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Utah law uses "brands" — labels on vehicle titles — to flag cars with troubled histories, and this bill updates how those brands are defined and applied. It creates formal definitions for six specific brands: fire damaged, flood damaged, gray market, hail damaged, stolen/recovered, and rebuilt and restored. It also establishes a new "compliant gray market" label for foreign-made vehicles that didn't originally meet U.S. safety or emissions standards but have since been modified to comply. The bill requires the Motor Vehicle Division to check a national database called the National Motor Vehicle Title Information System (NMVTIS) before issuing a new Utah title to any vehicle that lacks a title or carries an out-of-state title, and to apply the appropriate brand if that database shows the vehicle was previously flagged as salvage, a total loss, or damaged.