NOTICE OF INTENT TO ACT UPON A REGULATION

Notice of Workshop & Public Hearing
for the Adoption of Regulations for
the Department of Motor Vehicles

The Department of Motor Vehicles will hold a public workshop and hearing at the following location on the date and time specified:

Video conferencing will be provided to Legislative Counsel Bureau, 555 E Washington Ave, Room 4406, Las Vegas, NV.

The purpose of the hearing is to receive comments from all interested persons regarding the amendment of regulations that pertain to chapter 482 of the Nevada Administrative Code.

The following information is provided pursuant to the requirements of NRS 233B.0603:

1. The need for and the purpose of the proposed regulation or amendment.
   
   The purpose of the proposed regulation is to require a valid consular identification card issued by the United State Department of State to obtain a special license plate for person appointed as an honorary consul; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.
    

2. Either the terms or the substance of the regulations to be adopted, amended or repealed, or a description of the subjects and issues involved.
   
   Nevada Revised Statutes authorize the Department to require certain information on applications for special license plates issued pursuant to NRS 482.3675 and allows the Department to adopt regulations governing the issues of special license plates to honorary consuls of foreign countries. 
    

3. The estimated economic effect of the regulation on the business which it is to regulate and on the public. These must be stated separately and in each case must include:
   (a) Both adverse and beneficial effects; and
   (b) Both immediate and long-term effects.
   
   There is no economic effect of the regulation on the public and there are no adverse or beneficial effects because each applicant for an honorary consul license plate should have the valid consular identification card issued by the United State Department of State.
     
4. The estimated cost to the agency for enforcement of the proposed regulation.
   
   None.
    
5. A description of and citation to any regulations of other state or local governmental agencies which the proposed regulation overlaps or duplicates and a statement explaining why the duplication or overlapping is necessary. If the proposed regulation overlaps or duplicates a federal regulation, the notice must include the name of the regulating federal agency.
   
   None.
   
6. If the regulation is required pursuant to federal law, a citation and description of the federal law.
   
   N/A
   
7. If the regulation includes provisions which are more stringent than a federal regulation that regulates the same activity, a summary of such provisions.
   
   N/A
   
8. Whether the proposed regulation establishes a new fee or increases an existing fee.
   
   N/A

Persons wishing to comment upon the proposed action of the Department of Motor Vehicles may appear at the scheduled public workshop and hearing or may address their comments, data, views, or arguments, in written form to:

Kathy Williams
Department of Motor Vehicles
Research and Development Division
555 Wright Way, Carson City, NV 89711 

Written submission must be received by Department of Motor Vehicles on or before April 14, 2008. If no person who is directly affected by the proposed action appears to request time to make an oral presentation, the Department of Motor Vehicles may proceed immediately to act upon any written submissions.

A copy of this notice and the regulation to be amended will be on file at the State Library, 100 Stewart Street, Carson City, Nevada, for inspection by members of the public during business hours. Additional copies of the notice and regulations to be amended will be available at each of the Department of Motor Vehicles listed, and at the main public libraries listed, for inspection and copying by members of the public during business hours. This notice and the text of the proposed regulation are also available in the State of Nevada Register of Administrative Regulations, which is prepared and published monthly by the Legislative Counsel Bureau pursuant to NRS 233B.0653, and on the Internet at http://leg.state.nv.us/Register/. Copies of this notice and the proposed regulation will also be mailed to members of the public upon request. A reasonable fee may be charged for copies if it is deemed necessary.

Upon adoption of any regulation, the agency, if requested to do so by an interested person, either before adoption or within 30 days thereafter will issue a concise statement of the principal reasons for and against its adoption and incorporate therein its reason for overruling the consideration urged against its adoption.

This notice of hearing has been posted at the locations listed on the attached page.

Dated: March 4, 2008