(On Behalf of the Department of Motor Vehicles
and Public Safety)
April 30, 1997
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Referred to Committee on Transportation
SUMMARY--Provides uniform requirements for signs of certain businesses licensed by department of motor vehicles and public safety. (BDR 43-469)
FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: Yes.
Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.
EXPLANATION - Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is material to be omitted.
AN ACT relating to businesses; providing uniform requirements for signs of certain businesses licensed by the department of motor vehicles and public safety; providing a penalty; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:
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Section 1 NRS 482.327 is hereby amended to read as follows:
482.327 1. If a vehicle dealer has one or more branches, he shall procure from the department a license for each branch in addition to the license issued for his principal place of business.
2. The department shall specify on each license it issues:
(a) The name of the licensee;
(b) The location for which the license is issued; and
(c) The name under which the licensee does business at that location.
3. Each vehicle dealer shall post each license issued to him by the department in a conspicuous place at the location described in the license.
4. The department shall, by regulation, provide for the issuance of a temporary license for a licensed dealer to conduct business at a temporary location. Any such regulations must include the imposition of a reasonable fee for the issuance of the temporary license.
Sec. 2 NRS 482.332 is hereby amended to read as follows:
482.332 [1.] At each of his established places of business, [a] each vehicle dealer and each broker shall [display] permanently affix a sign containing the name of his business in lettering of sufficient size to be clearly legible from the center of the nearest street or roadway [.
2. Each vehicle dealer shall post each license issued to him by the department in a conspicuous place at the location described in the license.] , except that the lettering must be at least 8 inches high and formed by lines that are at least 1-inch wide.
Sec. 3 Chapter 487 of NRS is hereby amended by adding thereto the provisions set forth as sections 4 and 5 of this act.
Sec. 4 At each of his established places of business, an automobile wrecker shall permanently affix a sign containing the name of his business in lettering of sufficient size to be clearly legible from the center of the nearest street or roadway, except that the lettering must be at least 8 inches high and formed by lines that are at least 1-inch wide.
Sec. 5 At each of his established places of business, an operator of a salvage pool shall permanently affix a sign containing the name of his business in lettering of sufficient size to be clearly legible from the center of the nearest street or roadway, except that the lettering must be at least 8 inches high and formed by lines that are at least 1-inch wide.
Sec. 6 NRS 487.200 is hereby amended to read as follows:
487.200 Unless a greater penalty is provided in NRS 487.185, any person who violates any of the provisions of NRS 487.045 to 487.190, inclusive, and section 4 of this act, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Sec. 7 NRS 487.510 is hereby amended to read as follows:
487.510 Any person who violates any of the provisions of NRS 487.400 to 487.500, inclusive, and section 5 of this act, is guilty of a misdemeanor.
Sec. 8 NRS 487.620 is hereby amended to read as follows:
487.620 An operator of a body shop shall [maintain] :
1. Maintain an established place of business in this state which includes a permanent enclosed building owned in fee or leased by the operator with sufficient space to conduct safely the operations of the body shop.
2. At each of his established places of business, permanently affix a sign containing the name of his business in lettering of sufficient size to be clearly legible from the center of the nearest street or roadway, except that the lettering must be at least 8 inches high and formed by lines that are at least 1-inch wide.
Sec. 9 The amendatory provisions of this act do not apply to offenses that are committed before October 1, 1997.
Sec. 10 The provisions of subsection 1 of NRS 354.599 do not apply to any additional expenses of a local government that are related to the provisions of this act.