(REPRINTED WITH ADOPTED AMENDMENTS)
"                    FIRST REPRINT       S.B. 119" 


       Senate Bill No. 119--Senator Jacobsen

                 January 18, 1995
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      Referred to Committee on Transportation


SUMMARY--Revises provisions relating to disclosure of 
          odometer reading of motor vehicle and 
          certain other information when ownership of 
          motor vehicle is transferred. (BDR 43-1317)

FISCAL NOTE:  Effect on Local Government: No.
              Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.



EXPLANATION--Matter in italics is new; matter in bra
ckets [ ] is material to be omitted.

AN ACT relating to motor vehicles; repealing the provisions relating 
        to the disclosure of the odometer reading of a motor vehicle 
        when the ownership of that motor vehicle is transferred; 
        requiring the department of motor vehicles and public safety 
        to enforce the provisions of the federal law relating to the 
        disclosure of the odometer reading of a motor vehicle and 
        certain other information when the ownership of that motor 
        vehicle is transferred; and providing other matters properly 
        relating thereto.

     THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE
                AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:



  Section 1.  Chapter 484 of NRS is hereby 
amended by adding thereto a new section to read as follows:
  \The department shall enforce the provisions of 49 
U.S.C. §§ 32701 et seq. and the regulations adopted pursuant 
thereto.
   \\Sec. 2.  NRS 484.606 is hereby amended to read 
as follows:
  484.606  As used in NRS 484.606 to 484.6069, inclusive, 
\and section 1 of this act,\\ unless the context 
otherwise requires:
  1.  "Odometer" means an instrument for measuring and 
recording the total distance which a motor vehicle travels 
while in operation\ .\\ [; but]\ The 
term\\ does not include any auxiliary odometer designed 
to be reset by the operator of the motor vehicle.
  2.  "Repair and replacement" means restoration to a sound 
working condition by replacing the odometer or any part 
thereof, or by correcting what is inoperative.
  3.  "Transfer" means to change ownership by purchase, gift 
or any other means.
  Sec. 3.  NRS 484.6066 is hereby repealed.



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                TEXT OF REPEALED SECTION
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  484.6066  Statement of mileage required on transfer 
of vehicle; exemption; transferee to retain statement.
  1.  Upon the sale or transfer of a motor vehicle, the 
transferor shall furnish the transferee with a written 
statement containing:
  (a) The odometer reading at the date of transfer;
  (b) The current address of the person making the sale or 
transfer; and
  (c) The identity of the vehicle, including the make, 
model, body type, vehicle identification number and the 
vehicle registration number.
  2.  If the transferor has knowledge or reason to believe 
that:
  (a) The odometer reading differs from the actual mileage, 
he shall include a statement of the actual mileage or a 
statement that the actual mileage is unknown.
  (b) The odometer has been turned back or replaced, he 
shall so notify the transferee before any sale, and obtain 
the transferee's signed acknowledgment of this notification.
  3.  If the vehicle being transferred is a bus or truck 
which weighs over 16,000 pounds and is accompanied by 
maintenance records, the department may exempt such vehicle, 
by regulations, from the provisions of NRS 484.606 to 
484.6069, inclusive.
  4.  The transferee shall retain the statement in his 
possession for not less than 2 years.

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