additional 30 days. Fixed-term leases end on their stated date; military servicemembers may terminate under the federal SCRA.

Rent Control

Florida effectively bans local rent control. State law bars any city or county from imposing controls on rents, and the 2023 Live Local Act removed the old narrow exception that had allowed a one-year emergency referendum riddled with exemptions. There is no statewide rent cap, so landlords set increases freely by lease terms.

Rental Registration

Florida Statute 509.032(7) preempts local regulation of vacation rental bans, duration, and frequency, while FS 83.425 (2023) preempts local regulation of residential tenancies, leaving cities only narrow room for rental registration programs.

Repairs & Habitability

Fla. Stat. § 83.51 requires landlords to comply with applicable building, housing, and health codes or keep the structure, plumbing, and (for most multi-unit buildings) heat, running water, hot water, and pest control in working order. Tenants enforce these duties through the § 83.56 seven-day written notice to cure before withholding rent or terminating.

NRS 118A.290 requires Nevada landlords to keep rentals habitable: sound structure, weatherproofing, working plumbing, heating, electrical, and a safe water supply. NRS 118A.360 lets tenants repair-and-deduct after written notice, and NRS 118A.380 lets tenants act when essential services such as heat, water, or electricity fail.

Security Deposit Rules

Florida places no dollar limit on residential security deposits, but it enforces tight deadlines. If the landlord makes no claim, the deposit must be returned within 15 days of move-out. If the landlord intends to keep any part, written certified-mail notice is due within 30 days, and the tenant then has 15 days to object.

Nevada caps a residential security deposit, including any surety bond and last month's rent, at three months' periodic rent. After the tenancy ends, the landlord has 30 days to return the remaining deposit with an itemized written accounting. Wrongful retention can expose the landlord to the entire deposit plus an equal court-set sum.

Squatter's Rights & Adverse Possession

Adverse possession in Florida requires 7 years of actual, continued, exclusive possession plus paying all taxes within a year and filing a return with the property appraiser (Fla. Stat. § 95.18). Separately, the 2024 anti-squatter law HB 621 (Fla. Stat. § 82.036) lets owners have a sheriff remove unauthorized occupants within hours, without a lawsuit.

Nevada requires 5 years of continuous, adverse occupancy plus payment of all state, county, and municipal taxes for that period before a claim of adverse possession can succeed (NRS 11.150; NRS 40.090). Separately, unlawful occupancy of a vacant dwelling is a criminal gross misdemeanor under NRS 205.0817.

Agricultural Zoning Protection

Florida Statutes 823.14 and 163.3162 restrict local governments from adopting zoning rules that inhibit established farms on agriculturally classified land, preserving agricultural uses against incompatible local regulation.

Short-Term Rental Permits

Florida law preempts the regulation of vacation rental licensing and inspections to the state Department of Business and Professional Regulation (DBPR), though local zoning and registration are permitted.

Taxes & Fees

Florida imposes a 6% state sales tax, plus county discretionary surtaxes of 0.5 to 1.5%, on rentals of living accommodations for six months or less, applying universally to short-term rentals.

Nevada imposes statewide transient lodging taxes on short-term rentals, including combined state and local rates that platforms or hosts must collect and remit on stays under 30 days, regardless of municipality.

Plastic Bag Rules

Florida Statute 403.7033 preempts the regulation of disposable plastic bags by local governments, prohibiting cities and counties from enacting bans or fees on retailers pending a legislative review that has not occurred.

Polystyrene Foam Rules

Florida Statute 500.90 preempts the regulation of polystyrene products by local governments, blocking cities and counties from banning expanded polystyrene foam food containers, cups, and similar items.

Solicitor Permits

Nevada requires charitable organizations and professional fundraisers soliciting donations to register with the Secretary of State under NRS 82A, in addition to any local door-to-door solicitor permits, with disclosure rules applying statewide.

Fencing & Safety Requirements

Florida Statutes Chapter 515 establishes minimum statewide pool barrier requirements applying to every residential swimming pool, spa, or hot tub. New pools must meet at least one safety feature requirement before receiving a certificate of completion, regardless of city or county location.

Flavored Tobacco Bans

Nevada has no statewide ban on flavored tobacco or vapor products, leaving flavor regulation primarily to federal FDA authority and limited local action.

Tobacco Age Restrictions

Florida Statute 569.101 prohibits the sale or delivery of tobacco and nicotine products to persons under 21, aligning with federal law and applying uniformly statewide under the preemption in FS 569.0025 and 569.315.

Nevada prohibits the sale of tobacco, vapor, and alternative nicotine products to anyone under 21 years old, aligning with federal Tobacco 21 law.

Recycling Requirements

Florida Statute 403.706(2)(a) requires every county to run a recyclable-materials recycling program built to hit a 75 percent recycling goal by December 31, 2020, stepping up from 40 percent in 2012. The Department of Environmental Protection tracks progress.

Nevada sets a statewide target of recycling at least 25 percent of municipal solid waste. The State Environmental Commission writes the rules requiring source separation of recyclables from homes and public buildings, plus recycling centers.

Lane Splitting & Filtering

Florida bans lane splitting in so many words. Fla. Stat. section 316.209(3) states that no person shall operate a motorcycle between lanes of traffic or between adjacent lines or rows of vehicles, and subsection (2) separately forbids a rider from overtaking and passing in the same lane occupied by the vehicle being overtaken. There is no exception for stopped or slow traffic, no speed differential allowance and no local opt-out; the only carve-out is for police officers and firefighters performing official duties. A violation is a noncriminal traffic infraction punishable as a moving violation, which under Fla. Stat. section 318.18(3)(a) means a $60 penalty and 3 points under section 322.27(3)(d).

Nevada prohibits lane splitting outright. NRS 486.351(1) says a person other than an on-duty police officer "shall not drive a motorcycle or moped between moving or stationary vehicles occupying adjacent traffic lanes," which bans both splitting through moving traffic and filtering to the front of a stopped queue. A second rule in subsection 2 stops a motorcycle, moped or trimobile from riding abreast of or passing another vehicle inside the same lane. The single lane-sharing allowance Nevada does grant is two motorcycles or mopeds riding two abreast in one lane, and only with the consent of both riders. Since 2023 the offense is a civil infraction rather than a misdemeanor, carrying a civil penalty of up to $500.

Plate Covers & Obstruction

Florida treats an obscured plate as a crime, not a ticket. Fla. Stat. section 320.061(1) makes it unlawful to apply or attach any substance, reflective matter, illuminated device, spray, coating, covering or other material onto or around a license plate which interferes with the legibility, angular visibility or detectability of the license plate number or validation sticker, or with the ability to record them, and a knowing violation is a misdemeanor of the second degree. Subsection (2) creates a narrow safe harbor: a plate frame or decorative border is not an offense provided it does not obscure the alphanumeric designation or the registration decal in the upper right corner. Separately, Fla. Stat. section 316.605(1) requires the plate, its printing and its registration decal to be plainly visible and legible at 100 feet and provides that nothing shall be placed upon the face of a Florida plate except as permitted by law or agency rule.

Nevada has no statute that uses the words "plate cover" or "plate frame." What it has instead is NRS 482.275(5), which requires every license plate to be securely fastened, positioned to be clearly visible, and "maintained free from foreign materials and in a condition to be clearly legible." A smoked, tinted, mirrored or heavily distorting cover fails that test, and so does a frame that hides the plate number or the registration decal. The exposure is unusually serious for an equipment issue: chapter 482 was left out of Nevada’s traffic decriminalization, so a plate display violation remains a misdemeanor under NRS 482.555, punishable by up to six months in jail or a $1,000 fine.

Radar Detector Rules

A driver of a private passenger vehicle may use a radar detector in Florida. No section of the Florida Statutes prohibits owning, carrying or operating one, and chapter 316, which carries every other piece of Florida vehicle equipment law, contains no radar detector provision to hang a citation on. The two real constraints are elsewhere. Commercial motor vehicles are barred from carrying detectors because Fla. Stat. § 316.302 adopts 49 C.F.R. part 392, which includes the federal radar detector prohibition, and the windshield rule in § 316.2952(2) leaves no lawful place to stick one on the glass.

Nevada traffic law says nothing whatever about radar detectors. The word does not appear in NRS chapters 484A through 484E, which together are the whole of the state traffic code, nor in NAC chapter 484D, the vehicle-equipment regulation, so mounting and using a detector in a private car is not an offence anywhere in Nevada. The only Nevada rule that reaches detectors is regulatory and applies to trucks: NAC 706.2471 has the Department of Motor Vehicles adopt 49 C.F.R. Parts 390 to 393 as those regulations existed on May 30, 2012, which carries the federal prohibition at 49 C.F.R. section 392.71 into Nevada law for commercial motor vehicles. Nevada rewrites the size threshold for that ban at 10,001 pounds in interstate commerce and 26,001 pounds intrastate.

Underglow & Auxiliary Lighting

Florida is one of the states that says yes to underbody lighting in so many words. Fla. Stat. § 316.235(3) provides that any motor vehicle may be equipped with one or more lamps or devices underneath the vehicle, and then attaches three conditions by cross-reference. Those conditions are the real rule: § 316.2397(1) forbids any lamp showing red, red and white, or blue visible from directly in front, § 316.2397(7) bans flashing lights outside a short list of turn, hazard and low-visibility uses, and § 316.238 requires you to dim within 500 feet of an oncoming vehicle. Blue is reserved statewide to police, certain heavy government fire vehicles and corrections vehicles on emergency calls.

Nevada counts auxiliary lamps rather than rating them. NRS 484D.180 lets any motor vehicle carry up to two spot lamps, up to two auxiliary driving lamps mounted 16 to 42 inches above the ground, up to two auxiliary passing lamps mounted 24 to 42 inches, and up to two fog lamps mounted 12 to 30 inches, each with its own aiming rule. NRS 484D.220(2) then caps how many may burn together: where a vehicle has headlamps plus any auxiliary lamp, spot lamp or other front lamp throwing more than 300 candle power, no more than four of them may be lighted at one time on a highway. Colour is fixed separately by NRS 484D.145, and a permanently mounted flashing amber warning light needs a permit from the Nevada Highway Patrol that costs $2 for a single vehicle and expires every June 30.

Window Tint Limits

Florida sets a separate light transmittance floor for each piece of glass rather than one statewide number. Side wings and side windows forward of or next to the driver must pass at least 28 percent of visible light and reflect no more than 25 percent (Fla. Stat. § 316.2953), while windows behind the driver must pass at least 15 percent and reflect no more than 35 percent, dropping to a 6 percent floor on a multipurpose passenger vehicle such as an SUV, pickup or van (§ 316.2954). The windshield may carry no percentage tint at all, only a transparent strip above the AS/1 line. Every one of those percentages is read subject to a plus or minus 3 percent tolerance under § 316.2955(2).

Nevada allows aftermarket film on the two windows beside the driver only if the glass and film together pass at least 35 percent of the light striking them, with a statutory tolerance of 7 percent, and only if the film is nonreflective. Behind the driver, NRS 484D.440 sets no light-transmission figure at all: the rear side windows and the rear window may be tinted to any darkness provided the vehicle carries an outside mirror on each side giving the driver a 200-foot view to the rear. The windshield may carry film only across its topmost strip, whose bottom edge must sit at least 29 inches above the undepressed seat, and that strip may not be red or amber. Nevada runs no annual safety inspection, so the rule is enforced at the roadside as a civil infraction that carries no demerit points.