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Vehicle Registration

All About Vehicles

Movement Permit

You need insurance and either a registration or a movement permit to drive any vehicle or trailer on public streets.

The DMV offers a number of options depending on your situation.

Movement Permits

Emissions

Smog checks are required on most vehicles, 1968 or newer, based in the Las Vegas and Reno areas.

Find out about your Bank check Engine lite and how to report smoking vehicles.

Emissions

Insurance

Y'all must obtain insurance from a Nevada-licensed carrier comply with verification requirements. How to reply to a mailed notification

Insurance

Titles, Loans and Liens

How to complete a title and the various options such equally Lien Payoffs, Trusts and Transfer on Death.

Titles

Fees and Taxes

Nevada charges a Bones Registration Fee based on weight and Governmental Services Taxes based on vehicle value.

Registration Fees

Plate Surrender and Non-Op

Abolish your registration and surrender your plates if you are planning to driblet liability insurance. Vehicles in storage.

Plate Give up

License Plates

Nevada offers dozens of license plate styles to the public.

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Practice I Have to Register My Auto in Nevada?

You must register your vehicle in Nevada if you are a resident as outlined below or a non-resident who meets certain conditions.

New residents must obtain their driver license and vehicle registration within 30 days. Run into our New Resident Guide.

In near vehicle sales, the deadline to register the vehicle is 30 days from the date of the sale.

Laws and Exemptions

Nevada Revised Statutes 482.103 "Resident" defined.

"Resident" includes, but is not limited to, a person:
1. Whose legal residence is in the Land of Nevada.
2. Who engages in intrastate business and operates in such a business any motor vehicle, trailer or semi trailer, or whatsoever person maintaining such vehicles in this land, equally the home country of such vehicles.
3. Who physically resides in this state and engages in a trade, profession, occupation or accepts gainful employment in this state.
4. Who declares himself to be a resident of this state to obtain privileges not ordinarily extended to nonresidents of this state.
The term does not include a person who is an bodily tourist, an out-of-state pupil, a foreign commutation student, a edge state employee or a seasonal resident.

Not-Residents

Certain non-residents too must register their vehicles in Nevada. You must register your vehicle hither:

if your vehicle is operated in Nevada for more than 30 days in a calendar year
if you appoint in a merchandise, profession or occupation or accept gainful employment in Nevada
if y'all enroll your children in a public school in Nevada
if you furnish a vehicle to a Nevada resident for continuous use here

Exemptions

In that location are some exemptions. You are not required to register your vehicle here if you are:

on active duty in the military service of the United States
an out-of-state student
a registered student at a college or university located outside Nevada and in the land for a period of non more than 6 months to participate in a work-study programme for which you earn academic credits from the college or university
a migrant or seasonal farm worker
a edge state employee (commute into Nevada for employment within 35 miles of the edge)

You do not have to maintain a registration or liability insurance if your vehicle is in storage or otherwise not being driven on public streets. You must surrender the license plates if you drop the liability insurance for whatever reason.

Laws

NRS 482.103 - Resident Divers
NRS 482.205 - 482.210 - Registration Required and Exemptions
NRS 482.385 - Not-Resident Owners and New Residents

Out-of-State Business organization Vehicles

You must obtain a permit to operate an out-of-country business vehicle in Nevada. Run into Movement Permits for vehicles 26,000 pounds and nether.

Encounter Motor Carrier Permits for vehicles 26,001 pounds or greater. Apportioned registrations are exempt.

Vehicle Types

Your Car, Light Truck or RV

Your Car, Lite Truck or RV

About personal and business concern vehicles are registered at DMV full service offices or online if purchased from a Nevada dealer.

RVs

There are no special registration requirements for recreational vehicles. Gasoline-powered RVs must pass emissions testing if required in the Las Vegas and Reno areas.

RVs are exempt from odometer reporting at registration. They are not eligible for online registration.

You may need special driver license classes or endorsements for large vehicles or multiple trailers. See Driver License Classes.

Commercial Vehicles

There are no special designations or license plates for commercial vehicles under 26,001 pounds. Run into Vehicles in Business for guidance and contact data on your business concern vehicle.

If you accept 10 or more concern vehicles, larger DMV offices take fleet counters to make registration easier and yous may authorize equally a self-insurer. Meet Fleet Registration.

Vehicles 26,001 pounds or more are registered through Motor Carrier.
Motorcycles & Trimobiles

Motorcycles & Trimobiles

Motorcycles and trimobiles must be registered and insured under the same procedures as cars and trucks.

Vehicles purchased from a Nevada dealer are eligible for online registration.

Riders must accept a Class M driver license and wear a helmet. See Motorcycles.
Mopeds

Mopeds

You lot must have a driver's license (any class) to operate a moped on public streets.

Helmets and a former registration are required in Nevada. Liability insurance is not required. See Mopeds.
Trailers

Trailers

Utility and travel trailers must be registered to be operated on public streets. Trailers are titled in Nevada. Small license plates are issued for trailers nether 1,000 pounds.

Trailers are exempt from insurance, odometer and smog requirements but are otherwise registered and titled in the same manner as motor vehicles. See Nevada Dealer Sales, Out-of-State Dealer Sales or Private Party Sales. They are non eligible for online registration.

Trailers may be registered for one yr or three years.

Homemade Trailers

If you are assembling or building your own trailer, you must accept information technology inspected earlier it tin can exist registered or titled. See Trailer Equipment Requirements, the Construction Affirmation (VP 223) form and contact us earlier you begin work.

Towable Tools

Towable tools (air compressors, tow dollies, cement mixers, etc.) do non accept to be registered unless they exceed 70 inches in width.
Depression Speed & Neighborhood Electric Vehicles, Golf game Carts

Low Speed & Neighborhood Electric Vehicles, Golf Carts

Depression speed vehicles built to specific federal standards may be registered and operated on public streets where the speed limit is 35 mph or less. Golf carts, ATVs and homemade vehicles practise not qualify and may not be converted.

Golf carts may exist operated on public streets only in designated areas. See Low Speed Vehicles and Golf Carts.
Off-Highway Vehicles

Off-Highway Vehicles

All-terrain vehicles, pocket bikes, motorized scooters, snowmobiles and like motorized vehicles are subject field to registration and titling in Nevada. Nearly all OHVs 1976 and newer must be registered.

Register your OHV through Off-Route Nevada website.

Off-highway vehicles may not be driven on public streets or sidewalks except on specific roads designated by local government.

There is no minimum operator historic period or commuter license requirement for off-road use. A driver's license and helmet are required when driven on public streets.

Off-highway vehicles may not be converted to on-road use. The simply exceptions are two-wheeled motorcycles.
Boats

Boats

Water vessels are registered and titled by the Nevada Division of Wildlife.

Trailers are registered with the DMV.
Salvage Vehicles, Restorations, Engine Swaps, Kit Cars
Relieve Vehicles, Restorations, Engine Swaps, Kit Cars

Contact us with specifics before yous brainstorm work.

Championship

Make sure you ain the motorcar! You can do a title-only transaction and institute legal buying of a vehicle without registering it. Vehicles coming from out-of-land must accept a VIN inspection.

Inspections

Many salve vehicles, kit cars and antiques have to be inspected by the DMV and/or a licensed mechanic. See the publications and forms under Vehicle Ownership Forms and contact a DMV VIN Inspector.

Engine Swaps

See the Nevada Engine Swap Fact Sheet (EC 054). Contact the Emissions Lab in Las Vegas or Reno for requirements if the vehicle volition be based in an area where smog checks are required.

Relieve Vehicles

There are strict laws, special requirements and several classifications for vehicles that accept been severely damaged. Review our Save Vehicles folio carefully.

Vehicle Equipment Requirements
- Cars & Trucks
- Trailers
- Motorcycles
- Federal Standards
Buses and Big Rigs

Buses and Big Rigs

Vehicles 26,001 pounds or more and those registered under IRP/IFTA interstate licensing must be registered through Motor Carrier.

Y'all need a Class A or B driver's license to operate these vehicles even if they are privately endemic. Run into Commercial Licensing.
Special Mobile Equipment

Special Mobile Equipment

Special Mobile Equipment such as road graders and well-boring equipment does non have to exist registered in Nevada but vehicles are bailiwick to all other requirements on titles and purchases.

Motor Carrier offices can consequence a license plate and/or special fuel license if needed.
Manufactured Homes, Commercial Coaches and Park Trailers

Manufactured Homes, Commercial Coaches and Park Trailers

These are regulated past agencies other than the DMV. See Manufactured Homes and Recreational Park Trailers.

The DMV issues titles for recreational park trailers of upwardly to 400 square feet.