AI Laws in Carson City, Nevada
AI Laws USA tracks 20 AI rules that apply to people and businesses in Carson City, Nevada: 10+ federal rules, 10 Nevada state-level rules (no Carson City-specific ordinances are indexed yet). Coverage is strongest on government use of AI, consumer protection, automated decision-making, and data-center siting and energy. 10 of these rules are already in effect. Each entry below links to its official source.
Carson City local AI rules
No city- or county-specific AI ordinances are currently indexed for Carson City, Nevada.
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Nevada-level AI rules most relevant to Carson City
10 Nevada state rules apply to residents and businesses in Carson City. Showing the 8 most relevant to Carson City's local picture; 2 more are on the Nevada jurisdiction page.
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In effect Strength: limited
NV AB 511 (2011 — first AV statute)
Nevada · Effective June 17, 2011 · NRS Ch. 482A (2011 Nev. Stat. Ch. 461)
Nevada was the first U.S. state to legalize autonomous vehicles. AB 511 directed the DMV to write rules for testing and operating self-driving cars on Nevada roads, including a special license endorsement and an autonomous-vehicle testing license, and made Nevada the proving ground for the early Google self-driving project.
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In effect Strength: moderate
Nevada EO 2026-005 — responsible data center standard
Nevada · Effective September 18, 2026 · Nev. Exec. Order No. 2026-005 (Sept. 18, 2026) — Nevada Standard for Responsible Data Center Development
Nevada's governor signed an executive order creating what his office calls the Nevada Standard for Responsible Data Center Development. It works through the state's tax-abatement gate rather than through zoning or permitting: a data center developer that wants a partial tax abatement from the Governor's Office of Economic Development must now pay the Local School Support Tax IN FULL — that portion may not be abated in any amount — and must sign a binding Nevada Community Support Commitment before its application can go to the GOED Board at all. The commitment covers siting, neighboring communities, workforce, community benefits and transparency, and requires the developer to meet local water standards, to cover the cost of serving its own facility rather than passing that cost to other ratepayers, and to avoid straining the electrical grid during emergencies. The order sets a floor: a combined sales and use tax rate of not less than 4.6 percent, made up of the Sales and Use Tax Act and the Local School Support Tax, neither abatable. It also directs the state to produce a Responsible Speed to Power Plan identifying the generation and transmission needed to serve anticipated large-load demand through 2036. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO: it does not restrict, cap, or ban data center construction anywhere in Nevada. A developer willing to forgo a state tax abatement is not reached by this order at all. Its background matters for reading its strength — a 2015 abatement statute had obliged GOED to grant abatements to data centers meeting employment, wage and investment thresholds, with no energy or water protections and no discretion to refuse; the 2025 Legislature restored the Board's authority to deny, reduce or condition an award, and this order exercises that recovered discretion.
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In effect Strength: limited
Policy on the Responsible and Ethical Use of Artificial Inte
Nevada · Effective November 27, 2024 · Policy on the Responsible and Ethical Use of Artificial Intelligence in Nevada State Government Executive Branch
The Nevada CIO-signed policy sets minimum standards for responsible, ethical, and transparent AI use across executive-branch agencies, requiring risk-based assessments, procurement/contract controls, and continuous monitoring of AI tools.
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In effect Strength: stronger
Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe (NV) permanent data center moratorium (2026)
Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe (NV) · Effective August 21, 2026 · Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Council resolution (August 21, 2026); reported KUNR Sep 2, 2026
The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribal Council passed a permanent moratorium on data center development on Pyramid Lake Paiute tribal homelands on August 21, 2026. Tribal Chairman Steven Wadsworth cited the tribe's decades-long fight for water sovereignty to protect endangered species — including the cui-ui sucker fish and the Lahontan cutthroat trout, found only in Pyramid Lake — and stated that tribal lands simply lack the water or power-grid infrastructure that large-scale data centers require. Autumn Harry, a Pyramid Lake Paiute tribal member and co-founder of the Water Over Data Alliance, has been an active advocate for educating indigenous communities about data centers as 'a form of land theft and water theft.' The Pyramid Lake Paiute Tribe's reservation spans approximately 475,000 acres in Washoe and Storey Counties, Nevada, centered on Pyramid Lake — a sacred site and one of the largest natural lakes in the Great Basin. The moratorium is permanent (not time-limited), placing it among the strongest tribal land-use restrictions enacted against data centers in 2026.
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In effect Strength: limited
NV DOI AI Bulletin
NV · Effective February 23, 2024 · Nevada DOI Bulletin 24-001 (2024-02-23)
The NV Department of Insurance adopted the NAIC Model Bulletin on Use of Artificial Intelligence Systems by Insurers. Insurers licensed in NV must maintain a written AI program with governance, risk-management, testing, third-party-AI oversight, and documentation controls. The bulletin operationalizes existing unfair-trade-practice and unfair-discrimination law as applied to insurers' AI use cases — underwriting, pricing, claims, fraud detection, and marketing.
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In effect Strength: limited
Nevada AB 406 (no AI replacing school counselors)
Nevada · Effective July 1, 2025 · 2025 Nev. Stat., AB 406, Sec. 2 (amending NRS ch. 391)
Nevada prohibits public schools, including charter schools, from using artificial intelligence to perform the mental-health-related functions and duties of a school counselor, school psychologist, or school social worker. The law directs the Nevada Department of Education to develop a policy governing how those school employees may use AI when providing therapy, counseling, or other mental or behavioral health services to students.
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In effect Strength: limited
Nevada AB 406 (AI can't pose as a therapist)
Nevada · Effective July 1, 2025 · 2025 Nev. Stat., AB 406, Sec. 7 (new section of NRS ch. 433)
Nevada prohibits an AI provider from making available in the state an AI system that is specifically programmed to provide a service that would amount to the practice of professional mental or behavioral health care if a person did it. AI providers also may not state or imply that their AI system can provide such care or that it is a therapist, counselor, psychiatrist, or doctor. The state must publish educational materials directing people to licensed care. Genuine self-help materials and AI used by licensed providers for administrative tasks are not prohibited.
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In effect Strength: limited
NV NCII Deepfake Law
Nevada · Effective October 1, 2025 · 2025 Nev. Stat. (SB 213); NRS 200.780
Nevada expanded its intimate-images law to explicitly cover AI-generated and digitally manipulated images — anything that could reasonably be mistaken for a real depiction of the person, whether or not their actual image was used. Knowing distribution is a Category D felony (1–4 years).
Federal AI rules that apply in Carson City, Nevada
These federal rules apply everywhere in the United States, including Carson City, Nevada. Showing the 10 strongest and most recent.
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In effect Strength: stronger
TVA data center capacity commitment charge (2026)
Tennessee Valley Authority · Effective October 1, 2026 · Tenn. Valley Auth. Bd. of Dirs. — Data Center Capacity Commitment Charge (approved Aug. 20, 2026; eff. Oct. 1, 2026)
The Tennessee Valley Authority's Board of Directors approved a separate, higher wholesale rate for data centers on August 20, 2026, effective October 1. New or expanding data center loads above 5 megawatts now fall under a Capacity Commitment Charge attached to TVA's data center rate schedules, designed to recover the incremental capacity costs those customers impose on the system. The headline figures are substantial: upfront capacity commitment charges of roughly $1.5 million per megawatt, payable over three to five years, and an all-in average billing increase for data center customers of about 10%, phased in across three consecutive fiscal years. The stated purpose is to keep residential rates low while still serving growing data center demand. TVA matters here out of proportion to a single utility. It is a federal corporate agency supplying power across seven states, so this is not a state rate case but a regional cost-allocation decision reaching a large share of the Southeast — and TVA is among the first large US utilities to adopt a tariff aimed specifically at AI-driven load. Where most 2026 measures in this dataset restrict where data centers may be built, this one changes what they pay to run.
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In effect Strength: stronger
Bartz v. Anthropic
N.D. Cal. · Effective September 5, 2025 · Bartz v. Anthropic PBC, No. 3:24-cv-05417 (N.D. Cal.)
Authors Andrea Bartz, Charles Graeber, and Kirk Wallace Johnson sued Anthropic over its use of pirated-book datasets to train Claude. In June 2025 Judge William Alsup ruled that training on lawfully purchased books was fair use. The piracy claims (LibGen ingestion) proceeded toward settlement; in September 2025 Anthropic agreed to a $1.5 billion class settlement covering ~500,000 works. Judge Alsup granted preliminary approval September 25, 2025 and final approval July 20, 2026. The appeal period runs through August 19, 2026; class members will not receive payments until at least end of 2026.
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In effect Strength: stronger
COPPA + 2025 Rule (childrens data)
United States · Effective June 23, 2025 · 15 U.S.C. §§ 6501–6506; 16 C.F.R. Part 312
COPPA requires online services aimed at children under 13 to get verifiable parental consent before collecting kids' personal data. The 2025 rule update — fully in effect since April 22, 2026 — adds biometric identifiers (like face templates and voiceprints, which matter for AI tools), requires separate parental consent before sharing children's data for targeted advertising, and tightens data retention limits.
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In effect Strength: stronger
TAKE IT DOWN Act
United States · Effective May 19, 2025 · Pub. L. No. 119-12 (S. 146)
Makes it a federal crime to knowingly publish intimate images of someone without consent, including AI-generated deepfakes. Social media and similar platforms must give victims a way to request removal and must take the content (and known copies) down within 48 hours. The platform removal requirement became enforceable May 19, 2026, and the FTC has already begun enforcement.
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Blocked / in litigation
NetChoice v. Yost (Ohio)
S.D. Ohio · Effective April 16, 2025 · NetChoice, LLC v. Yost, No. 2:24-cv-00047 (S.D. Ohio Apr. 16, 2025)
Ohio's Social Media Parental Notification Act — requiring parental consent for minors' social-media use, including algorithmic feeds — was preliminarily enjoined on February 12, 2024, then permanently enjoined on April 16, 2025 when the district court granted summary judgment for NetChoice. The state appealed to the Sixth Circuit, which vacated the district court's injunction in 2026.
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In effect Strength: stronger
Thaler v. Perlmutter (Copyright)
D.C. Cir. · Effective March 18, 2025 · Thaler v. Perlmutter, 130 F.4th 1039 (D.C. Cir. 2025)
The companion copyright case: Stephen Thaler sought to register a copyright with 'Creativity Machine' (his AI) as the author. The D.C. Circuit affirmed in March 2025 that the Copyright Act's human-authorship requirement is dispositive as a matter of statutory law. AI cannot be a copyright author under U.S. law.
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In effect Strength: stronger
Louis v. SafeRent
D. Mass. · Effective November 20, 2024 · Louis v. SafeRent Solutions, LLC, No. 1:22-cv-10800 (D. Mass.)
SafeRent agreed in November 2024 to a $2.275M settlement and a five-year ban on using its 'SafeRent Score' for housing-voucher applicants, after a class action alleged its AI tenant-screening tool systematically denied housing to Black and Hispanic Section 8 voucher holders. The first major AI tenant-screening Fair Housing Act settlement.
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In effect Strength: stronger
FTC Impersonation Rule (AI)
United States · Effective April 1, 2024 · 16 C.F.R. Part 461; 89 Fed. Reg. 15017
The FTC's Impersonation Rule lets the agency directly sue scammers who pretend to be a government agency or a real business — including those who use AI-cloned voices or generated images to do so. Civil penalties can reach $53,088 per violation. The FTC also issued a supplemental notice in February 2024 proposing to extend the rule to all individual impersonation.
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In effect Strength: stronger
FTC v. Rite Aid
FTC · Effective February 26, 2024 · FTC v. Rite Aid Corp., No. 2:23-cv-05023 (E.D. Pa. Dec. 19, 2023)
The FTC banned Rite Aid from using facial-recognition technology in its stores for five years after finding the pharmacy chain's FRT system falsely tagged customers — disproportionately women and people of color — as shoplifters, leading to wrongful detentions and humiliations.
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In effect Strength: stronger
TCPA (AI voice calls)
United States · Effective February 8, 2024 · 47 U.S.C. § 227; FCC 24-17
Robocalls using AI-cloned or AI-generated voices are treated like other 'artificial voice' calls: callers need your prior express consent, must identify themselves, and must offer opt-outs for telemarketing. You can personally sue violators for $500 to $1,500 per illegal call.
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