113.115  Seller to provide evaluation of energy consumption of property; limitations. [Effective January 1, 2011.]

1.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3, the seller shall have the energy consumption of the residential property evaluated pursuant to the program established in NRS 701.250.

2.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4, before closing a transaction for the conveyance of residential property, the seller shall serve the purchaser with the completed evaluation required pursuant to subsection 1, if any, on a form to be provided by the Nevada Energy Commissioner, as prescribed in regulations adopted pursuant to NRS 701.250.

3.  Subsection 1 does not apply to a sale or intended sale of residential property:

(a) By foreclosure pursuant to chapter 107 of NRS.

(b) Between any co-owners of the property, spouses or persons related within the third degree of consanguinity.

(c) By a person who takes temporary possession or control of or title to the property solely to facilitate the sale of the property on behalf of a person who relocates to another county, state or country before title to the property is transferred to a purchaser.

(d) If the seller and purchaser agree to waive the requirements of subsection 1.

4.  If an evaluation of a residential property was completed not more than 5 years before the seller and purchaser entered into the agreement to purchase the residential property, the seller may serve the purchaser with that evaluation.

(Added to NRS by 2007, 2987; A 2009, 1402, effective January 1, 2011)