Section 489.076 - "Dealer" defined1. "Dealer" means any person who:(a) For compensation, money or any other thing of value, sells, exchanges, buys or offers for sale, negotiates or attempts to negotiate a sale or exchange of an interest in a manufactured home, mobile home, manufactured building or commercial coach or factory-built housing subject to the requirements of this chapter, or induces or attempts to induce any person to buy or exchange an interest in a manufactured home, mobile home, manufactured building or commercial coach or factory-built housing;(b) For compensation, money or any other thing of value, leases or rents, offers for lease or rental, negotiates or attempts to negotiate the lease or rental of an interest in a manufactured home, mobile home, manufactured building or commercial coach or factory-built housing subject to the requirements of this chapter, or induces or attempts to induce any person to lease or rent an interest in a manufactured home, mobile home, manufactured building or commercial coach or factory-built housing;(c) Receives or expects to receive a commission, money, brokerage fees, profit or any other thing of value from either the seller or purchaser of any manufactured home, mobile home, manufactured building, commercial coach or factory-built housing;(d) Is engaged wholly or in part in the business of:(1) Selling, renting or leasing manufactured homes, mobile homes, manufactured buildings, commercial coaches or factory-built housing;(2) Buying or taking manufactured homes, mobile homes, manufactured buildings, commercial coaches or factory-built housing in trade for the purpose of resale, selling or offering them for sale or consignment to be sold;(3) Buying or taking manufactured homes, mobile homes, manufactured buildings, commercial coaches or factory-built housing in trade to rent, lease or offer them for rent or lease; or(4) Otherwise dealing in manufactured homes, mobile homes, manufactured buildings, commercial coaches or factory-built housing; or(e) Acts as a repossessor or liquidator concerning manufactured homes, mobile homes, manufactured buildings, commercial coaches or factory-built housing, whether or not they are owned by such persons.
2. The term does not include: (a) Receivers, trustees, administrators, executors, guardians or other persons appointed by or acting under the order of any court;(b) Public officers while performing their official duties;(c) Banks, savings and loan associations, savings banks, credit unions, thrift companies or other financial institutions proceeding as repossessors or liquidators of their own security;(d) A person who rents or leases his or her manufactured home, mobile home, manufactured building, commercial coach or factory-built housing;(e) An owner selling his or her private residence;(f) A real estate broker, real estate broker-salesperson or real estate salesperson who is licensed pursuant to chapter 645 of NRS and who, for another and for compensation or with the intention or expectation of receiving compensation, sells, exchanges, options, purchases, rents or leases, or negotiates or offers, attempts or agrees to negotiate the sale, exchange, option, purchase, rental or lease of, or lists or solicits prospective purchasers, lessees or renters of, used manufactured homes or used mobile homes in connection with the sale of a fee simple interest in real property and the used manufactured home or used mobile home is situated on the real property sold; or(g) A manufactured home park, as defined in NRS 118B.017, or an owner or agent of a manufactured home park while leasing or renting, offering for lease or rental or negotiating or attempting to negotiate the lease or rental of a manufactured home or mobile home which is located within the manufactured home park and titled in the name of the manufactured home park or an entity that is owned, operated or controlled by the owner of the manufactured home park.Added to NRS by 1975, 1571; A 1977, 1453; 1983, 777; 1987, 2088; 1999, 860; 2005, 663; 2009, 1901; 2015, 517Amended by 2015, Ch. 132,§2, eff. 7/1/2015.Added to NRS by 1975, 1571; A 1977, 1453; 1983, 777; 1987, 2088; 1999, 860; 2005, 663; 2009, 1901