Nevada vs Texas: Local Ordinance Comparison (2026)

Tiny Homes

Nevada law forces larger counties and cities to zone for tiny houses. NRS 278.253 requires every county over 100,000 and city over 150,000 to designate zoning districts allowing tiny houses as accessory dwelling units, single-family homes, and in tiny house parks.

Texas has no tiny-home-specific statute. Any transportable, chassis-mounted dwelling that reaches 320 square feet is manufactured housing under Occupations Code Chapter 1201, built to federal HUD standards and sealed and licensed statewide by the Department of Housing and Community Affairs. Placement stays local.

Exotic Pets

Nevada takes a negative-list approach to exotic pets. NAC 503.110 bars possession of specific species such as foxes, raccoons, skunks, coyotes, and alligators, while primates, most large cats, and elephants may be kept without a state permit.

Texas Health & Safety Code Chapter 822 Subchapter E governs ownership of dangerous wild animals: lions, tigers, bears, primates, and more. Owners must register with their county or city animal-registration agency and meet liability and caging standards.

Pet Limits

Texas has no standalone hoarding statute; officers use Health & Safety Code Chapter 821 to seize animals deprived of necessary food, care, or shelter, and a court can divest the owner of every animal.

Tobacco Retail License

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.

Anyone selling e-cigarettes to Texas consumers must hold an e-cigarette retailer permit issued by the Comptroller, obtained for each place of business under Health and Safety Code Chapter 147. Selling without a permit is a Class A misdemeanor.

Home Cultivation

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.

Texas Health & Safety Code 481.121 makes it a crime to possess or grow marijuana anywhere in the state. Home cultivation is illegal in every Texas city and county regardless of plant count or medical status.

Juvenile Curfew

Texas HB 1819 (88th Legislature, 2023), codified at Local Government Code 370.008 (originally 370.007), prohibits all Texas municipalities and counties from adopting or enforcing juvenile curfew ordinances. Existing local curfews became unenforceable across Texas on September 1, 2023.

Commercial Drones

Commercial drone operators in Nevada must hold an FAA Part 107 Remote Pilot Certificate and follow NRS 493. NRS 493.109 bars flying within 500 feet horizontally or 250 feet vertically of a critical facility, or within 5 miles of an airport, without consent.

Coastal Development

Texas prohibits damaging, destroying, or removing a sand dune or its vegetation seaward of a dune protection line or within a critical dune area unless a permit authorizes the work. Gulf-coast counties issue those permits under General Land Office rules.

Erosion Control

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.

Any Texas construction that disturbs one acre or more must get TCEQ Construction General Permit (TXR150000) coverage and develop a Stormwater Pollution Prevention Plan with erosion and sediment controls before ground is broken.

Neighbor Fence Rules

Under Texas Agriculture Code Chapter 143, Subchapter F, you cannot tear out a fence you jointly own with a neighbor, or one attached to a neighbor's fence, without mutual consent. To detach an attached fence you must first give six months' written notice of the separation.

Wildfire Zones

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

Texas Penal Code 46.02(a-1) lets any non-prohibited adult carry a handgun inside a personally-owned or leased motor vehicle or watercraft without a License to Carry. Since HB 1927 (2021), the handgun may even sit in plain view if holstered and the carrier is 21 or older or licensed.

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.

Charitable Bingo and Raffles

Nevada regulates charitable bingo, poker, blackjack and raffle-style lotteries entirely through NRS Chapter 462, administered by the Nevada Gaming Control Board. Only a "qualified organization", a certified nonprofit or IRS-recognized charity, may hold one, and only after the Board's Chair registers it under NRS 462.150. Annual prize payouts are capped at $500,000, or $2 million for organizations affiliated with a major pro sports franchise playing in Nevada.

Texas nonprofits can conduct bingo only under a license from the Texas Department of Licensing and Regulation, which absorbed the Texas Lottery Commission's charitable bingo program on September 1, 2025. Eligible applicants are religious societies, fraternal and veterans organizations, volunteer fire departments, EMS providers, and qualifying nonprofits that have existed in Texas for at least three years. Running unlicensed bingo is a third-degree felony.

Game Room Regulations

Texas Local Government Code Chapter 234, Subchapter E lets any county's commissioners court license, zone, and inspect "game rooms": for-profit businesses with six or more skill or chance machines. Counties can restrict locations near schools and residences, require a $1,000 owner license and $50 employee permit, and fine violators up to $10,000 per day under Section 234.137.

Social Gambling Rules

Nevada's gambling laws exempt one narrow category from licensing: card games played in a private home or residence where nobody profits from running the game, with winnings going only to players. NRS 463.0152 excludes these games from the definition of gambling game entirely, so a home poker night without a house cut needs no state gaming license, unlike any dice game, slot machine, or public card room.

Texas Penal Code § 47.02(a) makes betting at cards, dice, or any game of chance a Class C misdemeanor. Section 47.02(b) supplies a defense: gambling that happens in a private place, where nobody profits beyond personal winnings and every player faces the same odds, cannot be prosecuted. Friendly poker nights and betting pools qualify; casino nights and rake-taking games don't.

Board Procedures

A Nevada association's executive board must meet at least once every quarter and not less than once every 100 days, and at least twice a year at a time outside standard business hours, with notice to owners at least 10 days ahead unless the bylaws require longer. On written request an owner may review the association's books and records at its business office or a location within 60 miles of the community, and the board must hand over copies of the financial statement, the budgets and the reserve study within 21 days, free in electronic form or at 25 cents a page for the first 10 pages and 10 cents thereafter. Miss that deadline and the board must pay a penalty of $25 for every day it fails to produce. The board may not charge more than $25 an hour for a records review, and if it refuses outright the Ombudsman can review the records for the owner and ask the Commission to subpoena them.

Texas Property Code Chapter 209 governs residential subdivision homeowners associations, not condominium associations and not associations that are themselves subject to the Public Information Act. Under Section 209.005, an HOA must open its books and records, including financial records, to any owner who sends a certified-mail request describing what is wanted. The association gets 10 business days to schedule an inspection or hand over copies, and 15 more if it cannot meet that.

CC&R Enforcement

Nevada law overrides HOA restrictions in several areas: NRS 278.0208 voids CC&Rs that prohibit or unreasonably restrict solar energy systems, NRS 116.320 protects display of the U.S. flag, NRS 116.325 protects political signs, and NRS 116.330 guarantees owners the right to install drought-tolerant landscaping (xeriscape).

A Texas HOA enforces its recorded restrictive covenants (Tex. Prop. Code Ch. 202), but Chapter 209 controls the procedure: § 209.006 requires certified-mail notice and a cure opportunity before most enforcement, and § 209.007 gives the owner a hearing. Section 202.003 directs that covenants 'shall be liberally construed' to give effect to their purpose.

Flag Display Rights

NRS 116.320 forbids a Nevada homeowners association, and the association's own governing documents, from banning display of the flag of the United States or the flag of the State of Nevada anywhere an owner has the right to occupy and use exclusively, which covers a front yard, back yard, patio, balcony or window of the unit. The protection is deliberately narrow: only those two flags are named, so a military branch, POW/MIA, first-responder, team or seasonal flag has no statutory shield in a Nevada common-interest community. The board may still adopt rules that reasonably restrict the placement and manner of the display, and the flag itself must be cloth, fabric or paper flown from a pole or staff or hung in a window. Whoever wins a lawsuit brought to enforce the section recovers reasonable attorney's fees and costs.

Texas Property Code section 202.012 stops homeowners associations from banning display of the U.S. flag, the Texas flag, or an official U.S. armed forces flag. An association can regulate flagpole size, materials, and lighting, but it cannot block at least one flagpole per property: a freestanding pole up to 20 feet in the front yard, or one attached to the house itself, owner's choice.

HOA Fines & Enforcement

For a violation of the governing documents that does not pose an imminent threat of causing a substantial adverse effect on health, safety or welfare, NRS 116.31031 limits a Nevada association's fine to $100 for each violation and a total of $1,000 per hearing against each owner, tenant or invitee, and the amount must still be commensurate with the severity of the violation. The board may impose nothing at all unless the owner received written notice of the governing-document provision at least 30 days before the alleged violation, then a detailed violation notice with a photograph, the proposed cure, the fine amount and a hearing date, and a real chance to cure or contest. If the violation is not cured within 14 days it becomes a continuing violation and the board may add a fine of no more than the original amount for each 7-day period. Nevada also bars foreclosure over an ordinary fine and caps collection charges by regulation.

Texas Property Code Chapter 209 governs HOA fines, but only for mandatory-membership subdivisions; condos fall under Chapter 82 instead. State law sets no dollar cap on a fine, only a required process: certified-mail notice describing the violation, a cure deadline, and the owner's right to a board hearing within 30 days of that notice. A fine cannot be assessed if the owner cures in time, and boards must publish a written fine schedule since 2024.

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.

DUI Checkpoint Legality

The word "checkpoint" does not appear anywhere in the Nevada Revised Statutes or in the Nevada Administrative Code. What Nevada does have is a two-part roadblock scheme in NRS chapter 484B, and the way it is drafted is the answer. NRS 484B.570(1) lets police establish an administrative roadblock "for any lawful purpose other than identifying the occupants of a vehicle or because of the existence of an emergency," so the general suspicionless-stop power carves occupant identification out of itself. The only power to stop cars in order to identify who is inside them is the temporary roadblock, and NRS 484B.573(1) confines that to two purposes: apprehending people known to be wanted and using the highways to escape, and controlling traffic at or near an emergency or hazard. A sobriety screen of every passing driver fits neither grant.

The Texas Legislature has authorized exactly one vehicle checkpoint program, and it has nothing to do with alcohol. Government Code Section 411.0095 lets the Department of Public Safety run border crossing checkpoints to stop stolen vehicles, farm tractors, construction equipment, aircraft and watercraft from entering Mexico, and it hedges that power with four conditions on the face of the statute. No Texas code contains a sobriety checkpoint provision, a roadblock provision, or any grant of authority to stop drivers at random to look for intoxication. Texas DWI enforcement instead runs on individualized stops under Transportation Code Section 521.025(b) and on the implied consent scheme in Transportation Code Chapter 724 that takes effect only after an arrest.

Vehicle Search & Consent

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."

No Texas statute obliges a driver to consent to a vehicle search, and none requires an officer to warn you that you may refuse. What Texas law does require is a paper trail: Article 2B.0054 of the Code of Criminal Procedure makes a peace officer who makes a motor vehicle stop report whether a search was conducted and, if so, whether the individual detained consented to it, what the reason for the search was, and whether anything was found. Texas then backs refusal with an unusually broad remedy, Article 38.23, which excludes evidence obtained in violation of any provision of Texas or federal law by an officer or any other person and requires the jury to be instructed to disregard it.

Native Plants

NRS 527.260 through 527.300 establishes a statewide program to protect, conserve, and restore native flora threatened with extinction, requiring permits from the State Forester Firewarden before any listed species can be removed or destroyed.

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.

Texas Property Code 202.007 prohibits HOAs from banning rainwater harvesting systems, and Health & Safety Code 341.042 sets statewide standards for harvested rainwater used as a potable supply. Rainwater harvesting is broadly protected and encouraged in every Texas city and county.

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.

Golf Carts & Low-Speed Vehicles

Nevada runs two separate schemes. A golf cart can get a DMV operating permit only "in a county whose population is 700,000 or more," which under the 2020 census reaches Clark County alone, and the permit costs $10 a year and requires headlamps, tail lamps, stop lamps, reflectors, a slow moving vehicle emblem, a mirror, brakes and proof of insurance. Everywhere else in the state a golf cart may be driven without a permit only in daylight, by a licensed driver, carrying a slow moving vehicle emblem, and only on a stretch of road the city or county has designated as a golf cart crossing or as a route between a golf course and the driver’s home. A low-speed vehicle is the alternative: registered for $33, it may use any highway posted at 35 mph or less.

Texas lets golf carts onto public roads in four defined situations rather than by general permission: inside a platted master planned community, on a beach open to vehicular traffic, on a road posted at 35 mph or less during daytime within five miles of where the cart is normally parked while travelling to or from a golf course, and anywhere a city has opted in under Transportation Code Section 551.404. The Texas Department of Motor Vehicles is forbidden to register a golf cart for highway use no matter how it has been modified, so street-legal carts carry a separate golf cart license plate costing up to $10 that never expires. Neighborhood electric vehicles are treated more generously and may use roads posted up to 45 mph.

Eviction Notice & Process

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.

Under Tex. Prop. Code § 24.005, a Texas landlord must give a defaulting or holdover tenant at least three days' written notice to vacate before filing a forcible detainer (eviction) suit, unless the lease sets a different period. After the notice expires the landlord files in justice court; only a court-ordered writ of possession can remove the tenant.

Just Cause Eviction

Nevada eviction procedures are exclusively set by state law under NRS 40.251 through 40.254, allowing summary eviction for nonpayment, lease violation, or no-cause termination after lease expiration, with no general just-cause requirement.

Landlord Entry & Notice

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.

Under Tex. Prop. Code § 92.019 a residential late fee must be reasonable and may be charged only if written in the lease and the rent stays unpaid two full days after due. A fee is deemed reasonable at up to 12% of rent for a structure with four or fewer units, or 10% for larger structures.

Lease Termination & Notice to Vacate

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.

Under Tex. Prop. Code § 91.001, either party may end a month-to-month tenancy by giving notice, and the tenancy ends on the later of the date in the notice or one month after notice is given. Shorter rent-paying periods need notice equal to that period. A written lease may set a different period, and fixed terms simply expire.

Rent Control

Texas law forbids cities from adopting rent control. A municipality may not establish rent control unless its governing body finds a housing emergency caused by a disaster and the governor approves the ordinance. There is no statewide rent cap, and in practice no Texas city has rent control. Landlords set increases freely.

Rent Increase Notice

Under NRS 118A.300, a Nevada landlord may not raise rent without serving written notice 60 days before the first increased payment, or 30 days in advance for a periodic tenancy of less than one month. Nevada sets no cap on the amount of an increase and bars local rent control.

Repairs & Habitability

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.

Under Tex. Prop. Code § 92.052 a landlord must make a diligent effort to repair conditions that materially affect an ordinary tenant's health or safety after proper notice. Section 92.056 sets the notice process and a rebuttable presumption that seven days is reasonable; § 92.0561 lets a tenant repair and deduct, capped at one month's rent or $500.

Security Deposit Rules

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.

Texas places no statutory limit on how much a landlord can charge for a security deposit. However, the landlord must refund the deposit within 30 days after the tenant surrenders the premises. A landlord who keeps a deposit in bad faith faces $100 plus three times the wrongfully withheld amount, plus the tenant's attorney's fees.

Agricultural Zoning Protection

Texas Local Government Code Chapter 212 and Agriculture Code Chapter 251 limit municipal authority to zone or regulate land qualified for agricultural use appraisal. Counties have no general zoning authority, and cities face restrictions on annexing or imposing land use rules on established farms.

Political Signs

Nevada law protects the right of residents to display political signs on their private property and limits the ability of homeowners associations to restrict political speech, though local governments may regulate size, placement, and duration consistent with the First Amendment.

Texas Election Code 259.003 and Election Code Section 259.002 protect political signs on private residential property. Cities cannot regulate compliant signs at any time, and HOAs cannot prohibit them during the pre-election window, subject only to narrow size and safety limits.

Plastic Bag Rules

The Texas Supreme Court in City of Laredo v. Laredo Merchants Association (2018) held that Health and Safety Code Section 361.0961 preempts municipal plastic bag bans. Cities and counties cannot prohibit or restrict retail use of plastic checkout bags as containers or packages.

Panel Permits

Nevada protects residential solar but has no statewide SolarAPP+ or one-day permit mandate. NRS 278.0208 bars prohibiting or unreasonably restricting solar systems, and NRS 278.580 requires local building codes to permit solar; permitting is handled locally.

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

Texas Health & Safety Code Chapter 757 establishes minimum pool yard enclosure requirements statewide, including a 48-inch fence height, self-closing self-latching gates, and limits on climbable surfaces. The rules apply to multi-unit residential pools across all Texas cities.

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.

Dash Cam & Windshield Mounting

Nevada never wrote a dash-cam rule, so a windshield camera is governed by the general obstruction section. NRS 484D.435(1) bars driving with "any sign, poster or other nontransparent material upon the front windshield, side wings or side or rear windows" that obstructs the driver's clear view of the highway or any intersecting highway, and a camera body is nontransparent material. Subsection 2 supplies the only carve-out: material displayed in "the 6-inch square area of the lower corner of the windshield farthest removed from the driver," which in a left-hand-drive car is the bottom passenger-side corner, plus anything federal or state law requires to be displayed. Nevada granted no behind-the-mirror allowance and no camera exemption, and a violation is a civil infraction carrying up to $500 under NRS 484A.7043(1).

Texas grants no square inches of windshield to a camera. Transportation Code Section 547.613(a)(1) makes it a misdemeanor to operate a vehicle with an object or material placed on or attached to the windshield or a side or rear window that obstructs or reduces the operator's clear view, and the sixteen exceptions in subsection (b) name a rearview mirror, a sun visor, a rear window wiper motor, a trunk lid hinge and a luggage rack, but no camera, phone or navigation unit. So a suction-cup dash cam is lawful only for as long as an officer agrees it does not cut into the driver's view, and a dash or console mount avoids the section entirely because nothing is attached to the glass.

Lane Splitting & Filtering

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.

Texas banned motorcycle lane splitting in plain words on September 1, 2023. Transportation Code Section 545.0605(a)(3)(B), added by House Bill 4122 of the 88th Legislature, says the operator of a motorcycle may not operate the motorcycle between lanes of traffic moving in the same direction. The same subdivision also bars passing a motor vehicle while in the same lane as that vehicle, which forecloses the in-lane filtering that riders sometimes treat as a lesser version of splitting. The one carve-out in Section 545.0605(b) is for a police officer performing official duties.

Plate Covers & Obstruction

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.

Texas outlaws license plate covers in Transportation Code Section 504.945(a)(7), which makes it an offense to display a plate carrying a coating, covering, protective substance or other material that distorts angular visibility or detectability, obscures half or more of the state name, or alters, covers or obscures the plate numbers or the plate colour. A clear cover is no safer than a smoked one, because the statute reaches distortion of angular visibility and not just plain readability. The base fine is up to $200, but obscuring the plate number specifically carries $300, then $600 for a second offense and a Class B misdemeanor for a third, and a driver who removes the cover before the first court appearance can have the charge dismissed on payment of a reimbursement fee of no more than $10.

Radar Detector Rules

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.

Texas does not prohibit owning, mounting or using a radar detector in a private passenger vehicle. The one radar offense in the vehicle equipment chapter, Transportation Code Section 547.616, reaches only devices built or used to interfere with, scramble or disrupt police radar or laser, and it expressly excludes a ham radio, band radio or similar electronic device. A detector listens and never transmits, so it falls outside that definition, while a jammer is a Class C misdemeanor to use, install or even sell. Two real limits remain: a commercial driver may not carry one at all, and a windshield mount still has to pass the clear-view test in Section 547.613(a)(1).

Underglow & Auxiliary Lighting

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.

Texas regulates extra lighting by color, count, height and aim rather than by naming underglow. Transportation Code Section 547.305 bars any lamp showing red from directly in front of the vehicle and bars a red, white or blue beacon, flashing or alternating light unless the chapter specifically authorizes it, and Section 547.305(e-2) counts a lamp as equipment whether it is bolted on or temporarily stuck on and whether or not it is switched on. The only underglow rule Texas wrote by name is Section 547.306, which allows LED ground effect lighting on a motorcycle or moped only in non-flashing amber or white. Bolt-on driving, passing, fog and spot lamps are each capped at two, with their own mounting heights.