Senate Bill No. 13–Senator  McGinness

 

Prefiled January 24, 2003

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Referred to  Committee on Judiciary

 

SUMMARY—Revises provision requiring landlord to disclose emergency telephone number to tenant at or before commencement of tenancy. (BDR 10‑662)

 

FISCAL NOTE:  Effect on Local Government: No.

                           Effect on the State: No.

 

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

 

AN ACT relating to property; revising the provision requiring a landlord to disclose an emergency telephone number to a tenant at or before the commencement of a tenancy; and providing other matters properly relating thereto.

 

THE PEOPLE OF THE STATE OF NEVADA, REPRESENTED IN

SENATE AND ASSEMBLY, DO ENACT AS FOLLOWS:

 

1-1  Section 1. NRS 118A.260 is hereby amended to read as

1-2  follows:

1-3  118A.260  1.  The landlord, or any person authorized to enter

1-4  into a rental agreement on his behalf, shall disclose to the tenant in

1-5  writing at or before the commencement of the tenancy:

1-6  (a) The name and address of:

1-7       (1) The persons authorized to manage the premises;

1-8       (2) A person authorized to act for and on behalf of the

1-9  landlord for the purpose of service of process and receiving notices

1-10  and demands; and

1-11          (3) The principal or corporate owner.

1-12      (b) A telephone number at which a responsible person who

1-13  resides in the county [in which] or within 60 miles of where the

1-14  premises are located may be called in case of emergency.

1-15      2.  The information required to be furnished by this section

1-16  must be kept current, and this section is enforceable against any

1-17  successor landlord or manager of the premises.

2-1  3.  A party who enters into a rental agreement on behalf of the

2-2  landlord and fails to comply with this section is an agent of the

2-3  landlord for purposes of:

2-4  (a) Service of process and receiving notices and demands; and

2-5  (b) Performing the obligations of the landlord under law and

2-6  under the rental agreement.

2-7  4.  In any action against a landlord which involves his rental

2-8  property, service of process upon the manager of the property shall

2-9  be deemed to be service upon the landlord. The obligations of the

2-10  landlord devolve upon the persons authorized to enter into a rental

2-11  agreement on his behalf.

2-12      5.  This section does not limit or remove the liability of an

2-13  undisclosed landlord.

 

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