1. A business that maintains records which contain personal information concerning the customers of the business shall take reasonable measures to ensure the destruction of those records when the business decides that it will no longer maintain the records.
2. As used in this section:
(a) "Business" means a proprietorship, corporation, partnership, association, trust, unincorporated organization or other enterprise doing business in this State.
(b) "Reasonable measures to ensure the destruction" means any method that modifies the records containing the personal information in such a way as to render the personal information contained in the records unreadable or undecipherable, including, without limitation:
(1) Shredding of the record containing the personal information; or
(2) Erasing of the personal information from the records.
(Added to NRS by 2005, 2504)
Structure Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 603A - Security and Privacy of Personal Information
NRS 603A.020 - "Breach of the security of the system data" defined.
NRS 603A.030 - "Data collector" defined.
NRS 603A.040 - "Personal information" defined.
NRS 603A.100 - Applicability; waiver of provisions prohibited.
NRS 603A.200 - Destruction of certain records.
NRS 603A.210 - Security measures.
NRS 603A.217 - Alternative methods of and technologies for encryption: Adoption of regulations.
NRS 603A.220 - Disclosure of breach of security of system data; methods of disclosure.
NRS 603A.260 - Violation constitutes deceptive trade practice.
NRS 603A.310 - "Consumer" defined.
NRS 603A.320 - "Covered information" defined.
NRS 603A.323 - "Data broker" defined.
NRS 603A.325 - "Designated request address" defined.
NRS 603A.330 - "Operator" defined.
NRS 603A.333 - "Sale" defined.
NRS 603A.337 - "Verified request" defined.
NRS 603A.338 - Applicability of provisions.
NRS 603A.348 - Operator authorized to remedy first failure to comply with notice requirements.