HVAC & Mechanical in Nevada
In Nevada the license stays with the company. The person qualifying it may not.
There is no ownership-transfer application at the Nevada State Contractors Board. A buyer taking 100 percent of the stock of an incorporated C-21 licensee takes the license, its monetary limit and its bond intact, and there is no approval gate to clear before closing. The difficulty sits on the qualified individual named on the license, whose departure starts a 10-day clock that suspends the license automatically when it is missed; on the covenants on your service technicians, which Nevada tests by how a technician is paid rather than by what they earn; and on the monetary limit written on the license itself, set from the company's own financial statements and, by statute, beyond the reach of the buyer's.
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What the Nevada board polices at a change of control
A mechanical contractor's license is usually tied to a qualifying individual, and in an owner-operated shop that individual is the owner, which is true of HVAC everywhere. The credential is the classification C-21 Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning license, issued by the Nevada State Contractors Board under NAC 624.380, with seven subclassifications running from C-21a Refrigeration through C-21g Industrial Piping, and a full C-21 holder may perform all of them. The license is issued to the contracting business, which may be an individual, a partnership, a limited liability company or a corporation, and it belongs to that business rather than to the qualifying party.
Chapter 624 has no ownership-transfer application and no continuation permit, so a change of equity in a corporate licensee is not a condition precedent to closing. Entity form is what decides whether that holds. Under NAC 624.660(3)(b) a licensed partnership that adds or removes a partner other than by the death of a partner must apply for a new license, and under NAC 624.660(3)(a) a partnership dissolved for any other reason has its license revoked outright. A sole proprietor's license cannot be bought at all, because there is no equity in it; NAC 624.660(1) suspends it automatically on the proprietor's death and revokes it unless the successors acquire an approved qualified employee and apply for a new license within 40 days. Confirm the entity form on the license record before anyone describes the deal as clean.
The Board's paperwork is less ownership-blind than its statute. Section 5 of the current New License Application asks whether any person or company other than those already listed owns 25 percent or more of the stock in the corporation, the interest in the limited liability company or the interest in the limited partnership, by name and percentage owned. A buyer crossing that line changes the accuracy of the application the license was granted on, and NAC 624.640(3) requires the licensee to report in writing to the Board, within 30 days, a change of personnel that affects that accuracy.
The officer filing on top of it is an application rather than a notice. NAC 624.665 gives 30 days for new officers or directors of a corporation, managers or managing members of a limited liability company, or general partners of a limited partnership, and a conversion of the entity under NRS Chapter 92A carries its own application within 30 days at $300 under NAC 624.667 and NAC 624.130. The Board's officer form carries a $250 fee and requires a Background Disclosure Statement from every person being added together with a signed waiver for fingerprint submission to the Nevada Highway Patrol and the FBI. NRS 624.265(1) extends the good character requirement to each officer, director, partner and associate of a licensed contractor, and lack of it in any one of them is grounds to deny, suspend or revoke. The filing is due after closing, and a principal who fails that standard puts the license the buyer just paid for in front of the Board on those grounds. Run the buyer's incoming principals against it before the closing date is set.
The qualifier is a continuing condition of the license and not an entry requirement: NAC 624.640(4) requires a licensee whose license was granted in part because it employed a particularly qualified person to keep employing one. NRS 624.285 then runs two clocks off that person's departure, and they behave differently. The notice clock is hard: written notice to the Board within 10 days after the person ceases to be connected with the licensee, and under subsection 3 a licensee that misses it has its license automatically suspended. The replacement clock is softer than it reads. Where notice is given the license stays in force for a reasonable period set by the Board, not exceeding 30 days from the cessation; subsection 2 lets the Board extend that period for good cause, and subsection 4 says a licensee that fails to replace within it may be suspended or revoked. Plan the closing to the 10 days and do not assume the 30 will be extended.
Seating a replacement is harder than the calendar suggests. NRS 624.260(6) requires the trade qualifier to hold four years of experience as a journeyman, foreman, supervising employee or contractor within the 15 years immediately preceding the application, and that experience has to be in the specific classification applied for, so general construction history qualifies nobody for a C-21. Up to three of the four years can come from an accredited college or university program. The Board's own FAQ Central page still recites the pre-2019 10-year experience window, so a seller grooming a second qualifier should confirm the period with the Board rather than rely on either page alone.
Whether a single qualifier can cover more than one Nevada company decides how a platform buyer has to structure the group. NRS 624.260(5) permits it only where the qualifying person owns at least 25 percent of each licensee he or she qualifies for, or one licensee owns at least 25 percent of the other, or one is a corporation for public benefit under NRS 82.021. The Board reads the first limb as requiring the qualifier's own stake, which leaves an unlicensed holding company satisfying neither of the first two: the platform entity has to be a licensee itself and hold the 25 percent, or the qualifier has to be given it, or every acquired company keeps its own dedicated qualifier. NRS 624.260(3) closes the other direction, requiring the qualifier to be a bona fide member or employee with authority to hire and discharge and to devote himself or herself solely to that employer's business, which is why a seller cannot quietly keep qualifying the company they have sold while starting something else.
NRS 624.305 governs the gap between closing and the buyer's own C-21. Subsection 1 bars any use of a license by a person other than the one it was issued to, and subsection 2 automatically cancels and revokes the license of a person who violates the section, which reaches the licensee that permitted the use. A buyer that bids or performs under the seller's license while its own application is pending is risking the seller's license and not only its own. NRS 624.320 closes the other exit, requiring a contractor suing for compensation to allege and prove it was duly licensed at all times during performance and when the job was bid, so work invoiced in that gap is revenue no Nevada court will help the buyer recover.
Hourly, and the technicians a Nevada covenant cannot reach
Subsection 3 of NRS 613.195 bars a noncompetition covenant from applying to an employee paid solely on an hourly wage basis, exclusive of any tips or gratuities. On an HVAC roster that lands unevenly. A service technician on straight hourly cannot be bound at all, while the same technician paid hourly plus commission, spiffs or a bonus sits outside subsection 3 and can be. Subsection 8(b) reaches only covenants operating on termination of employment, so what follows is about the technician and manager paper and not about the covenant a selling owner signs as consideration for the sale.
The pay codes decide which covenants in the file are worth anything, and the file does not say so. A Nevada company that moved its install crews onto hourly plus commission while leaving its service technicians on straight hourly is carrying two classes of covenant in one binder, only one of which does anything. A buyer that priced technician retention off a count of signed agreements has priced something nobody checked against payroll. It runs the other way after closing as well: adding an enforceable covenant to a straight-hourly technician in Nevada means changing how that technician is paid, which is a payroll decision with a cost attached.
NRS 613.195(2) reaches the customer list itself. It protects a former employee who provides service to a former customer where the employee did not solicit that customer, the customer voluntarily chose to leave and seek services from the employee, and the employee is otherwise complying with the covenant. In a company whose customer relationships sit with the technician who has been going into the same houses for years, that carve-out reaches every customer who follows them without being asked. Subsection 7 makes the fee award mandatory where a covenant is applied in violation of subsection 2, so a buyer that sues the technician a customer chose to follow pays the technician's attorney's fees and costs for the attempt.
Subsection 5 reaches the buyer's own plan. Where the employment ends because of a reduction in force, a reorganization or a similar restructuring of the employer, a noncompetition covenant is enforceable only during the period in which the employer is paying the employee's salary, benefits or equivalent compensation, including severance pay. A buyer folding the seller's dispatch, install crews or back office into its own and cutting the overlap is doing what subsection 5 describes, and holds the covenant on those technicians only for as long as it keeps paying them.
A monetary limit the buyer's balance sheet cannot raise
A signed Nevada contract can be void for a reason that has nothing to do with how it was negotiated. NAC 624.640(1) provides that where a licensee bids or contracts outside the scope of its license or exceeds the monetary limit placed on the license, the bid or contract is void. NRS 624.220(2) is the source of that limit, requiring the Board to set the maximum contract the licensee may undertake on one or more contracts on a single construction site or subdivision site for a single client. Not every Nevada license shows a dollar figure: NAC 624.675(1) contemplates a request to increase, remove or not place a limit, and NRS 624.470(1) recognizes an unlimited tier, so the first thing to read is the license record itself.
Backlog in Nevada is therefore a licensing question. A buyer testing the pipeline compares the largest signed jobs against the figure on the license, and any contract over that figure is void. It cannot be repaired after the fact. NRS 624.220(3) requires a single-project increase to be submitted at least 5 working days before the bid and approved before the bid is submitted, which does nothing for work already sold.
NRS 624.263(1) requires financial responsibility to be established independently of and without reliance on any assets or guarantees of any owners or managing officers of the licensee, or of any person who qualifies on its behalf. A buyer cannot guarantee its way to a larger Nevada limit. The target's own statements have to carry it, and NAC 624.593 tiers how those statements are prepared: at or below $25,000 a self-prepared or software-prepared statement with an affidavit; above $25,000 and below $500,000 a CPA compilation within 6 months or a CPA review or audit within 1 year; from $500,000 to under $1,000,000 a compilation with full disclosures or a review or audit; and at $1,000,000 or more a statement prepared and reviewed or audited by an independent certified public accountant within 1 year. NRS 624.263(5) lets the Board require a licensee to establish financial responsibility at any time.
A seller who has been distributing cash out of the company can therefore find the limit its commercial work depends on is no longer supported by what is left behind it, and the buyer's balance sheet is barred from filling the gap. The usual Nevada answer is a personal indemnity from the owner, and it does not end at closing. Under NAC 624.675(5) an indemnitor's withdrawal becomes effective 90 days after the Board receives the notice, and an indemnity given as a precondition to an increase in the monetary limit for a single project under NAC 624.670 may not be withdrawn at all. An owner who signed one to lift the company's limit stands behind a license they no longer own for 90 days after they file, and with no release date at all on the single-project version, so price both into the purchase agreement as obligations that survive closing.
Questions Nevada sellers ask
- Does the Nevada State Contractors Board have to approve the sale of my HVAC company?
- Not before closing, if the company is a corporation. There is no ownership-transfer application in NRS or NAC Chapter 624, so a stock purchase leaves the C-21, its monetary limit and its bond in place with no consent gate. Entity form changes the answer. NAC 624.660(3)(b) requires a licensed partnership that adds or removes a partner other than by the death of a partner to apply for a new license, and a sole proprietor's license cannot be sold at all. What does have to be filed after closing is an application under NAC 624.665 for the new officers, managing members or general partners, with a Background Disclosure Statement and a fingerprint waiver from each of them, and the Board can act on the license if any of them fails the good character standard in NRS 624.265(1).
- I am the qualified individual on our license. What happens if I leave at closing?
- NRS 624.285 gives the licensee 10 days to notify the Board in writing after you cease to be connected with it, and under subsection 3 the license is automatically suspended if that notice is missed. With notice given, the license stays in force for a period the Board sets, not exceeding 30 days from the cessation, which subsection 2 allows the Board to extend for good cause; subsection 4 makes a failure to replace within that period grounds for suspension or revocation rather than an automatic one. A replacement trade qualifier needs four years of experience in the classification applied for, within the 15 years immediately preceding the application, under NRS 624.260(6). Seat that replacement and get them approved before you go to market, so the 10-day notice is a filing rather than a search.
- Can a buyer hold my service technicians to non-competes in Nevada?
- Only the ones whose pay codes allow it. NRS 613.195(3) bars a covenant on a technician paid solely on an hourly wage basis, exclusive of any tips or gratuities, so on a mixed roster the enforceable covenants are the ones sitting on technicians who carry commission, spiffs or a bonus. Making a straight-hourly technician bindable after closing means changing how they are paid, so it carries a payroll cost. Subsection 7 also requires the court to award the employee attorney's fees and costs where a covenant is applied to an hourly worker.
- Our business license is in Clark County. Does it come across with the sale?
- Not on a full sale. The Clark County Department of Business License states on its change-of-license materials that changes to an existing license cover adding licenses or lines of service, changes to location, name, mailing address, officer changes and ownership changes of 99% or less, at $25 per change per license, with the note that ownership changes of 100% will require a new application. NRS 624.035 preserves that local layer on top of the state license. The rule cited is the county's own and reaches unincorporated Clark County; Las Vegas, Henderson and North Las Vegas each run their own business license code and have to be checked separately. Budget the timeline for a fresh county application rather than assuming the change form applies.
- Our largest signed job is bigger than the limit on our license. Can we fix that before closing?
- Not retroactively. NAC 624.640(1) makes a bid or contract void where the licensee bids or contracts outside the scope of its license or exceeds the monetary limit placed on it, and NRS 624.220(3) requires a single-project increase to be submitted at least 5 working days before the bid and approved before the bid is submitted. A permanent increase runs through the financial statement tiers in NAC 624.593 and, under NRS 624.263(1), has to be carried by the licensee's own financials rather than by an owner's or a buyer's assets or guarantees.
Where these facts come from
Everything above that is a rule rather than a judgment is listed here with its publisher and the date it was checked. Licensing, tax and non-compete rules change, sometimes without much notice. None of this is legal or tax advice, and it is not a substitute for your own counsel and CPA.
NAC 624.380 establishes classification C-21 Refrigeration and Air-Conditioning, with seven subclassifications: C-21a Refrigeration, C-21b Air-Conditioning, C-21c Sheet Metal, C-21d Maintenance, C-21e Solar Air-Conditioning, C-21f Chilled and Hot Water Systems and C-21g Industrial Piping. A holder of the full C-21 classification may perform all of the subclassification work. NAC 624.380(2) provides that C-21 work is not incidental or supplemental to the performance of any other work which may be performed by a specialty contractor.
Nevada Legislature, Nevada Administrative Code Chapter 624. Checked 2026-09-07.
NAC 624.190 separately establishes classification C-1 Plumbing and Heating contracting, whose subclassifications reach heating, evaporative cooling and ductwork while excluding equipment using refrigeration as an integral part of the system. Confirm which classifications and subclassifications the target actually holds on its license record, since a C-21 and a C-1 target sell different revenue.
NAC 624.660 provides that on the death of a licensee who is a sole proprietor the license is automatically suspended, and is revoked unless the successors in interest acquire an approved qualified employee and apply for a new license within 40 days; that a license is automatically suspended 60 days after the death of the sole qualified partner; that a licensed partnership dissolved for a reason other than the death of a partner has its license revoked; and that a licensed partnership which changes partners by adding or removing a partner other than by the death of a partner must apply for a new license.
Nevada Legislature, Nevada Administrative Code Chapter 624. Checked 2026-09-07.
This regulation is the reason the ownership-neutral analysis of a Nevada license is entity-conditional. It holds for corporations and largely for limited liability companies; it does not hold for partnerships or sole proprietorships. Confirm the licensee's entity form on the Board's license record before relying on an equity structure.
NAC 624.640(1) provides that if a licensee bids or contracts outside the scope of his or her license or exceeds the monetary limit placed on the license, the bid or contract is void. NAC 624.640(3) requires a licensee to report a change in address or personnel which affects the accuracy of the statements in the application upon which the license is based, in writing to the Board, within 30 days. NAC 624.640(4) provides that where a license was granted in part because the licensee employed a particularly qualified person, the licensee must continue to employ such a person to retain the license.
Nevada Legislature, Nevada Administrative Code Chapter 624. Checked 2026-09-07.
NAC 624.665 requires a licensee to submit an application to the Board, before or within 30 days after the change, for any change in its officers or directors if the licensee is a corporation, its general partners if the licensee is a limited partnership, or its managers or managing members if the licensee is a limited liability company. NAC 624.667 requires an application to the Board, before or within 30 days after it, regarding a conversion of the licensee conducted pursuant to NRS Chapter 92A. NAC 624.130 sets a fee of $300 to consider an application regarding such a conversion, and a fee of $250 to consider a request to change the qualified person or other principal listed on a license.
Nevada Legislature, Nevada Administrative Code Chapter 624. Checked 2026-09-07.
NAC 624.130's fee schedule contains no line item named for an officer or member-manager change; the nearest is the $250 charge to change the qualified person or other principal listed on a license, and the $250 figure is stated on the face of the Board's own officer-change form.
The Board's Application to Change or Add a Corporate Officer of a Corporation, or Member/Manager of a Limited Liability Company (revised 05/2024), states that each person being added to the license must complete a background disclosure statement, includes a signed fingerprint background waiver, records that NRS 624.263 and NRS 624.265 authorize the Board to conduct background investigations, obtain credit reports and request fingerprints for submission to the Nevada Highway Patrol and the FBI, and instructs the applicant to include the required fee of $250.00.
Nevada State Contractors Board, Application to Change or Add a Corporate Officer or Member/Manager. Checked 2026-09-07.
Section 5, Associates, of the Board's New License Application (revised 03/2026) asks whether any persons or company other than those listed in Section 4 own 25 percent or more of the stock in the corporation, the interest in the limited liability company, or the interest in the limited partnership, and requires the name and the percentage owned. The accompanying Background Disclosure Statement asks each person whether he or she has a proprietary interest, meaning ownership, stock or shares, in the applicant, and for the percentage owned.
Nevada State Contractors Board, forms and applications. Checked 2026-09-07.
This is Board application practice rather than statutory text. NRS Chapter 624 does not use the word ownership, but NRS 624.250(1)(e) requires owners to be named on the application, NRS 624.263(2)(a) makes any owner's finances a criterion, and NRS 624.265 subjects every associate to the good character requirement, which is how a 25 percent holder is reached.
NRS 624.265(1) requires a licensed contractor, and each officer, director, partner and associate of the contractor, to possess good character, and provides that lack of good character is grounds to deny, suspend, revoke or refuse to renew a license. NRS 624.265(2) permits the Board to require an applicant, and any officer, director, partner or associate of the applicant, to submit a complete set of fingerprints for a report from the Nevada Central Repository for Nevada Records of Criminal History and the Federal Bureau of Investigation.
Nevada Legislature, Nevada Revised Statutes Chapter 624. Checked 2026-09-07.
NRS 624.265 as quoted is the version labeled effective through December 31, 2029, amended by the 2025 session, with a successor version taking effect January 1, 2030. NRS 624.240, 624.250, 624.253, 624.281 and 624.283 carry the same dual-version pattern, and the 2025 session added NRS 624.242 through 624.244 and 624.247. Confirm the operative version for the date of any transaction.
NRS 624.285 provides that where the natural person qualifying by examination on behalf of a licensee ceases for any reason to be connected with the licensee, the licensee must notify the Board in writing within 10 days after the cessation of the association or employment. Where notice is given, the license remains in force for a reasonable length of time determined by the Board, but not exceeding 30 days after the date of cessation, unless extended by the Board for good cause. Subsection 3 provides that failure to give the notice within the 10-day period means the license must be automatically suspended, reinstated only on approval of a replacement qualifier. Subsection 4 provides that failure to replace the person originally qualified within the 30-day period means the license may be suspended or revoked.
Nevada Legislature, NRS 624.285. Checked 2026-09-07.
The asymmetry matters. The 10-day notice failure is automatic. The 30-day replacement failure is discretionary and the period is extendable for good cause, which the Board's Disassociation of a Qualified Individual form restates as the license being subject to suspension. Plan to the 10 days rather than the 30.
NRS 624.260(3) requires the natural person qualifying on behalf of a licensee to prove that he or she is a bona fide member or employee of the firm, exercises authority to make technical and administrative decisions and to hire, superintend, promote, transfer, lay off, discipline or discharge employees, and devotes himself or herself solely to the principal's or employer's business without taking other employment that would conflict with those duties. NRS 624.260(5) provides that a natural person may not qualify on behalf of another for more than one active license unless one person owns at least 25 percent of each licensee for which the person qualifies, one licensee owns at least 25 percent of the other licensee, or one licensee is a corporation for public benefit under NRS 82.021. NRS 624.260(6) requires four years of experience as a journeyman, foreman, supervising employee or contractor in the specific classification in which the applicant is applying, within the 15 years immediately preceding the filing of the application, and permits an accredited college or university program or a Board-accepted equivalent to satisfy up to three of the four years.
Nevada Legislature, NRS 624.260. Checked 2026-09-07.
The Board's Qualifying Party guidance states the multiple-license conditions as the qualifying person owning at least 25 percent of all licensees that person wishes to qualify for, or one licensee owning at least 25 percent of each licensed entity for which the person acts in a qualifying capacity. The Board's FAQ Central page states that a license may be issued to an individual, a partnership, limited liability company or a corporation, and that the license belongs to the business and not to the qualifying party. That page also still states that the trade qualified individual must have experience within the 10 years immediately preceding the filing of the application, a window that predates the 2019 amendment to NRS 624.260.
Nevada State Contractors Board, Qualifying Party guidance and FAQ Central. Checked 2026-09-07.
The statutory text at NRS 624.260(6) says 15 years; the Board's FAQ Central page says 10. The pages conflict, and the grammar of NRS 624.260(5)(a) is ambiguous as to whose 25 percent stake is required. The Board reads it as the qualifier's own. Confirm both points with the Board rather than relying on either page alone.
NRS 624.305(1) provides that no license may be used for any purpose by any person other than the person to whom it is issued, and that no license may be assigned, transferred or otherwise disposed of so as to permit its unauthorized use. NRS 624.305(2) provides that the license of any person who violates the section shall be automatically cancelled and revoked. NRS 624.320 bars any person from bringing or maintaining an action in a Nevada court for the collection of compensation for the performance of any act or contract for which a license is required without alleging and proving that the person was a duly licensed contractor at all times during the performance of the act or contract and when the job was bid.
Nevada Legislature, NRS 624.305 and NRS 624.320. Checked 2026-09-07.
NRS 624.305(2) reaches the licensee that permits unauthorized use, which is why the transition-period exposure runs against the seller's license. A buyer operating unlicensed after closing exposes itself under NRS 624.320.
NRS 613.195 contains no salary or wage threshold. Subsection 2 provides that a noncompetition covenant may not restrict a former employee from providing service to a former customer or client if the employee did not solicit the former customer or client, the customer or client voluntarily chose to leave and seek services from the employee, and the employee is otherwise complying with the limitations in the covenant. Subsection 3 provides that a noncompetition covenant may not apply to an employee who is paid solely on an hourly wage basis, exclusive of any tips or gratuities. Subsection 5 provides that where an employee is terminated because of a reduction in force, reorganization or similar restructuring of the employer, a noncompetition covenant is only enforceable during the period in which the employer is paying the employee's salary, benefits or equivalent compensation, including, without limitation, severance pay. Subsection 7 requires the court to award the employee reasonable attorney's fees and costs where it finds the covenant applied to an employee described in subsection 3 or was applied in violation of subsection 2. Subsection 8(b) defines a noncompetition covenant as an agreement between an employer and employee which, upon termination of the employment of the employee, prohibits the employee from pursuing a similar vocation.
Nevada Legislature, NRS 613.195. Checked 2026-09-07.
By its own definition at subsection 8(b) the section governs employer-employee covenants. A covenant given by a selling equity holder in a purchase agreement, in consideration of the purchase price rather than of employment, is not clearly within it, and none of the protections or remedies in this section should be assumed to apply to a sale-of-business covenant. Confirm the governing rule for that covenant with Nevada counsel.
NRS 624.220(2) requires the Board to limit the monetary value of a single contract or project on each license issued, defined as the maximum contract the licensee may undertake on one or more contracts on a single construction site or subdivision site for a single client. NRS 624.220(3) provides that an application for an increase in the monetary limit for a single project must be submitted at least 5 working days before the bid and approved before the bid is submitted. NAC 624.675(1) provides for a request to increase, remove or not place a monetary limit on a license. NRS 624.470(1) sets the assessment tiers for the Residential Recovery Fund by monetary limit, the third of which is Unlimited.
Nevada Legislature, NRS 624.220, NRS 624.470 and NAC 624.675. Checked 2026-09-07.
Not every Nevada license carries a stated dollar limit. Read the figure shown on the license record itself, which may be a dollar amount or unlimited, before testing any contract against it.
NAC 624.593 tiers the financial statement supporting a requested monetary limit. At or below $25,000 the statement may be submitted on a Board form with an affidavit verifying its accuracy, or prepared using accounting software in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles and accompanied by an affidavit. Above $25,000 and below $500,000 it must be compiled by a certified public accountant within 6 months, or reviewed or audited by a certified public accountant within 1 year. From $500,000 to under $1,000,000 it must be a compilation with full disclosures, or a review or audit. At $1,000,000 or more it must be prepared and reviewed or audited by an independent certified public accountant within 1 year.
Nevada Legislature, NAC 624.593. Checked 2026-09-07.
NRS 624.263(1) requires the financial responsibility of a licensee or applicant to be established independently of and without reliance on any assets or guarantees of any owners or managing officers of the licensee or applicant, or of any person who qualifies on behalf of the licensee, though the finances of those persons may be inquired into as a criterion. NRS 624.263(5) permits the Board to require a licensee to establish financial responsibility at any time. NAC 624.675(5) provides that where an indemnitor gives written notice of withdrawal of an indemnification, the withdrawal becomes effective 90 days after the Board's receipt of the notice, and that an indemnity given as a precondition to an increase in the monetary limit for a single project under NAC 624.670 may not be withdrawn.
Nevada Legislature, NRS 624.263 and NAC 624.675. Checked 2026-09-07.
NRS 624.035 preserves the right of any county or incorporated city to require an additional contractor's license within that political subdivision, subject to additional standards reasonable and necessary to protect the public. The Clark County Department of Business License states on its change-of-license materials that changes to an existing license cover adding licenses or lines of service, changes to location, name, mailing address, officer changes and ownership changes of 99% or less, with the note that ownership changes of 100% will require a new application. Changes at that level are handled on the Application for Change of Business License at $25 per change per license, with officer changes carried at no charge. Clark County also operates a Multi-Jurisdictional Business License available to contractors across Clark County, Las Vegas, Henderson and North Las Vegas, with a Notification and Acknowledgement of Transfer of Primary Jurisdiction form used when a business location moves between participating jurisdictions.
Clark County (NV) Department of Business License and Nevada Legislature, NRS 624.035. Checked 2026-09-07.
The county's own checklist and its business license FAQ cite different Clark County Code section ranges for the same rule, and the underlying Code was not independently verified, so the section numbers are deliberately not quoted here. The Department licenses unincorporated Clark County; Las Vegas, Henderson and North Las Vegas administer their own business license codes and their change-of-ownership rules must be checked separately. Whether a retained minority interest is respected as something other than a full transfer is a question for the Department before a deal is papered, not an assumption to build on.
Page last reviewed 2026-09-07.
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