Nevada BAC Limits & DUI Consequences

0.08

Source: NRS 484C.110(1)(b) (body effective July 1, 2026, the one in force; the earlier body expired June 30, 2026 and carried the same 0.08 figure). Confirmed against Nevada Driver's Handbook (March 2024), Chapter 10. · Verified Aug 2026

0.02

Source: NRS 483.461(1): a driver under 21 testing at 0.02 or more but less than 0.08 has the license suspended for 90 days. Note this is a 90-day suspension, not the 185-day revocation that applies to a full DUI under NRS 484C.110. · Verified Aug 2026

0.04

Source: NRS 484C.120(1)(b) (body effective July 1, 2026): unlawful to drive a commercial motor vehicle with a concentration of alcohol of 0.04 or more but less than 0.08. · Verified Aug 2026

Driving in Nevada is itself consent to an evidentiary test. Anyone driving or in actual physical control of a vehicle on a highway, or on premises the public can access, is deemed to have consented to a test of blood, breath, urine, or another bodily substance when an officer has reasonable grounds to believe they were driving impaired. Refusing does not avoid the consequence, it triggers one: your driving privilege is revoked for one year. That becomes three years only if your license, permit, or privilege was already revoked within the immediately preceding seven years for refusing an evidentiary test. A prior DUI revocation on its own does not lengthen it; the earlier revocation has to have been for a refusal. The revocation for refusing runs on its own track, separate from whatever happens with the criminal DUI charge.

Source: NRS 484C.160(1): "any person who drives or is in actual physical control of a vehicle on a highway or on premises to which the public has access shall be deemed to have given his or her consent to an evidentiary test of his or her blood, urine, breath or other bodily substance". NRS 484C.210(1): on failure to submit, the person "is not eligible for a license, permit or privilege to drive for a period of: (a) One year; or (b) Three years, if the license, permit or privilege to drive of the person has been revoked during the immediately preceding 7 years for failure to submit to an evidentiary test." The failure-to-submit qualifier in (b) is what limits the three-year period; NRS 484C.210(2) sets the separate 185-day period for a test result at or above 0.08. Read 2026-08-11 at https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-484C.html. · Verified Aug 2026

Administrative: the Department revokes the license for 185 days when chemical tests show 0.08 percent BAC or a prohibited amount of a controlled substance. A driver under 21 who tests at 0.02 or more but less than 0.08 is treated differently, and receives a 90-day suspension rather than the 185-day revocation; an under-21 driver only reaches the 185-day revocation at 0.08, the same threshold that applies to an adult. Criminal: license revoked for at least 185 days (the judge may credit time served under the administrative revocation), jail or residential confinement of not less than 2 days nor more than 6 months, or 48 to 96 hours of community service, plus a fine of not less than $400 nor more than $1,000, DUI school, and possible court-ordered treatment. You must file an SR-22 Proof of Financial Responsibility as a condition of getting the license back, and carry it for three years from the reinstatement date. Nevada requires an ignition interlock at every DUI tier: for a first offense the court orders the device for 185 days as the condition of an ignition interlock privilege that restores driving before the revocation runs out.

Source: NRS 483.460(1)(a) for the 185-day revocation; NRS 484C.400(1)(a) for the criminal penalties (2 days to 6 months jail or residential confinement, or 48 to 96 hours community service, and a $400 to $1,000 fine); NRS 483.461(1) for the 90-day suspension that applies to a driver under 21 at 0.02 or more but less than 0.08; NRS 484C.460(1)(a) for the 185-day ignition interlock order. Corrects an earlier statement that under-21 drivers face the same 185-day revocation at 0.02. · Verified Aug 2026

yes

Source: NRS 484C.460(1): the court shall order an interlock at every conviction tier, including a first violation within 7 years (185 days), a second (1 year) and a felony DUI (3 years). Only two narrow exceptions exist under subsection 2: a physician-certified inability to provide a deep lung breath sample, or residence more than 100 miles from a device manufacturer or its agent. Recorded as "yes" rather than "conditional" because interlock attaches to every tier, not to selected offenses. · Verified Aug 2026