487.170 - Automobile wreckers, rebuilders and scrap processors to maintain records of certain vehicles; inspection of records by peace officer or investigator of state agency; required contents of rec
487.170 Automobile wreckers, rebuilders and scrap processors to maintain records of certain vehicles; inspection of records by peace officer or investigator of state agency; required contents of records. Every licensed automobile wrecker, rebuilder or scrap processor shall maintain a record of all vehicles acquired and processed, junked, dismantled, wrecked, sold as a part or parts or disposed of as scrap metal. The records must be open to inspection during business hours by any peace officer or investigator of the state agency. Every vehicle record must contain:
1. The name, address and original signature of the person from whom the vehicle was acquired, until such time as the original signature is submitted to the Department, at which time the record must contain a duplicate of the signature;
2. The date the vehicle was acquired;
3. The manner in which the vehicle was acquired by the wrecker, rebuilder or scrap processor;
4. The registration number last assigned to the vehicle; and
5. A brief description of the vehicle, including, insofar as the data may exist with respect to a given vehicle, the make, type, serial number and motor number, or any other number of the vehicle.
(Added to NRS by 1963, 841; A 1973, 137; 1979, 1231; 2007, 3226, 3408)