# Nevada Builder Defect Warranty Rules | Who Pays the Repair?

> Nevada's Chapter 40 holds contractors liable for their own defects, via pre-suit notice, with a 10-year repose.

**Who pays:** third-party

Nevada's Chapter 40 holds the contractor liable for defects from its own or subcontractors' work, via a mandatory pre-suit notice process, with a 10-year statute of repose.

**Boundary:** Under Nevada's Chapter 40 constructional-defects law, the contractor is liable for defects caused by its own work or its subcontractors', subject to mandatory pre-suit notice-and-repair; claims are barred 10 years after substantial completion.

## Sources
- [Nev. Rev. Stat. § 11.202](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/nrs/nrs-011.html) — "No action may be commenced against the owner, occupier or any person performing or furnishing the design, planning, supervision or observation of construction, or the construction of an improvement to real property more than 10 years after the substantial completion of such an improvement." (accessed 2026-09-13)
- [Nev. Rev. Stat. § 40.640: Liability of contractor](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-040.html) — "In a claim to recover damages resulting from a constructional defect, a contractor is liable for the contractor's acts or omissions or the acts or omissions of the contractor's agents, employees or subcontractors." (accessed 2026-09-13)
- [NRS 40.645(1): Notice of defect: Required before commencement of or addition to certain actions](https://www.leg.state.nv.us/NRS/NRS-040.html) — "before a claimant commences an action or amends a complaint to add a cause of action for a constructional defect against a contractor, subcontractor, supplier or design professional, the claimant: (a) Must give written notice by certified mail, return receipt requested, to the contractor" (accessed 2026-09-27)

_Last verified 2026-09-20. Source: Who Pays the Repair? — https://whopaystherepair.com/rules/nevada-new-home-builder-defect-warranty/ — every claim checked against a primary source before publication (see /methodology/)._