NevadaAB41583rd Regular Session (2025)HouseWALLET

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; revising provisions governing the disposition of certain vehicles abandoned on public or private property; revising provisions governing the issuance of junk certificates by the Department of Motor Vehicles; revising provisions governing lists of operators of tow cars used by law enforcement agencies; prohibiting the operator of a tow car from falsely reporting the location of the operator or tow car to a law enforcement agency for certain purposes; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

Sponsored By: Angela D. Taylor (Democratic), Heather Goulding (Democratic), Max E. Carter II (Democratic), Robin L. Titus (Republican)

Signed by Governor

BDR 43-821

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Faster junking and 7-day notice for cars

A tow operator or wrecker, and on public land a government agency, can post a written notice on an unregistered car with no known owner that looks like junk. The notice states the date and time and says the car can be junked, dismantled, or removed if not taken within 7 days; the owner may ask for a fast justice-court hearing to contest it. The scrap-value limit for a junk certificate is now $500; the DMV or an approved wrecker or tow operator can certify a car valued mainly as scrap at $500 or less. If that 7-day notice is used and the car is unregistered, not clearly registered in another state, and appraised as junk, the remover must tell who ordered the tow and give its contact info to any owner who calls. In that case, the authorizing agency does not have to check if the car was stolen or send the usual registered-owner notice.

New rules for police tow lists

Law enforcement agencies that keep tow lists cannot drop a company just because it shares one insurance policy with one other listed operator. Shared insurance makes you ineligible only if you share a policy with two or more other operators in the same area. Tow operators may not use software or any device to fake their location to get a police tow. If they do, the agency must remove them from its list for one year.

Sponsors & Cosponsors

Sponsors

  • Angela D. Taylor

    Democratic • Senate

  • Heather Goulding

    Democratic • House

  • Max E. Carter II

    Democratic • House

  • Robin L. Titus

    Republican • Senate

Cosponsors

  • Jill Dickman

    Republican • House

  • Roberta Lange

    Democratic • Senate

Roll Call Votes

All Roll Calls

Yes: 60 • No: 0

Senate vote • 5/28/2025

Final Passage - Senate (1st Reprint)

Yes: 19 • No: 0

House vote • 5/26/2025

Final Passage - Assembly (1st Reprint)

Yes: 41 • No: 0

Actions Timeline

  1. Chapter 329.

    6/6/2025legislature
  2. Approved by the Governor.

    6/5/2025legislature
  3. Enrolled and delivered to Governor.

    5/31/2025legislature
  4. In Assembly. To enrollment.

    5/29/2025House
  5. Read third time. Passed. Title approved. (Yeas: 19, Nays: None, Excused: 2.) To Assembly.

    5/28/2025Senate
  6. Read second time.

    5/27/2025Senate
  7. Placed on Second Reading File.

    5/27/2025Senate
  8. From committee: Do pass.

    5/27/2025Senate
  9. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Growth and Infrastructure. To committee.

    5/26/2025Senate
  10. In Senate.

    5/26/2025Senate
  11. Read third time. Passed, as amended. Title approved, as amended. (Yeas: 41, Nays: None, Excused: 1.) To Senate.

    5/26/2025House
  12. Placed on General File.

    5/26/2025House
  13. From committee: Do pass, as amended.

    5/26/2025House
  14. To committee.

    4/24/2025House
  15. From printer. To engrossment. Engrossed. First reprint.

    4/24/2025House
  16. To printer.

    4/21/2025House
  17. Rereferred to Committee on Ways and Means. Exemption effective.

    4/21/2025House
  18. Taken from General File.

    4/21/2025House
  19. Read second time. Amended. (Amend. No. 93.)

    4/21/2025House
  20. Placed on Second Reading File.

    4/21/2025House
  21. From committee: Amend, and do pass as amended.

    4/21/2025House
  22. Notice of eligibility for exemption.

    4/21/2025House
  23. From printer. To committee.

    3/13/2025House
  24. Read first time. Referred to Committee on Growth and Infrastructure. To printer.

    3/12/2025House

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