Nevada § 482.020 - “Dealer” and “vehicle dealer” defined

§ 482.020. “Dealer” and “vehicle dealer” defined

1. “ Dealer ” or “ vehicle dealer ” means any person who: (a) For compensation, money or other thing of value sells, exchanges, buys, offers

or displays for sale, negotiates or attempts to negotiate a sale or exchange of an

interest in a vehicle subject to registration under this chapter or induces or attempts

to induce any person to buy or exchange an interest in a vehicle; (b) Represents that he or she has the ability to sell, exchange, buy or negotiate

the sale or exchange of an interest in a vehicle subject to registration under this

chapter or in any other state or territory of the United States; (c) Receives or expects to receive a commission, money, brokerage fee, profit or any

other thing of value from the seller or purchaser of a vehicle; or (d) Is engaged wholly or in part in the business of selling vehicles or buying or

taking in trade vehicles for the purpose of resale, selling or offering for sale or

consignment to be sold or otherwise dealing in vehicles, whether or not he or she

owns the vehicles. 2. “Dealer” or “vehicle dealer” does not include: (a) An insurance company, bank, finance company, government agency or any other person

coming into possession of a vehicle, acquiring a contractual right to a vehicle or

incurring an obligation with respect to a vehicle in the performance of official duties

or under the authority of any court of law, if the sale of the vehicle is for the

purpose of saving the seller from loss or pursuant to the authority of a court of

competent jurisdiction; (b) A person, other than a long-term or short-term lessor, who is not engaged in the

purchase or sale of vehicles as a business, but is disposing of vehicles acquired

by the owner for his or her use and not for the purpose of avoiding the provisions

of this chapter, or a person who sells not more than three personally owned vehicles

in any 12-month period; (c) Persons regularly employed as salespersons by dealers, licensed under this chapter,

while those persons are acting within the scope of their employment; (d) Persons who are incidentally engaged in the business of soliciting orders for

the sale and delivery of vehicles outside the territorial limits of the United States

if their sales of such vehicles produce less than 5 percent of their total gross revenue;

or (e) Persons who sell kit trailers but no other vehicle defined by this chapter.