Have you seen any of the following individuals?
If so, call the Unlicensed Contractor Hotline:
702-486-1160 (Southern NV)
775-688-1150 (Northern NV)
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Contracting without a license is a crime in the state of Nevada.
NRS 624.700 – It is unlawful for any person or combination of persons to engage in the business or act in the capacity of a contractor within this state or submit a bid on a job situated within this state without having an active license.
Construction Fraud
Constructional fraud occurs if a person engaged in construction knowingly:
- Misapplies money
- Obtains money, property or labor by false pretense
- Receives payments and fails to state his own true name, or states a false name, contractor’s license number, address or telephone number of the person offering a service;
- Diverts money or commits any act of theft, forgery, fraud or embezzlement, in connection with a construction project
- Acts as a contractor without a contractor’s license
- Submits false information concerning a payroll to a public officer or agency in any report relating to a contract for a public work
- Fails to disclose a material fact.
What is A Contractor?
A contractor is anyone who in any capacity except as an employee of another with wages as the sole compensation, undertakes to, offers to undertake to, purports to have the capacity to undertake to, or submits a bid to, or does himself or by or through others, construct, alter, repair, add to, subtract from, improve, move, wreck, or demolish any building, highway, road, railroad, excavation or other structure, project, development or improvement. (NRS 624.020)
