Vehicle Registration Exemptions - Nevada

The following vehicles are exempt from state vehicle registration requirements:

• Special mobile equipment.
• Implements of husbandry.
• Any mobile home or commercial coach subject to the provisions of chapter 489 of NRS.
• Towable tools or equipment as defined in NRS 484D.055.
• Any motorized conveyance for a wheelchair, whose operator is a person with a disability who is unable to walk about.

“Towable tools or equipment” means all tools or equipment:

• Mounted on wheels;
• Whose body does not exceed 70 inches in width;
• Designed for towing by a motor vehicle; and
• Which is not designed or used primarily for the transportation of persons or property but is only incidentally operated or moved upon a highway.

The term includes without limitation air compressors, concrete mixers, arc welders, tarpots, engine hoists, concrete pumps, plaster mixers, mortar mixers, grout pumps, portable conveyors, generators, log splitters, brush chippers, spray rigs, tree spades, scissor lifts, light towers, pumps, steam cleaners, sand blasters, welders, stump grinders, radial arm saws, sod cutters, aerators, pavement rollers, and scaffolding.

The term “motorized conveyance for a wheelchair” means a vehicle which:

• Can carry a wheelchair;
• Is propelled by an engine which produces not more than 3 gross brake horsepower, has a displacement of not more than 50 cubic centimeters or produces not more than 2250 watts final output;
• Is designed to travel on not more than three wheels; and
• Can reach a speed of not more than 30 miles per hour on a flat surface with not more than a grade of 1 percent in any direction.

The term does not include a tractor.