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NV Rev Stat § 482.322 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases|NRS 482.322 - Vehicle dealers, manufacturers, distributors and rebuilders: Licenses required; additional restriction upon activities of new vehicle dealer; license does not extend to mobile homes; Department to investigate applicant; penalties for violations.

  1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2 and NRS 482.3225, a person shall not engage in the activities of a new vehicle dealer, used vehicle dealer, manufacturer, distributor or rebuilder in this State until the person has been issued:  (a) A new vehicle dealer’s, used vehicle dealer’s, manufacturer’s, distributor’s, rebuilder’s or lessor’s license certificate or similar license or permit by every city within whose corporate limits the person maintains an established place of business and by every county in which the person maintains an established place of business outside the corporate limits of a city; and  (b) A license by the Department. The Department shall not issue a license to the person until he or she has been issued all certificates, licenses and permits required by paragraph (a).  2. Except for a manufacturer described in subsection 2 of NRS 482.078, a person licensed as a dealer pursuant to this chapter shall not engage in the activities of a new vehicle dealer until he or she has provided the Department with satisfactory proof that the person is authorized by a manufacturer to display and offer for sale vehicles produced or distributed by that manufacturer.  3. A vehicle dealer’s, manufacturer’s or rebuilder’s license issued pursuant to this chapter does not permit a person to engage in the business of a new or used mobile home dealer, manufacturer or rebuilder.  4. The Department shall investigate any applicant for a dealer’s, manufacturer’s, distributor’s, rebuilder’s or lessor’s license certificate or license and complete an investigation report on a form provided by the Department.  5. A person who violates subsection 1 or 2 is guilty of:  (a) For a first offense, a misdemeanor.  (b) For a second offense, a gross misdemeanor.  (c) For a third and any subsequent offense, a category D felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130.  (Added to NRS by 1957, 509; A 1963, 68; 1965, 1474; 1971, 1303; 1975, 1072, 1534, 1576; 1979, 1024, 1223; 1981, 1045; 1983, 1001; 1991, 755; 1995, 776, 2355; 2007, 3205; 2014, 28th Special Session, 4)
NV Rev Stat § 482.3225 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases|NRS 482.3225 - Conditions under which charitable organization not required to obtain certain licensure.

A charitable organization may sell a vehicle which has been donated to the organization without complying with the provisions of subsection 1 of NRS 482.322 if:  1. No member, director, officer, employee or agent of the charitable organization has a pecuniary interest in the sale of the vehicle; and  2. The charitable organization ensures that the insurance required pursuant to NRS 485.185 is provided for that vehicle until it is purchased.  (Added to NRS by 1995, 2354; A 1997, 624)
NV Rev Stat § 482.323 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases|NRS 482.323 - Established place of business required for dealers, short-term lessors and brokers; notification of Department of branches by short-term lessors.

  1. Except as otherwise provided in subsections 2 and 3, every vehicle dealer shall maintain an established place of business in this State which:  (a) Includes a permanent enclosed building, owned in fee or leased, with sufficient space to display one or more vehicles which the dealer is licensed to sell; and  (b) Is principally used by the dealer to conduct his or her business.  2. Every used vehicle dealer, trailer dealer or semitrailer dealer shall maintain an established place of business in this State which has:  (a) Sufficient space to display one or more vehicles;  (b) Boundaries which are clearly marked; and  (c) A permanent enclosed building large enough to accommodate his or her office and provide a safe place to keep the books and other records of the business.  3. A short-term lessor shall:  (a) Designate his or her principal place of business as the short-term lessors established place of business and each other location where the short-term lessor conducts business as a branch that is operated pursuant to the license for the principal place of business.  (b) Notify the Department of each branch at which he or she conducts business by filing, on forms provided by the Department, such information pertaining to each branch as required by the Department.  4. Every broker shall maintain an established place of business in this State which is in a permanent building with sufficient space to accommodate his or her office.  (Added to NRS by 1981, 1044; A 1995, 2366; 1997, 2992)
NV Rev Stat § 482.3253 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases|NRS 482.3253 - Factors Director must consider before renewing license of manufacturer, distributor, rebuilder or dealer; authority of Director to require bond.

The Director shall, before renewing any license issued pursuant to NRS 482.325, consider:  1. The number and types of complaints received against a manufacturer, distributor, rebuilder or dealer by the Department; and  2. Any administrative fines imposed upon the manufacturer, distributor, rebuilder or dealer by the Department pursuant to NRS 482.554 and 482.565,  and may require the manufacturer, distributor, rebuilder or dealer to provide a good and sufficient bond in the amount set forth in subsection 1 of NRS 482.345 for each category of vehicle sold at each place of business and in each county in which the manufacturer, distributor, rebuilder or dealer is licensed to do business.  (Added to NRS by 2007, 3200)
NV Rev Stat § 482.3255 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases|NRS 482.3255 - Denial or revocation of license: Evidence of unfitness of applicant or licensee.

Evidence of unfitness of an applicant or a licensee for purposes of denial or revocation of a license may consist of, but is not limited to:  1. Failure to discharge a lienholder on a vehicle within 30 days after it is traded to the dealership.  2. Being the former holder of or being a partner, officer, director, owner or manager involved in management decisions of a dealership which held a license issued pursuant to NRS 482.325 which was revoked for cause and never reissued or was suspended upon terms which were never fulfilled.  3. Defrauding or attempting to defraud the State or a political subdivision of any taxes or fees in connection with the sale or transfer of a vehicle.  4. Forging the signature of the registered or legal owner of a vehicle on a certificate of title.  5. Purchasing, selling, otherwise disposing of or possessing any vehicle which the applicant or licensee knows, or a reasonable person should know, is stolen or otherwise illegally appropriated.  6. Willfully failing to deliver to a purchaser or the purchaser’s lienholder a certificate of title to a vehicle the applicant or licensee has sold.  7. Refusing to allow an agent of the Department to inspect, during normal business hours, all books, records and files of the dealership which are maintained within the State.  8. Any fraud which includes, but is not limited to:  (a) Misrepresentation in any manner, whether intentional or grossly negligent, of a material fact.  (b) An intentional failure to disclose a material fact.  9. Willful failure to comply with any regulation adopted by the Department.  10. Knowingly submitting or causing to be submitted any false, forged or otherwise fraudulent document to the Department to obtain a lien, title, salvage title or certificate of ownership or any duplicate thereof for a vehicle.  11. Knowingly causing or allowing a false, forged or otherwise fraudulent document to be maintained as a record of his or her business.  12. Violating the provisions of NRS 482.555 which involved the sale or transfer of interest in a vehicle.  (Added to NRS by 1981, 1045; A 2003, 461; 2007, 3205)
NV Rev Stat § 482.3256 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases|NRS 482.3256 - Licensees to post licenses in conspicuous place visible to public.

A dealer, rebuilder, manufacturer, distributor, broker or long-term or short-term lessor licensed under the provisions of this chapter shall post his or her license, and all licenses issued to persons in his or her employ who are licensed as salespersons, in a conspicuous place clearly visible to the general public at the location described in the license.  (Added to NRS by 2007, 3199)
NV Rev Stat § 482.3257 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases|NRS 482.3257 - Dealers: Activities constituting prima facie evidence that person is acting as dealer.

Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2 of NRS 482.020, the following activities are prima facie evidence that a person is engaged in the activities of a vehicle dealer:  1. A person displays for sale, sells or offers for sale any vehicle which he or she does not personally own;  2. A person demonstrates, or allows the demonstration or operation of, any vehicle for the purpose of sale or future sale or as an inducement to purchase the vehicle; or  3. A person engages in an activity specified by subsection 1 of NRS 482.020 or any other act regarding a vehicle which would lead a reasonable person to believe that he or she may purchase that vehicle or a similar vehicle.  (Added to NRS by 2007, 3200)
NV Rev Stat § 482.326 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases|NRS 482.326 - Dealers: Location and name of business; designation of principal place of business and branches; branches may be operated under authority of license for principal place of business under certain conditions; change of name or location.

  1. A vehicle dealer shall inform the Department of the location of each place at which the vehicle dealer conducts any business, and the name under which he or she does business at each location.  2. If a vehicle dealer does business at more than one location, the vehicle dealer shall designate one location in each county in which he or she does business as his or her principal place of business for that county and one name as the principal name of the business. The vehicle dealer shall designate all other business locations not otherwise designated as a principal place of business pursuant to this subsection as branches.  3. A vehicle dealer who maintains a principal place of business and one or more businesses designated as branches may operate those branches under the authority of the license issued by the Department to the principal place of business under the following conditions:  (a) The principal and branch locations are owned and operated by the same principal or group of principals listed on the records of the Department for the principal place of business;  (b) The sales activities conducted at a branch location are the same as those authorized by the Department at the principal place of business;  (c) The principal place of business and each branch location are located within the same county;  (d) The principal place of business and each branch location maintains the appropriate city or county license;  (e) The closest boundary of a branch location is not more than 500 feet from the principal place of business;  (f) The business sign displayed at each branch location meets the requirements of NRS 482.332 and is essentially the same in name, style and design as that of the principal place of business;  (g) Sales transactions originating at a branch location must be culminated, and the records of the transaction maintained, at the principal place of business; and  (h) The vehicle dealer shall provide all documentation which the Department deems necessary to ensure that each business location is operated in accordance with the provisions of this chapter and all other applicable laws and regulations established for the operation of a vehicle sales business in this State.  4. If a vehicle dealer changes the name or location of any of his or her established places of business, the vehicle dealer shall not conduct business as a vehicle dealer under the new name or at the new location until he or she has been issued a license for the new name or location from the Department.  (Added to NRS by 1979, 1023; A 1997, 91; 2007, 3206)
NV Rev Stat § 482.3263 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases|NRS 482.3263 - Books and records of dealers and brokers: Location; inspection and copying; retention.

  1. A dealer shall keep his or her books and records for all locations at which the dealer does business within a county at his or her principal place of business in that county. A broker shall keep his or her books and records at his or her principal place of business.  2. Each dealer and broker shall:  (a) Permit any authorized agent of the Director or the State of Nevada to inspect and copy the books and records during usual business hours; or  (b) Not later than 3 business days after receiving a request from such a person for the production of the books and records or any other information, provide the requested books, records and other information to the person at the location specified in the request.  3. A dealer or broker shall retain the books and records for 3 years after he or she ceases to be licensed as a dealer or broker.  (Added to NRS by 1981, 1044; A 1993, 2342; 1995, 2366; 1997, 92)
NV Rev Stat § 482.327 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases|NRS 482.327 - Dealers: License for each branch; exception; contents of license; posting of license; temporary license.

  1. If a vehicle dealer, other than a short-term lessor, has one or more branches, the dealer shall procure from the Department a license for each branch in addition to the license issued for his or her principal place of business.  2. The Department shall specify on each license it issues:  (a) The name of the licensee;  (b) The location for which the license is issued; and  (c) The name under which the licensee does business at that location.  3. Each vehicle dealer shall post each license issued to the dealer by the Department in a conspicuous place clearly visible to the general public at the location described in the license.  4. The Department shall, by regulation, provide for the issuance of a temporary license for a licensed dealer to conduct business at a temporary location. Any such regulations must include the imposition of a reasonable fee for the issuance of the temporary license.  (Added to NRS by 1979, 1024; A 1993, 2342; 1997, 1515, 2993; 1999, 629)
NV Rev Stat § 482.3275 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases|NRS 482.3275 - Dealers: Signatures not required to be acknowledged on documents required to be filed with Department or other state agencies; exception.

Except as otherwise provided in NRS 482.346, the Department or any other agency of this State shall not require that a dealer have his or her signature acknowledged before a notary public or any other person authorized to take acknowledgments in this State on any document the dealer is required to file with the Department or agency.  (Added to NRS by 1995, 2354)
NV Rev Stat § 482.3277 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases|NRS 482.3277 - Dealers: Certain purchasers and prospective purchasers to be allowed to view certain documents in Spanish language.

Each vehicle dealer who advertises that the Spanish language is spoken at his or her place of business or who conducts business by communicating in Spanish with a purchaser or prospective purchaser regarding the potential purchase of a motor vehicle shall, upon the request of a purchaser or prospective purchaser of a motor vehicle with whom the vehicle dealer or the dealer’s agent is communicating or has communicated in Spanish as a part of the preliminary discussions and negotiations regarding the purchase or potential purchase of the vehicle, allow the purchaser or prospective purchaser to view the version of the forms for the application for credit and contracts to be used in the sale of vehicles which have been translated into Spanish pursuant to subsection 3 of NRS 97.299.  (Added to NRS by 2003, 1905)
NV Rev Stat § 482.328 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases|NRS 482.328 - Vehicle taken in trade: Satisfaction of outstanding security interest.

If a licensed dealer takes a vehicle in trade on the purchase of another vehicle and there is an outstanding security interest, the licensed dealer shall satisfy the outstanding security interest within 30 days after the vehicle is taken in trade on the purchase of the other vehicle.  (Added to NRS by 1987, 1084)
NV Rev Stat § 482.330 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases|NRS 482.330 - Manufacturers, distributors, dealers and rebuilders: Certificates of registration and special plates for vehicles provided by Department upon licensing; special plates for loaned vehicles; limitation.

  1. Upon issuance of a dealer’s, distributor’s, manufacturer’s or rebuilder’s license certificate pursuant to NRS 482.322, the Department shall furnish to the manufacturer, distributor, dealer or rebuilder one or more registration certificates and special plates for use on the vehicles described in the provisions of NRS 482.320. Each plate must have displayed upon it the identification number which is assigned to the dealer, distributor, manufacturer or rebuilder, and may at the discretion of the Department have a different letter or symbol on each plate or pair of plates. The manufacturer’s, distributor’s, dealer’s or rebuilder’s license plates may be used interchangeably on that vehicle.  2. The Department shall issue to each dealer a reasonable number of registration certificates and license plates.  3. The Department shall provide by regulation for the issuance of special license plates to dealers or rebuilders and for the number of those plates for use on vehicles loaned by those dealers or rebuilders to:  (a) Customers in the course of business.  (b) The State of Nevada.  (c) The Nevada System of Higher Education.  (d) A school district.  (e) A county, city or town.  (f) An organization that is exempt from taxation pursuant to the provisions of section 501(c)(3) of the Internal Revenue Code.  The regulations must prescribe what use may be made of the plates and the persons who may operate a motor vehicle with those plates.  4. Notwithstanding the provisions of subsection 3, a dealer may use not more than six special plates from the total number of plates issued pursuant to this section for personal use by the dealer or a member of the dealer’s immediate family.  [Part 16:202:1931; A 1937, 330; 1951, 165; 1953, 280; 1955, 468] — (NRS A 1960, 130; 1965, 1474; 1971, 1304; 1975, 1576; 1979, 1224; 1983, 1002; 1999, 1370; 2007, 3207)
NV Rev Stat § 482.332 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases|NRS 482.332 - Dealers, manufacturers, lessors, rebuilders and brokers: Duty to affix legible sign containing name of business; exception.

  1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, at each of his or her established places of business, each vehicle dealer, manufacturer, lessor, rebuilder and broker shall permanently affix a sign containing the name of the business in lettering of sufficient size to be clearly legible from the center of the nearest street or roadway, except that the lettering must be at least 8 inches high and formed by lines that are at least 1-inch wide.  2. Upon approval of the Director, and in accordance with all other city and county ordinances, a vehicle dealer or a long-term or short-term lessor may be exempted from the requirements of subsection 1 if:  (a) The established place of business or branch location is located within the confines of another business;  (b) The other place of business is the primary business at that location; and  (c) The primary business is not licensed pursuant to any provision of this chapter.  (Added to NRS by 1979, 1023; A 1997, 1515; 2007, 3207)
NV Rev Stat § 482.3331 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases|NRS 482.3331 - Director to consider certain matters before renewing license of broker; authority of Director to require bond.

The Director shall, before renewing any license issued pursuant to NRS 482.333, consider:  1. The number and types of complaints received against a broker by the Department; and  2. Any administrative fines imposed upon the broker by the Department pursuant to NRS 482.554 and 482.565,  and may require the broker to provide a good and sufficient bond in the amount set forth in subsection 1 of NRS 482.345 for each category of vehicle for which services are provided at each place of business and in each county in which the broker is licensed to do business.  (Added to NRS by 1995, 2363; A 2007, 3208)
NV Rev Stat § 482.3335 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases|NRS 482.3335 - Brokers: Prohibition against advertising as vehicle dealer without appropriate license; prohibition against displaying or advertising vehicle not licensed to sell.

  1. No broker may intentionally cause to be published, displayed or circulated any advertisement, including any listing in a telephone directory, in which the broker is represented to be any type of vehicle dealer, unless the broker has obtained the appropriate license from the Department as provided in this chapter.  2. A broker may not display, or use in conjunction with any form of advertisement, a vehicle the broker is not licensed to sell.  (Added to NRS by 1995, 2363; A 2007, 3209)
NV Rev Stat § 482.3337 (2021)
2021 Nevada Revised Statutes|Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases|NRS 482.3337 - Brokers: Insured trust account required.

  1. Each broker shall open and maintain a separate trust account in a bank, credit union, savings and loan association or savings bank in this State that is federally insured or insured by a private insurer approved pursuant to NRS 672.755. The broker shall deposit into the trust account any money received from a prospective buyer as a deposit on a vehicle. A broker shall not:  (a) Commingle the money in the trust account with any money that is not a deposit on a vehicle.  (b) Use any money in the trust account to pay his or her operational expenses.  2. A broker shall not require the buyer of a vehicle to pay a deposit on a vehicle in an amount that exceeds 10 percent of the purchase price of the vehicle.  (Added to NRS by 1995, 2363; A 1999, 1501)