2013 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 648 - Private Investigators, Private Patrol Officers, Polygraphic Examiners, Process Servers, Repossessors and Dog Handlers
NRS 648.018 - Applicability.

Except as to polygraphic examiners and interns, this chapter does not apply:

1. To any detective or officer belonging to the law enforcement agencies of the State of Nevada or the United States, or of any county or city of the State of Nevada, while the detective or officer is engaged in the performance of his or her official duties.

2. To special police officers appointed by the police department of any city, county, or city and county within the State of Nevada while the officer is engaged in the performance of his or her official duties.

3. To insurance adjusters and their associate adjusters licensed pursuant to the Nevada Insurance Adjusters Law who are not otherwise engaged in the business of private investigators.

4. To any private investigator, private patrol officer, process server, dog handler or security consultant employed by an employer regularly in connection with the affairs of that employer if a bona fide employer-employee relationship exists, except as otherwise provided in NRS 648.060, 648.140 and 648.203.

5. To a repossessor employed exclusively by one employer regularly in connection with the affairs of that employer if a bona fide employer-employee relationship exists, except as otherwise provided in NRS 648.060, 648.140 and 648.203.

6. To a person engaged exclusively in the business of obtaining and furnishing information as to the financial rating of persons.

7. To a charitable philanthropic society or association incorporated under the laws of this State which is organized and maintained for the public good and not for private profit.

8. To an attorney at law in performing his or her duties as such.

9. To a collection agency unless engaged in business as a repossessor, licensed by the Commissioner of Financial Institutions, or an employee thereof while acting within the scope of his or her employment while making an investigation incidental to the business of the agency, including an investigation of the location of a debtor or his or her assets and of property which the client has an interest in or lien upon.

10. To admitted insurers and agents and insurance brokers licensed by the State, performing duties in connection with insurance transacted by them.

11. To any bank organized pursuant to the laws of this State or to any national bank engaged in banking in this State.

12. To any person employed to administer a program of supervision for persons who are serving terms of residential confinement.

13. To any commercial registered agent, as defined in NRS 77.040, who obtains copies of, examines or extracts information from public records maintained by any foreign, federal, state or local government, or any agency or political subdivision of any foreign, federal, state or local government.

14. To any holder of a certificate of certified public accountant issued by the Nevada State Board of Accountancy pursuant to chapter 628 of NRS while performing his or her duties pursuant to the certificate.

15. To a person performing the repair or maintenance of a computer who performs a review or analysis of data contained on a computer solely for the purposes of diagnosing a computer hardware or software problem and who is not otherwise engaged in the business of a private investigator.

[2:85:1947; 1943 NCL 5175.02] + [3:85:1947; A 1949, 149; 1943 NCL 5175.03] + [4:85:1947; 1943 NCL 5175.04] (NRS A 1967, 179, 1362; 1969, 852; 1971, 1089, 1926, 1960; 1973, 686; 1983, 1709; 1985, 1343; 1987, 1886; 1989, 655; 1991, 182; 1995, 97; 2009, 1943; 2013, 1427)