1. The Authority shall charge and collect a fee, in an amount established by the Authority by regulation, from each applicant for a permit to operate an autonomous vehicle network company in this State. The fee required by this subsection is not refundable. The Authority shall not issue a permit to operate an autonomous vehicle network company in this State unless the applicant has paid the fee required by this subsection.
2. For each year after the year in which the Authority issues a permit to an autonomous vehicle network company, the Authority shall levy and collect an annual assessment from the autonomous vehicle network company at a rate determined by the Authority based on the gross operating revenue derived from the intrastate operations of the autonomous vehicle network company in this State.
3. The annual assessment levied and collected by the Authority pursuant to subsection 2 must be used by the Authority for the regulation of autonomous vehicle network companies.
(Added to NRS by 2017, 4473)