205.310 - Contractor failing to pay for labor or material.

205.310  Contractor failing to pay for labor or material.  Every person having entered into a contract to supply any labor or materials for the value or price of which any lien might lawfully be filed upon the property of another, who shall receive the full price or consideration thereof, or the amount of any account stated thereon, or part payment thereon, shall be deemed to receive the same as the agent of the party with whom such contract was made or his or her successor or assign, for the purpose of paying all claims for labor and materials supplied, insofar as the money so received will pay such claims.

      [1911 C&P § 390; RL § 6655; NCL § 10342]

      NRS 205.312  Willful or intentional failure to return leased or rented vehicle to owner: Inference of embezzlement.  Whenever any person who has leased or rented a vehicle willfully and intentionally fails to return the vehicle to its owner within 72 hours after the lease or rental agreement has expired, that person may reasonably be inferred to have embezzled the vehicle.

      (Added to NRS by 1963, 393; A 1983, 718)