How to fill out Nevada VP 015, the Vehicle Inspection Certificate for VIN Verification
Proves a DMV agent or a peace officer physically looked at the vehicle and confirmed its VIN. It is the form that unsticks an out-of-state car, a rebuilt one, or any vehicle whose paperwork and metal have stopped agreeing with each other.
Written against VP 015 (current revision at dmv.nv.gov), issued under NRS 482.220.
This is the one form on this site you do not fill in. It says so at the top: to be completed by an authorized Nevada DMV agent or a peace officer. You take the vehicle to them; they complete and sign it. Mopeds use a different form, VP-30.
Two documents, and they are not the same thing. Take the blank VP 015 from the dmv.nv.gov copy so you get the revision that is current today, then print our VP 015 guide and keep it beside you while you fill theirs in.
This is the actual VP 015, rendered from the PDF the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles publishes and completed end to end: letterhead, every field, and the blocks at the foot.
Amber — you write it
Grey — not yours to fill
Numbered — explained below
VP-015 as it comes back to you. Everything on it is shaded grey rather than amber, because every value was written by the inspector — this is what a finished one looks like, not a form to fill in.
Field by field
Every line, in the order you meet it
1
Dealers only
Year, make, model and body type
Recorded by the inspector from the vehicle in front of them.
Watch out: Check it against your title when it comes back. An inspector transcribing from a dirty door jamb is where a wrong body type enters the record.
2
Dealers only
Vehicle Identification Number
The VIN as read off the vehicle, one character per box.
Watch out: This is the whole purpose of the exercise. Read it back against your paperwork before you leave, because correcting it afterwards means a second inspection.
3
Dealers only
Odometer reading
The mileage as shown, no tenths, with the same three declarations the title carries.
Watch out: If this disagrees with what you are about to write on the title, sort it out now. Two documents from the same week with two different readings is a real problem.
4
Dealers only
Inspector's name and badge
Printed name and badge or identification number of the officer or agent.
Watch out: A certificate without them is not evidence of anything. Look before you drive away.
5
Dealers only
Date
The date of the inspection.
Watch out: Inspections are a snapshot. If your transaction drags on for months, expect to be asked for a current one.
6
Dealers only
Where it was done
The DMV inspection station, or the enforcement or authorized agency that carried it out.
Watch out: It does not have to be a DMV office. A peace officer can do it, which is often faster than an appointment.
At a glance
What goes where
On the form
What to put in it
The vehicle
Year, make, model, body type, VIN and odometer reading, as read off the vehicle.
Specification
Cylinders, rotor, GVWR, axles, fuel type, and lengths for trailers and motorhomes.
Remarks
Anything the inspector needs to record about what they found.
The inspector
Printed name, badge or ID number, date, and where the inspection happened.
What gets this one rejected
•Completing it yourself. Every value on it is the inspector's, and a self-completed certificate is not a certificate.
•Bringing a moped. Moped inspections run on form VP-30 instead.
•Turning up without the vehicle. The whole point is that someone with authority looked at the metal.
•Expecting it to fix a VIN that genuinely does not match the title. It records what is there; a real mismatch becomes a different conversation with the department.
Rules that decide whether it is accepted
•It is completed by an authorized Nevada DMV agent or a peace officer, which means it does not have to be a DMV office — there is a block on the form for an enforcement agency or another authorized agency.
•The odometer section carries the same three declarations as the title, including the 20-year exemption, so the reading recorded here should agree with what goes on the title.
•The header repeats Nevada's continuous insurance requirement under NRS 482.220. That is not decoration: a lapse is its own penalty, separate from anything to do with this inspection.
Every line here was read off VP 015 (current revision at dmv.nv.gov) itself —
the PDF is here — and off the Nevada Department of Motor Vehicles pages.
This is plain-language help with a form, not legal advice, and where our wording and the agency's differ,
theirs governs.
