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2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 481 - Administration of Laws Relating to Motor Vehicles › NRS 481.081 - Arrearage in tax, fee or assessment administered by Department: Department authorized to file certificate; certificate as lien; extension of lien.

1. If any tax, fee or assessment administered by the Department is not paid when due, the Department may, within 3 years after the date that the tax, fee or assessment was due, file for record a certificate in the office of any county recorder which states:
(a) The amount of the tax, fee or assessment and any interest or penalties due;
(b) The name and address of the person who is liable for the amount due as they appear on the records of the Department; and
(c) That the Department has complied with all procedures required by law for determining the amount due.
2. From the time of the filing of the certificate, the amount due, including interest and penalties, constitutes a lien upon all real and personal property in the county owned by the person or acquired by the person afterwards and before the lien expires. The lien has the effect and priority of a judgment lien and continues for 5 years after the time of the filing of the certificate unless sooner released or otherwise discharged.
3. Within 5 years after the date of the filing of the certificate or within 5 years after the date of the last extension of the lien pursuant to this subsection, as appropriate, the lien may be extended by filing for record a new certificate in the office of the county recorder of any county. From the time of filing, the lien is extended to all real and personal property in the county owned by the person or acquired by the person afterwards for 5 years, unless sooner released or otherwise discharged.
(Added to NRS by 1999, 154)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 481 - Administration of Laws Relating to Motor Vehicles › NRS 481.082 - Arrearage in tax, fee or assessment administered by Department: Release or subordination of lien; certificate issued by Department as conclusive evidence.

1. The Department may release all or any portion of the property subject to a lien imposed by the Department pursuant to NRS 481.081 or subordinate the lien to other liens and encumbrances if the Department determines that the amount, interest and penalties are secured sufficiently by a lien on other property or that the release or subordination of the lien will not jeopardize the collection of the amount, interest and penalties.
2. A certificate issued by the Department stating that property has been released from a lien, or that a lien has been subordinated to other liens and encumbrances, is conclusive evidence that the property has been released, or that the lien has been subordinated.
(Added to NRS by 1999, 154)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 481 - Administration of Laws Relating to Motor Vehicles › NRS 481.083 - Money for administration of chapter; claims.

1. Money for the administration of the provisions of this chapter must be provided by direct legislative appropriation from the State Highway Fund or other legislative authorization upon the presentation of budgets in the manner required by law.
2. All money provided for the support of the Department and its various divisions must be paid out on claims approved by the Director in the same manner as other claims against the State are paid.
(Added to NRS by 1957, 612; A 1979, 1119; 1981, 2006; 1983, 1011; 1993, 1641; 1995, 2305; 1999, 2431; 2001, 1832, 2547; 2001 Special Session, 144; 2003, 274, 277)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 481 - Administration of Laws Relating to Motor Vehicles › NRS 481.087 - Administrative expenses deemed cost of administration of operation of motor vehicles on public highways.

The expenses incurred in the administration of this chapter and in the administration of the powers and duties provided in this chapter shall be deemed to be a cost of administration with respect to the operation of motor vehicles upon the public highways of this State.
(Added to NRS by 1957, 612; A 1993, 1641; 1995, 2306; 2001, 2547)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 481 - Administration of Laws Relating to Motor Vehicles › NRS 481.089 - "Personal information" defined.

As used in NRS 481.089 to 481.099, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires, "personal information" means:
1. The home address of a person; and
2. The home address of the spouse, domestic partner or minor child of a person.
(Added to NRS by 2017, 1558)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 481 - Administration of Laws Relating to Motor Vehicles › NRS 481.093 - Limits on disclosure of personal information.

If a person requests pursuant to NRS 481.091 to have an alternate address displayed on the person’s driver’s license, commercial driver’s license or identification card, the personal information of that person may only be disclosed as provided in NRS 239.0115 or 481.063 or as otherwise specifically authorized by law.
(Added to NRS by 2017, 1559)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 481 - Administration of Laws Relating to Motor Vehicles › NRS 481.095 - Prohibited acts.

1. A person shall not:
(a) Make a false representation to obtain any information pursuant to NRS 481.089, 481.091 or 481.093; or
(b) Knowingly obtain or disclose information pursuant to NRS 481.089, 481.091 or 481.093 for any use not authorized pursuant to NRS 481.089, 481.091 or 481.093.
2. A person who violates the provisions of this section is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Added to NRS by 2017, 1559)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 481 - Administration of Laws Relating to Motor Vehicles › NRS 481.097 - Penalty for disclosing personal information.

If a person discloses personal information about a person listed in NRS 481.091 in violation of NRS 481.089, 481.091 or 481.093 and the person who makes the disclosure knows or reasonably should know that such disclosure will create a substantial risk of bodily harm to the person about whom the information pertains, the person who makes the disclosure is guilty of a misdemeanor.
(Added to NRS by 2017, 1559)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 481 - Administration of Laws Relating to Motor Vehicles › NRS 481.099 - Civil penalty.

In addition to any penalty imposed pursuant to NRS 481.095 or 481.097, the court may order a person who commits an act described in those sections to pay a civil penalty in an amount not to exceed $2,500 for each act.
(Added to NRS by 2017, 1559)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 481A - Transportation on Highways (Multistate Agreement) › NRS 481A.020 - Representatives designated to serve on cooperating committee.

The designated representatives of this State to serve on the cooperating committee established by Article IV of the Multistate Highway Transportation Agreement are:
1. The Chair of the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Growth and Infrastructure or a person designated by the Chair; and
2. The Vice Chair of the Joint Interim Standing Committee on Growth and Infrastructure or a person designated by the Vice Chair.
(Added to NRS by 1975, 267; A 1979, 1801; 2001, 2689; 2021, 2535)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.010 - Definitions.

As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires, the words and terms defined in NRS 482.0105 to 482.137, inclusive, have the meanings ascribed to them in those sections.
[Part 1:202:1931; A 1951, 165; 1953, 280]—(NRS A 1961, 128; 1967, 704; 1969, 684; 1973, 230, 399, 1568; 1975, 444, 1075; 1979, 854; 1985, 1836; 1987, 1592, 2079; 1991, 2330, 2353; 1993, 620; 1995, 1861, 2355, 2359, 2365; 1997, 624, 625; 2001, 1725; 2003, 374; 2005, 1240; 2007, 3200; 2009, 466; 2013, 2829; 2017, 416, 975, 1126; 2019, 1879; 2023, 1470)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.0107 - "Autocycle" defined. [Effective on the date on which the Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles notifies the Governor and the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau that sufficient resources are available to enable the Department to carry out the amendatory provisions of chapter 233, Statutes of Nevada 2023, at page 1468, which relate to autocycles.]

"Autocycle" means a three-wheeled motor vehicle that:
1. Is designed with two front wheels and one rear wheel;
2. Is equipped with a steering wheel or handlebars;
3. Is equipped with safety belts for the driver and each passenger;
4. Uses foot pedals to control the braking and acceleration of the vehicle;
5. Does not require the operator or passengers to straddle or sit astride the vehicle; and
6. Has been manufactured to meet the federal safety requirements for a motorcycle.
(Added to NRS by 2023, 1470, effective on the date on which the Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles notifies the Governor and the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau that sufficient resources are available to enable the Department to carry out the amendatory provisions of chapter 233, Statutes of Nevada 2023, at page 1468, which relate to autocycles)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.011 - "Based" defined.

"Based" means the place or domicile where a vehicle is primarily used, or if a vehicle is often used in more than one county, then it means the place or domicile where the vehicle is primarily stored or kept. A vehicle registered for intercounty or interstate operation under the provisions of chapter 706 of NRS shall be deemed to have no base.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 399; A 2007, 3200)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.012 - "Border state employee" defined.

"Border state employee" means a person whose legal residence is not in this State, who resides outside of the State of Nevada and who commutes on a daily basis into the State of Nevada solely for the purpose of employment at a place of employment which is less than 35 air miles from the state border.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 1567; A 1989, 703; 1991, 1988)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.0125 - "Branch" defined.

"Branch" means an established place of business of a vehicle dealer or long-term or short-term lessor at which the dealer or long-term or short-term lessor conducts business simultaneously with, and physically separated from, his or her principal established place of business.
(Added to NRS by 1979, 1023; A 2007, 3200)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.0127 - "Broker" defined.

"Broker" means a person who, for a fee or any other consideration, offers to provide to another person the service of arranging, negotiating or assisting in the purchase of a new or used vehicle which has not been registered or for which an ownership interest has not been taken by the broker.
(Added to NRS by 1995, 2362; A 2007, 3200)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.013 - "Bus" defined.

"Bus" means any motor vehicle designed for carrying more than 10 passengers and used for the transportation of persons, and every motor vehicle, other than a taxicab, designed and used for transportation of persons for compensation.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 316)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.0145 - "Charitable organization" defined.

"Charitable organization" means an organization which:
1. The Secretary of the Treasury has determined is an exempt organization pursuant to the provisions of section 501(c) of the Internal Revenue Code; and
2. For not less than 2 years, has held a certificate of organization or has been qualified by the Secretary of State to conduct business in this State.
(Added to NRS by 1995, 2354)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.0151 - "Chassis-mount camper" defined.

"Chassis-mount camper" means a portable unit designed to be permanently affixed to a truck chassis and cab, and so constructed as to provide temporary living quarters for travel, camping or recreational use.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 229)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.0152 - "Combined gross vehicle weight" defined.

"Combined gross vehicle weight" means the actual weight of a commercial motor vehicle, including any load the vehicle is carrying, combined with the actual weight of any trailer or load the vehicle is towing.
(Added to NRS by 2017, 973)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.0153 - "Combined gross vehicle weight rating" defined.

"Combined gross vehicle weight rating" means the maximum gross weight, as designated by the manufacturer, that a vehicle is capable of towing in combination with its own gross vehicle weight rating.
(Added to NRS by 2009, 466)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.0154 - "Complete front inner structure for a unibody" defined.

"Complete front inner structure for a unibody" means the weld-on structure of a vehicle, including, without limitation, the radiator support, left and right aprons, upper and lower rails and strut towers, designed and intended to be located forward of the cowl assembly.
(Added to NRS by 2005, 1239)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.018 - "Cowl assembly" defined.

"Cowl assembly" means the forward structural portion of a vehicle to which are intended to be attached all or a part of the windshield frame, fire wall, housing of the instrument panel and hinges for the front doors.
(Added to NRS by 2005, 1239)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.020 - "Dealer" and "vehicle dealer" defined.

1. "Dealer" or "vehicle dealer" means any person who:
(a) For compensation, money or other thing of value sells, exchanges, buys, offers or displays for sale, negotiates or attempts to negotiate a sale or exchange of an interest in a vehicle subject to registration under this chapter or induces or attempts to induce any person to buy or exchange an interest in a vehicle;
(b) Represents that he or she has the ability to sell, exchange, buy or negotiate the sale or exchange of an interest in a vehicle subject to registration under this chapter or in any other state or territory of the United States;
(c) Receives or expects to receive a commission, money, brokerage fee, profit or any other thing of value from the seller or purchaser of a vehicle; or
(d) Is engaged wholly or in part in the business of selling vehicles or buying or taking in trade vehicles for the purpose of resale, selling or offering for sale or consignment to be sold or otherwise dealing in vehicles, whether or not he or she owns the vehicles.
2. "Dealer" or "vehicle dealer" does not include:
(a) An insurance company, bank, finance company, government agency or any other person coming into possession of a vehicle, acquiring a contractual right to a vehicle or incurring an obligation with respect to a vehicle in the performance of official duties or under the authority of any court of law, if the sale of the vehicle is for the purpose of saving the seller from loss or pursuant to the authority of a court of competent jurisdiction;
(b) A person, other than a long-term or short-term lessor, who is not engaged in the purchase or sale of vehicles as a business, but is disposing of vehicles acquired by the owner for his or her use and not for the purpose of avoiding the provisions of this chapter, or a person who sells not more than three personally owned vehicles in any 12-month period;
(c) Persons regularly employed as salespersons by dealers, licensed under this chapter, while those persons are acting within the scope of their employment;
(d) Persons who are incidentally engaged in the business of soliciting orders for the sale and delivery of vehicles outside the territorial limits of the United States if their sales of such vehicles produce less than 5 percent of their total gross revenue; or
(e) Persons who sell kit trailers but no other vehicle defined by this chapter.
[Part 1:202:1931; A 1951, 165; 1953, 280]—(NRS A 1975, 1069; 1993, 2339; 2007, 3201)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.023 - "Declared gross weight" defined.

"Declared gross weight" means the maximum gross weight at which a motor vehicle or combination of vehicles will be operated, except the term does not include the weight of:
1. Another vehicle which is being carried or towed by a tow car, as that term is defined in NRS 706.131;
2. Implements of husbandry;
3. A trailer or other towed vehicle which is not used for a commercial enterprise;
4. Towable tools or equipment, as that term is defined in NRS 484D.055; or
5. The load on a farm vehicle which has an unladen weight of 10,000 pounds or more.
(Added to NRS by 1985, 1835; A 1987, 144; 1991, 2353)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.028 - "Distributor" defined; exception.

Except as otherwise provided in NRS 482.36318, "distributor" means a person, other than a manufacturer, who is engaged in the business of selling new motor vehicles to dealers.
(Added to NRS by 1981, 189; A 2003, 20th Special Session, 299)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.0285 - "Duplicate number plate" defined.

"Duplicate number plate" means a license plate or a set of license plates issued to a registered owner which repeats the code of a plate or set of plates previously issued to the owner to maintain the registration using the same code.
(Added to NRS by 2003, 373)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.0287 - "Electric bicycle" defined.

"Electric bicycle" has the meaning ascribed to it in NRS 484B.017. The term does not include a moped or an electric scooter.
(Added to NRS by 2009, 394; A 2019, 1879; 2021, 1742)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.029 - Electric personal assistive mobility device" defined.

"Electric personal assistive mobility device" means a self-balancing, two nontandem wheeled device, designed to transport only one person, with an electric propulsion system that limits the maximum speed of the device to 15 miles per hour or less.
(Added to NRS by 2003, 1205)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.0295 - "Electric scooter" defined.

"Electric scooter" means a vehicle:
1. With handlebars and an electric motor that is designed to be ridden on in an upright or seated position and is propelled by its electric motor or by propulsion provided by the rider;
2. That does not weigh more than 100 pounds without a rider; and
3. That has a maximum speed of not more than 20 miles per hour when powered solely by its electric motor.
(Added to NRS by 2019, 1879)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.030 - "Essential parts" defined.

"Essential parts" means all integral parts and body parts, the removal, alteration or substitution of which will tend to conceal the identity or substantially alter the appearance of the vehicle.
[Part 1:202:1931; A 1951, 165; 1953, 280]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.035 - "Farm tractor" defined.

"Farm tractor" means every motor vehicle designed and used primarily as a farm implement for drawing plows, mowing machines and other implements of husbandry.
[Part 1:202:1931; A 1951, 165; 1953, 280]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.036 - "Farm vehicle" defined.

"Farm vehicle" means any vehicle or combination of vehicles which is:
1. Controlled and operated by a farmer or rancher;
2. Used to transport livestock, agricultural products, or ranch or farm machinery or supplies to or from a ranch or farm; and
3. Not used in the operation of a common motor carrier or contract motor carrier.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 2353; A 2015, 1116)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.037 - "Fiscal year" defined.

"Fiscal year" means a year commencing at 12 p.m. June 30 and ending at 12 p.m. the following June 30.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 684)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.040 - "Foreign vehicle" defined.

"Foreign vehicle" means every motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer which has been brought into this State otherwise than in the ordinary course of business by or through a manufacturer or dealer and which has not been registered in this State. The term does not include a retired military vehicle which is registered pursuant to NRS 482.3817.
[Part 1:202:1931; A 1951, 165; 1953, 280]—(NRS A 1969, 186; 2019, 1324)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.043 - "Franchise" defined.

"Franchise" means a written agreement between a manufacturer or distributor and a dealer by which:
1. A commercial relationship of definite duration or continuing indefinite duration is established.
2. The dealer is granted the right to offer and sell at retail new vehicles, other than mopeds, farm tractors or special mobile equipment.
3. The dealer constitutes a component of a distribution system for new vehicles.
4. The operation of the dealer’s business is substantially associated with the trademark, trade name, advertising or other commercial symbol designating a manufacturer or distributor.
5. The operation of a portion of the dealer’s business is substantially reliant on the manufacturer or distributor for a continued supply of new vehicles, parts and accessories.
(Added to NRS by 1981, 189; A 1983, 838; 2003, 20th Special Session, 299)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.044 - "Golf cart" defined.

"Golf cart" means a motor vehicle which:
1. Has no fewer than three wheels in contact with the ground; and
2. Is designed to carry golf equipment and no more than four persons, including the driver.
(Added to NRS by 1991, 2329; A 1995, 18)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.0445 - "Gross vehicle weight rating" defined.

"Gross vehicle weight rating" means the maximum gross weight, as designated by the manufacturer, at which a vehicle is capable of being operated, including any load the vehicle is capable of carrying but excluding any weight the vehicle is capable of towing.
(Added to NRS by 2009, 466)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.045 - "Highway" defined.

"Highway" means the entire width between the boundary lines of every way maintained by a public authority when any part of such way is open to the use of the public for purposes of vehicular traffic.
[Part 1:202:1931; A 1951, 165; 1953, 280]—(NRS A 1973, 230)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.050 - "Identification" and "permanent identifying" defined.

"Identification" or "permanent identifying" as used in this chapter with respect to the number of a vehicle subject to registration under this chapter shall, for the purpose of the registration or departmental record thereof, or any evidence of such registration, be construed to mean such identification, or permanent identifying number of any vehicle which the manufacturer thereof may, in its discretion, adopt or has adopted as an identification or permanent identifying number of the vehicles manufactured by it, or which the Director may approve as the identification number, in lieu of or in addition to a motor number or serial number or a motor and serial number.
[1.5:202:1931; added 1949, 511; 1943 NCL § 4435a]—(NRS A 1961, 128)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.0515 - "Kit trailer" defined.

"Kit trailer" means a vehicle without motive power which:
1. Is designed to carry property on its own structure and to be drawn or towed by a motor vehicle;
2. Is sold new in an unassembled, prepackaged condition;
3. Does not exceed 6 feet in width and 8 feet in length once assembled; and
4. Does not weigh more than 250 pounds unladen.
(Added to NRS by 2007, 3199)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.053 - "Lease," "long-term lessee," "long-term lessor," "short-term lessee" and "short-term lessor" defined.

For the purposes of regulation under this chapter and of imposing tort liability under NRS 41.440, and for no other purpose:
1. "Lease" means a contract by which the lienholder or owner of a vehicle transfers to another person, for compensation, the right to use such vehicle but does not include the sharing of a vehicle through a peer-to-peer car sharing program pursuant to chapter 482C of NRS.
2. "Long-term lessee" means a person who has leased a vehicle from another person for a fixed period of more than 31 days.
3. "Long-term lessor" means a person who has leased a vehicle to another person for a fixed period of more than 31 days.
4. "Short-term lessee" means a person who has leased a vehicle from another person for a period of 31 days or less, or by the day, or by the trip.
5. "Short-term lessor" means a person who has leased a vehicle to another person for a period of 31 days or less, or by the day, or by the trip.
(Added to NRS by 1967, 704; A 1975, 1070; 2021, 1853)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.055 - "Lienholder" defined.

"Lienholder" means a person who holds a security interest in a vehicle and whose name appears on the certificate of title as legal owner.
[Part 1:202:1931; A 1951, 165; 1953, 280]—(NRS A 1965, 1472; 1975, 1071)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.065 - "Metal tires" defined.

"Metal tires" means all tires the surface of which in contact with the highway is wholly or partly of metal or other hard, nonresilient material.
[Part 1:202:1931; A 1951, 165; 1953, 280]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.066 - "Mini motor home" defined.

"Mini motor home" means a vehicular-type unit designed for temporary living quarters for travel, camping or recreational use which is:
1. A structure attached permanently on a self-propelled chassis; or
2. A portable unit designed to be affixed permanently to a truck chassis with cab,
which is designated as a mini motor home by the manufacturer.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 229)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.067 - "Mobile home" defined.

"Mobile home" means a vehicular structure, built on a chassis or frame, which is designed to be used with or without a permanent foundation and is capable of being drawn by a motor vehicle. It may be used as a dwelling when connected to utilities or may be used permanently or temporarily for the advertising, sales, display or promotion of merchandise or services. The term does not include a recreational park trailer.
(Added to NRS by 1963, 348; A 1973, 230; 2001, 1725)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.069 - "Moped" defined.

"Moped" means a motor-driven scooter, motor-driven cycle or similar vehicle that is propelled by a small engine which produces not more than 2 gross brake horsepower, has a displacement of not more than 50 cubic centimeters or produces not more than 1500 watts final output, and:
1. Is designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground but is not a tractor; and
2. Is capable of a maximum speed of not more than 30 miles per hour on a flat surface with not more than 1 percent grade in any direction when the motor is engaged.
The term does not include an electric bicycle or an electric scooter.
(Added to NRS by 1975, 1075; A 1983, 895; 2009, 394; 2019, 1879)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.070 - "Motorcycle" defined. [Effective until the date on which the Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles notifies the Governor and the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau that sufficient resources are available to enable the Department to carry out the amendatory provisions of chapter 233, Statutes of Nevada 2023, at page 1468, which relate to autocycles.] "Motorcycle" defined. [Effective on the date on which the Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles notifies the Governor and the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau that sufficient resources are available to enable the Department to carry out the amendatory provisions of chapter 233, Statutes of Nevada 2023, at page 1468, which relate to autocycles.]

"Motorcycle" means every motor vehicle designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, except any such vehicle as may be included within the term "electric bicycle," "electric scooter," "tractor" or "moped" as defined in this chapter.
[Part 1:202:1931; A 1951, 165; 1953, 280]—(NRS A 1975, 1075; 2009, 394; 2019, 1880)
"Motorcycle" means every motor vehicle designed to travel on not more than three wheels in contact with the ground, except any such vehicle as may be included within the term "electric bicycle," "electric scooter," "tractor" or "moped" as defined in this chapter. The term does not include an autocycle.
[Part 1:202:1931; A 1951, 165; 1953, 280]—(NRS A 1975, 1075; 2009, 394; 2019, 1880; 2023, 1471, effective on the date on which the Director of the Department of Motor Vehicles notifies the Governor and the Director of the Legislative Counsel Bureau that sufficient resources are available to enable the Department to carry out the amendatory provisions of chapter 233, Statutes of Nevada 2023, at page 1468, which relate to autocycles)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.071 - "Motor home" defined.

"Motor home" means a structure:
1. Attached permanently to a self-propelled motor vehicle chassis;
2. Designed as a temporary dwelling for travel, recreational or camping use; and
3. When assembled for the road, has a maximum body width of 102 inches.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 229; A 2001, 1725)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.075 - "Motor vehicle" defined.

"Motor vehicle" means every vehicle as defined in NRS 482.135 which is self-propelled. The term does not include an electric bicycle or an electric scooter.
[Part 1:202:1931; A 1951, 165; 1953, 280]—(NRS A 2019, 1880)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.076 - "New vehicle" defined.

Except as otherwise provided in NRS 482.363521, "new vehicle" means a vehicle:
1. That has never been registered with the Department and has never been registered with the appropriate agency of authority of any other state, the District of Columbia, any territory or possession of the United States or foreign state, province or country;
2. For which a certificate of title has never been issued by the Department or by the appropriate agency of authority of any other state, the District of Columbia, any territory or possession of the United States or foreign state, province or country; or
3. That has been so registered or for which a certificate of title has been so issued, if the vehicle is equipped with an odometer that registers 2,500 miles or less.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1471; A 1995, 776; 2007, 3201)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.078 - "New vehicle dealer" defined.

"New vehicle dealer" means any:
1. Vehicle dealer licensed under the provisions of this chapter as a new vehicle dealer who has a franchise from a manufacturer of vehicles to sell new vehicles and who acquires new or new and used vehicles for resale; or
2. Manufacturer described in NRS 482.36349 that is licensed under the provisions of this chapter as a new vehicle dealer.
(Added to NRS by 1965, 1471; A 1975, 1071; 2014, 28th Special Session, 4)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.080 - "Nonresident" defined.

"Nonresident" means every person who is not a resident of this State, and who does not use his or her motor vehicle for a gainful purpose.
[Part 1:202:1931; A 1951, 165; 1953, 280]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.083 - "Out-of-service order" defined.

"Out-of-service order" means a temporary prohibition on operation by a motor carrier that is issued:
1. By a federal or state entity with authority to issue such a temporary prohibition; and
2. Pursuant to a provision of 49 C.F.R. Part 385 or 386 that is specified in regulations adopted pursuant to NRS 482.2914.
(Added to NRS by 2017, 973)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.084 - "Out-of-state student" defined.

"Out-of-state student" means a student whose legal residence is not in this State and who comes into Nevada for the purpose of attending an educational institution.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 1567)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.085 - "Owner" defined.

"Owner" means a person who holds the legal title of a vehicle and whose name appears on the certificate of title, and any lienholder whose name appears on the certificate of title. If a vehicle is the subject of an agreement for the conditional sale or lease thereof with or without the right of purchase upon performance of the conditions stated in the agreement and with an immediate right of possession vested in the conditional vendee or lessee, or if a mortgagor of a vehicle is entitled to possession, then the conditional vendee or lessee or mortgagor shall be deemed the owner for the purpose of this chapter.
[Part 1:202:1931; A 1951, 165; 1953, 280]—(NRS A 1973, 230; 1987, 1144; 2003, 457)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.087 - "Passenger car" defined.

"Passenger car" means a motor vehicle designed for carrying 10 persons or less, except a motorcycle, an electric bicycle, an electric scooter or a moped.
(Added to NRS by 1969, 684; A 2009, 394; 2015, 1747; 2019, 1880)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.096 - "Purchase price" defined.

"Purchase price" means:
1. If no security interest is taken, retained, created or in existence by virtue of a sale of a vehicle in this State, the price of the vehicle plus any additional included amounts for taxes, official fees, registration fees, transfer of title fees, delivery charges, installation charges, servicing charges, repair charges, alteration charges and improvement charges, or any of them.
2. If a security interest is taken, retained, created or in existence by virtue of a sale of a vehicle in this State, the amounts specified in subsection 1 plus any time price differential included in the security agreement or the obligation which it secures.
(Added to NRS by 1975, 443)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.0962 - "Qualifying service-connected disability" defined.

"Qualifying service-connected disability" means:
1. A service-connected disability rated at 100 percent;
2. More than one service-connected disability, the combined ratings of which add up to at least 100 percent; or
3. A service-connected disability of any rating that constitutes or includes a permanent disability that qualifies a person for a special license plate pursuant to NRS 482.384.
(Added to NRS by 2017, 1126)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.097 - "Rebuilder" defined.

1. "Rebuilder" means a person engaged in the:
(a) Business of reconstructing motor vehicles by the alteration, addition or substitution of substantial or essential parts; or
(b) Assembling of replica or specially constructed vehicles from unassembled parts.
2. Nothing in this section shall be construed to require any licensed new or used vehicle dealer to secure a license as a rebuilder in conjunction with rebuilding in his or her own facilities.
(Added to NRS by 1971, 1302; A 2007, 3202)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.098 - "Rebuilt vehicle" defined.

1. "Rebuilt vehicle" means a vehicle:
(a) That is a salvage vehicle as that term is defined in NRS 487.770, excluding a nonrepairable vehicle; or
(b) One or more major components of which have been replaced as set forth in this subsection. For the purposes of this subsection, the requisite major components of a vehicle which must be replaced for a vehicle to be considered rebuilt are the:
(1) Cowl assembly;
(2) Rear clip assembly;
(3) Roof assembly;
(4) Floor pan assembly;
(5) Conventional frame coupled with one additional major component; or
(6) Complete front inner structure for a unibody.
2. The term does not include a vehicle for which the only change is the installation of a truck cab assembly.
3. For the purposes of this section, "replaced" means the substitution, or change in whole, of a new, used or after-market part of a vehicle.
(Added to NRS by 1987, 1591; A 1997, 2861; 2003, 515, 1907; 2005, 1240)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.100 - "Reconstructed vehicle" defined.

"Reconstructed vehicle" means any vehicle which shall have been assembled or constructed largely by means of essential parts, new or used, derived from other vehicles or makes of vehicles of various names, models or types, or which, if originally otherwise constructed, shall have been materially altered by the removal of essential parts or by the addition or substitution of essential parts, new or used, derived from other vehicles or makes of vehicles.
[Part 1:202:1931; A 1951, 165; 1953, 280]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.1005 - "Recreational park trailer" defined.

1. "Recreational park trailer" means a vehicle which is primarily designed to provide temporary living quarters for recreational, camping or seasonal use and which:
(a) Is built on a single chassis mounted on wheels;
(b) Has a gross trailer area not exceeding 400 square feet in the set-up mode; and
(c) Is certified by the manufacturer as complying with Standard No. A119.5 of the American National Standards Institute.
2. Nothing in this section shall be construed to mean that a recreational park trailer is a vehicle which must be registered pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.
(Added to NRS by 2001, 1725; A 2007, 3202)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.101 - "Recreational vehicle" defined.

"Recreational vehicle" means a vehicular-type unit primarily designed as temporary living quarters for travel, recreational or camping use, which may be self-propelled, mounted upon, or drawn by, a motor vehicle. The term includes a recreational park trailer.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 229, 1585; A 2001, 1726)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.102 - "Registered owner" defined.

"Registered owner" means a natural person, firm, corporation or association whose name appears in the files of the Department as the person to whom the vehicle is registered.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 229; A 1999, 3576)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.1025 - "Replacement number plate" defined.

"Replacement number plate" means a license plate or set of license plates issued to a registered owner which bear the code of a plate or set of plates which were previously issued but expired and have remained expired for a continuous period longer than 18 months.
(Added to NRS by 2017, 416)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.103 - "Resident" defined.

1. "Resident" includes, but is not limited to, a person:
(a) Whose legal residence is in the State of Nevada.
(b) Who engages in intrastate business and operates in such a business any motor vehicle, trailer or semitrailer, or any person maintaining such vehicles in this State, as the home state of such vehicles.
(c) Who physically resides in this State and engages in a trade, profession, occupation or accepts gainful employment in this State.
(d) Who declares that he or she is a resident of Nevada for purposes of obtaining privileges not ordinarily extended to nonresidents of this State.
2. The term does not include a person who is an actual tourist, an out-of-state student, a border state employee or a seasonal resident.
3. The provisions of this section do not apply to persons who operate vehicles in this State under the provisions of NRS 482.385, 482.390, 482.395, 482.3961 or 706.801 to 706.861, inclusive.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 1567; A 1989, 703; 2013, 3192)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.106 - "Roof assembly" defined.

"Roof assembly" means the structural parts of a vehicle, including, without limitation, more than one-half of the vertical roof supports, the framework of the roof and the exterior metal skin, that together are designed and intended to be located over the passenger compartment to form the roof of the vehicle.
(Added to NRS by 2005, 1239)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.107 - "Salesperson" defined.

"Salesperson" means:
1. A person employed by a vehicle dealer, under any form of contract or arrangement to sell, exchange, buy, or offer for sale, or exchange an interest in a vehicle to any person, who receives or expects to receive a commission, fee or any other consideration from the seller or purchaser of the vehicle; or
2. A person who exercises managerial control within the business of a dealer or a long-term or short-term lessor, or who supervises salespersons employed by a dealer or a long-term or short-term lessor, whether compensated by salary or by commission, or who negotiates with or induces a customer to enter into a security agreement on behalf of a dealer or a long-term or short-term lessor.
(Added to NRS by 1957, 508; A 1993, 2340)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.109 - "Security interest" defined.

"Security interest" means an interest in a vehicle, including a mobile home whether or not permanently attached to the land, reserved or created by agreement, which secures payment or performance of an obligation. "Security interest" includes the interest of a lessor under a lease intended as security. Whether a lease is intended as security is to be determined by the facts of each case, but:
1. The inclusion of an option to purchase does not of itself make the lease one intended for security; and
2. An agreement that upon compliance with the terms of the lease the lessee shall become or has the option to become the owner of the vehicle for no additional consideration does make the lease one intended for security.
(Added to NRS by 1975, 443)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.110 - "Semitrailer" defined.

"Semitrailer" means every vehicle of the trailer type so designed and used in conjunction with a motor vehicle that some part of its own weight and that of its own load rests upon or is carried by another vehicle.
[Part 1:202:1931; A 1951, 165; 1953, 280]
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.1115 - "Service vehicle" and "work vehicle" defined.

"Service vehicle" or "work vehicle" means a vehicle owned and operated by a licensed dealer, manufacturer, distributor, long-term or short-term lessor, rebuilder or broker in the furtherance of his or her business. Such vehicles include, without limitation, a passenger shuttle bus, a tow car, a delivery vehicle or any other vehicle used to transport customers or property to or from the place of business of the dealer, manufacturer, distributor, long-term or short-term lessor, rebuilder or broker.
(Added to NRS by 2007, 3199)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.113 - "Slide-in camper" defined.

"Slide-in camper" means a portable unit designed to be loaded and unloaded from the bed of a pickup truck, and so constructed as to provide temporary living quarters for travel, camping or recreational use.
(Added to NRS by 1973, 230)
2023 Nevada Revised Statutes › Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases › NRS 482.120 - "Specially constructed vehicle" defined.

"Specially constructed vehicle" means any vehicle which shall not have been originally constructed under a distinctive name, make, model or type by a generally recognized manufacturer of vehicles.
[Part 1:202:1931; A 1951, 165; 1953, 280]