A common-interest community may be created pursuant to this chapter only by recording a declaration executed in the same manner as a deed and, in a cooperative, by conveying the real estate subject to that declaration to the association. The declaration must be recorded in every county in which any portion of the common-interest community […]
Except as otherwise provided by the declaration: 1. If walls, floors or ceilings are designated as boundaries of a unit, all lath, furring, wallboard, plasterboard, plaster, paneling, tiles, wallpaper, paint, finished flooring and any other materials constituting any part of the finished surfaces thereof are a part of the unit, and all other portions of […]
1. The inclusion in a governing document of an association of a provision that violates any provision of this chapter does not render any other provisions of the governing document invalid or otherwise unenforceable if the other provisions can be given effect in accordance with their original intent and the provisions of this chapter. 2. […]
A description of a unit which sets forth the name of the common-interest community, the file number and book or other information to show where the declaration is recorded, the county in which the common-interest community is located and the identifying number of the unit, is a legally sufficient description of that unit and all […]
1. The declaration must contain: (a) The names of the common-interest community and the association and a statement that the common-interest community is either a condominium, cooperative or planned community; (b) The name of every county in which any part of the common-interest community is situated; (c) A legally sufficient description of the real estate […]
1. Any lease the expiration or termination of which may terminate the common-interest community or reduce its size must be recorded. Every lessor of those leases in a condominium or planned community shall sign the declaration. The declaration must state: (a) The recording data for the lease or a statement of where the recorded lease […]
1. The declaration must allocate to each unit: (a) In a condominium, a fraction or percentage of undivided interests in the common elements and in the common expenses of the association, and a portion of the votes in the association; (b) In a cooperative, a proportionate ownership in the association, a fraction or percentage of […]
1. Except for the limited common elements described in subsections 2 and 4 of NRS 116.2102, the declaration must specify to which unit or units each limited common element is allocated. An allocation may not be altered without the consent of the units’ owners whose units are affected. 2. Except as the declaration otherwise provides, […]
1. Plats are a part of the declaration, and are required for all common-interest communities except cooperatives. Each plat must be clear and legible and contain a certification that the plat contains all information required by this section. 2. Each plat must comply with the provisions of chapter 278 of NRS and show: (a) The […]
1. To exercise any developmental right reserved under paragraph (h) of subsection 1 of NRS 116.2105, the declarant shall prepare, execute and record an amendment to the declaration (NRS 116.2117) and in a condominium or planned community comply with NRS 116.2109. The declarant is the owner of any units thereby created. The amendment to the […]
1. Except as otherwise provided in this section and subject to the provisions of the declaration and other provisions of law, a unit’s owner: (a) May make any improvements or alterations to his or her unit that do not impair the structural integrity or mechanical systems or lessen the support of any portion of the […]
1. Subject to the provisions of the declaration and other provisions of law, the boundaries between adjoining units may be relocated by an amendment to the declaration upon application to the association by the owners of those units. If the owners of the adjoining units have specified a reallocation between their units of their allocated […]
1. If the declaration expressly so permits, a unit may be subdivided into two or more units. Subject to the declaration and law other than this chapter, upon application of the unit’s owner to subdivide a unit, the association shall prepare, execute and record an amendment to the declaration, including, in a condominium or planned […]
The existing physical boundaries of a unit or the physical boundaries of a unit reconstructed in substantial accordance with the description contained in the original declaration are its legal boundaries, rather than the boundaries derived from the description contained in the original declaration, regardless of vertical or lateral movement of the building or minor variance […]
A declarant may maintain offices for sales and management, and models in units or on common elements in the common-interest community only if the declaration so provides. Subject to any limitations in the declaration, a declarant may maintain signs on the common elements advertising the common-interest community. This section is subject to the provisions of […]
1. Subject to the declaration, a declarant has an easement through the common elements as may be reasonably necessary to discharge the declarant’s obligations or exercise special declarant’s rights, whether arising under this chapter or reserved in the declaration. 2. Subject to paragraph (f) of subsection 1 of NRS 116.3102 and NRS 116.3112, the units’ […]
1. Except as otherwise provided in NRS 116.21175, and except in cases of amendments that may be executed by a declarant under subsection 5 of NRS 116.2109 or NRS 116.211, or by the association under NRS 116.1107, 116.2106, subsection 3 of NRS 116.2108, subsection 1 of NRS 116.2112 or NRS 116.2113, or by certain units’ […]
1. Except as otherwise limited by subsection 4 of NRS 116.2117, if: (a) To approve an amendment to the declaration pursuant to NRS 116.2117, the declaration requires: (1) In a single-class voting structure, more than a majority of the total number of votes allocated to the single class to be cast in favor of the […]
1. Except in the case of a taking of all the units by eminent domain, in the case of foreclosure against an entire cooperative of a security interest that has priority over the declaration, or in the circumstances described in NRS 116.2124, a common-interest community may be terminated only by agreement of units’ owners to […]
1. Following termination of a condominium or planned community, creditors of the association holding liens on the units, which were recorded before termination, may enforce those liens in the same manner as any lienholder. All other creditors of the association are to be treated as if they had perfected liens on the units immediately before […]
