Nevada Revised Statutes 647.130 – Retention of marked or otherwise individually identifiable property; exception for motor vehicles
1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, no property which has a specific mark for identification or is otherwise individually identifiable and is bought by any secondhand dealer may be removed from his or her place of business at which the transaction occurred within:
Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 647.130
- county: includes Carson City. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.033
- population: means the number of people in a specified area as determined by the last preceding national decennial census conducted by the Bureau of the Census of the United States Department of Commerce pursuant to Section 2 of Nevada Revised Statutes 0.050
- Remainder: An interest in property that takes effect in the future at a specified time or after the occurrence of some event, such as the death of a life tenant.
(a) Thirty days after the receipt thereof is reported or a record of the receipt of the property is furnished or mailed to the sheriff or the chief of police, if the place of business is located in a county whose population is 700,000 or more; or
(b) Fifteen days after the receipt thereof is reported or a record of the receipt of the property is furnished or mailed to the sheriff or the chief of police, if the place of business is located in a county whose population is less than 700,000.
2. A secondhand dealer who purchases a motor vehicle may, during the period prescribed in subsection 1, remove the motor vehicle from the place of business at which the transaction occurred to a place used by the secondhand dealer for the storage of purchased motor vehicles. Once the motor vehicle is moved to the place of storage, the secondhand dealer shall not remove the motor vehicle from that place during the remainder of the period prescribed in subsection 1.