Suspension of license for failure to satisfy arrearage in payment of support for child; reinstatement of license. [Effective on the date of the repeal of the federal law requiring each state to establish procedures for withholding, suspending and restricting the professional, occupational and recreational licenses for child support arrearages and for noncompliance with certain processes relating to paternity or child support proceedings.]
1. The Department shall, upon receiving notification from a district attorney or other public agency collecting support for children that a court has determined a person is in arrears in the payment for the support of a child pursuant to NRS 425.510, send a written notice to that person that his license is subject to suspension. The notice must include:
(a) The reason for the suspension of the license;
(b) The information set forth in subsections 2, 4 and 5; and
(c) Any other information the Department deems necessary.
2. If a person who receives a notice pursuant to subsection 1 does not satisfy the arrearage as required in NRS 425.510 within 30 days after he receives the notice, the Department shall suspend his license.
3. The Department shall suspend immediately the license of a defendant if so ordered pursuant to NRS 176.064.
4. The Department shall reinstate the driver’s license of a person whose license was suspended pursuant to this section if it receives:
(a) A notice from the district attorney or other public agency pursuant to NRS 425.510 that the person has satisfied the arrearages pursuant to that section or from a district judge that a delinquency for which the suspension was ordered pursuant to NRS 176.064 has been discharged; and
(b) Payment of the fee for reinstatement of a suspended license prescribed in NRS 483.410.
5. The Department shall not require a person whose driver’s license was suspended pursuant to this section to submit to the tests and other requirements which are adopted by regulation pursuant to subsection 1 of NRS 483.495 as a condition of the reinstatement of his license.
Last modified: February 25, 2006