(d) Require a tenant to pay the rent by check or money order.
(e) Require a tenant who pays the rent in cash to apply any change to which the tenant is entitled to the next periodic
payment that is due. The landlord or his or her agent or employee shall have an adequate amount of money available to
provide change to such a tenant.
(f) Prohibit or require fees or deposits for any meetings held in the park’s community or recreational facility by the
tenants or occupants of any manufactured home or recreational vehicle in the park to discuss the park’s affairs, or any
political meeting sponsored by a tenant, if the meetings are held at reasonable hours and when the facility is not otherwise
in use, or prohibit the distribution of notices of those meetings.
(g) Interrupt, with the intent to terminate occupancy, any utility service furnished the tenant except for nonpayment of
utility charges when due. Any landlord who violates this paragraph is liable to the tenant for actual damages.
(h) Prohibit a tenant from having guests, but the landlord may require the tenant to register the guest within 48 hours
after his or her arrival, Sundays and legal holidays excluded, and if the park is a secured park, a guest may be required to
register upon entering and leaving.
(i) Charge a fee for a guest who does not stay with the tenant for more than a total of 60 days in a calendar year. The
tenant of a manufactured home lot who is living alone may allow one other person to live in his or her home without
paying an additional charge or fee, unless such a living arrangement constitutes a violation of chapter 315 of NRS. No
agreement between a tenant and his or her guest alters or varies the terms of the rental contract between the tenant and the
landlord, and the guest i s subject to the rules and regulations of the landlord.
(j) Prohibit a tenant from erecting a fence on the tenant’s lot if the fence complies with any standards for fences
established by the landlord, including limitations established for the location and height of fences, the materials used for
fences and the manner in which fences are to be constructed.
(k) Prohibit any tenant from soliciting membership in any association which is formed by the tenants who live in the
park. As used in this paragraph, “solicit” means to make an oral or written request f or membership or the payment of dues
or to distribute, circulate or post a notice for payment of those dues.
(l) Prohibit a public officer, candidate for public office or the representative of a public officer or candidate for public
office from walking through the park to talk with the tenants or distribute political mater ial.
(m) If a tenant has voluntarily assumed responsibility to trim the trees on his or her lot, require the tenant to trim any
particular tree located on the lot or dispose of the trimmings unless a danger or hazard exists.
(n) Charge a fee for a late monthly rental payment by a federal worker, tribal worker, state worker or household
member of such a worker during a shutdown.
2. The landlord is entitled to require a security deposit from a tenant who wants to use the manufactured home park’s
clubhouse, swimming pool or other park facilities for the tenant’s exclusive use. The landlord may require the deposit at
least 1 week before the use. The landlord shall apply the deposit to costs which occur due to damage or cleanup from the
tenant’s use within 1 week after the use, if any, and shall, on or before the eighth day after the use, refund any unused
portion of the deposit to the tenant making the deposit. The landlord is not required to place such a deposit into a financial
institution or to pay interest on the deposit.
3. The provisions of paragraphs (a), (b), (c), (j) and (m) of subsection 1 do not apply to a corporate cooperative park.
4. As used in this section, “long-term lease” means a rental agreement or lease the duration of which exceeds 12
months.
(Added to NRS by 1981, 2028; A 1983, 1357; 1985, 2219; 1987, 983; 1989, 1795; 1991, 2277; 1995, 2755; 1997, 790,
1101, 2984; 1999, 3192; 2001, 1180, 1941; 2003, 2474; 2005, 1599; 2017, 3608; 2019, 3192)
NRS 118B.152 Adverse action by landlord based solely upon request for emergency assistance prohibited;
request for emergency assistance may not be deemed nuisance; exceptions; remedies.
1. A landlord shall not take any adverse action against a tenant, including, without limitation, evicting, imposing a
fine or taking any other punitive action against the tenant, based solely upon the tenant or another person in the
manufactured home of the tenant requesting emergency assistance if the tenant or other person had a reasonable belief that
an emergency response was necessary or that criminal activity may have occurred, regardless of any other previous
requests for emergency assistance by the tenant or other person.
2. A local government or other political subdivision of this State shall not deem there to be a nuisance or take any
other adverse action against the landlord of a manufactured home park based solely upon the tenant or another person in
the manufactured home of the tenant requesting emergency assistance in accordance with subsection 1.
3. Any local charter, code, ordinance, regulation or other law that conflicts with this section is void and
unenforceable.
4. This section does not:
(a) Prohibit a landlord from taking any action necessary to abate a nuisance on the property pursuant to NRS 40.140
or 202.450 or taking any other action which is not in conflict with the provisions of this section, including, without
limitation, commencing eviction proceedings in accordance with the provisions of chapter 40 of NRS for any nuisance
discovered by or reported to the landlord by a peace officer as a result of a request for emergency assistance pursuant to
subsection 1;
(b) Authorize a tenant to breach any provision of a rental agreement that is not in conflict with this section or to
violate any other provision of law;
(c) Prohibit a landlord from taking any action necessary to cure a breach of any provision of a rental agreement or any
other provision of law by a tenant which is discovered by or reported to the landlord by a peace officer as a result of a
request for emergency assistance pursuant to subsection 1; or
(d) Prohibit a l ocal government or other political subdivision of this State from taking any action against a landlord or
a tenant to abate a nuisance or a violation of any local law, ordinance or regulation which is discovered by a peace officer
while responding to a request for emergency assistance pursuant to subsection 1.