482.2805 - Department not to renew registration if local authority has filed notice of nonpayment pursuant to NRS 484B.527
482.2805 Department not to renew registration if local authority has filed notice of nonpayment pursuant to NRS 484B.527; fee for service performed by Department.
1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, the Department shall not renew the registration of a motor vehicle if a local authority has filed with the Department a notice of nonpayment pursuant to NRS 484B.527 unless, at the time for renewal of the registration, the registered owner of the motor vehicle provides to the Department a receipt issued by the local authority pursuant to NRS 482.2807.
2. If the registered owner provides a receipt to the Department pursuant to subsection 1 and complies with the other requirements of this chapter, the Department shall renew the registration of the motor vehicle.
3. The Department shall renew the registration of a motor vehicle owned by a short-term lessor for which the Department has received a notice of nonpayment pursuant to NRS 484B.527 without requiring the short-term lessor to provide a receipt pursuant to subsection 1 if the short-term lessor submits to the Department a certificate issued by a local authority pursuant to subsection 4.
4. A local authority shall, upon request, issue to a short-term lessor a certificate which requires the Department to renew the registration of a motor vehicle owned by the short-term lessor without requiring the short-term lessor to provide a receipt pursuant to subsection 1 if the short-term lessor provides the local authority with the name, address and number of the driver’s license of the short-term lessee who was leasing the vehicle at the time of the violation.
5. Upon the request of the registered owner of a motor vehicle, the Department shall provide a copy of the notice of nonpayment filed with the Department by the local agency pursuant to NRS 484B.527.
6. If the registration of a motor vehicle that is identified in a notice of nonpayment filed with the Department by a local authority pursuant to NRS 484B.527 is not renewed for two consecutive periods of registration, the Department shall delete any records maintained by the Department concerning that notice.
7. The Department may require a local authority to pay a fee for the creation, maintenance or revision of a record of the Department concerning a notice of nonpayment filed with the Department by the local authority pursuant to NRS 484B.527. The Department shall, by regulation, establish any fee required by this subsection. Any fees collected by the Department pursuant to this subsection must be:
(a) Deposited with the State Treasurer for credit to the Motor Vehicle Fund; and
(b) Allocated to the Department to defray the cost of carrying out the provisions of this section.
(Added to NRS by 1995, 2358; A 1997, 463)