590.020 - Definitions. - Nevada Statutes

590.020  Definitions.  As used in NRS 590.010 to 590.330, inclusive, unless the context otherwise requires:

      1.  “Additives” means a substance to be added to a motor oil or lubricating oil to impart or improve desirable properties or to suppress undesirable properties.

      2.  “Advertising medium” means any sign, printed or written matter, or device for oral or visual communication.

      3.  “Alternative fuel” includes, without limitation, premium diesel fuel, B-5 diesel fuel, B-10 diesel fuel, B-20 diesel fuel, B-100 diesel fuel, M-85, M-100, E-85, E-100, liquefied petroleum gas, natural gas, reformulated gasoline, gasohol and oxygenated fuel.

      4.  “Brand name” means a name or logo that is used to identify a business or company.

      5.  “Grade” means:

      (a) “Regular,” “midgrade,” “plus,” “super,” “premium” or words of similar meaning when describing a grade designation for gasoline.

      (b) “Diesel” or words of similar meaning, including, without limitation, any specific type of diesel, when describing a grade designation for diesel motor fuel.

      (c) “M-85,” “M-100,” “E-85,” “E-100” or words of similar meaning when describing a grade designation for alternative fuel.

      (d) “Propane,” “liquefied petroleum gas,” “compressed natural gas,” “liquefied natural gas” or words of similar meaning when describing pressurized gases.

      6.  “Motor vehicle fuel” means a petroleum product or alternative fuel used for internal combustion engines in motor vehicles.

      7.  “Performance rating” means the system adopted by the American Petroleum Institute for the classification of uses for which an oil is designed.

      8.  “Petroleum products” means gasoline, diesel fuel, burner fuel kerosene, lubricating oil, motor oil or any product represented as motor oil or lubricating oil. The term does not include liquefied petroleum gas, natural gas or motor oil additives.

      9.  “Recycled oil” means a petroleum product which is prepared from used motor oil or used lubricating oil. The term includes rerefined oil.

      10.  “Rerefined oil” means used oil which is refined after its previous use to remove from the oil any contaminants acquired during the previous use.

      11.  “Used oil” means any oil which has been refined from crude or synthetic oil and, as a result of use, has become unsuitable for its original purpose because of a loss of its original properties or the presence of impurities, but which may be suitable for another use or economically recycled.

      12.  “Viscosity grade classification” means the measure of an oil’s resistance to flow at a given temperature according to the grade classification system of the Society of Automotive Engineers or other grade classification.

      [2:157:1955]—(NRS A 1961, 648; 1971, 667; 1977, 188; 1985, 530; 1993, 58; 1995, 348; 2001, 851; 2005, 652)