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How To Check A Locksmith License In Las Vegas Nevada

By Jack Mathes, owner of ABC Lock and Safe in Portland, Oregon, with over forty years at the trade. Author Source

A locksmith gets into your home, your car or your safe. Ask for the license number on the phone and look it up before anyone arrives. It takes about two minutes.

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  • 41Valley Listings With No Website
  • 4Steps To Check A License

Who Licenses Locksmiths In Nevada

Nevada is one of 13 states that license locksmiths, by the list the ALOA Security Professionals Association kept as of January 2025. There is no single state board for the trade. A Locksmith Ledger state by state review from 2022 says the permit comes from the sheriff of the county where the main shop sits.

The City of Las Vegas also issues a locksmith license to businesses. The city runs a public search for its licenses, so that is the easiest one for a customer to check.

Rules change. Treat any list, this one too, as a starting point and confirm with the office that issued the license.

A hand holding a brass lock cylinder that was just pulled from a storefront door
A lock cylinder pulled from a storefront door during a job on the Strip.

Four Steps To Check A License

  1. Ask for the legal business name and the license number while you are still on the phone. A real company gives both without a pause.
  2. Open the City of Las Vegas License Search and type the business name.
  3. Match three things. The name, the number and the status the city shows should agree with what you were told.
  4. When the van arrives, check that the name on the van and the invoice is the same one you looked up.

If the name, the number or the status does not match, do not open the door. Call a different locksmith.

A Worked Lookup

One valley company, Silver State Locksmith, states that it holds City of Las Vegas locksmith license P64-00012. Search that business name in the city tool and the number on the screen should be the same. Run the same test on any company you call.

Why The Check Matters Here

Many locksmith listings give you little to go on. Among the top 40 map results for a locksmith search in Las Vegas, 10 showed no street address. Across 41 metro areas the share was 15.7 percent, so Las Vegas runs higher. In a wider sweep of 450 valley listings, 41 had no website at all.

A hidden address is normal for an honest mobile locksmith. It also means the license number is one of the few facts you can test from your phone.

A license is one check out of several. For the rest, read the six checks to run on a locksmith before you let one in.

Where To Report A Problem

File a report on the Federal Trade Commission fraud report page and on the Nevada Attorney General complaint page. Write down the license number, if you were given one, and add it to the report.

Check First, Then Call

Call at any hour. Ask for the license number and the full price before anyone drives out.

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