598C.390 - Companies not required to place security freeze in file of consumer. - Nevada Statutes

598C.390  Companies not required to place security freeze in file of consumer.  The following companies are not required to place a security freeze in the file of a consumer:

      1.  A check services or fraud prevention services company which issues reports on incidents of fraud or authorizations for the purpose of approving or processing negotiable instruments, electronic funds transfers or similar methods of payments.

      2.  A deposit account information service company which issues reports regarding account closures because of fraud, substantial overdrafts, abuse of automatic teller machines or similar negative information regarding a consumer to inquiring banks or other financial institutions for use only in reviewing a consumer request for a deposit account at the inquiring bank or financial institution.

      3.  A reporting agency which acts only as a reseller of credit information by assembling and merging information contained in the database of another reporting agency or in the databases of multiple reporting agencies and which does not maintain a permanent database of consumer credit information from which new consumer reports are produced. Such a reporting agency shall honor any security freeze placed on a consumer report by another reporting agency.

      (Added to NRS by 2005, 1523)