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Nevada · Through 2025 session (NRS as revised 2026-08-25) · Newer source version available

NRS 483.530: Unlawful uses of license; prohibited acts related to provision of false information or commission of fraud in connection with application for license or identification card; penalties.

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  1. TITLE 43 — PUBLIC SAFETY; VEHICLES; WATERCRAFT
  2. CHAPTER 483 - DRIVERS’ LICENSES; DRIVING SCHOOLS AND DRIVING INSTRUCTORS
  3. MOTOR VEHICLE DRIVERS’ LICENSES (UNIFORM ACT)
  4. Violations

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 2, it is a misdemeanor for any person:

(a) To display or cause or permit to be displayed or possess any cancelled, revoked, suspended, fictitious, fraudulently altered or fraudulently obtained driver’s license;

(b) To alter, forge, substitute, counterfeit or use an unvalidated driver’s license;

(c) To lend his or her driver’s license to any other person or knowingly permit the use thereof by another;

(d) To display or represent as one’s own any driver’s license not issued to him or her;

(e) To fail or refuse to surrender to the Department, a peace officer or a court upon lawful demand any driver’s license which has been suspended, revoked or cancelled;

(f) To permit any unlawful use of a driver’s license issued to him or her; or

(g) To photograph, photostat, duplicate or in any way reproduce any driver’s license or facsimile thereof in such a manner that it could be mistaken for a valid license, or to display or possess any such photograph, photostat, duplicate, reproduction or facsimile unless authorized by this chapter.

2. Except as otherwise provided in this subsection, a person who uses a false or fictitious name in any application for a driver’s license or identification card or who knowingly makes a false statement or knowingly conceals a material fact or otherwise commits a fraud in any such application is guilty of a category E felony and shall be punished as provided in NRS 193.130. If the false statement, knowing concealment of a material fact or other commission of fraud described in this subsection relates solely to the age of a person, including, without limitation, to establish false proof of age to game, purchase alcoholic beverages or purchase cigarettes or other tobacco products, the person is guilty of a misdemeanor.

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