Title 43

NRS 483.710 Requirements for licensure as operator of school. 1. An applicant for a license to operate a school for training drivers must: (a) Be of good moral character. (b) Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, maintain an established place of business that is open to t…

NRS 483.720 Requirements for licensure as instructor for school. An applicant for a license as an instructor for a school for training drivers must: 1. Be of good moral character; 2. Pass such examination as the Department may require on traffic laws, safe driving practices and o…

NRS 483.7205 Applicant for licensure as operator of school or instructor for school: Submission of fingerprints; payment of fee. An applicant for a license to operate a school for training drivers or a license as an instructor for a school for training drivers must submit to the …

NRS 483.721 Application for licensure as instructor for school to include social security number. [Effective until the date of the repeal of 42 U.S.C. § 666, the federal law requiring each state to establish procedures for withholding, suspending and restricting the professional,…

NRS 483.722 Payment of child support: Statement by applicant for licensure as instructor for school; grounds for denial of license; duty of Department. [Effective until the date of the repeal of 42 U.S.C. § 666, the federal law requiring each state to establish procedures for wit…

NRS 483.723 Minimum age for training; exceptions. A school for training drivers may not offer or provide training to a person whose age is less than 15 years unless the person has been issued: 1. A restricted license pursuant to the provisions of NRS 483.267 or 483.270; or 2. A r…

NRS 483.725 Courses of training: Required topics of instruction; use of communications technology for interactive instruction and testing; regulations. 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 483.727, each course of training provided by a school for training drivers licensed pursu…

NRS 483.727 Defensive driving course: Department to approve under certain circumstances; Department to maintain list of approved courses; regulations. 1. The Department shall approve a hands-on course in defensive driving for the purposes of NRS 483.2521 if the course: (a) Includ…

NRS 483.730 Licenses: Issuance; term; renewal; training; exception. 1. The Department shall issue a license to operate a school for training drivers or to act as an instructor for such a school, if the Department is satisfied that the applicant has met the qualifications required…

NRS 483.740 Liability insurance. 1. A person operating a school for training drivers shall maintain liability insurance on motor vehicles used in driving instruction, insuring the liability of the driving school, the driving instructor and any person taking instruction, in at lea…

NRS 483.745 Inspection of vehicles: Frequency; results to be provided to Department within certain period; Department to adopt certain regulations; results thereof to be maintained for certain period. 1. A school for training drivers or a third-party certifier provided for by reg…

NRS 483.750 Maintenance of vehicles. A holder of a license to operate a driver training school shall maintain all vehicles used in driver training in safe mechanical condition at all times. (Added to NRS by 1961, 77)

NRS 483.755 Books and records: Location; inspection and copying; retention. 1. A person operating a school for training drivers shall keep the books and records of the school at his or her principal place of business. 2. A person operating a school for training drivers shall: (a)…

NRS 483.760 Grounds for refusal to issue or cancellation, revocation or suspension of license. The Department may refuse to issue a license or may cancel, suspend, revoke or refuse to renew any license granted pursuant to NRS 483.700 to 483.780, inclusive: 1. If the applicant or …

NRS 483.765 Suspension of license as instructor for school for failure to pay child support or comply with certain subpoenas or warrants; reinstatement of license. [Effective until the date of the repeal of 42 U.S.C. § 666, the federal law requiring each state to establish proced…

NRS 483.767 Administrative fines; opportunity for hearing; disposition of fines collected; injunctions and other remedies. 1. The Department may impose an administrative fine, not to exceed $2,500, for a violation of any provision of NRS 483.700 to 483.780, inclusive, or any rule…

NRS 483.770 Exemptions. The provisions of NRS 483.700 to 483.780, inclusive, do not apply to: 1. Public schools or educational institutions in which driving instruction is part of the curriculum. 2. Automobile dealers or their salespersons giving instruction without charge to pur…

NRS 483.780 Fees. The Department shall charge annually the following fees for licenses issued pursuant to the provisions of NRS 483.700 to 483.780, inclusive: License for a school for training drivers............................................................. $50 License for a …

NRS 483.785 Department authorized to accept gifts and grants of money to provide financial assistance to certain pupils for automobile drivers’ education; regulations. 1. The Department may accept gifts and grants of money to provide grants of money to pupils who are less than 18…

NRS 483.790 Definitions. As used in NRS 483.800: 1. “Person who is blind” means any person whose visual acuity with correcting lenses does not exceed 20/200 in the better eye, or whose vision in the better eye is restricted to a field which subtends an angle of not greater than 2…

NRS 483.800 Information to be furnished to Department; establishment of registry; regulations; maintenance of file; confidentiality; exception; penalty. 1. The following sources shall submit, within 30 days after learning such information, to the Department the name, address, bir…

NRS 483.810 Legislative findings and declaration. The Legislature finds and declares that: 1. A need exists in this State for the creation of a system of identification for: (a) Residents who are 10 years of age or older and who do not hold a valid driver’s license or identificat…

NRS 483.820 Persons entitled to card; fees. 1. A person who applies for an identification card in accordance with the provisions of NRS 483.810 to 483.890, inclusive, and who is not ineligible to receive an identification card pursuant to NRS 483.861, is entitled to receive an id…

NRS 483.825 One-time waiver of fees to furnish duplicate card to homeless person or person recently released from prison, jail or detention facility; one-time waiver of fees to furnish original or renewal card or reinstate card for person recently released from prison, jail or de…

NRS 483.830 Duties of Director. The Director shall: 1. Prepare suitable identification cards. 2. Prepare and furnish application forms for those cards. 3. Receive applications, grant or deny them and maintain files of applications. 4. Issue identification cards, recall and cancel…

NRS 483.840 Form and effect of card; Department to adopt regulations prescribing contents of card; duties of Department concerning anatomical gifts, indicia of medical condition; Anatomical Gift Account; donor registry. [Effective until the date on which the Director of the Depar…

NRS 483.850 Application for card; required contents; duties of applicant; preregistration or registration to vote; surrender of driver’s license or identification card issued by another state or jurisdiction. 1. Every application for an identification card must be made upon a for…

NRS 483.852 Declaration of status as veteran: Inquiry by Department upon application for card; provision of evidence by applicant; required documentation for designation of status on card; monthly compilation and transmission to Department of Veterans Services of list of persons …

NRS 483.853 Designation of veteran status on card; duties of Department. 1. Upon the application of a person who requests that his or her identification card indicate that he or she is a veteran of the Armed Forces of the United States pursuant to subsection 3 of NRS 483.852, and…

NRS 483.854 Alternate address on card at request of peace officer or retired peace officer: Requirements; application; regulations. 1. A peace officer may request, at the time of application for or renewal of his or her identification card, the display of an alternate address on …

NRS 483.855 Registration of certain males with Selective Service System when applying for identification card; application for identification card to include certain information concerning such registration; transmittal of information to Selective Service System. 1. Except as oth…

NRS 483.860 Proof of full legal name and age; regulations; consular identification cards. 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, every applicant for an identification card must furnish proof of his or her full legal name and age by presenting: (a) An original or certifi…

NRS 483.8605 Change of full legal name on card: Requirements; circumstances when permitted; fee. 1. A person must request that the Department change his or her full legal name on an identification card issued by the Department after a legal change of the person’s name indicated o…

NRS 483.861 Proof of compliance with certain statutory provisions required for issuance to or renewal of card of certain criminal offenders; expiration of card; regulations. 1. The Department shall not issue an identification card to an offender or renew the identification card o…

NRS 483.863 Program for imprinting symbol indicating medical condition on card: Establishment; regulations; eligibility; records of medical condition; provision of information about program; donations. 1. The Department may adopt regulations establishing a program for the imprint…

NRS 483.865 Placement of designation on card issued to person with disability which limits or impairs ability to walk. 1. Upon the application of a person with a disability which limits or impairs the ability to walk, the Department shall place on any identification card issued t…

NRS 483.866 Placement of designation on card issued to person with communication need; Department prohibited from requiring person to disclose communication need. 1. Upon the application of a person with a communication need, the Department shall place on any identification card …

NRS 483.867 Placement of designation on card issued to person who is seasonal resident. Upon the application of a person who is a seasonal resident of this State, the Department shall place on any identification card issued to the person pursuant to NRS 483.810 to 483.890, inclus…

NRS 483.870 Validity of card; surrender of card; report of change of information or loss of card. 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 483.875, an identification card that is issued to: (a) A seasonal resident remains valid until its expiration date so long as the person does n…

NRS 483.875 Expiration as prescribed by regulation; renewability of card; duties of and restriction upon authority of Department. 1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 483.861 and 483.870, an identification card and a renewal of an identification card issued pursuant to NRS 483.…

NRS 483.880 Duplicate card; return of original. 1. Upon furnishing information that his or her identification card is lost or destroyed and paying the prescribed fee, the person to whom the original was issued may obtain a duplicate. 2. If the original of a duplicated card is sub…

NRS 483.890 Unlawful acts; penalty. A person who: 1. Forges or alters an identification card or knowingly possesses an altered or forged identification card; 2. Refuses to surrender an identification card for cancellation when so directed by the Department; 3. Lends his or her id…

NRS 483.900 Purposes. The purposes of NRS 483.900 to 483.940, inclusive, are to implement the Commercial Motor Vehicle Safety Act of 1986, as amended, 49 U.S.C. chapter 313 (§§ 31301 et seq.), and reduce or prevent commercial motor vehicle crashes, fatalities and injuries by: 1. …

NRS 483.902 Applicability. The provisions of NRS 483.900 to 483.940, inclusive, apply only with respect to commercial drivers’ licenses. (Added to NRS by 1989, 1116; A 2009, 715; 2011, 405; 2015, 1427; 2017, 225; 2021, 1459; 2023, 206)

NRS 483.904 Definitions. As used in NRS 483.900 to 483.940, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires: 1. “Commercial driver’s license” means a license issued to a person which authorizes the person to drive a class or type of commercial motor vehicle. 2. “Commercial Drive…

NRS 483.906 Authority of Department. The Department may enter into or make agreements, arrangements or declarations to carry out the provisions of NRS 483.900 to 483.940, inclusive. (Added to NRS by 1989, 1119)

NRS 483.908 Adoption of regulations. The Department shall adopt regulations: 1. Providing for the issuance, expiration, renewal, suspension, revocation and reinstatement of commercial drivers’ licenses; 2. Providing the same exemptions allowed pursuant to federal regulations for …