NRS 118A.330 is Nevada’s residential entry statute. A tenant shall not unreasonably withhold consent for the landlord to enter peaceably for the purposes the section lists. The landlord may enter without consent in an emergency. Except in an emergency, the landlord shall give the tenant at least 24 hours’ notice of intent to enter and may enter only at reasonable times during normal business hours, unless the tenant expressly consents to shorter notice or to entry during nonbusiness hours with respect to that particular entry. The landlord shall not abuse the right of access or use it to harass the tenant.
When the statute authorizes entry
NRS 118A.330(1) lists four purposes for a peaceable entry with the tenant’s (not unreasonably withheld) consent:
- inspect the premises;
- make necessary or agreed repairs, decorating, alterations, or improvements;
- supply necessary or agreed services; or
- exhibit the dwelling to prospective or actual purchasers, mortgagees, tenants, workers, contractors, or other persons with a bona fide interest in inspecting the premises.
NRS 118A.330(2) is the emergency exception: the landlord may enter without the tenant’s consent in case of emergency.
NRS 118A.330(4) then says the landlord has no other right of access except pursuant to court order, where the tenant has abandoned or surrendered the premises, or where permitted under NRS 118A.440. That last section is not a general inspection right: if the tenant’s failure to perform basic obligations can be remedied by repair, replacement, or cleaning, and the tenant fails to use best efforts to comply within 14 days after the landlord’s written notice (or more promptly in an emergency), the landlord may enter and cause the work to be done and bill the actual and reasonable cost as rent.
NRS 118A.200(3)(h) requires a written rental agreement to contain provisions relating to inspection rights of the landlord. That is a contents rule; it does not replace the 24-hour and business-hours limits in NRS 118A.330(3).
What “24 hours” and “normal business hours” mean in the statute
NRS 118A.330(3) pairs three limits, all except in emergency:
- at least 24 hours’ notice of intent to enter;
- entry only at reasonable times during normal business hours; and
- a tenant may expressly consent to shorter notice or to a particular non-business-hours entry.
The statute does not define “normal business hours” or prescribe a form of notice (oral versus written). It does say the landlord shall not abuse the right of access or use it to harass the tenant.
How entry interacts with repairs and lockouts
NRS 118A.355(2)(b) provides that a tenant may not use the habitability-remedy section if the landlord’s inability to remedy within 14 days is due to the tenant’s refusal to allow lawful access as required by the rental agreement or the chapter. Lawful access and habitability are therefore linked in the official text: the repair statutes assume the access statute is being followed.
Changing locks or blocking entry to recover possession is not “access” under NRS 118A.330. That conduct is what NRS 118A.480 forbids and NRS 118A.390 remedies, as explained in wrongful eviction in Nevada.
NRS 118A.345(8)–(9) address a different lock change: after a domestic-violence, harassment, sexual-assault, or stalking termination notice, the tenant, cotenant, or household member may require a new lock if that person pays the cost; the landlord may retain a copy of the new key and shall refuse to provide a key or unsupervised access to an adverse party. That is a victim-protection rule, not the ordinary inspection-entry rule.
The rest of the tenancy rules sit in What are tenants’ rights in Nevada? and the Landlord-Tenant index.