NRS 116.31162
Foreclosure of liens: Mailing or delivery of notice of delinquent assessment; recording of notice of default and election to sell; period during which unit�s owner may pay lien to avoid foreclosure; limitations on type of lien that may be foreclosed.
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����� 1. Except as otherwise provided in subsection
5, 6 or 7, in a condominium, in a planned community, in a cooperative where the
owner�s interest in a unit is real estate under NRS 116.1105 , or in a cooperative where
the owner�s interest in a unit is personal property under NRS 116.1105 and the declaration provides
that a lien may be foreclosed under NRS
116.31162 to 116.31168 , inclusive,
the association may foreclose its lien by sale after all of the following
occur:
����� (a) The association has mailed by certified or
registered mail, return receipt requested, to the unit�s owner or his or her
successor in interest, at his or her address, if known, and at the address of
the unit or, if authorized by the parties, delivered by electronic
transmission, a notice of delinquent assessment which states the amount of the
assessments and other sums which are due in accordance with subsection 1 of NRS 116.3116 , a description of the unit
against which the lien is imposed and the name of the record owner of the unit.
����� (b) Not less than 30 days after mailing or
delivering by electronic transmission the notice of delinquent assessment
pursuant to paragraph (a), the association or other person conducting the sale
has executed and caused to be recorded, with the county recorder of the county
in which the common-interest community or any part of it is situated, a notice
of default and election to sell the unit to satisfy the lien which must contain
the same information as the notice of delinquent assessment and which must also
comply with the following:
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Describe the deficiency in payment.
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State the total amount of the
deficiency in payment, with a separate statement of:
������������������ (I) The amount of the association�s
lien that is prior to the first security interest on the unit pursuant to
subsection 3 of NRS 116.3116 as of the
date of the notice;
������������������ (II) The amount of the lien
described in sub-subparagraph (I) that is attributable to assessments based on
the periodic budget adopted by the association pursuant to NRS 116.3115 as of the date of the notice;
������������������ (III) The amount of the lien
described in sub-subparagraph (I) that is attributable to amounts described in NRS 116.310312 as of the date of the
notice; and
������������������ (IV) The amount of the lien
described in sub-subparagraph (I) that is attributable to the costs of
enforcing the association�s lien as of the date of the notice.
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State that:
������������������ (I) If the holder of the first
security interest on the unit does not satisfy the amount of the association�s
lien that is prior to that first security interest pursuant to subsection 3 of NRS 116.3116 , the association may
foreclose its lien by sale and that the sale may extinguish the first security
interest as to the unit; and
������������������ (II) If, not later than 5 days
before the date of the sale, the holder of the first security interest on the
unit satisfies the amount of the association�s lien that is prior to that first
security interest pursuant to subsection 3 of NRS 116.3116 and, not later than 2 days
before the date of the sale, a record of such satisfaction is recorded in the
office of the recorder of the county in which the unit is located, the
association may foreclose its lien by sale but the sale may not extinguish the
first security interest as to the unit.
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State the name and address of the
person authorized by the association to enforce the lien by sale.
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Contain, in 14-point bold type, the
following warning:
WARNING! IF YOU FAIL TO PAY THE
AMOUNT SPECIFIED IN THIS NOTICE, YOU COULD LOSE YOUR HOME, EVEN IF THE AMOUNT
IS IN DISPUTE!
����� (c) The unit�s owner or his or her successor in
interest has failed to pay the amount of the lien, including costs, fees and expenses
incident to its enforcement, for 90 days following the recording of the notice
of default and election to sell.
����� (d) The unit�s owner or his or her successor in
interest, or the holder of a recorded security interest on the unit, has, for a
period which commences in the manner and subject to the requirements described
in subsection 3 and which expires 5 days before the date of sale, failed to pay
the assessments and other sums that are due to the association in accordance
with subsection 1 of NRS 116.3116 .
����� (e) The association or other person conducting
the sale has executed and caused to be recorded, with the county recorder of
the county in which the common-interest community or any part of it is
situated, an affidavit which states, based on the direct, personal knowledge of
the affiant, the personal knowledge which the affiant acquired by a review of a
trustee sale guarantee or a similar product or the personal knowledge which the
affiant acquired by a review of the business records of the association or
other person conducting the sale, which business records must meet the
standards set forth in NRS 51.135 , the
following:
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The name of each holder of a security
interest on the unit to which the notice of default and election to sell and
the notice of sale was mailed, as required by subsection 2 of NRS 116.31163 and paragraph (d) of
subsection 1 of NRS 116.311635 ; and
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The address at which the notices were
mailed to each such holder of a security interest.
����� 2. The notice of default and election to
sell must be signed by the person designated in the declaration or by the
association for that purpose or, if no one is designated, by the president of
the association.
����� 3. The period of 90 days described in
paragraph (c) of subsection 1 begins on the first day following:
����� (a) The date on which the notice of default and
election to sell is recorded; or
����� (b) The date on which a copy of the notice of
default and election to sell is mailed by certified or registered mail, return
receipt requested or delivered by electronic transmission, as applicable, to
the unit�s owner or his or her successor in interest at his or her address, if
known, and at the address of the unit,
� whichever
date occurs later.
����� 4. An association may not mail or deliver
by electronic transmission to a unit�s owner or his or her successor in
interest a letter of its intent to mail or deliver by electronic transmission a
notice of delinquent assessment pursuant to paragraph (a) of subsection 1, mail
or deliver by electronic transmission the notice of delinquent assessment or
take any other action to collect a past due obligation from a unit�s owner or
his or her successor in interest unless the association has complied with the
provisions of subsections 4 and 5 of NRS
116.311625 and subsections 4 and 5 of NRS
116.311627 and:
����� (a) Not earlier than 60 days after the obligation
becomes past due, the association mails to the address on file for the unit�s
owner or, if authorized by the parties, delivers by electronic transmission:
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A schedule of the fees that may be
charged if the unit�s owner fails to pay the past due obligation;
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A proposed repayment plan; and
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A notice of the right to contest the
past due obligation at a hearing before the executive board and the procedures
for requesting such a hearing; and
����� (b) Within 30 days after the date on which the
information described in paragraph (a) is mailed or delivered by electronic
transmission, as applicable, the past due obligation has not been paid in full
or the unit�s owner or his or her successor in interest has not entered into a
repayment plan or requested a hearing before the executive board. If the unit�s
owner or his or her successor in interest requests a hearing or enters into a
repayment plan within 30 days after the date on which the information described
in paragraph (a) is mailed or delivered by electronic transmission, as
applicable, and is unsuccessful at the hearing or fails to make a payment under
the repayment plan within 10 days after the due date, the association may take
any lawful action pursuant to subsection 1 to enforce its lien.
����� 5. The association may not foreclose a
lien by sale if the association has not mailed a copy of the notice of default
and election to sell and a copy of the notice of sale to each holder of a
security interest on the unit in the manner and subject to the requirements set
forth in subsection 2 of NRS 116.31163
and paragraph (d) of subsection 1 of NRS
116.311635 .
����� 6. The association may not foreclose a
lien by sale based on a fine or penalty for a violation of the governing
documents of the association unless:
����� (a) The violation poses an imminent threat of
causing a substantial adverse effect on the health, safety or welfare of the
units� owners or residents of the common-interest community; or
����� (b) The penalty is imposed for failure to adhere
to a schedule required pursuant to NRS
116.310305 .
����� 7. The association may not foreclose a
lien by sale if the association has received notice pursuant to NRS 107.086 that the unit is subject to
foreclosure mediation pursuant to that section, unless:
����� (a) The trustee of record has recorded the
certificate provided to the trustee pursuant to subparagraph
or
of
paragraph (e) of subsection 2 of NRS 107.086 ;
or
����� (b) The unit�s owner has failed to pay to the
association any amounts enforceable as assessments pursuant to subsection 1 of NRS 116.3116 that become due during the
pendency of foreclosure mediation pursuant to NRS
107.086 , other than past due obligations as described in subsection 11 of NRS 107.086 .
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