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Registration Renewal Options

No Notice? No Problem!

Yous can obtain a smog check and renew your registration using the license plate number, terminal four digits of the VIN and your current odometer reading.

Use MyDMV or a kiosk if you are unsure whether we have your correct address.

Quick links:

One-Fourth dimension Online Renewal
Bank check Your Registration Status

General Data

Vehicle registrations expire on the exact appointment listed, not at the stop of the month. You will receive a renewal postcard in the mail approximately thirty days prior to renewal. Yous will receive only e-mail notices if you have a MyDMV business relationship and take called to become paperless.

Yous are responsible for timely registration renewal fifty-fifty if you do not receive a notice. Late fees based on the expiration date are assessed for late renewals. Nevada has no grace period.

Yous may obtain a temporary movement permit through MyDMV or at your nearest DMV office if yous must drive after your registration is expired.

Emission Inspections

Smog checks are required each year in Nevada. You do not need a renewal notice to have a test completed.

New vehicles are at present exempt from emissions tests until the fourth registration. Tests were previously required upon the third registration.

The vehicle will not pass an emissions test if the Check Engine light is on.
If you have a monitoring device plugged into the connector below your dashboard, yous must remove it before the emissions test. Emission stations are required to fail the vehicle if such a device is plugged in.
Don't test your 1996 or newer vehicle correct abroad if the bombardment been disconnected or is in bad condition. The vehicle will demand to be driven under varying conditions for up to one week in club for the OBD-II system to run all of its tests. Obtain a movement permit if necessary.

Renewal Options

You may renew approximately 35 days earlier expiration or upwards to 18 months after (late fees apply) using the online, kiosks or emission station options. Renew in person exterior of these fourth dimension frames.

Yous must register your vehicle for a full twelvemonth. In that location are no partial registrations. Trailers may exist registered for one twelvemonth or three years.

Take your current odometer reading fix.

Internet

Cyberspace

Old Renewal

Or, use MyDMV if you need to change your address or become a movement allow for an emissions test.

Renewals and license plates are sent to the accost on record. We exercise not take address changes by email or send stickers to a temporary accost.

Revenue enhancement Exemptions - Yous may apply your county-issued revenue enhancement exemption during an online renewal. Contact your Canton Assessor to apply for an exemption for the first time or if your voucher number is rejected.

Complete Streets - Residents of participating counties take the option to make a $ii donation to the Complete Streets Plan in their county.

Choose e-check! We accept electronic checks, Visa, MasterCard and Find. Using e-check saves taxpayer dollars through reduced fees. Debit cards are processed equally credit.
Kiosks

Kiosks

Larger DMV offices and dozens of private locations feature cocky-service renewal kiosks that print and dispense the registration sideslip and decal on the spot. Kiosk renewals conduct an additional $three processing fee.

You can renew in less than two minutes if your registration has no address change or unusual problems

See Kiosk Services and Locations. Kiosks at DMV offices have cash.

Taxation Exemptions - You may utilize your canton-issued tax exemption at a kiosk. Contact your County Assessor to apply for an exemption for the outset time or if your voucher number is rejected.

Complete Streets - Residents of participating counties have the option to make a $ii donation to the Complete Streets Program in their county.
Emission Stations
Emission Stations

Participating emission inspection stations can renew your vehicle registration at the same time you get your smog bank check. Stations are allowed to charge upward to $10 in addition to the smog check fee.

Your vehicle record is updated instantly. Your decal and registration certificate are then mailed to you. It's that simple!

Tips
- Be sure to bring your registration renewal find with you lot to the station.
  If your renewal is belatedly, the system will automatically add together in any late fees due.
- Pay DMV renewal fees by greenbacks, bank check or major credit carte.
  Stations deposit cash and checks with the DMV on a daily footing. Credit cards are processed directly through the DMV.
- You will receive carve up receipts for the emission inspection and registration renewal.
  The renewal receipt will contain a DMV Super Transaction ID number in case you need to contact the states.
If your renewal is rejected, the operator will requite you a reason for the rejection and ask you lot to contact the DMV.

Discover a station

Emissions inspectors at participating stations will offer to renew your registration and may display signage.

You tin can utilize our online Business License Verification to observe a station near you. Choose your county, roll to the right and click on the "REG" link for a list of participating stations.
In-Person

You may get new license plates in the mail after renewal. Look for notices on your postcard and during the renewal.

License Plate Reissue

If your license plates are more than viii years old, yous may receive replacement license plates in the postal service after you renew. The Plate Reissue Program helps ensure plates are legible.

Plates and decals are mailed separately. Place your new decal on your new plates when y'all receive them. Do NOT put the decal on your former plates or you will be required to obtain a duplicate.

Renewal postcards, web services and kiosks will indicate whether y'all will be receiving plates. Your receipt will show a "Plate Price Recovery Fee" if plates are being issued.

FAQs/Things to Know

My car is in the shop, non running or my renewal is otherwise late

There are no partial registrations or extensions. Simply let the registration expire. When the vehicle is ready, y'all may go a motility allow to drive information technology for the emissions test. You may obtain a movement permit online through a MyDMV account.

You may then renew using whatsoever option. The arrangement will automatically summate late fees.

If y'all did not bulldoze your vehicle on public streets during the registration lapse, you may avoid late fees if you renew through MyDMV or in person at a DMV office and complete an Affidavit of Non-Operation. Tardily fees cannot be waived or refunded if you renew at a kiosk or an emissions station.

The DMV is required by law to accuse belatedly fees that consist of taxes and penalties if y'all operated the vehicle with an expired registration. Yous must pay the full renewal fees for the coming year and the pro-rated Registration Fee and Governmental Services Taxes for the period of time the vehicle was not registered.

Additional penalties include $vi per calendar month on the Registration Fee. The Governmental Services Tax penalty is $6.00 or x%, whichever is greater (including Supplemental Governmental Services Taxes in applicable counties)

Insurance

If you drib your liability insurance for any reason, you must cancel the registration and surrender your license plates. You can abolish through MyDMV. Run across Plate Give up. Failure to cancel the registration will issue in a registration suspension and reinstatement fees. Run into Insurance.

You must reinstate your insurance earlier yous obtain a move let.

Emission Repairs

Your vehicle may be eligible for a waiver if information technology continues to neglect emission testing after sure repairs. See "Test Failures and Waivers" on the Emissions folio.

My auto is out of the state and I can't get a Nevada smog cheque

If your vehicle doesn't require a smog check, you can renew online simply the registration and decal will sent to the address on record. We cannot send them to a temporary address.

You tin't use the online renewal if your vehicle requires a smog check and you can't have it completed in Nevada. Please contact us with your license plate number and current address for fees and instructions.

If you are currently in an area where emissions testing is required, you must have a examination completed. Submit the completed test with the other documents listed.

If you are currently in an surface area where emissions testing is not required, you lot may complete an Emission Control Exemption Application (EC-8) and submit this with your other renewal documents. Y'all must have the car tested upon your return to Nevada.

Violations of emissions testing laws are criminal offenses and you may likewise exist subject field to an administrative fine from the DMV.

You may wish to consider an early renewal to modify your expiration date. A college student, for example, may renew in August before leaving Nevada for the yr. Those who travel during the summertime could renew in the leap. Early on renewals must be done in person at a DMV part. Credit will be given for the unused portion of the electric current registration.

My renewal is due but I'll exist moving out of Nevada. Is there whatsoever temporary registration?

At that place are no partial-year registrations or refunds. You lot must annals the vehicle for a full year or bulldoze on a move permit.

Yous may obtain a ten-day, in-country movement permit online through a MyDMV account or at a DMV function. These are valid for in-land driving only.

You tin purchase a special "drive-away" let when leaving the state at a DMV office. See as well Sometime Residents.

I want to renew early or alter my expiration date

Vehicle registrations enter "renewal condition" approximately 35 days before expiration. If you renew during this period, the expiration date volition remain the same and you will be charged fees for a full year.

If you wish to renew early or change your expiration appointment, you must visit a DMV role. The new expiration date will exist gear up i year from the date of the renewal. You will receive credit for the unused portion of your current registration fees. Yous volition demand to consummate a new emission inspection if required for your vehicle and if the last exam was completed more than than ninety days prior to the renewal.

I want to change license plates

You must obtain new license plates in person at a DMV Full Service Part or County Assessor which offers vehicle registration services.

If you lot wish to avoid personalized or specialty plate fees charged on your current plates, you should renew your registration in person and exchange plates at the same time. We do not issue credits or refunds for these fees.

Delight renew your registration on time regardless of whether you change plates. Yous may renew first and change plates at a later engagement without obtaining a new registration or emission inspection.

If the new plates y'all wish to obtain are in stock at the DMV, you should renew the registration, surrender the quondam plates and obtain the new ones at the aforementioned fourth dimension. Bring the old plates into the function with you.

If the new plates will be custom-ordered, y'all may order them in person at the aforementioned time you renew the registration. Or, you may renew using any method above and order the plates past mail. You would then substitution the plates in person when the new set is ready.

See our License Plates pages for different plate styles and for specific instructions on obtaining the plates of your choice.

Smog Exemption for Classic Vehicle/Classic Rod/Former Timer plates

Y'all must complete a Odometer Certification for Emission Exemption (EC 018) at each renewal and submit this with your payment by postal service, by fax or in person at a DMV office.

Mail service/fax renewals may take four to vi weeks for processing. You may obtain a movement let if your registration expires.

You exercise not have to claim the exemption. You may have an emissions inspection completed and renew online, at a kiosk or at a participating emissions station.

See the Fact Sheet (EC 019) for more information.

Three-Year Trailer Registration

Recreational and utility trailers tin exist registered for either one yr or three years at a fourth dimension.

Y'all will be issued a three-year decal.
Registration credits can exist applied.
County-issued tax exemptions can exist practical to the get-go twelvemonth's fees simply. Exemptions issued in the second and third years cannot exist practical retroactively or refunded.
Iii-year registrations are bachelor at original registration and at renewal.
3-year registrations are not available for fleet customers.

Visit Online Fee Estimates to compare one-year and 3-year fees.

Complete Streets

Residents of participating counties have the option to make a $2 donation to the Complete Streets Program in their county. The option is available only on internet and kiosk renewals.

Clean Streets promotes the retrofitting of roads to do good pedestrians, bicyclists, disabled persons, and motorists. The donation is voluntary, non-refundable, and is in addition to any other applicable registration fees.

Participating counties include Carson City, Clark, Douglas and Washoe.