NRS487.6874. Duty of body shop or garage operator to inform certain persons of types of payment accepted.

      1.  A body shop or garage operator, as applicable, must inform a person regarding the types of payment the body shop or garage accepts:

      (a) If the person is a prospective customer or customer, before the prospective customer or customer authorizes the body shop or garage operator to perform repair work on his or her vehicle; and

      (b) In the specific instance of a body shop, if the:

             (1) Person is the registered owner of the vehicle;

             (2) Vehicle is towed to the body shop at the request of someone other than the registered owner of the motor vehicle; and

             (3) Body shop notifies the registered owner of the location of the vehicle,

Ê as required pursuant to NRS 487.68703.

      2.  The information required to be provided pursuant to subsection 1:

      (a) Must be in writing;

      (b) May be incorporated into a form already used by the body shop or garage operator for another purpose, including, without limitation, a form used to authorize repairs or estimate the cost of repairs or storage; and

      (c) Must set forth, without limitation:

             (1) Whether the body shop or garage provides the service of directly billing an insurance company for any payment due;

             (2) Whether the body shop or garage accepts only cash as payment;

             (3) Whether the body shop or garage accepts credit or debit cards;

             (4) If the body shop or garage accepts credit or debit cards, or both:

                   (I) The brand or type of such cards the body shop or garage accepts; and

                   (II) Whether the body shop or garage imposes a fee or surcharge for the use of a credit or debit card;

             (5) Whether the body shop or garage accepts personal checks or travelers’ checks; and

             (6) If the body shop or garage does not accept only cash as payment, whether the body shop or garage offers a discount for making payment in the form of cash.

      (Added to NRS by 2013, 1976)