Senate Bill No. 150-Senator Washington

February 24, 1997
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Referred to Committee on Commerce and Labor

SUMMARY--Exempts certain owners of rental property from requirement for licensing as contractor. (BDR 54-391)

FISCAL NOTE: Effect on Local Government: No.
Effect on the State or on Industrial Insurance: No.

EXPLANATION - Matter in italics is new; matter in brackets [ ] is material to be omitted.

AN ACT relating to contractors; exempting certain owners of rental property from the requirement for licensing as a contractor; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

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Section 1 NRS 624.330 is hereby amended to read as follows:
624.330 This chapter does not apply to:
1. Work done exclusively by an authorized representative of the United States Government, the State of Nevada, or [any] an incorporated city, county, irrigation district, reclamation district, or other municipal or political corporation or subdivision of this state.
2. An officer of a court when acting within the scope of his office.
3. Work done exclusively by a public utility operating [under] pursuant to the regulations of the public service commission of Nevada on construction, maintenance and development work incidental to its own business.
4. An owner of property who is building or improving a residential structure on the property for his own occupancy and not intended for sale. The sale or offering for sale of the newly built structure within 1 year after its completion creates a rebuttable presumption for the purposes of this section that the building of the structure was performed with intent to sell.
5. An owner of property who is maintaining, repairing or improving a dwelling unit on the property that:
(a) Is occupied or intended for occupancy by another person pursuant to a rental agreement; and
(b) Is one of not more than four such units located on that property.
6. The sale or installation of any finished product, material or article of merchandise which is not actually fabricated into and does not become a permanent fixed part of the structure.
[6. Any]
7. The construction, alteration, improvement or repair of personal property.
[7. Any]
8. The construction, alteration, improvement or repair financed in whole or in part by the Federal Government and carried on within the limits and boundaries of [any] a site or reservation, the title of which rests in the Federal Government.
[8.] 9. An owner of property, the primary use of which is as an agricultural or farming enterprise, building or improving a structure on the property for his own use or occupancy and not intended for sale or lease.
[9.] 10. An owner of property who builds or improves a structure upon his property and who contracts solely with a managing contractor licensed pursuant to the provisions of this chapter for the building or improvement, if the owner is and remains financially responsible for the building or improving of all buildings and structures built by the owner upon his property pursuant to the exemption of this subsection.

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