Nebraska Administrative Code
Topic - MOTOR VEHICLES, DEPARTMENT OF
Title 247 - NEBRASKA ADMINISTRATIVE CODE, NEBRASKA DEPARTMENT OF MOTOR VEHICLES
Chapter 7 - RULES AND REGULATIONS PERTAINING TO THE VISION AND MEDICAL REQUIREMENTS FOR CLASS A AND B LICENSES, LEARNER'S AND SCHOOL PERMITS AND SCHOOL BUS DRIVER'S PERMIT
Section 247-7-001 - Definitions

001.01 Applicant - Any person who appears before an examiner for the purpose of acquiring or renewing a license or permit.

001.02 Bioptic or Telescoptic Lenses - Specially constructed vision correction devices which include a lens system attached to or used in conjunction with a carrier lens.

001.03 Class A License - The driver's license issued by the Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles authorizing the person to whom it is issued to operate on public roads any motor vehicle except motorcycles, school busses, and tractor-trailer combinations registered for over twenty-four thousand pounds gross vehicle weight.

001.04 Class B License - The driver's license or endorsement on a driver's license authorizing the person to whom it is issued to operate a motorcycle on the public roads.

001.05 Corrective Lens - An ophthalmic lense made to a prescription for the purpose of improving or correcting the user's visual acuity or visual function.

001.06 Department - The Nebraska Department of Motor Vehicles.

001.07 Director - The Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles.

001.08 Examiner - A person appointed by the Director to conduct the examination of applicants for the purpose of determining the qualification of such applicants for the license or permit.

001.09 LPD-Learner's Permit - A permit issued by the Department to a person at least fifteen years of age authorizing that person to operate a motor vehicle for learning purposes when accompanied by a Nebraska licensed driver who is nineteen years of age or older.

001.10 LPE-Learner's Permit - A Permit issued by the Department to a person at least fourteen years of age for the purpose of operating a motor vehicle while learning to drive in preparation for the application for a School Permit.

001.11 Health Advisory Board - A group of health care professionals appointed by the Director for the purpose of advising on questions of medical qualification of applicants.

001.12 Motor Vehicles - Includes all motor vehicles propelled by any power other than muscular power, except self-propelled invalid chairs, farm tractors, farm tractors used occasionally outside of general farm usage, road rollers, and any vehicles which run only on rails or tracks, and all off-road vehicles, including but not limited to golf carts, go-carts, riding lawnmowers, garden tractors, all terrain vehicles, and snowmobiles.

001.13 Ophthomologist - A physician that is board certified in ophthomology.

001.14 Optometrist - A person licensed by Nebraska or other states to practice optometry.

001.15 Peripheral Vision - That portion of the field of vision that is away from a central fixation point (i.e., to the side or periphery).

001.16 Physician - A person licensed by Nebraska or other states to practice medicine and surgery.

001.17 Request for Statement of Physician - A form approved by the Department for the purpose of recording the results of a physical examination and medical history by a medical doctor on the condition of an applicant to assist in determining the qualification of the applicant for a license or permit.

001.18 Restriction Codes - Instructions printed on a license or permit limiting the driving privilege of the licensee. The restriction codes used by the Department include the following:

Code 1: Must wear spectacle lenses (glasses), contact lenses, or bioptic or telescopic lenses.

Code 2: Must have right and left outside mirrors on any vehicle driven.

Code 3: Must have automatic turn indicators on any vehicle driven.

Code 4: Must operate vehicles with automatic transmission only.

Code 5: Must operate a vehicle within a specified geographic area or designated roadway only.

Code 6: Must operate a vehicle only during daylight hours; that is, between sunrise and sunset.

Code 7: Must not operate a motor vehicle on any public streets marked for one-way traffic or marked for more than one lane of traffic in each direction.

Code 8: Must drive vehicles equipped with specified controls for operating the steering, brakes and/or speed functions of the vehicle only.

Code 9: Must operate a vehicle only with specified speed limitations.

Code 10: Must not operate a vehicle on any divided arterial highway designed primarily for through traffic with full control of access.

Code 11: Special: as specified by the Department.

001.19 School Bus - Shall mean a motor vehicle with motive power, except a trailer, designed or modified by the manufacturer, distributor or dealer for carrying eleven (11) or more passengers, excluding the driver, meeting or exceeding Nebraska Student Vehicle Minimum Standards (92 NAC93); which at any time is used to carry school children and school personnel exclusively. Such transportation service must be sponsored and approved by the local school governing board. Vehicles that only carry school children along with other passengers as a part of the operation of a common carrier under the jurisdiction of Interstate Commerce Commission or Nebraska Public Services Commission are not included with the definition of school bus.

001.20 S.P.-School Permit - A permit issued to a student between the ages of fourteen and sixteen for the purpose of driving to and from school in compliance with the laws of the state.

001.21 Vision Statement - An optometrist's or ophthalmologist's statement certifying the vision reading obtained when testing the applicant within ninety days of the applicant's license examination.

001.22 Visual Acuity - The level of visual ability to recognize/discern objects, forms and figures as expressed in the standard Snellen form.