Nevada notice of right to lien, free and word for word from NRS 108.245
Nevada does not give you a deadline for this one. It gives you something worse, a clock that runs the whole job. NRS 108.245(6) says a claimant who gives this notice has a lien right for what was furnished in the 31 days before the notice is given, and for everything furnished after it. Work older than those 31 days is simply not covered. Send it in your first week and you lose nothing. Send it in month four and the first three months are gone. Fill the form in below and download it, or print it blank and write on it.
Subsection 6, in the statute's own words: a lien claimant who is required by this section to give a notice of right to lien to an owner and who gives such a notice has a right to lien for materials or equipment furnished or for work or services performed in the 31 days before the date the notice of right to lien is given and for the materials or equipment furnished or for work or services performed anytime thereafter until the completion of the work of improvement. There is no cure for the days before that window and no way to buy them back. The remedy for a late notice is to send it today, because tomorrow costs another day.
Read the law: NRS 108.245, 108.226, 108.233 and 108.239codes.findlaw.com
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Word for word from the form in NRS 108.245, subsection 1. Deliver it in person or by certified mail to the owner. Print it and fill it in by hand, or use the builder below and get it back already filled in.
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The 31 days are the whole point
Most preliminary notices in other states are a switch. You either sent it in time or you did not, and the lien either lives or dies. Nevada built a different machine. NRS 108.245(6) makes the notice a date stamp, and what it protects is everything from 31 days before that stamp forward to the completion of the work of improvement.
So a late notice is not a dead lien. It is a smaller one. A mechanical sub who starts in January, furnishes steadily, and sends the notice on the first of June has a lien right reaching back only to the first of May. Four months of work sit outside it. The contract is still owed, and can still be sued on, but the property is not standing behind that part of it any more.
This is why the honest advice on a Nevada job is the boring one. Send it on day one. There is no waiting period to clear, no first payment to miss, and no downside written anywhere in the section. Subsection 1 lets you deliver it at any time after the first delivery of material or performance of work or services under a contract.
Who has to send one, and who is excused
Subsection 1 puts the duty on every lien claimant who claims the benefit of NRS 108.221 to 108.246, with two carve outs written into the same sentence: a claimant who performs only labor, and a potential claimant under NRS 608.150. If you are on the job with tools and no materials, that is the exemption you are relying on.
Subsection 5 adds the one everybody actually uses. A prime contractor or other person who contracts directly with an owner, or who sells materials directly to an owner, is not required to give notice under this section. The owner already knows you exist, so the statute does not make you announce it.
Everyone else is in. Subcontractors, sub subcontractors, equipment lessors and material suppliers who sold to the general rather than to the owner all have to send this before the lien is worth anything, because subsection 3 says so in the plainest words in the section: no lien for materials or equipment furnished or for work or services performed, except labor, may be perfected or enforced unless the notice has been given.
The copy to the prime contractor
The last part of subsection 1 is easy to read past and it is the part that gets people written up. A subcontractor or equipment or material supplier who gives such a notice must also deliver in person or send by certified mail a copy of the notice to the prime contractor, for information only.
Read what happens if you skip it. The failure by a subcontractor to deliver the notice to the prime contractor is a ground for disciplinary proceedings against the subcontractor under chapter 624 of NRS, but does not invalidate the notice to the owner. Your lien survives. Your license is the thing exposed.
It costs one more certified envelope, so send it. The form does not change at all: it is the same notice, addressed to the same owner, with a copy going to the general.
What this piece of paper is not
It is not a lien. Subsection 2 says such a notice does not constitute a lien or give actual or constructive notice of a lien for any purpose. Nothing is recorded and nothing clouds title. It is a letter that starts a clock.
It is not sworn. Subsection 4 says the notice need not be verified, sworn to or acknowledged. No notary, no jurat, no stamp. That is a real difference from the lien itself, because NRS 108.226(3) says the notice of lien must be verified by the oath of the lien claimant or some other person.
And it is not a demand. Its own wording makes that point for you: this is not a notice that the undersigned has not been or does not expect to be paid, but a notice required by law. It is worth leaving that sentence in when an owner calls to ask why they got it, because the statute wrote your answer.
What happens after it, and when
The notice keeps the door open. Recording the lien is a separate act with its own deadline. NRS 108.226(1) gives you 90 days after the latest of the completion of the work of improvement, your last delivery of material or furnishing of equipment, or your last performance of work. If a valid notice of completion is recorded and served in the manner required by NRS 108.228, that window shortens to 40 days after the recording.
On housing there is an extra step. NRS 108.226(6) covers the construction, alteration or repair of multifamily or single family residences, including apartment houses, and it makes every claimant except laborers serve a 15 day notice of intent to lien on both the owner and the reputed prime contractor before recording. Service is by personal delivery or certified mail, and it extends the recording deadline by 15 days. Without it, a lien on a residential job may not be perfected or enforced. Subsection 7 says none of that applies to a nonresidential project.
Once recorded, a Nevada lien has a short life. NRS 108.233(1) says it must not bind the property for longer than 6 months after the date the notice of lien was recorded unless proceedings are commenced in a proper court within that time, or the time is extended by a recorded written agreement signed by the claimant and the person in interest. When you do sue, NRS 108.239(2) makes you file a notice of pendency under NRS 14.010 and publish a notice of foreclosure once a week for three successive weeks.
What the form asks you for
Five things, and the statute prints the prompt for each one. The owner's name and address goes on the first rule. A general description of the materials, equipment, work or services goes on the second. The property comes next, as a property description or street address, and so does the name of the general contractor or subcontractor you contracted with. The last rule is the claimant, which is you.
The description is the one worth a minute of thought. General is the statute's word, not a license to be vague. Furnish and install four rooftop HVAC units, ductwork and controls tells an owner what is on their building. HVAC work does not.
Everything else in the form is the statute's own sentence and you do not write it. That is the reason this page exists: the wording below was sliced straight out of NRS 108.245(1) and keyed against a second publisher before it went up, so what you download is the form the section prints.
Questions people ask
When do I have to send a Nevada notice of right to lien?
There is no deadline, which is the trap. NRS 108.245(1) lets you deliver it at any time after the first delivery of material or performance of work or services under your contract. But subsection 6 only gives you a lien right for what was furnished in the 31 days before you give it, plus everything after. Every day you wait past those 31 days is a day of work that falls out of the lien permanently.
Do I have to send one if I contracted with the owner?
No. NRS 108.245(5) says a prime contractor or other person who contracts directly with an owner, or who sells materials directly to an owner, is not required to give notice under this section.
What happens if I never send it?
NRS 108.245(3): no lien for materials or equipment furnished or for work or services performed, except labor, may be perfected or enforced under NRS 108.221 to 108.246 unless the notice has been given. The debt is still owed and can still be sued on. The property simply stops standing behind it.
Does it need to be notarized?
No. NRS 108.245(4) says the notice need not be verified, sworn to or acknowledged. The lien itself is different: NRS 108.226(3) says the notice of lien must be verified by the oath of the lien claimant or some other person.
How do I deliver it?
In person or by certified mail, to the owner of the property. Those are the two routes subsection 1 gives. If you are a subcontractor or an equipment or material supplier, the same subsection makes you send the prime contractor a copy the same way, for information only.
What if I forget the copy to the prime contractor?
The notice to the owner still stands. Subsection 1 says the failure is a ground for disciplinary proceedings against the subcontractor under chapter 624 of NRS but does not invalidate the notice to the owner. So the lien is safe and the license is the thing at risk.
Do laborers have to send one?
No. Subsection 1 excepts a claimant who performs only labor and a potential claimant under NRS 608.150, and subsection 3 excepts labor from the rule that no lien may be perfected without the notice.
Is this the official Nevada form?
The wording is the form printed in NRS 108.245(1), sliced out of the statute rather than rewritten, and keyed word for word against a second publisher before it was published. The statute asks that the notice be substantially in that form. Nothing on this page is legal advice.
Once the job is running and you are getting paid on it, the paperwork that comes next is the waiver: see the Nevada statutory lien waiver forms, and conditional vs unconditional lien waiver for which of the two to sign.