How To Register A Car As Salvage

Relieve Vehicles

Tip

Do not purchase a vehicle with an orangish-colored relieve title. The vehicle must be rebuilt before it is sold to a private party.

Consumer Tips/After a Crash

A vehicle that has been issued an orange-colored salvage championship may not be registered in Nevada until it has been inspected by a Nevada registered garage, Nevada licensed torso shop or Nevada licensed rebuilder.(NRS 487.860)

License Plates
License Plates

Remove your license plates from a totaled vehicle. Yous may:
- Transfer them to another vehicle within 30 days
- Surrender them to the DMV and apply for a registration fee refund.
  (You must take a re-create of the Salvage Championship to apply for a refund.)
- Return them to the Department within 60 days for standard upshot plates or within 30 days for special plates. You will receive a credit toward some other registration.
See Plate Surrender/Refunds. You must transfer or surrender the plates before you cancel the liability insurance if you intend to retain buying of the vehicle and annals it in your proper name.
If yous accept standoff/comprehensive insurance coverage

If you lot take standoff/comprehensive insurance coverage

Your insurance company will determine whether your vehicle meets the definition of a relieve vehicle. They volition assist you in completing the Relieve Championship Procedures.

You may transfer buying to the insurance company or to a DMV-licensed salvage pool, automobile sale, rebuilder, auto wrecker or a new or used motor vehicle dealer.

Or, yous and your insurance company may concord that you can retain the vehicle.
If you practise not accept standoff/comprehensive coverage

If yous do not have collision/comprehensive coverage

It is your responsibleness to assess whether the vehicle meets the definition of a relieve vehicle.

If at that place is a loan or lease on a vehicle, you must notify the lienholder inside x days and the lienholder must apply for a Salvage Title inside 30 days.

If there is no lienholder, you must either use for a Salvage Title within xxx days or sell the vehicle to a DMV-licensed salvage pool, automobile auction, rebuilder, car wrecker or a new or used motor vehicle dealer. Run into Salvage Title Procedures.

You may non sell the vehicle without first obtaining a Salvage Title. You may non sell the vehicle to a private party without rebuilding it.
If you retain a salvage vehicle

If you retain a salvage vehicle

Read and follow all of the procedures on this page carefully. A rebuilt vehicle must be inspected by a licensed garage or torso shop and the DMV before information technology can be sold or registered. Information technology is the possessor's responsibleness to consummate these steps and obtain a standard blue Nevada title earlier the auction.

If you retain the vehicle but choose not to rebuild information technology, you tin sell it only to a DMV-licensed salvage puddle, automobile sale, rebuilder, automobile wrecker or a new or used motor vehicle dealer.

Improperly selling a salvage vehicle can exist a serious felony criminal offense. Sellers must disclose in writing that the vehicle is a relieve vehicle. Encounter Salve Vehicle Laws and Penalties.

What is a Salvage Vehicle?

"Relieve vehicle" ways a motor vehicle that at any time has been declared a total loss vehicle, inundation-damaged vehicle, non-repairable vehicle or had "salvage" or a similar word or designation placed on any title issued for the vehicle.

Total Loss - A vehicle that has been damaged to the extent that the estimated price of repair, non including the toll associated with painting any part of the vehicle, would exceed 65 percent of the fair market value of the vehicle immediately before the damage was incurred. Vehicles with less than 65 percent damage are not considered salvage vehicles.
Inundation Damaged - A vehicle that has been submerged in water to a point that the level of the water is higher than the door sill of the vehicle and the water has entered the passenger, trunk or engine compartment of the vehicle and has come up into contact with the electrical system of the vehicle; or a vehicle that is part of a total loss settlement resulting from h2o damage.
Not-Repairable - A vehicle, other than an abandoned vehicle, that has value only every bit a source of parts and bit metal, or has been designated by its owner for dismantling, or has been stripped of all trunk panels, doors, lights, etc., or has been burned or destroyed beyond a restorable condition.

Salvage vehicles in Nevada are issued an orange-colored Salvage Title. A relieve vehicle may not exist registered or operated on whatever public street until it has been rebuilt and inspected. In one case a salvage vehicle has been repaired, it becomes a rebuilt vehicle and may be registered and/or sold if the proper procedures below have been followed. Non-Repairable vehicles are issued a Certificate and may non be restored to operating condition.

Older Vehicles

Vehicles 10 model years onetime or older are not considered salvage vehicles if the simply repairs needed are a limited number of items. Specifically, the hood, the trunk lid, and/or upwardly to two of the following: doors, grill assembly, bumper assembly, headlight assembly and taillight assembly.

If the vehicle requires more repairs than this, the 65 percent damage rule applies. For example, the 65 per centum rule would utilize if the grill, forepart bumper and one headlight associates were replaced. If only the hood, the grill and the bumper were replaced, the 65 percent rule would not utilise and the vehicle would non be considered a salvage vehicle.

Rebuilt Vehicles (Non-Salvage)

Vehicles which have had certain repairs must exist titled as Rebuilt even if they practice not meet the definition of a salvage vehicle. See Non-Salvage Rebuilt Vehicles.

Salvage Title Procedures

Publications

Save Vehicle and Not-Repairable Vehicle Document Guide

Wrecker and Tow Car Guide (currently undergoing revision - check dorsum soon)

Obtain a Salvage Title

When a vehicle has been damaged to the extent information technology becomes a relieve vehicle, an orange-colored Relieve Title must exist issued. The responsibility to complete this procedure rests with:

The insurance visitor if the company declares the vehicle to be a full loss.
The lienholder, if any, if there is no comprehensive/collision insurance. The registered owner must notify any lienholder of the damage to the vehicle within 10 days and the lienholder must utilise for a salvage title within 30 days.
The registered owner, if there is no insurance or lienholder and the owner wishes to retain the vehicle. The possessor must submit the electric current title and an Application for Salvage Title (VP-213) inside 30 days. The owner has the pick to sell the vehicle to a DMV-licensed salvage puddle, automobile auction, rebuilder, automobile wrecker or a new or used motor vehicle dealer. If this occurs, the licensee is responsible for obtaining the Salvage Title.

See NRS 487.800 for details. The DMV will event a Salvage Title or Non-Repairable Vehicle Document to the new owner (the insurance company or DMV licensee) or to the current owner (if the vehicle is retained) within two concern days later the section's Central Services Sectionalization has received the properly completed application, current title and other documents.

Important: No other transfer of ownership may take identify until the DMV has issued a Salve Championship.

See Bonded Titles if you practise not have proof of vehicle ownership and cannot contact the previous owner.

Awarding for Salvage Title or Not-Repairable Vehicle Certificate (VP 213)
Insurance Company Affidavit Without Endorsed Championship (VP 236)
Donation Affirmation without Endorsed Championship (VP 275)
Unrecovered Vehicle Title Request Course (VP 243)
Awarding for Private Bidder Identification Card (OBL 250) | Data (OBL 257)
Private Bidder Auction Study (OBL 258) - Excel Spreadsheet, Legal Size
Individual Bidder Verification - Online Service

Vehicle Restoration

If the vehicle to be restored is five model years old or newer, it must be brought to a DMV Inspection Station for completion of the Authorization for Vehicle Restoration prior to whatsoever repairs. Vehicles may not be restored, titled or registered unless this has been completed. This is not necessary for vehicles half-dozen model years one-time or older.

Authorization for Vehicle Restoration (VP 209)

Garages, torso shops and rebuilders must repair vehicles to the common standards published and practical in the automotive repair industry. Air bags and seat belts must be repaired to the standards set in federal law. The business must keep records of the repair including any identifying information of parts.

When the reconstruction has been completed, the Certificate of Inspection must be completed past a Nevada registered garage, licensed torso shop or licensed rebuilder.

The vehicle must and so be brought to a DMV inspection station for completion of the Document of Inspection. Once this is accomplished and all other registration requirements have been met, the vehicle may be registered and titled. The vehicle may be sold one time the new title has been issued.

All futurity titles volition be a normal Nevada Document of Title merely will exist "branded", which ways the title volition be labeled with the discussion "Rebuilt" or other appropriate term. The brand cannot exist removed.

Certificate of Inspection/Affidavit of Construction (VP 064)
Certificate of Inspection/Affidavit of Construction - Motorcycles (VP 064M)
Certificate of Inspection/Affidavit of Construction - Trailers (VP 223)
Nevada Engine Swap Fact Sheet (EC 054)

Vehicle Championship with Rebuilt brand

Salvage Vehicle Laws and Penalties

Any person who transfers an involvement in a motor vehicle in this state shall, before the transfer, disclose in writing to the transferee any information that the transferor knows or reasonably should know concerning whether the vehicle is a salvage, rebuilt or reconstructed vehicle. (NRS 487.830)

A person shall not remove, crusade to exist removed or conceal a marker on:
(a) A salvage title or other championship which indicates that the vehicle is a salvage vehicle; or
(b) A certificate of title or other title for a rebuilt vehicle which indicates that the vehicle is a rebuilt vehicle. (NRS 487.840)

Violations are felony criminal offenses if the vehicle is valued at $250 or more. Courts may order jail terms, fines and restitution.

Any purchaser or lessee also may bring a civil suit confronting the offender. If successful, the purchaser will be awarded courtroom costs, attorney's fees and whichever of the post-obit is greater:

Iii times the corporeality of actual damages;
Five yard dollars; or
Bodily damages and such castigating damages every bit may exist immune past the court.

You may not remove any save vehicle from the State of Nevada with the intent to sell information technology without beginning obtaining a Salvage Title.

Chapter Number and Title	Statutes	Code
Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases	NRS	NAC
Chapter 487 - Repair, Removal and Disposal of Vehicles (Trunk Shop and Garage)	NRS	NAC

Not-Salvage Rebuilt Vehicles

Certificate of Inspection for Rebuilt Vehicles (Not Salvage) - (VP 064A)

Vehicles which have had certain repairs must be titled every bit Rebuilt even if they exercise not meet the definition of a salvage vehicle. This applies to any vehicle that has had one or more of the following major components replaced:

Cowl assembly;
Rear clip assembly;
Roof assembly;
Floor pan assembly;
Conventional frame coupled with one additional major component
Complete front inner structure for a unibody

These vehicles must be inspected by a licensed garage or body shop and the DMV using the Certificate of Inspection for Rebuilt Vehicles (Non Salvage). The existing title must exist surrendered to the DMV, which volition issue a championship branded "Rebuilt".

A vehicle for which the merely alter is the installation of a truck cab assembly is non considered a rebuilt or salvage vehicle.

Title Questions

Nevada Section of Motor Vehicles
Central Services and Records Division
Salvage Unit
555 Wright Way
Carson City, NV 89711
(775) 684-4785
(775) 684-4493 fax

Contact DMV

Contact for Dealers, Body Shops and Repair Garages

Contact your local DMV Compliance Enforcement Division office.