Nevada Revised Statutes Section 40.770 - Remedies - Special Actions and Proceedings

Limitation on liability of seller, seller’s agent and buyer’s agent for failure to disclose certain facts concerning property.

1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 5, in any sale, lease or rental of real property, the fact that the property is or has been:

(a) The site of a homicide, suicide or death by any other cause, except a death that results from a condition of the property;

(b) The site of any crime punishable as a felony other than a crime that involves the manufacturing of any material, compound, mixture or preparation which contains any quantity of methamphetamine; or

(c) Occupied by a person exposed to the human immunodeficiency virus or suffering from acquired immune deficiency syndrome or any other disease that is not known to be transmitted through occupancy of the property,

Êis not material to the transaction.

2. In any sale, lessor or rental of real property, the fact that a sex offender, as defined in NRS 179D.400, resides or is expected to reside in the community is not material to the transaction, and the seller, lessor or landlord or any agent of the seller, lessor or landlord does not have a duty to disclose such a fact to a buyer, lessee or tenant or any agent of a buyer, lessee or tenant.

3. A seller, lessor or landlord or any agent of the seller, lessor or landlord is not liable to the buyer, lessee or tenant in any action at law or in equity because of the failure to disclose any fact described in subsection 1 or 2 that is not material to the transaction or of which the seller, lessor or landlord or agent of the seller, lessor or landlord had no actual knowledge.

4. Except as otherwise provided in an agreement between a buyer, lessee or tenant and his agent, an agent of the buyer, lessee or tenant is not liable to the buyer, lessee or tenant in any action at law or in equity because of the failure to disclose any fact described in subsection 1 or 2 that is not material to the transaction or of which the agent of the buyer, lessee or tenant had no actual knowledge.

5. For purposes of this section, the fact that the property is or has been the site of a crime that involves the manufacturing of any material, compound, mixture or preparation which contains any quantity of methamphetamine is not material to the transaction if:

(a) All materials and substances involving methamphetamine have been removed from or remediated on the property by an entity certified or licensed to do so; or

(b) The property has been deemed safe for habitation by a governmental entity.

Last modified: February 27, 2006