1. At each office of the Department where the Department determines that document preparation services conduct a sufficient number of transactions on behalf of clients to warrant it, the Department may maintain public service windows or locations dedicated to serving document preparation services conducting transactions on behalf of clients, except that the Department must maintain:

(a) In a county where motor vehicle owners are required to participate in a program for the control of emissions pursuant to NRS 445B.795 and where four or more offices of the Department are located, not less than two such public service windows or locations at each office in the county;

(b) Except as otherwise provided in paragraph (a), in a county where motor vehicle owners are required to participate in a program for the control of emissions pursuant to NRS 445B.795, not less than one such public service window or location in each office in the county; and

(c) At the main office of the Department, not less than one such public service window or location.

Such public service windows or locations may be used to provide services to the general public during times when no document preparation service is in the office seeking to conduct transactions on behalf of clients.

2. A person who is a client of a document preparation service may file with the Department a complaint alleging a violation of chapter 240A of NRS by the document preparation service in lieu of notifying the Secretary of State pursuant to chapter 240A of NRS if at least one allegation in the complaint involves a transaction with the Department by the document preparation service on behalf of the client.

3. Upon receipt of a complaint filed pursuant to subsection 2 and evidence satisfactory to the Department that a violation of chapter 240A of NRS is more likely than not to have occurred, the Department shall forward the complaint to the Secretary of State or his or her designee for investigation pursuant to NRS 240A.260. Such evidence may include, without limitation, a written receipt for payment to the document preparation service by the client, as required pursuant to NRS 240A.230, for the transaction or transactions that are the subject of the complaint.

4. Upon receipt by the Department of a notice from the Secretary of State pursuant to NRS 240A.270 or from the Attorney General or a district attorney pursuant to NRS 240A.280 that a violation of the provisions of chapter 240A of NRS has been committed by a document preparation service concerning a transaction with the Department that resulted in:

(a) A suspension or revocation of or the refusal to renew the registration of the document preparation service, the Department shall not allow the document preparation service to conduct transactions with the Department on behalf of a client.

(b) The imposition of any civil remedy authorized by chapter 240A of NRS other than the suspension or revocation of the registration of the document preparation service, the Department may suspend, for an amount of time determined to be reasonable by the Department, the privilege of the document preparation service to:

(1) Conduct transactions with the Department on behalf of clients; or

(2) Use a service window or location dedicated to document preparation services at any office of the Department where such a window or location is provided.

(Added to NRS by 2019, 1876)