Consumer Services Guide (CSG)

Consumer Action Edition

The Consumer Services Guide is searchable directory of resources which can help you with consumer problems and questions. There are multiple editions of the ‘Guide’, some which deal with specific issues such as housing or credit. The full directory, the Consumer Service Guide Edition, provides access to all the resources collected by Consumer Action.

Listings for the City of Reno

These are the results for consumer specific consumer resources for NV. The listing is grouped by primary service category, then sorted alphabetically.

Attorneys General

• Nevada - Attorney General
  Under the direction of the Attorney General and Consumer Advocate, the Bureau of Consumer Protection (BCP) enforces various consumer protection statutes, in particular deceptive trade and antitrust laws, through the filing of lawsuits on behalf of the State of Nevada and the public good. BCP can not represent individual consumers in these lawsuits, nor can BCP assist individual consumers with their own private legal disputes.… (Reno, NV)
  

Banking Authorities

• Nevada - Division of Financial Institutions
  The Financial Institutions Division's purpose is to maintain a safe and sound financial institutions system that promotes a conducive business environment, protects consumers and defends the public interest through the efficient, effective and equitable licensing, examination and enforcement of depository, lending, debt collection and money transmission activities. (Reno, NV)
  

Consumer Protection

• Nevada - Attorney General
  Under the direction of the Attorney General and Consumer Advocate, the Bureau of Consumer Protection (BCP) enforces various consumer protection statutes, in particular deceptive trade and antitrust laws, through the filing of lawsuits on behalf of the State of Nevada and the public good. BCP can not represent individual consumers in these lawsuits, nor can BCP assist individual consumers with their own private legal disputes.… (Reno, NV)
  
• Nevada - Division of Financial Institutions
  The Financial Institutions Division's purpose is to maintain a safe and sound financial institutions system that promotes a conducive business environment, protects consumers and defends the public interest through the efficient, effective and equitable licensing, examination and enforcement of depository, lending, debt collection and money transmission activities. (Reno, NV)
  

Weights and Measures Offices

• Nevada - Weights and Measures Office
  The Bureau of Weights and Measures is charged with the responsibility to inspect and test all commercially used weighing and measuring devices. These devices include the fuel dispensers used at service stations and truck stops, scales used in supermarkets and specialty stores, refueling meters at airports and liquefied petroleum gas dispensers. When requested, the Bureau inspects and tests truck, concrete and asphalt scales for the… (Reno, NV)