118B.097 - Licensed person required to perform certain repairs; regulations.

118B.097  Licensed person required to perform certain repairs; regulations.

      1.  If a repair to a manufactured home may affect the structural, electrical, plumbing, drainage, roofing, mechanical or solid fuel burning systems of the home, or requires a permit before the repair may be made, the repair may be performed legally only by a person who is qualified by licensure to perform such a repair, and:

      (a) A person shall not perform the repair unless the person has such qualifications; and

      (b) A tenant or a landlord, or his or her agent or employee, shall not employ a third party to perform the repair if he or she knows or, in light of all the surrounding facts and circumstances, reasonably should know that the third party does not have such qualifications.

      2.  The Administrator shall adopt regulations to specify the repairs that a person without an applicable license may make to a manufactured home in accordance with the provisions of this section and chapter 489 of NRS.

      (Added to NRS by 2005, 2326; A 2007, 2325)