NRS 483.340 Issuance and contents of license ; license for purposes of identification only issued to certain persons.

1. The department shall upon payment of the required fee issue to every qualified applicant a driver's license indicating the type or class of vehicles the licensee may drive. The license must bear a unique number assigned to the licensee pursuant to NRS 483.345, the licensee´s social security number, if he has one, unless he requests that it not appear on the license, the full name, date of birth, mailing address, and a brief description of the licensee, and a space upon which the licensee shall write his usual signature in ink immediately upon receipt of the license. A license is not valid until it has been so signed by the licensee.

2. The department may issue a driver's license for purposes of identification only for use by officers of local police and sheriffs´ departments, agents of the investigation division of the department while engaged in special undercover investigations relating to narcotics or prostitution or for other undercover investigations requiring the establishment of a fictitious identity, federal agents while engaged in undercover investigations, investigators employed by the attorney general while engaged in undercover investigations and agents of the state gaming control board while engaged in investigations pursuant to NRS 463.140. An application for such a license must be made through the head of the police or sheriff´s department, the chief of the investigation division, the director of the appropriate federal agency, the attorney general or the chairman of the state gaming control board. Such a license is exempt from the fees required by NRS 483.410. The department, by regulation, shall provide for the cancellation of any such driver´s license upon the completion of the special investigation for which it was issued.

3. Information pertaining to the issuance of a driver´s license pursuant to subsection 2 is confidential.

4. It is unlawful for any person to use a driver´s license issued pursuant to subsection 2 for any purpose other than the special investigation for which it was issued.

5. At the time of the issuance of the driver´s license, the department shall give the holder the opportunity to indicate on his driver´s license that he wishes to be a donor of all or part of his body pursuant to NRS 451.500 to 451.590, inclusive, or that he refuses to make an anatomical gift of his body or part of his body.

[19:190:1941; A 1943, 268; 1943 NCL § 4442.18] - (NRS A 1963, 843; 1969, 544; 1975, 802; 1977, 449; 1981, 1106, 2007; 1985, 1938; 1987, 895; 1989, 437, 474, 1152; 1991, 487, 2171; 1993, 1188)