NRS 118A.515 Adverse action by landlord based solely upon request for
emergency assistance prohibited; request for emergency assistance may not be
deemed nuisance; exceptions; remedies.
1. A landlord shall not take any adverse
action against a tenant, including, without limitation, evicting, imposing a
fine or taking any other punitive action against the tenant, based solely upon
the tenant or another person in the dwelling of the tenant requesting emergency
assistance if the tenant or other person had a reasonable belief that an
emergency response was necessary or that criminal activity may have occurred,
regardless of any other previous requests for emergency assistance by the
tenant or other person.
2. A local government or other political
subdivision of this State shall not deem there to be a nuisance or take any
other adverse action against the landlord of a dwelling based solely upon the
tenant or another person in the dwelling of the tenant requesting emergency
assistance in accordance with subsection 1.
3. Any local charter, code, ordinance,
regulation or other law that conflicts with this section is void and
unenforceable.
4. This section does not:
(a) Prohibit a landlord from taking any action
necessary to abate a nuisance on the property pursuant to NRS 40.140 or 202.450 or taking any other action which is
not in conflict with the provisions of this section, including, without
limitation, commencing eviction proceedings in accordance with the provisions
of chapter 40 of NRS for any nuisance
discovered by or reported to the landlord by a peace officer as a result of a
request for emergency assistance pursuant to subsection 1;