State Codes and Statutes
Statutes > Nevada > Title-20 > Chapter-247 > 247-410247.410 Liability for wrongful acts. A county recorder is liable to a party aggrieved for three times the amount of the damages that may be occasioned thereby if the county recorder:
1. Neglects or refuses to record a document that is authorized, entitled or required by law to be recorded within a reasonable time after receiving the document;
2. Records a document willfully or negligently, untruly or in any other manner than is directed in this chapter;
3. Neglects or refuses to maintain in the county recorder’s office such indexes as are required by this chapter, or to make the proper entries therein; or
4. Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3 of NRS 247.120, alters, changes or obliterates any record or any filed document deposited in the county recorder’s office, or inserts any new matter therein.
[11:120:1923; A 1935, 247; 1931 NCL § 2121]—(NRS A 2001, 1743; 2003, 1931; 2007, 540)
