247.410 - Liability for wrongful acts.

247.410  Liability for wrongful acts.  A county recorder is liable to a party aggrieved for three times the amount of the damages that may be occasioned thereby if the county recorder:

      1.  Neglects or refuses to record a document that is authorized, entitled or required by law to be recorded within a reasonable time after receiving the document;

      2.  Records a document willfully or negligently, untruly or in any other manner than is directed in this chapter;

      3.  Neglects or refuses to maintain in the county recorder’s office such indexes as are required by this chapter, or to make the proper entries therein; or

      4.  Except as otherwise provided in subsection 3 of NRS 247.120, alters, changes or obliterates any record or any filed document deposited in the county recorder’s office, or inserts any new matter therein.

      [11:120:1923; A 1935, 247; 1931 NCL § 2121]—(NRS A 2001, 1743; 2003, 1931; 2007, 540)