Nevada SB 295: Revises provisions governing endowment care funds for cemeteries. (BDR 40-840)

Bill Text

- 83rd Session (2025)
Senate Bill No. 295–Senators Doñate and Flores

Joint Sponsors: Assemblymembers González,
Moore and D’Silva

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AN ACT relating to food establishments; requiring certain local
boards of health to provide certain information relating to
sidewalk vendors and compact food cart vendors;
establishing requirements for a compact food cart vendor;
authorizing a registered compact food cart vendor to sell
certain food items; setting forth certain requirements for the
regulation of sidewalk vendors and compact food cart
vendors by certain local boards of health and certain local
zoning boards, planning commissions and local governments;
exempting an establishment that sells or offers or displays for
sale certain foods and a compact food cart vendor from the
definition of “food establishment”; revising certain
requirements which certain local boards of health are
required to adopt relating to sidewalk vendors who sell food;
prohibiting certain governmental bodies from limiting the
types of food that may be sold by a sidewalk vendor or
compact food cart vendor; and providing other matters
properly relating thereto.
Legislative Counsel’s Digest:
Existing law requires a local board of health in a county whose population is
100,000 or more (currently Clark and Washoe Counties) or a city in a county whose
population is 100,000 or more to adopt regulations governing sidewalk vendors of
food. (NRS 446.861) Sections 3 and 5 of this bill define certain terms relating to
sidewalk vendors.
Section 7 of this bill requires a local board of health to: (1) develop and update
certain guidance documents explaining the requirements of existing regulations
adopted by the local board of health governing sidewalk vendors and compact food
cart vendors; and (2) make certain documents available on the Internet website of
the local board of health in more than one language.
Section 6 of this bill limits the applicability of sections 6-11.5 of this bill to a
local board of health in a county whose population is 100,000 or more or a city in a
county whose population is 100,000 or more.
Section 13 of this bill requires a local board of health to adopt regulations
governing sidewalk vendors of food, including requirements relating to: (1) the
plans for the design of a nonstationary conveyance and the use of modular
conveyances by a sidewalk vendor; (2) the use of certain sinks by a sidewalk
vendor; and (3) the storage of a conveyance in a private home.
Section 9.5 requires a person who wishes to operate as a compact food cart
vendor to register with the local board of health and pay the fee established by
regulation of the local board of health, if such a fee has been established. Section
2.5 of this bill defines “compact food cart vendor” to mean a person who sells
certain food items from a nonstationary conveyance. Section 9.5 also requires a

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compact food cart vendor to comply with certain ordinances and regulations
adopted by the governing body of a county, city or unincorporated town that
regulates sidewalk vendors. Section 9.5 prohibits a compact food cart vendor from
operating at a special event unless the compact food cart vendor complies with
certain requirements. Section 9.5 further: (1) provides that a registration as a
compact food cart vendor is valid for a period of 1 year; (2) sets forth a process for
the renewal of such registration; and (3) requires the payment of a renewal fee
established by regulation of the local board of health, if such a fee has been
established.
Section 10 authorizes a compact food cart vendor to sell certain food items,
which must be purchased prepackaged or prepared in a commercial grade kitchen
or on the conveyance.
Section 11.5 provides, with certain exceptions, that the provisions of existing
law and sections 2-11.5 of this bill do not prohibit a local zoning board, planning
commission or governing body of a county, city or unincorporated town from
adopting certain ordinances and regulations that: (1) prescribe the locations where
sidewalk vendors and compact food cart vendors are allowed to operate; (2)
authorize the seizure of food items, a conveyance, any cooking apparatus or other
products; and (3) authorize the destruction of certain food items. Sections 11.5,
14.3 and 14.7 of this bill further prohibit, with certain exceptions, such
governmental entities from limiting the types of food items a sidewalk vendor or
compact food cart vendor may sell if such food items comply with the regulations
of a local board of health or are authorized by section 10.
Section 9 requires a local board of health to: (1) prepare, maintain and make
publicly available on the Internet website of the local board of health a list of food
items that have been approved by the local board of health and a model menu of
preapproved food items that may be sold by a sidewalk vendor; and (2) establish a
process to preapprove certain food items sold from a conveyan