2022 Nevada Revised Statutes
Chapter 590 - Motor Vehicle Fuel, Petroleum Products and Antifreeze
NRS 590.020 - Definitions.

As used in NRS 590.010 to 590.330, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires:

1. "Additives" means a substance to be added to a motor vehicle fuel, petroleum heating product, motor oil or lubricating oil to impart or improve desirable properties or to suppress undesirable properties.

2. "Advertising medium" means any sign, printed or written matter, or device for oral or visual communication.

3. "Alternative fuel" includes, without limitation:

(a) Any M-85 or M-100 fuel methanol that meets the specifications for motor vehicle fuel adopted by regulation pursuant to NRS 590.070;

(b) Any E-85 or E-100 fuel ethanol that meets the specifications for motor vehicle fuel adopted by regulation pursuant to NRS 590.070;

(c) Liquefied petroleum gas;

(d) Natural gas;

(e) Any hydrogen that meets the specifications for motor vehicle fuel adopted by regulation pursuant to NRS 590.070;

(f) Electricity;

(g) Any biodiesel fuel that contains:

(1) Diesel that meets the specifications for motor vehicle fuel adopted by regulation pursuant to NRS 590.070; and

(2) At least 5 percent by volume biodiesel fuel blend stock for distillate fuels;

(h) Any blend of ethanol and diesel fuel:

(1) That contains:

(I) Any amount of diesel fuel that meets the specifications for motor vehicle fuel adopted by regulation pursuant to NRS 590.070; and

(II) At least 5 percent by volume ethanol; and

(2) That may contain a proprietary additive; and

(i) Any renewable diesel fuel that:

(1) Contains at least 20 percent by volume renewable diesel blend stock for distillate fuels; and

(2) If a part of a blend stock, contains diesel that meets the specifications for motor vehicle fuel adopted by regulation pursuant to NRS 590.070.

The term does not include a fuel that is required for use in this State pursuant to a state implementation plan adopted by this State pursuant to 42 U.S.C. § 7410.

4. "Brand name" means a name or logo that is used to identify a business or company.

5. "Diesel exhaust fluid" means an aqueous urea solution that:

(a) Contains, by mass, 32.5 percent technically pure urea and 67.5 percent pure water;

(b) Is used in selective catalytic reduction to lower oxides of nitrogen concentration in the exhaust emissions of diesel engines; and

(c) Meets the standards set forth in the latest version of ISO 22241, "Diesel engines — NOx reduction agent AUS 32" of the International Organization for Standardization.

6. "Grade" means:

(a) "Regular," "midgrade," "plus," "super," "premium" or words of similar meaning when describing a grade designation for gasoline.

(b) "Diesel" or words of similar meaning, including, without limitation, any specific type of diesel, when describing a grade designation for diesel motor fuel.

(c) "M-85," "M-100," "E-85," "E-100" or words of similar meaning when describing a grade designation for alternative fuel.

(d) "Propane," "liquefied petroleum gas," "compressed natural gas," "liquefied natural gas" or words of similar meaning when describing pressurized gases.

7. "Motor vehicle fuel" means a petroleum product or alternative fuel used for internal combustion engines in motor vehicles. The term does not include motor vehicle fuel additives.

8. "Performance rating" means the system adopted by the American Petroleum Institute for the classification of uses for which an oil is designed.

9. "Petroleum heating product" means a petroleum product that is used for heating purposes. The term does not include petroleum heating product additives.

10. "Petroleum products" means gasoline, diesel fuel, burner fuel kerosene, lubricating oil, motor oil or any product represented as motor oil or lubricating oil. The term does not include liquefied petroleum gas, natural gas or motor oil additives.

11. "Pure water" means water that is:

(a) Very low in inorganic, organic or colloidal contaminants; and

(b) Produced by a process such as:

(1) Single distillation;

(2) Deionization;

(3) Ultra-filtration; or

(4) Reverse osmosis.

12. "Recycled oil" means a petroleum product which is prepared from used motor oil or used lubricating oil. The term includes rerefined oil.

13. "Rerefined oil" means used oil which is refined after its previous use to remove from the oil any contaminants acquired during the previous use.

14. "Technically pure urea" means urea that is:

(a) An industrially produced grade of urea with traces of biuret, ammonia and water only;

(b) Free of aldehydes or other substances, including, without limitation, anticaking agents; and

(c) Free of contaminants, including, without limitation, sulphur and its compounds, chloride and nitrate.

15. "Used oil" means any oil which has been refined from crude or synthetic oil and, as a result of use, has become unsuitable for its original purpose because of a loss of its original properties or the presence of impurities, but which may be suitable for another use or economically recycled.

16. "Viscosity grade classification" means the measure of an oil’s resistance to flow at a given temperature according to the grade classification system of the Society of Automotive Engineers or other grade classification.

[2:157:1955]—(NRS A 1961, 648; 1971, 667; 1977, 188; 1985, 530; 1993, 58; 1995, 348; 2001, 851; 2005, 652; 2013, 1041; 2021, 136, 1012)