Nevada § 624.020 - “Contractor” synonymous with “builder”; “contractor” defined

§ 624.020. “Contractor” synonymous with “builder”; “contractor” defined

1. “Contractor” is synonymous with “builder.” 2. A contractor is any person, except a registered architect or a licensed professional

engineer, acting solely in a professional capacity, who undertakes to, offers to undertake

to, purports to have the capacity to undertake to, or submits a bid to, or does himself,

herself or itself or by or through an employee or employees of the contractor or of

another contractor, construct, alter, repair, add to, subtract from, improve, move,

wreck or demolish any building, highway, road, railroad, excavation or other structure,

project, development or improvement, or to do any part thereof, including the erection

of scaffolding or other structures or works in connection therewith. Evidence of the securing of any permit from a governmental agency or the employment

of any person on a construction project must be accepted by the Board or any court

of this State as prima facie evidence that the person securing that permit or employing

any person on a construction project is acting in the capacity of a contractor pursuant

to the provisions of this chapter. 3. A contractor includes a subcontractor or specialty contractor, but does not include

anyone who merely furnishes materials or supplies without fabricating them into, or

consuming them in the performance of, the work of a contractor. 4. A contractor includes a construction manager who performs management and counseling

services on a construction project for a professional fee. 5. A contractor does not include an owner of a planned unit development who enters

into one or more oral or written agreements with one or more general building contractors

or general engineering contractors to construct a work of improvement in the planned

unit development if the general building contractors or general engineering contractors

are licensed pursuant to this chapter and contract with the owner of the planned unit

development to construct the entire work of improvement. 6. As used in subsection 2, “ employee ” means a natural person who: (a) Works under the direction and control of a contractor; and (b) For federal income tax purposes: (1) Is required by the contractor to complete a Form W-4 for the withholding of federal

income taxes from wages paid to the person by the contractor; and (2) Is provided at the end of each year a Form W-2 for the reporting of wages paid

to the person by the contractor.