NRS482.2715. License plates: Registrant entitled to maintain code if continuously renewed; exceptions; issuance of replacement plates with same code after expiration of registration; fee.

      1.  Unless the vehicle license plate is:

      (a) A special plate which the registrant is no longer eligible to display; or

      (b) A personalized plate, the code of which denotes that the registrant holds a public office which the registrant no longer holds,

Ê if a certificate of registration and vehicle license plate with a particular code are continuously renewed, the registrant is entitled to maintain that code as long as the registrant desires to do so.

      2.  When any certificate of registration and vehicle license plate expires and remains expired for a continuous period longer than 18 months, the Department may issue, without notice to the previous registrant, replacement plates which bear the same codes. An applicant for such replacement plates must pay the usual registration fees and an application fee of $25.

      (Added to NRS by 1981, 1550; A 1985, 926)