Unless otherwise expressly provided in the deeds, declaration of restrictions or plan, the incidents of a condominium grant are as follows:

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Terms Used In Nevada Revised Statutes 117.040

  • Common areas: means the entire project excepting all units therein granted or reserved. See Nevada Revised Statutes 117.010
  • Condominium: means an estate in real property consisting of an undivided interest in common in portions of a parcel of real property together with:

    (a) A separate interest in space in a residential, industrial or commercial building or industrial and commercial building on such real property, such as, but not restricted to, an apartment, office or store; or

    (b) A separate interest in air space only, without any building or structure, to be used for a mobile home. See Nevada Revised Statutes 117.010

  • Deed: The legal instrument used to transfer title in real property from one person to another.
  • Unit: means the elements of a condominium which are not owned in common with the owners of other condominiums in the project. See Nevada Revised Statutes 117.010

1.  The boundaries of the unit granted are the interior surfaces of the perimeter walls, floors, ceilings, windows and doors thereof, and the unit includes both the portions of the buildings so described and the airspace so encompassed. The following are not part of the unit: Bearing walls, columns, floors, roofs, foundations, elevator equipment and shafts, central heating, central refrigeration and central air-conditioning equipment, reservoirs, tanks, pumps and other central services, pipes, ducts, flues, chutes, conduits, wires and other utility installations, wherever located, except the outlets thereof when located within the unit. In interpreting deeds and plans the existing physical boundaries of the unit or of a unit reconstructed in substantial accordance with the original plans thereof shall be conclusively presumed to be its boundaries rather than the metes and bounds expressed in the deed or plan, regardless of settling or lateral movement of the building and regardless of minor variances between boundaries shown on the plan or in the deed and those of the building.

2.  The common areas are owned by the owners of the unit as tenants in common in equal shares, one for each unit.

3.  A nonexclusive easement for ingress, egress and support through the common areas is appurtenant to each unit and the common areas are subject to such easements.

4.  Each condominium owner shall have the exclusive right to paint, repaint, tile, wax, paper or otherwise refinish and decorate the inner surfaces of the walls, ceilings, floors, windows and doors bounding his or her own unit.