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
The Fifth Day, LLC v. Bolotin (2009)
calctapp · 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. Republic Silver State Disposal, Inc. (2006)
nev · cites it 2×
“…subcontractors or independent contractors." NRS 616A.285 (emphasis added). [14] NRS 616A.210(1). [15] NRS 624.020(2). [16] See NRS 616B.603(3)(a) (providing that NRS 616B.603(1) and (2) do not apply to NRS Chapter 624-licensed principal contractors). [17] <a…”
State Industrial Insurance System v. Ortega Concrete Pumping, Inc. (1997)
nev · 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. (1974)
nvd · 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…”
Martin Bloom Associates, Inc. v. Manzie (1975)
nvd · 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. Rev. Stat. § 624.020(1) — 1 case
— Nev. Rev. Stat. § 624.020(2) — 13 cases
Richards v. Republic Silver State Disposal, Inc. (2006)
nev
“…subcontractors or independent contractors." NRS 616A.285 (emphasis added). [14] NRS 616A.210(1). [15] NRS 624.020(2). [16] See NRS 616B.603(3)(a) (providing that NRS 616B.603(1) and (2) do not apply to NRS Chapter 624-licensed principal contractors). [17] <a…”
MGM Grand Hotel, Inc. v. Imperial Glass Co. (1974)
nvd
“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…”
— Nev. Rev. Stat. § 624.020(2)(1997) — 2 cases
— Nev. Rev. Stat. § 624.020(20) — 2 cases
— Nev. Rev. Stat. § 624.020(3) — 2 cases
State Industrial Insurance System v. Ortega Concrete Pumping, Inc. (1997)
nev
“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
— Nev. Rev. Stat. § 624.020(5) — 1 case
— Nev. Rev. Stat. § 624.020(l) — 1 case
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