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NRS 485.010 - Short title. - This chapter may be cited as the Motor Vehicle Insurance...
NRS 485.020 - Definitions. - As used in this chapter, unless the context otherwise requires,...
NRS 485.028 - "Certificate of financial responsibility" defined. - "Certificate of financial responsibility" means the certificate issued by an...
NRS 485.0335 - "Dormant vehicle" defined. - "Dormant vehicle" means a motor vehicle: 1. For which a...
NRS 485.034 - "Evidence of insurance" defined. - "Evidence of insurance" means: 1. The information provided by an...
NRS 485.035 - "Judgment" defined. - "Judgment" means any judgment which shall have become final by...
NRS 485.037 - "Insurance" defined. - "Insurance" means: 1. A motor vehicle liability policy; or 2....
NRS 485.040 - "License" defined. - "License" means any license, temporary instruction permit or temporary license...
NRS 485.050 - "Motor vehicle" defined. - "Motor vehicle" means every self-propelled vehicle which is designed for...
NRS 485.055 - "Motor vehicle liability policy" defined. - 1. "Motor vehicle liability policy" means an owner’s policy of...
NRS 485.060 - "Nonresident" defined. - "Nonresident" means every person who is not a resident of...
NRS 485.070 - "Nonresident’s operating privilege" defined. - "Nonresident’s operating privilege" means the privilege conferred upon a nonresident...
NRS 485.080 - "Operator" defined. - "Operator" means every person who is in actual physical control...
NRS 485.090 - "Owner" defined. - "Owner" means a person who holds the legal title of...
NRS 485.105 - "Proof of financial responsibility" defined. - "Proof of financial responsibility" means proof of ability to respond...
NRS 485.108 - "Registered owner" defined. - "Registered owner" means a person whose name appears in the...
NRS 485.110 - "Registration" defined. - "Registration" means the registration certificate and plate issued under the...
NRS 485.120 - "State" defined. - "State" means any state, territory or possession of the United...
NRS 485.130 - General duties of Department. - 1. The Department shall: (a) Administer and enforce the provisions...
NRS 485.135 - Department to furnish operating record. [Effective through December 31, 2022.] Department to furnish operating record. [Effective January 1, 2023.] - The Department shall upon request furnish any person a certified...
NRS 485.137 - Department to publish and disseminate informational leaflet. - 1. The Department shall publish a leaflet which summarizes and...
NRS 485.140 - Judicial review. - Any person aggrieved by a final decision in a contested...
NRS 485.185 - Insurance for payment of tort liabilities arising from maintenance or use of motor vehicle: Coverage to be obtained from insurance company duly licensed and approved; minimum thresholds of coverage. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, every owner...
NRS 485.186 - Operator’s policy of liability insurance: Use in lieu of owner’s policy of liability insurance; requirements for issuance; required statements; operation of motor vehicle by person other than insured; required and excluded coverages; ap... - 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 7, any natural...
NRS 485.187 - Unlawful acts; fines and penalties; exceptions. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 5, the owner...
NRS 485.190 - Department to determine amount of security required; hearing; suspension of license and registration; procedure regarding erroneous information. - 1. If, 20 days after the receipt of a report...
NRS 485.191 - Right to hearing; notice; request for hearing; waiver. - 1. Any operator or owner of a motor vehicle who...
NRS 485.193 - Scope of hearing. - The hearing must be held to determine: 1. Whether or...
NRS 485.195 - Powers of officer conducting hearing. - The Director or a representative of the Director may certify...
NRS 485.197 - Enforcement of subpoenas issued by Director. - 1. The district court in and for the county in...
NRS 485.200 - Exceptions to requirements as to security and suspension of license and registration. - 1. The requirements as to security and suspension in NRS...
NRS 485.210 - Requirements as to policy or bond. - For the purposes of NRS 485.200, a policy or bond...
NRS 485.220 - Form and amount of security. - 1. The security required pursuant to NRS 485.190 to 485.300,...
NRS 485.230 - Duration of suspension; requirements for reinstatement. - 1. The license, all registrations and the nonresident’s operating privilege...
NRS 485.240 - Application to nonresidents, unlicensed drivers, unregistered motor vehicles and crashes in other states. - 1. If the operator or the owner of a motor...
NRS 485.250 - Authority of Department to reduce amount of security. - The Department may reduce the amount of security ordered in...
NRS 485.260 - Custody of security. - Security deposited pursuant to the requirements of NRS 485.190 to...
NRS 485.270 - Disposition of security. - Security deposited in compliance with the requirements of this chapter...
NRS 485.280 - Return of deposit. - A deposit or any balance thereof must be returned to...
NRS 485.290 - Transfers of deposits to State Highway Fund; procedure for payment of claimants after transfer. - 1. In cases where a return to a depositor or...
NRS 485.300 - Matters not to be evidence in civil suits. - Any action taken by the department pursuant to NRS 485.190...
NRS 485.301 - Judgment creditor authorized to report nonpayment of judgment entered as result of motor vehicle crash; Department to transmit copy of judgment to nonresident’s state. - 1. Whenever any person fails within 60 days to satisfy...
NRS 485.302 - Suspension for nonpayment of judgment; exceptions. - 1. The Department shall, upon the receipt of a certified...
NRS 485.303 - Suspension to continue until judgments paid and proof given. - 1. The license, all registrations and the nonresident’s operating privilege...
NRS 485.304 - Payments sufficient to satisfy requirements. - Judgments must for the purpose of this chapter only, be...
NRS 485.305 - Payment of judgment in installments; default. - 1. A judgment debtor upon notice to the judgment creditor...
NRS 485.307 - Alternate methods of giving proof; proof required before registration is restored. - 1. Proof of financial responsibility, when required pursuant to this...
NRS 485.3075 - Proof required before reinstatement of license or registrations suspended for failure to maintain proof; duration; penalty. - A person whose license or registrations are suspended for failure...
NRS 485.308 - Certificate of insurance as proof; filing of certificate by electronic or other means; insurance carrier to notify Department before cancelling or terminating policy. - 1. Proof of financial responsibility may be furnished by filing...
NRS 485.309 - Certificate furnished by nonresident as proof. - 1. The nonresident owner of a motor vehicle not registered...
NRS 485.3091 - Motor vehicle liability policy: Requirements. - 1. An owner’s policy of liability insurance must: (a) Designate...
NRS 485.3092 - Cancellation or termination of policy: Notice required; suspension required if effective date within 3 years after reinstatement. - When an insurance carrier has issued a motor vehicle liability...
NRS 485.3093 - Chapter not to affect other policies. - 1. This chapter shall not be held to apply to...
NRS 485.3098 - Other proof may be required. - Whenever any proof of financial responsibility filed under the provisions...
NRS 485.3099 - Department, under certain circumstances, to consent to cancellation of certificate or waive requirement of proof; re-establishment of proof. - 1. The Department shall, upon request, consent to the immediate...
NRS 485.313 - Department to create system for verifying that owners of motor vehicles maintain insurance; regulations. - 1. The Department: (a) Shall, in cooperation with insurers, create...
NRS 485.314 - Insurer to maintain record of each contract of insurance and provide Department access to any such record; Department to notify Commissioner of Insurance of noncompliance or receipt of false, incomplete or misleading information. - 1. Each insurer that has executed a contract of insurance...
NRS 485.316 - Confidentiality of information in system; exceptions; penalty. - 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2 and NRS...
NRS 485.317 - Department to verify insurance for each motor vehicle registered in this State; owner to respond to inquiry when Department unable to verify insurance; suspension of registration when insurance cannot be verified; reinstatement of regis... - 1. The Department shall verify that each motor vehicle which...
NRS 485.318 - Immunity from liability for actions in good faith and without gross negligence. - An insurer, its agents, the Department and its employees who...
NRS 485.320 - Surrender of license, registration and license plates; owner of dormant vehicle required to cancel registration if policy covering vehicle is cancelled or expires; regulations. - 1. If the license of any person is suspended as...
NRS 485.326 - Suspension of license for failure to maintain insurance. - 1. The Department shall suspend the license of any person...
NRS 485.330 - Operating motor vehicle when license or registration suspended. - Any person whose license or registration or nonresident’s operating privilege...
NRS 485.340 - Failure to return license, registration or license plate. - Any person willfully failing to return a license, certificate of...
NRS 485.350 - False or forged policy of insurance, certificate of self-insurance, proof of financial responsibility, evidence of insurance or other document; misrepresentation of documents. - Any person who: 1. Forges, materially alters or, without authority,...
NRS 485.360 - Penalty for other violations. - Any person who shall violate any provision of this chapter...
NRS 485.370 - Applicability. - This chapter shall not apply with respect to any motor...
NRS 485.380 - Self-insurers. - 1. Any person in whose name more than 10 motor...
NRS 485.385 - Department to take appropriate action after receipt of correct information. - Whenever the Department has taken any action or has failed...
NRS 485.387 - Suspension of registration does not prevent owner from effecting bona fide sale; rights of vendor, mortgagee or lessor. - 1. This chapter shall not prevent the owner of a...
NRS 485.390 - Chapter supplemental to laws regarding motor vehicles. - This chapter shall in no respect be considered as a...
NRS 485.400 - Chapter not retroactive. - This chapter shall not apply with respect to any crash,...
NRS 485.410 - Chapter not to prevent other process. - Nothing in this chapter shall be construed as preventing the...
NRS 485.420 - Uniformity of interpretation. - This chapter shall be so interpreted and construed as to...