NAC488.520. Duties of person required to decontaminate vessel or conveyance.

     1. Except as otherwise provided in this section, a person required to decontaminate a vessel or conveyance pursuant to paragraph (c) of subsection 1 of NRS 488.530 shall:

     (a) Inspect all exposed surfaces on the vessel or conveyance;

     (b) Remove and kill all aquatic invasive species that are visible on the vessel or conveyance;

     (c) Remove all aquatic plant material and any other debris visible on the vessel or conveyance;

     (d) Inspect, clean and dry each item on the vessel or conveyance, including, without limitation, each life jacket, water ski, anchor, rope and piece of equipment for fishing;

     (e) At or reasonably near the site at which the vessel or conveyance is taken out of the impaired body of water, drain all water from the vessel or conveyance and from any equipment on the vessel or conveyance, including, without limitation, any water held in a ballast tank, motor cooling system, bilge, live well, motor or lower outboard unit;

     (f) Wash the vessel and any portion of the conveyance that was in contact with the impaired body of water with high-pressure hot water; and

     (g) Allow the vessel or conveyance to dry for not less than the period recommended by the Drying Time Estimator of the 100th Meridian Initiative, which is available at its website, http://www.100thmeridian.org/.

     2. In lieu of complying with the provisions of subsection 1, the person may decontaminate the vessel or conveyance at an inspection station for aquatic invasive species using any method approved by the Department for that inspection station.

     (Added to NAC by Bd. of Wildlife Comm’rs by R048-12, eff. 11-1-2012)