Nevada Revised Statutes

Nev. Rev. Stat. § 624.020 (2026)

“Contractor” synonymous with “builder”; “contractor” defined

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NRS 624.020  “Contractor” synonymous with “builder”; “contractor” defined.

      1.  “Contractor” is synonymous with “builder.”

      2.  A contractor is any person, except a registered architect or a licensed professional engineer, acting solely in a professional capacity, who undertakes to, offers to undertake to, purports to have the capacity to undertake to, or submits a bid to, or does himself, herself or itself or by or through an employee or employees of the contractor or of another contractor, construct, alter, repair, add to, subtract from, improve, move, wreck or demolish any building, highway, road, railroad, excavation or other structure, project, development or improvement, or to do any part thereof, including the erection of scaffolding or other structures or works in connection therewith. Evidence of the securing of any permit from a governmental agency or the employment of any person on a construction project must be accepted by the Board or any court of this State as prima facie evidence that the person securing that permit or employing any person on a construction project is acting in the capacity of a contractor pursuant to the provisions of this chapter.

      3.  A contractor includes a subcontractor or specialty contractor, but does not include anyone who merely furnishes materials or supplies without fabricating them into, or consuming them in the performance of, the work of a contractor.

      4.  A contractor includes a construction manager who performs management and counseling services on a construction project for a professional fee.

      5.  A contractor does not include an owner of a planned unit development who enters into one or more oral or written agreements with one or more general building contractors or general engineering contractors to construct a work of improvement in the planned unit development if the general building contractors or general engineering contractors are licensed pursuant to this chapter and contract with the owner of the planned unit development to construct the entire work of improvement.

      6.  As used in subsection 2, “employee” means a natural person who:

      (a) Works under the direction and control of a contractor; and

      (b) For federal income tax purposes:

             (1) Is required by the contractor to complete a Form W-4 for the withholding of federal income taxes from wages paid to the person by the contractor; and

             (2) Is provided at the end of each year a Form W-2 for the reporting of wages paid to the person by the contractor.

      [2:Art. II:186:1941; A 1955, 378] + [3:Art. II:186:1941; 1931 NCL § 1474.11]—(NRS A 1975, 831; 1977, 319; 1997, 1037; 2001, 1621; 2003, 1899, 2140; 2005, 1223; 2021, 816)

     

Notes of Decisions
Cited in 22 cases (3 in the last 5 years), 1974–2026 · leading case: San Diego Prestressed Concrete Co. v. Chicago Title Ins., 555 P.2d 484 (Nev. 1976).
San Diego Prestressed Concrete Co. v. Chicago Title Ins., 555 P.2d 484 (Nev. 1976). · cites it 5× “NRS 624.020 defines a contractor and NRS 624.”
Tucker v. Action Equip. & Scaffold Co., 951 P.2d 1027 (Nev. 1997). · cites it 2× “In the present case, it is clear that Action is a subcontractor according to NRS 624.020, which defines “contractor” as 2.”
The Fifth Day, LLC v. Bolotin, 172 Cal. App. 4th 939 (Cal. Ct. App. 2009). · cites it 2× “" ( Nev. Rev. Stat. § 624.020 (4).) [7] That a person performs some services that might be labeled construction management services does not necessarily mean that the person must hold a contractor's license.”
Richards v. Repub. Silver State Disposal, Inc., 148 P.3d 684 (Nev. 2006). · cites it 2× “A "principal contractor" is a person who "(1) Coordinates all the work on an entire project; (2) Contracts to complete an entire project; (3) Contracts for the services of any subcontractor or independent contractor; or (4) Is responsible for payment to any contracted…”
Interstate Com. Bldg. Servs., Inc. v. Bank of Am. Nat'l Trust & Sav. Ass'n, 23 F. Supp. 2d 1166 (D. Nev. 1998). · cites it 8× “ICBS has conceded that it was performing the contracted repair and construction work through the services of its alleged affiliate, *1173 McKenzie-Nall, and the various subcontractors it allegedly hired. Bank of America’s alleged awareness of ICBS’ unlicensed status and ICBS’…”
State Indus. Ins. Sys. v. Ortega Concrete Pumping, Inc., 951 P.2d 1033 (Nev. 1997). · cites it 4× “Barber, the executive officer of NSBC, which stated that “[t]he NSBC does not require that concrete pumping services be licensed because their work does not fall within the definition of contractors/subcontractors in NRS 624.020, 3 or of concrete contractors under NAC 624.”
MGM Grand Hotel, Inc. v. Imperial Glass Co., 65 F.R.D. 624 (D. Nev. 1974). · cites it 6× “In defining the term “contractor” NRS § 624.020(2) notes that: “Within the meaning of this chapter, a contractor is any person, except a licensed architect or a registered professional engineer, acting solely in his professional capacity, who in any capacity other than as the…”
Trident Constr. Corp. v. West Elec., Inc., 776 P.2d 1239 (Nev. 1989). “NRS 624.020 provides in relevant part: 2.”
Kourafas v. Basic Food Flavors, Inc., 88 P.3d 822 (Nev. 2004). · cites it 2× “4 NRS 624.020(2) (emphasis added). 5 See, e.”
Interstate Com. Bldg. Serv. v. Bank of Amer., 23 F. Supp. 2d 1166 (D. Nev. 1998). · cites it 8× “ICBS has conceded that it was performing the contracted repair and construction work through the services of its alleged affiliate, *1173 McKenzie-Nall, and the various subcontractors it allegedly hired. Bank of America's alleged awareness of ICBS' unlicensed status and ICBS'…”
Martin Bloom Assocs., Inc. v. Manzie, 389 F. Supp. 848 (D. Nev. 1975). · cites it 2× “1 As enumerated in NRS 624.020 *851 to, “construct, alter, repair, add to, subtract from, improve, move, wreck or demolish” any building would bring plaintiff within the provisions of NRS 624.”
Nev. Health & Bioscience Asset Corp. v. State of Nev. (civil), 142 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 38 (Nev. 2026). · cites it 6× “” NRS 624.020(1). The term is further defined as inclusive of both “any person.”
— Nev. Rev. Stat. § 624.020(1) — 1 case
Nev. Health & Bioscience Asset Corp. v. State of Nev. (civil), 142 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 38 (Nev. 2026). “” NRS 624.020(1). The term is further defined as inclusive of both “any person.”
— Nev. Rev. Stat. § 624.020(2) — 13 cases
Richards v. Repub. Silver State Disposal, Inc., 148 P.3d 684 (Nev. 2006). “A "principal contractor" is a person who "(1) Coordinates all the work on an entire project; (2) Contracts to complete an entire project; (3) Contracts for the services of any subcontractor or independent contractor; or (4) Is responsible for payment to any contracted…”
MGM Grand Hotel, Inc. v. Imperial Glass Co., 65 F.R.D. 624 (D. Nev. 1974). “In defining the term “contractor” NRS § 624.020(2) notes that: “Within the meaning of this chapter, a contractor is any person, except a licensed architect or a registered professional engineer, acting solely in his professional capacity, who in any capacity other than as the…”
Interstate Com. Bldg. Servs., Inc. v. Bank of Am. Nat'l Trust & Sav. Ass'n, 23 F. Supp. 2d 1166 (D. Nev. 1998). “ICBS has conceded that it was performing the contracted repair and construction work through the services of its alleged affiliate, *1173 McKenzie-Nall, and the various subcontractors it allegedly hired. Bank of America’s alleged awareness of ICBS’ unlicensed status and ICBS’…”
Kourafas v. Basic Food Flavors, Inc., 88 P.3d 822 (Nev. 2004). “4 NRS 624.020(2) (emphasis added). 5 See, e.”
Interstate Com. Bldg. Serv. v. Bank of Amer., 23 F. Supp. 2d 1166 (D. Nev. 1998). “ICBS has conceded that it was performing the contracted repair and construction work through the services of its alleged affiliate, *1173 McKenzie-Nall, and the various subcontractors it allegedly hired. Bank of America's alleged awareness of ICBS' unlicensed status and ICBS'…”
— Nev. Rev. Stat. § 624.020(2)(1997) — 2 cases
Interstate Com. Bldg. Servs., Inc. v. Bank of Am. Nat'l Trust & Sav. Ass'n, 23 F. Supp. 2d 1166 (D. Nev. 1998). “ICBS has conceded that it was performing the contracted repair and construction work through the services of its alleged affiliate, *1173 McKenzie-Nall, and the various subcontractors it allegedly hired. Bank of America’s alleged awareness of ICBS’ unlicensed status and ICBS’…”
Interstate Com. Bldg. Serv. v. Bank of Amer., 23 F. Supp. 2d 1166 (D. Nev. 1998). “ICBS has conceded that it was performing the contracted repair and construction work through the services of its alleged affiliate, *1173 McKenzie-Nall, and the various subcontractors it allegedly hired. Bank of America's alleged awareness of ICBS' unlicensed status and ICBS'…”
— Nev. Rev. Stat. § 624.020(20) — 2 cases
Interstate Com. Bldg. Servs., Inc. v. Bank of Am. Nat'l Trust & Sav. Ass'n, 23 F. Supp. 2d 1166 (D. Nev. 1998). “ICBS has conceded that it was performing the contracted repair and construction work through the services of its alleged affiliate, *1173 McKenzie-Nall, and the various subcontractors it allegedly hired. Bank of America’s alleged awareness of ICBS’ unlicensed status and ICBS’…”
Interstate Com. Bldg. Serv. v. Bank of Amer., 23 F. Supp. 2d 1166 (D. Nev. 1998). “ICBS has conceded that it was performing the contracted repair and construction work through the services of its alleged affiliate, *1173 McKenzie-Nall, and the various subcontractors it allegedly hired. Bank of America's alleged awareness of ICBS' unlicensed status and ICBS'…”
— Nev. Rev. Stat. § 624.020(3) — 2 cases
San Diego Prestressed Concrete Co. v. Chicago Title Ins., 555 P.2d 484 (Nev. 1976). “NRS 624.020 defines a contractor and NRS 624.”
State Indus. Ins. Sys. v. Ortega Concrete Pumping, Inc., 951 P.2d 1033 (Nev. 1997). “Barber, the executive officer of NSBC, which stated that “[t]he NSBC does not require that concrete pumping services be licensed because their work does not fall within the definition of contractors/subcontractors in NRS 624.020, 3 or of concrete contractors under NAC 624.”
— Nev. Rev. Stat. § 624.020(4) — 1 case
Kourafas v. Basic Food Flavors, Inc., 88 P.3d 822 (Nev. 2004). “4 NRS 624.020(2) (emphasis added). 5 See, e.”
— Nev. Rev. Stat. § 624.020(5) — 1 case
Nev. Health & Bioscience Asset Corp. v. State of Nev. (civil), 142 Nev. Adv. Op. No. 38 (Nev. 2026). “” NRS 624.020(1). The term is further defined as inclusive of both “any person.”
— Nev. Rev. Stat. § 624.020(l) — 1 case
Carpenters Sw. Admin. Corp. v. Thomas & Assocs. Mfg., 799 F. Supp. 2d 1166 (D. Nev. 2010).
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