How Do You Register A Salvage Title

Salvage Vehicles

Tip

Practise not purchase a vehicle with an orange-colored salvage championship. 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 non exist registered in Nevada until information technology has been inspected by a Nevada registered garage, Nevada licensed body shop or Nevada licensed rebuilder.(NRS 487.860)

License Plates
License Plates

Remove your license plates from a totaled vehicle. You may:
- Transfer them to another vehicle within xxx days
- Surrender them to the DMV and employ for a registration fee refund.
  (You must take a copy of the Save Title to apply for a refund.)
- Render them to the Department within lx days for standard issue plates or within 30 days for special plates. You volition receive a credit toward another registration.
See Plate Give up/Refunds. Yous must transfer or surrender the plates before you cancel the liability insurance if yous intend to retain ownership of the vehicle and register it in your proper noun.
If yous accept standoff/comprehensive insurance coverage

If you lot have collision/comprehensive insurance coverage

Your insurance company volition make up one's mind whether your vehicle meets the definition of a salvage vehicle. They will assist you lot in completing the Salvage Title Procedures.

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

Or, you and your insurance company may agree that y'all tin retain the vehicle.
If you do non have collision/comprehensive coverage

If you do non have collision/comprehensive coverage

It is your responsibility to appraise whether the vehicle meets the definition of a salvage 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 utilise for a Salvage Title inside thirty days.

If in that location is no lienholder, you must either employ for a Salvage Championship inside xxx days or sell the vehicle to a DMV-licensed save pool, automobile sale, rebuilder, motorcar wrecker or a new or used motor vehicle dealer. See Relieve Title Procedures.

Yous may not sell the vehicle without first obtaining a Salvage Title. Yous may not sell the vehicle to a private party without rebuilding it.
If yous retain a relieve vehicle

If you retain a relieve vehicle

Read and follow all of the procedures on this folio 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. It is the possessor's responsibleness to complete these steps and obtain a standard blueish Nevada championship earlier the sale.

If you lot retain the vehicle but choose non to rebuild it, you tin can sell information technology only to a DMV-licensed salve pool, car sale, rebuilder, automobile wrecker or a new or used motor vehicle dealer.

Improperly selling a salvage vehicle tin be a serious felony criminal offence. Sellers must disclose in writing that the vehicle is a salvage vehicle. See Salve Vehicle Laws and Penalties.

What is a Salve Vehicle?

"Salvage vehicle" means a motor vehicle that at any time has been declared a full loss vehicle, flood-damaged vehicle, not-repairable vehicle or had "salvage" or a like discussion or designation placed on whatsoever title issued for the vehicle.

Total Loss - A vehicle that has been damaged to the extent that the estimated cost of repair, not including the price associated with painting any part of the vehicle, would exceed 65 percent of the off-white market value of the vehicle immediately before the impairment was incurred. Vehicles with less than 65 percent impairment are not considered relieve vehicles.
Overflowing Damaged - A vehicle that has been submerged in water to a point that the level of the water is college than the door sill of the vehicle and the water has entered the passenger, trunk or engine compartment of the vehicle and has come into contact with the electrical system of the vehicle; or a vehicle that is part of a total loss settlement resulting from h2o harm.
Non-Repairable - A vehicle, other than an abandoned vehicle, that has value simply as a source of parts and fleck metal, or has been designated past its owner for dismantling, or has been stripped of all body panels, doors, lights, etc., or has been burned or destroyed beyond a restorable status.

Salvage vehicles in Nevada are issued an orange-colored Save Title. A salvage vehicle may not be registered or operated on whatsoever public street until it has been rebuilt and inspected. Once a salvage vehicle has been repaired, it becomes a rebuilt vehicle and may exist registered and/or sold if the proper procedures beneath have been followed. Not-Repairable vehicles are issued a Certificate and may not be restored to operating condition.

Older Vehicles

Vehicles 10 model years former or older are non considered salvage vehicles if the merely repairs needed are a express number of items. Specifically, the hood, the trunk lid, and/or up to two of the following: doors, grill associates, 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 pct dominion would apply if the grill, front end bumper and one headlight associates were replaced. If merely the hood, the grill and the bumper were replaced, the 65 per centum rule would not apply and the vehicle would not exist considered a salve vehicle.

Rebuilt Vehicles (Non-Salvage)

Vehicles which have had certain repairs must be titled as Rebuilt even if they do not meet the definition of a save vehicle. Meet Not-Salve Rebuilt Vehicles.

Salvage Championship Procedures

Publications

Relieve Vehicle and Non-Repairable Vehicle Certificate Guide

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

Obtain a Save Title

When a vehicle has been damaged to the extent it becomes a salvage vehicle, an orangish-colored Salvage Championship must be issued. The responsibility to complete this procedure rests with:

The insurance company if the visitor declares the vehicle to exist a total loss.
The lienholder, if whatsoever, if at that place is no comprehensive/collision insurance. The registered owner must notify any lienholder of the damage to the vehicle within ten days and the lienholder must employ for a salvage championship inside thirty days.
The registered owner, if there is no insurance or lienholder and the possessor wishes to retain the vehicle. The owner must submit the electric current championship and an Application for Salvage Title (VP-213) within xxx days. The owner has the option to sell the vehicle to a DMV-licensed relieve pool, 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.

Run across NRS 487.800 for details. The DMV will issue a Salvage Title or Non-Repairable Vehicle Certificate to the new possessor (the insurance company or DMV licensee) or to the current owner (if the vehicle is retained) within two business organization days after the department's Central Services Division has received the properly completed application, electric current championship and other documents.

Important: No other transfer of ownership may accept identify until the DMV has issued a Salvage Title.

Come across Bonded Titles if you do non have proof of vehicle ownership and cannot contact the previous possessor.

Application for Salvage Title or Non-Repairable Vehicle Certificate (VP 213)
Insurance Company Affirmation Without Endorsed Title (VP 236)
Donation Affidavit without Endorsed Title (VP 275)
Unrecovered Vehicle Title Asking Form (VP 243)
Application for Individual Applicant Identification Card (OBL 250) | Data (OBL 257)
Individual Applicant Auction Report (OBL 258) - Excel Spreadsheet, Legal Size
Private Applicant Verification - Online Service

Vehicle Restoration

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

Say-so 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 constabulary. The business organisation must continue records of the repair including any identifying information of parts.

When the reconstruction has been completed, the Document of Inspection must exist completed past a Nevada registered garage, licensed body shop or licensed rebuilder.

The vehicle must then be brought to a DMV inspection station for completion of the Certificate 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 will be a normal Nevada Certificate of Title only will exist "branded", which means the title will be labeled with the give-and-take "Rebuilt" or other appropriate term. The make cannot exist removed.

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

Vehicle Title with Rebuilt brand

Save Vehicle Laws and Penalties

Whatever person who transfers an interest in a motor vehicle in this state shall, earlier the transfer, disclose in writing to the transferee whatsoever data that the transferor knows or reasonably should know concerning whether the vehicle is a save, rebuilt or reconstructed vehicle. (NRS 487.830)

A person shall not remove, cause to be removed or conceal a marker on:
(a) A relieve title or other title which indicates that the vehicle is a salvage vehicle; or
(b) A document 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 lodge jail terms, fines and restitution.

Any purchaser or lessee besides may bring a civil adapt against the offender. If successful, the purchaser will be awarded courtroom costs, attorney's fees and whichever of the following is greater:

Three times the amount of actual damages;
Five grand dollars; or
Actual damages and such castigating damages as may exist allowed by the courtroom.

You may not remove any salvage vehicle from the State of Nevada with the intent to sell information technology without offset obtaining a Salve Title.

Affiliate Number and Title	Statutes	Code
Chapter 482 - Motor Vehicles and Trailers: Licensing, Registration, Sales and Leases	NRS	NAC
Affiliate 487 - Repair, Removal and Disposal of Vehicles (Torso 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 as Rebuilt even if they practice non run across the definition of a salvage vehicle. This applies to whatever vehicle that has had one or more than of the following major components replaced:

Cowl associates;
Rear prune assembly;
Roof assembly;
Flooring pan assembly;
Conventional frame coupled with one additional major component
Consummate forepart inner structure for a unibody

These vehicles must be inspected by a licensed garage or torso shop and the DMV using the Certificate of Inspection for Rebuilt Vehicles (Not Save). The existing title must be surrendered to the DMV, which will issue a title branded "Rebuilt".

A vehicle for which the only change is the installation of a truck cab assembly is not considered a rebuilt or salvage vehicle.

Title Questions

Nevada Section of Motor Vehicles
Cardinal Services and Records Sectionalization
Salvage Unit of measurement
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 Segmentation role.