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 Chapter483 Drivers’ Licenses; Driving Schools and Driving Instructors
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  Drivers’ Licenses and Identification Cards

  NAC483.055. Documentation required for change of full legal name; appearance of new full legal name.  

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  •      1. A person who wishes or is required pursuant to NRS 483.390 or 483.870 to change the full legal name indicated on his or her driver’s license, motorcycle driver’s license or identification card must submit proof satisfactory to the Department that his or her full legal name was legally changed. The proof may include, without limitation, one of the following documents if that document reflects the change of the person’s full legal name and indicates that it has been filed with a court of competent jurisdiction, recorded by the county recorder or filed with or certified by another appropriate agency:

         (a) A certificate of marriage;

         (b) A certificate of domestic partnership issued by the Secretary of State of this State or any authorized agency of another state;

         (c) An order of a court changing the name of the person;

         (d) A decree of adoption;

         (e) A divorce decree; or

         (f) Any other document that the Department determines is acceptable as proof of the change of the person’s full legal name.

         2. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, the Department shall indicate the full legal name of the person requesting the change of his or her full legal name on a new driver’s license, motorcycle driver’s license or identification card in a manner that is identical to the manner in which the full legal name appears on the document submitted by the person as proof of the change of the person’s full legal name.

         3. Upon request, the Department shall indicate the full legal name of the person requesting the change of his or her full legal name on a driver’s license, motorcycle driver’s license or identification card in a manner that combines the maiden name and the married name of the person as a hyphenated last name.

         4. The maiden name of a person may not be used as a middle name on a driver’s license, motorcycle driver’s license or identification card unless documented by an original or certified copy of any document of proof of the change of the person’s full legal name listed in subsection 1.

     (Added to NAC by Dep’t of Motor Veh. & Pub. Safety by R063-00, eff. 8-14-2000; A by Dep’t of Motor Veh. by R140-12, 12-20-2012, eff. 1-15-2013)