1.  Every provision in a written instrument relating to real property which purports to forbid or restrict the conveyance, encumbrance, leasing or mortgaging of such real property to any person of a specified race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, familial status, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression is void and unenforceable and every restriction or prohibition as to the use or occupation of real property because of the user’s or occupier’s race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, familial status, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression is void and unenforceable.

Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 111.237

  • Conveyance: shall be construed to embrace every instrument in writing, except a last will and testament, whatever may be its form, and by whatever name it may be known in law, by which any estate or interest in lands is created, aliened, assigned or surrendered. See Nevada Revised Statutes 111.010
  • county: includes Carson City. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.033
  • person: means a natural person, any form of business or social organization and any other nongovernmental legal entity including, but not limited to, a corporation, partnership, association, trust or unincorporated organization. See Nevada Revised Statutes 0.039
  • Real property: Land, and all immovable fixtures erected on, growing on, or affixed to the land.

2.  Every restriction or prohibition, whether by way of covenant, condition upon use or occupation, or upon transfer of title to real property, which restriction or prohibition directly or indirectly limits the acquisition, use or occupation of such property because of the acquirer’s, user’s or occupier’s race, color, religion, ancestry, national origin, disability, familial status, sex, sexual orientation, or gender identity or expression is void and unenforceable.

3.  The owner or owners of any real property subject to a restriction or prohibition that is void and unenforceable by operation of law pursuant to subsection 1 or 2 may record a form prescribed by the Real Estate Division of the Department of Business and Industry pursuant to NRS 111.2375 declaring that all such restrictions or prohibitions are removed from the referenced original written instrument.

4.  The form must be completed and signed by the owner or owners of the real property and filed in the office of the county recorder in which the real property is located.

5.  If the form is filed with the appropriate county recorder pursuant to subsection 4, the county recorder shall record and index the form with any other restriction or prohibition upon real property, including, without limitation, real property within a common-interest community pursuant to chapter 116 of NRS.

6.  If the form is not filed with the county recorder of the appropriate county pursuant to subsection 4, the county recorder shall transfer the form to the county recorder of the appropriate county for recording and indexing in the manner described in subsection 5.

7.  Nothing in this section regarding familial status shall be construed to apply to housing for older persons so long as such housing complies with the requirements of 42 U.S.C. § 3607.

8.  As used in this section:

(a) ’Disability’ means, with respect to a person:

(1) A physical or mental impairment that substantially limits one or more of the major life activities of the person;

(2) A record of such an impairment; or

(3) Being regarded as having such an impairment.

(b) ’Familial status’ means the fact that a person:

(1) Lives with a child under the age of 18 and has:

(I) Lawful custody of the child; or

(II) Written permission to live with the child from the person who has lawful custody of the child;

(2) Is pregnant; or

(3) Has begun the proceeding to adopt or otherwise obtain lawful custody of a child.

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